I guess hopes that Winamp might go open-source or get bought by Microsoft didn’t pan out. It’ll be a long time yet before I drop it, though. I’m sure not going to switch to iTunes.
Remember Sonique? Sonique inspired the sort of warm fuzzies described in the article. It was just plain weird, with a completely non-standard UI in funky shapes and even wackier visualization plug-ins; I have yet to see another practical application that is anything like it. Of course, that one faded into history long ago.
