zero I've recently been thinking about how people would generally react to winamp these days, if it were still a (maintained) thing. Back then it was an awesome music player. But iirc, windows media player was basically a player that didn't even had a playlist, so the bar wasn't that high.
Winamp was the same basic thing at first, but also with a playlist. And also an equaliser. And also the most beautiful visualisations you've ever seen. And also very extendable through plug-ins. And also it played basically all formats, meaning you didn't need three or four different media players any more. And a super cool theme, and awesome skins, and had this cool separate, but dockable windows thingy. And probably more that I forget.
But by now, typical media players all have a playlist, and a media library, and play basically all media types you need. And if you need specific functionality that most players don't have, there's probably already a player out there that does it better than winamp with a hacky plug-in, or it's not that important any how. And these very specific themes and separate windows simply don't fit much in the modern era any more, because people seem to like consistency throughout the system more.
I very much like it for nostalgia reasons, but I'm not even sure if I would really still use it, tbqh.
