Jan 16
Winamp died
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Jan 14
Winamp Lives To Play Another Day
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If you owned a computer back in the ’90s, you might have heard of Winamp. It was quite popular, call it the iTunes of the ’90s if you will. This popular music player has been around for quite a long time, but its popularity died down in the mid-2000s, as users were captivated by newer products. AOL, which owned Winamp, had announced its decision to shut down Winamp on December 21st, but it was rumored that perhaps Microsoft might acquire it, which it did not. Instead, as rumored, Radionomy has confirmed its acquisition of Winamp as well as Shoutcast from AOL. The legendary music player lives to play another day.
Radionomy was launched in late 2012, its a free service that lets users generate online radio stations. Shoutcast is an online radio broadcasting service that AOL has sold to Radionomy, which will definitely be using it to further bolster its internet radio services, currently the service has more than 6,000 user programmed online radio stations with over 13 million unique listeners. Alexandre Saboundjian, owner of Radionomy, believes that this acquisition will boost the service’s user base “by a factor of 5 to 10.” They will also be developing new Winamp apps for iOS and Android, which will definitely make us feel nostalgic every time we fire them up on our smartphones. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been revealed, but Belgian publication De Tijd claims that AOL has agreed to take a partial stake in Radionomy as part of a funding round.
Winamp Lives To Play Another Day original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 14
Winamp’s Not Dead After All!
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Last month, Winamp sauntered up to the brink of death, but now it’s back. Thanks to a first rumored and now confirmed acquisition by digital audio business Radionomy, both Winamp and Shoutcast will live on.
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Jan 02
We have all used Winamp at some point in our lives, its one of those things that have their very own special place in our hearts. Only recently it was reported that Winamp is going to shut down, which made quite a few people nostalgic about the times spent playing music with the software, but it appears that Winamp might live to play music another day. TechCrunch claims to have heard from a reliable source that Winamp is being sold to Radionomy, an online radio aggregator based out in Belgium.
AOL owns the popular music player as well as Shoutcast, a digital music service. Apparently its looking to offload Shoutcast as well and it too is reportedly being picked up by Radionomy. The online radio aggregator currently has over 6,000 stations in its catalog, being able to bring in Shoutcast’s catalog of over 50,000 stations will definitely be a big boost for it. Winamp may be used to program said radio stations and offer other features as well. Apparently a deal is expected to be finalized by Friday, “if not sooner.” No financial terms have been mentioned in the report as yet and it remains to be seen if they’ll be mentioned once the deal is finalized, and both Winamp and Shoutcast get a new home.
Winamp Is Reportedly Being Sold To Radionomy original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 22
Winamp’s user interface, at least the classic one, might seem a little antiquated and definitely not within the boundaries of more modern user interfaces these days, but it does hold a lot of nostalgia to music lovers who have enjoyed using Winamp as their default music client from back in the day. Well the good news is that if you’re looking to relive some of that nostalgia, you might be interested to learn that Spotify has recently released a client for Windows called Spotiamp, which as you can see in the image above, is a tribute to the classic media player Winamp, allowing users to enjoy their songs from Spotify in an all-too-familiar user interface.
Winamp, for those unfamiliar, was a music client from back in day about 15 years ago. It’s relatively lightweightedness made it a great alternative to more clunky media players available for the PC back then. However it was back in November that AOL, the company that bought over Winamp, announced that they would be bringing an end to the software and service after a good 15 years, leading fans to create a petition to at the very least keep it open-sourced. We had heard rumors that the death of the app might be greatly exaggerated and that Microsoft could be interested in acquiring it. Either way if you’d like to check out Spotiamp, the app is free for download although you would have to have a Spotify Premium account in order to use it.
Spotiamp Is Spotify’s Tribute To Winamp original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 20
An Ode to Winamp
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Today’s the day. Winamp is officially kicking the bucket
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Dec 20
Sometime last month, we brought you word that Winamp will be shutting down after being in the business for 15 years. Apparently, “shutting down” here meant that it will no longer be supported, and neither will it be made available for download by AOL, its owner. Apart from that, today is supposed to be its last day of availability, but a fresh new rumor has started to go around, touting that Winamp could be hanging around at least for a little bit more.
According to TechCrunch, an unnamed source (how convenient) has mentioned that AOL is currently talking to a potential buyer of Winamp as well as its Shoutcast streaming audio service. The very same source claims that they are more than “confident” of striking up a deal, and since talks are close to being agreed upon, they hold the hope that neither Winamp nor Shoutcast will be able to shut down today as originally intended. AOL has remained mum on the situation and has not responded with anything official concerning such rumors. What are some of your best memories of Winamp? Frankly, I thought that it would be one of those apps that would last virtually forever, like WinRAR or WinZIP, how about you?
Winamp Not Shutting Down After All (Rumor) original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nov 26
Petition Calls For AOL To Keep Winamp Alive, Or Release It As An Open Source
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Just last week, it was announced that Winamp would finally be shutting it doors and that the software would no longer be available for download come December 2013. Naturally many were shocked by this especially since Winamp has been around for more than 15 years, although there have been rumors of Microsoft potentially interested in acquiring the software from AOL but we’re not sure if this means Microsoft plans on keeping it alive, or if they simply want the patents.
In any case while the decision appears to be final, a petition has been created on Change.org where users are asking AOL to keep Winamp alive, or at the very least let the software go open source so that the community will be responsible for keeping it alive and continue distributing it even if it is no longer officially supported by AOL. According to the petition, “After more than 15 years and millions of users worldwide, Winamp Media Player will cease forever as of 20th Dec 2013. Winamp is the best media player ever built. If there were other alternatives that would be fine. But there is nothing that can do what Winamp can do. It is the most versatile media player on earth.”
The petition has since managed to go on and nab over 15,000 signatures at this time of writing. What do you guys think? Will you be signing this petition?
Petition Calls For AOL To Keep Winamp Alive, Or Release It As An Open Source original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nov 22
![Microsoft Looking To Buy Winamp And SHOUTcast From AOL [Rumor]](https://i0.wp.com/cdnrss.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winamp1-615x424.jpg?resize=615%2C424 "Microsoft Looking To Buy Winamp And SHOUTcast From AOL [Rumor]")
Last we heard, Winamp would be closing its doors after being more than 15 years in existence, and if you have ever used one of those early Intel Pentium computers back in the day, well this is undoubtedly pretty sad news, an end of an era, so to speak. Well it turns out that perhaps Winamp might not be completely dead after all, at least according to the folks at TechCrunch who are reporting on a rumor that it is possible that Microsoft is looking to acquire both Winamp and SHOUTcast from AOL, although the reasoning behind it is unclear. It is possible that Winamp and SHOUTcast both have patents that Microsoft could license out.
For those unfamiliar, SHOUTcast is also a media too developed by Nullsoft, the folks behind Winamp originally. It was a piece of software that allowed cross platform proprietary streaming, although given the popularity of other streaming services, such as Pandora, iTunes Radio, Spotify, and etc., we’re not sure if the platform still has what it takes to compete in today’s market. In any case like we said, this is only a rumor for now so be sure to take it with a grain of salt, but hypothetically speaking, what could Microsoft want with Winamp and SHOUTcast?
Microsoft Looking To Buy Winamp And SHOUTcast From AOL [Rumor] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nov 22
Despite AOL announcing that Winamp was to be put out of its misery on December 20th, TechCrunch is r
Posted in: Today's ChiliDespite AOL announcing that Winamp was to be put out of its misery on December 20th
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