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The main reasons for picking this software over the rest is the fact that it's very lightweight and is arguably the most customizable media player you will find. I'm not going to waste your time listing regular features that every decent audio player should have, I'll just tell you what sets it apart the other players.
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Radionomy has raised some 7 million euros to date and is planning on going for a new round in the month ahead to continue expanding its business.Foobar2000 is a free media player which supports a huge number of audio formats. There had been “very small” teams working on both at AOL, but only on a contract basis.
“Yes, perhaps there has been no special innovation in the last two years, but it is still a very strong community and still appreciated by those users,” he says.īrusssels- and New York-based Saboundjian says that the acquisition is just of the products and technology. Every month there are still some 3 million downloads of the software. He says it was “really interesting” to see how many people are still using a product that has virtually been left to seed by AOL. “We think the future can be great because the strategy is not just desktop but mobile and cars and so much more.” “We want to rebuild the story for Winamp,” he says. The intention is to continue to develop both products, Saboundjian tells me. Among its other assets is the TargetSpot audio ad network, and the plan will be to use both Shoutcast and Winamp to increase TargetSpot’s inventory, and as everyone knows advertising is a game of scale. In both cases, this will be a volume play for Radionomy. Meanwhile, Radionomy intends to offer Winamp’s media player just as it is today - with access to those 60,000 stations, but also playback ability for 60 audio and video formats 6,000 add-ons like skins and plug-ins and availability in 16 languages. If AOL - which has been cutting and selling other music holdings in favor of pressing on with other kinds of online content (it owns TechCrunch among other properties) - increasingly seemed like a bad fit for the two services, then its new parent couldn’t be more different.Īdding Shoutcast to Radionomy’s existing assets will make the company one of the biggest players in the radio streaming business, hosting some 60,000 radio stations, or roughly half the online radio stations on the market today. (He sold the company to Tellme, which Microsoft subsequently acquired.)Īs implied by a recent discovery of a domain name transfer to Radionomy’s servers, both Winamp and Shoutcast will continue as going concerns. While one of our early reports noted that Microsoft was in the mix, that turned out not to be the case, but here’s an interesting twist: CEO/Radionomy founder Alexandre Saboundjian’s previous company, a telematics firm called Magic Phone, is now a part of Microsoft. We had been hearing different reports of a deal in progress or a while now - resulting in a stay of execution for both Winamp and Shoutcast after AOL originally intended to shut them both down by December 20, 2013. Recall that AOL paid some $80 million for Nullsoft, owner of Winamp and Shoutcast, in 1999.ĪOL’s stake will be a financial, not a strategic, investment, I’ve been told. We understand from a reliable source that it is a cash and share deal, worth between $5 million and $10 million, with AOL taking a 12% stake of Radionomy in the process. Returning from the brink of death, music services Winamp and Shoutcast are now officially with a new owner: Digital audio business Radionomy has acquired the both media player and radio platform from AOL.
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