AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast to Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy

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51 points·nashashmi··14 comments

Posting it again because it was a really good read:

Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012) http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...

I had hoped some HN'ers would end up purchasing it.

There was a fairly long string of comments pledging funds [1]. I'm curious how that panned out - in both terms of informal croudsourcing and how one negotiates with AOL-TW.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6777094

On Windows, I'm still using Winamp as of today because I haven't found an alternative of equal quality. Not sure why though considering that Winamp is so old, at least enough time to develop a good alternative!

foobar2000

The best music player available as long as you're willing to spend hours customizing its shitty default interface, yes.

I got lazy. I just drag the files into a Firefox tab because it's already there. Works great if you listen to mix mp3s or are obsessive about picking mp3s.

I highly recommend Music Bee.

I've lived by MPD since I first flirted with Unix in the day. It also runs on Windows.

So Winamp's delay has been postponed by a year or two. Okay.

So Microsoft didn't want Winamp and Shoutcast bad enough?

My first thought: AOL is still alive ?

>techcrunch

Alive _and_ kicking.

You clearly don't follow the market very much.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL

I knew they were still a big company, but I didn't know about their recent uptick. What's going on there?

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