Personally, I think WinAMP, whilst still not what it was at it's peak is much better nowadays than it has been for years. It has many of the features back that were axed even when Nullsoft was independant so it's hard to blame AOL really.

They decided to do the whole re-write thing for some reason, god only knows why but the re-write resulted in more vulnerabilities and it caused them to take about 6 years to reimplement the features that only took them about 6months to get in the first time round.