[vip_students] Winamp finds a buyer -- and it's not Microsoft

From: "[NCBI] Support" <support@xxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:38:17 -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.



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