As we talked about in an earlier post, the SHOUTcast team made some great improvements & design changes. They've also been listening to user feedback and are now offering SHOUTcast Classic. Here's how you can access the Classic view from Winamp:

1) Go to your Media Library tab
2) Under Online Services, click on SHOUTcast Radio
3) In the upper right-hand corner, click on "Return to SHOUTcast Classic"

I'm sure most of you have noticed by now, there's something different about SHOUTcast. Our fellow developers on the SHOUTcast team have been working long and hard to relaunch the site, which debuted last week. They made a lot of great improvements including:

- A new easy-to-navigate design
- Improved search capabilities - search over 22K radio stations worldwide by artist name, song title, or genre
- Top stations listed by genre providing single-click access to a variety of different stations
- A new SHOUTcast Radio Widget - which allows you to add SHOUTcast to your own site or integrate it into
your favorite social networking site (Bebo, Facebook, & MySpace)
- And obviously the redesign of SHOUTcast Radio & TV within Winamp (Media Library -- Online Services -- SHOUTcast Radio)

To check out the new site for yourself you can go to SHOUTcast.com. For more information or to leave your comment/feedback visit the SHOUTcast blog.

A warm hello to all the Winamp faithful who are reading this blog and who give their time and devotion to Winamp -- the best media player in the world!

My name is Ben London (a.k.a. "B-Lo") and I have been working on the Winamp team from here in Dulles, Virgina for the past 4 years now. With Winamp being a 10+ year old application, its history reaches far back before my time, and I'm sure it will extend far past my time as well -- as no human can out live the almighty Llama. For the time being though, I love being a part of the ride and wanted to use my first post to talk about all the great people who help comprise "Team Winamp".

So who is the Winamp team?

I'm Tarik and I'm pretty new to the Winamp team. I've been brought onboard as the community manager. With a very large and growing community of users, the main focus of my job is to engage the Winamp community and to make sure that you all play a key role in defining the future of Winamp.

And yes, as part of that role, I get to create my super sophisticated high tech tutorials.

A bit of background on me...