The official Winamp music player has a new owner
Finally, Winamp was "saved" when a company came out to buy the famous music player of this time.
According to the report, Winamp and Shoutcast were bought back by Radionomy, a Belgian online radio business. AOL will receive between $ 5 million and $ 10 million in cash and 12% of shares from Radionomy after the deal is completed. This is an AOL "heavy-duty" deal because it spent $ 80 million to buy Winamp and Shoutcast from Nullsoft.
With this acquisition, Radionomy will take advantage of existing advantages to turn Winamp into the world's leading music player. The company currently has up to 6000 online radio channels, capable of playing over 60 different audio and video formats, 6000 utilities including skins, plug-ins, . and supports 16 different languages worldwide. .
"We will take advantage to develop Winamp back to its golden age. Not only for computers, in the future, Winamp will be available on mobile phones, smart car systems and other platforms. " , Radionomy Alexandre Saboundjian CEO said in a statement.
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