Tag: WINAMP

Remember Winamp? It was the music management program back in the pre-iPod and iTunes days. You'd take music downloaded from Napster (remember that one too?) or ripped from your CD collection and dump it into a minimally organized library. But the llama has fallen out of favor and been replaced by the likes of iTunes and Windows Media Player. But, believe it or not, Winamp is still going strong. ...

For me, it was the sound of a llama being flogged. That was my baptism into the world of digital music -- a world that, for a brief moment in time there in the '90s, was like one of those Toys 'R' Us shopping sprees they used to advertise on TV where some lucky kid got to run up and down the aisles filling up his shopping basket with freebies. It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since I ...