On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. currently features download links for Windows and Mac platforms.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us The same year Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy acquired Nullsoft, the parent company that built Winamp. After the release of Winamp version 5.6 in 2013, AOL announced that it will shut down the platform.ĭespite the announcement, the official website continued to function amid reports of newer versions unofficially making it to the web.

The deal was said to be worth $80 million. Launched in 1997, the application provided a great deal of personalisation to users, ranging from deep equalizers to custom skins.īack in 1999, AOL acquired Nullsoft, the developer of the popular Winamp MP3 player. Winamp was one of the most popular desktop music players in the 90s and early 2000s. 'What I see today is you have to jump from one player to another player or aggregator if you want to listen to a radio station, to a podcast player if you want to listen to a podcast - this, to me, is not the final experience,' he explained. He also pointed out the fragmented music streaming space and dearth of universal players. And we want people to have it on every device,' he added. I think Winamp is the perfect player to bring that to everybody. A collection of sets and collections of skins (replacement interfaces) for the long-lived computer audio program Winamp. 'You can listen to the MP3s you may have at home, but also to the cloud, to podcasts, to streaming radio stations, to a playlist you perhaps have built.'

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