[access-uk] Winamp finds a buyer -- and it’s not Microsoft

  • From: Colin Howard <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:02:22 +0000

Greetings,

Seen on the PC-audio group.

From: Steve Pattison <srp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 02:45:44 +1100

This article is taken from

http://tinyurl.com/pa4jq5r

The home page for Radionomy mentioned in the article is

http://www.radionomy.com

Regards Steve.

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, starting December 20 2013, the site and  associated
cloud services, g 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 Microsoft was
interested in saving the service. Today it appears Winamp has indeed found a
savior, but it’s not one 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 which 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.

Colin, who by the Lord's  providence remains living  
near Fareham in Southern  England,   hopes you   
enjoyed a very blessed  Christmas and are having a 
peaceful,  prosperous and happy  New Year during 2014.
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