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They also had a directory of streaming "stations", Shoutcast



And you could install shoutcast to host your own station! I remember hosting one for all of my friends to listen to, and we all had a great time.

Of all the things of the internet of old, Winamp 2.x, its skins, shoutcast and the visualization library are what I miss the most by far


Oh I’d forgotten about the visualisations. Those were, for me, one of the best parts of Winamp.... other than the sound bite about a llama. :-)



TripX was pretty, but Geiss, Milkdrop, and Gforce were my favorites, if only because of the insane number of add-on visualization presets. What was always ironic to me was that most of the presets by the actual developer were pretty garbage.


People still use Shoutcast, it's the standard way to DJ in virtual worlds.


I still use Milkdrop2 for visualizations when listening to music within Kodi.

"ProjectM" exists within Linux as well, but I've never gotten it to work properly on my laptop.


Ah yes, shoutcast!

You know, it's funny how ahead of its time Winamp was in many ways.


It still exists and I use it regularly to find new stations: www.shoutcast.com

You can play streams directly from there or via WinAmp.




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