The legendary Winamp player will receive a large -scale update of functionality and will return in 2019

Winamp media player, which officially ceased to exist at the end of 2013 to the chagrin of the multimillion -dollar army of users, will gain a second life. Techcrunch writes about this with reference to the statement of Radionomy, which owns Winamp.

It is reported that Radionomy is preparing a WinAMP restart in the form of a single mobile platform for different services, subscriptions, subcases and streaming services, and its exit is scheduled for 2019.

“This will be a completely new version. Given the Winamp heritage, but with the possibility of getting a richer experience of listening. You can listen to not only MP3 that you have at home, but also what is in the cloud, podcasts, streaming radio stations and playlists created,” TJ quotes the words of Radionomy, Alexander Sabangyan.

He noted that users would like to receive content from different services in one place, and Winamp, according to Sabangyan, is an ideal player for combining content. The company also wants to extend the experience of a single listening to all devices. At the same time, TechCrunch doubted the possibility of the emergence of such a service - the publication notes that other platforms may be much more profitable to remain separate from the rest.

The company will also update the classic desktop application of Winamp - in version 5.8, compatibility problems with new systems will be eliminated and bugs are fixed.

Winamp was created in 1997 by 18-year-old Justin Frankel. Initially, he could lose only audio files. The free program quickly achieved popularity among Windows users - in the first one and a half years it was downloaded by 15 million people. Already in 1999, the AL Giant company acquired Justin Frankel Nullsoft (and Winamp project with it) for $ 80 million. After 10 years, WinAmp users were already 70 million people. Despite the fact that Winamp has not received updates since 2013, about 100 million people are still using the service monthly. Most of them are outside the United States.