I was in touch yesterday with DJ Egg from Winamp Support and he wrote 
that MPC-HC & VLC had .dts decoder and other decoders WinAmp didn't 
have, because the authors were impossible to trace back, so maybe they 
can simply take the free/Lite part of Winamp and open source it and 
replace the codecs with those of MPC-HC & VLC also on codecs.com you can 
find many codec packs, probably many of them legal or impossible to 
rtace back, MPC-HC uses about the same codec set as 'K-Lite Mega Codec 
Pack', so I think WinAMp could survive just fine being developed by the 
community, but rumors has it that Micro$oft is trying to buy it, that's 
kinda of bad news, those big companies don't do thing for free or 
listening much to what people want and Windows Media Player it's not a 
good player, full bugs and hanging, so I'm afraid that's the fait of 
WinAmp; we'll have to see what happens and hope for the best.

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