The once popular Winamp media player will cease Dec. 20 after 15 years of providing the music software, its service, and website to users CNN Money reported Wednesday.
"Most of the people I spoke with were genuinely shocked to discover that not only is Winamp still kicking on their 10th anniversary, the app is seeing the release of a new version this week," PC Magazine said at the time.
According to The Houston Chronicle, the program will be available after it Dec. 20 end date, but users won't be able to synchronize files.
Consumers will also not be able to download the software after this date, so it is suggested the most up to date version be obtained before then.
"Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years," Nullsoft said on the Winamp download page.
Justin Frankel, and Dmitry Boldyrev, past students at the University of Utah created the program in 1997. The two celebrated Winamp's 10th anniversary in 2007 just as society had shifted to downloading music files.
America Online bought the service in 1999, when it obtained its creator Nullsoft, also Frankel's company, for $80 million. MP3 file sharing was also on the rise at the time.
Winamp was not popular as music file sharing program Napster held the reigns. The company also initiated the concept of downloading and sharing music files digitally.
Winamp came along when people wanted a program that users could listen to songs on rather than just download CNN Money reported. 25 million people downloaded the software in June 2000.
Times changed when iTunes, and Windows Media Player became people's go to source for music, and other media files.
It is not known how Winamp's sister product, ShoutCast, which provided web services to the program, and was also a radio player for iOS will fair.
