[9] In January 2001, after 2 years of funding the project EMusic pulled their support, and subsequently fired the developers.

[citation needed] Once a popular open-source Linux audio player, it has now been largely surpassed by newcomers such as Audacious, Amarok, Exaile, Banshee and (more recently) Songbird.

This is largely because Zinf has not seen an official new release since early 2004, and many new features that are now standard in rival players have not been implemented; such as cover art and lyric support.

[citation needed] In 2010 the zinf.com website was bought by a domain squatter for the purpose of capitalizing on the site's traffic for monetary gains.

A new link called "QnA" and "Ads" are now visible on the zinf.com website that is a redirect to the squatter's site.