AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast to Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy

[nashashmi]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/01/aol-sells-winamp-and-shoutcast-music-services-to-online-radio-aggregator-radionomy/

[eli]

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-...

[stevenrace]

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

[yoran]

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!

[thirdsight → yoran]

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.

[cmircea → yoran]

foobar2000

[gilrain → cmircea]

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

[orik → yoran]

I highly recommend Music Bee.

[thrillgore → yoran]

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

[kevin_rubyhouse]

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

[thrillgore]

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

[lampe3]

My first thought: AOL is still alive ?

[pkill17 → lampe3]

You clearly don't follow the market very much.

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

[graeme → pkill17]

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

[superpatosainz → lampe3]

>techcrunch

Alive _and_ kicking.