Now there’s one more reason to subscribe to Spotify Premium: Nostalgia. As AOL shuts down its Winamp media player today, Spotify is celebrating its influential legacy with a retro app called Spotiamp.

After 25 years and numerous changes in ownership, Winamp is trying to reinvent itself. The classic music player, which rose to prominence during the heyday of MP3 sharing-services such as Napster and ...

If you had any doubts that ‘90s nostalgia is alive and thriving, we have an important update: Winamp (yes that Winamp) is back. The iconic media player’s reboot is now official with its latest version ...

Lifehacker reader Bruno writes in with a tip that should give both fans of the old-style Winamp (a.k.a. Winamp Classic) and critics of the cross-platform VLC Media Player's somewhat plain looks a ...

AOL is today shutting down Winamp, its once hugely popular and influential media player. Before you shed a tear though, Spotify just shared a delightful project called Spotiamp which, as the name ...

Winamp was the media player that, back in 1997, introduced many people to listening to music as MP3 files on the computer. Winamp came about the same time many people were finally getting the hang of ...

A Windows app gives an old-school interface to the streaming-media service. Don't expect full-on MP3 playback support, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The big picture: Teenagers and young adults of the late 1990s will remember Winamp as the de facto music player on their Windows PCs. If tinkering with electronics and fabrication is your jam, give ...

Oh, to be an innocent young techie in the ’90s again. Merrily downloading Metallica albums from Napster, joyriding from bird’s eye views in GTA 1, and praying that 30-second porn clip would buffer ...

Winamp died! And then it came back! So since this classic from days-gone-by has been resurrected, we thought we’d give it another look to see how its reanimated corpse holds up in modern times. You ...