 As of June 22, 2000, Winamp surpassed 25 million registrants.The next major Winamp version, Winamp3 (so spelled to include "mp3" in the name and to mark its separation from the Winamp 2 codebase), was released on August 9, 2002.It was a complete rewrite of version 2, newly based on the Wasabi application framework, which offered additional functionality and flexibility.