Ive just made some comparison rounds between foobar and winamp using my favorite Retro Game formats plugins and Winamp still holds its own very well.
Foobar has a good array of plugins too but I still give the edge to winamp.
Ram usage seems better optimized too.

I have moved to Foobar2000 too.

As long as there is a cash bidder interested in acquiring the technology, it won't go open source. Microsoft is only sniffing around to see if they can add anything to their patent portfolio so they can troll more people for violating their patents than they already do.

I liked the WinAMP versions around 2.80. I kept using it into the mid 2000's. Then Pandora happened. I hardly use my own collection of music now.

Another new version, 5.666, was just released. Very decent of them.

sliderider wrote:

As long as there is a cash bidder interested in acquiring the technology, it won't go open source. Microsoft is only sniffing around to see if they can add anything to their patent portfolio so they can troll more people for violating their patents than they already do.

Not everything is necessarily patented. In fact, if Nullsoft had any patents there would probably be a whole lot more people interested in buying the company, assuming AOL was somehow willing to let the patents go one way or another.

I thought it was weird that the site was still up.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2087504/winamp … -radionomy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuoKNZjr8_U

Jorpho wrote:

I thought it was weird that the site was still up.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2087504/winamp … -radionomy.html

It's not surprising.The company that acquired them is in a related field and buying out the rights to Winamp saves them the trouble of writing their own software from scratch.