Winamp arrives on any web browser: Nostalgic rejoice

Although the media player is still available for download on Winamp.com, AOL has ceased to support it for some years now. Developed by Nullsoft and released in June 1997, Winamp has been synonymous with media player since the dawn of the market (not just pirate) of liquid music and has made its way among competing proposals, mainly thanks to its mythical equalizer and DSP effects. And now the software is also available via web browser.

The project was exhumed by Jordan Eldredge, with Winamp that is perfectly usable by a web interface that follows in all its appearance. Users can even add new skins and introduce MP3s for listening to playlists as they did at the time, use the equalizer and much more. We even tried to launch a FLAC file, and the media player on the web has managed it optimally, while the plug-ins are not supported yet.

Winamp on browser is a great way to remind youngsters what it was like to listen to music before Spotify and Apple Music, but also a reminder for older users of times past when listening to a song was not enough to search online. Recall that the creation of the multimedia player is up to Justin Frankel, Gianluca Rubinacci and Tom Pepper, but Winamp has been acquired by AOL for 80 million dollars already after two years.

In 2005, Winamp had 57 million monthly users and was the second media player in the world, after Windows Media Player that was pre-installed on Windows. In 2010, Winamp arrived on Android, while on Mac OS X in 2011. The Nullsoft media player can be considered definitely a piece of computer history, whose popularity has vanished especially in the last decade due to the increasing popularity of streaming music.

Those who want to relive the times when Winamp was synonymous with listening to music on the PC should not be anything else than directing your browser to this page. Good listening!