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Winamp finds a buyer -- and it’s not Microsoft
By Wayne Williams
Winamp was a massively popular media player in the nineties, but it
withered under AOL’s ownership, and failed to move with the times. Few
people were surprised when a month ago AOL finally decided to cut its
losses, announcing that, starting December 20 2013, the site and
associated cloud services, including Shoutcast, would no longer be
available to the public.
A petition to save the media player garnered close to 50,000 signatures,
and Spotify created a fun tribute called Spotiamp, but the writing
looked to be firmly on the wall for Winamp, despite rumors that
Microsoft was interested in saving the service. Today it appears that
Winamp has indeed found a savior, but it’s not one that anyone was
expecting.
Although there’s been no official announcement yet (hardly surprising
given it’s New Year’s Day), a Whois request now shows Winamp’s name
servers pointing to Radionomy, a service that lets you discover, listen
to and create online radio stations.
If Radionomy is indeed the new owner it bodes well for Shoutcast’s
survival, but what it will mean for the Winamp media player is less
clear. Hopefully we’ll have a better idea once an official announcement
is made.