Winamp has finally announced that its Windows app will go open source later this year. Its makers are inviting developers and users across the globe to contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion.

Facepalm: Classic PC media player Winamp is being relaunched as an open-source project, though the code itself isn't as open as it claims to be. The company behind the brand seems eager to benefit ...

Winamp was one of the most popular music players for Windows PCs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But things went downhill after AOL acquired the company and wound up largely abandoning it for years ...

Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. Nullsoft ...