Nullsoft was the company behind Winamp and Shoucast, the MP3 streaming service. They used to be the main rival to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. They got sucked into the AOL bubble at the point AOL was sucking the hardest – buying up Compuserve and Netscape. The Nullsoft people were not stupid. They cashed their checks and quit. <\/p>\n
Winamp languished inside AOL for a long time without a vision of what to do with it. A couple years ago, as AOL was in its death spasm, they started disposing of the collection of toys Steve Case and Ted Leonsis had acquired.<\/p>\n
At the end of 2013, AOL sold Shoutcast and Winamp to Radionomy – a company most active in Europe that makes its money from targeting ads at audio listeners. They officially ended all support for Winamp and have done nothing in the last 18 months. My most recent install tried to infect my computer with crapware.<\/p>\n
The Radionomy press releases are fading out in frequency and significance. The most recent one announces their partnership with the USA Radio Networks on their plan to revive syndicated talk radio (Yes, the same one that just released Jim Sumpter).<\/p>\n
http:\/\/marketing.radionomy.com\/PR2015\/03\/EN090315.html<\/a><\/p>\n Talk about the dying leading the dying. The llama’s ass<\/a> is lonely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nullsoft was the company behind Winamp and Shoucast, the MP3 streaming service. They used to be the main rival to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. They got sucked into the AOL bubble at the point AOL was sucking the hardest – … Continue reading