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Winamp Purchased By Radionomy

Posted by Soulskill on from the llama's-execution-stayed dept.

Major Blud writes "TechCrunch is reporting that Radionomy has purchased both Winamp and Shoutcast from AOL for $5-10 million and a 12% stake in the company. Radionomy CEO Alexandre Saboundjian said, 'We want to rebuild the story for Winamp. We think the future can be great because the strategy is not just desktop but mobile and cars and so much more.'"

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  1. What about the Llama by ChadSmith4920 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the 12% include the Llama Ass?

  2. There's nothing that makes winamp great or unique by t0qer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hang out with the old nullsoft guys in IRC. General consensus for most of them is "We've moved on" The other concensus is, "There are so many good media players these days"

    There was a time when Winamp mattered. There was no decent media players (in some regards, it was a new concept) Winamp brought skinning, plugins, visualizations and a whole slew of things that most folks never even knew they wanted or needed.

    Funny that they mention Songbird today. One Nullsofter went there after the AOL buyout. He's now at google.

    As far as Frankel, he started working on a DAW called Reaper. It's a swiss army knife for audio.