{"id":92163,"date":"2013-11-21T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T11:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=92163"},"modified":"2013-11-21T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:09:07","slug":"winamp-shut-down-by-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/92163-winamp-shut-down-by-aol.html","title":{"rendered":"WinAmp shut down by AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WinAmp, the well known media player, will no longer be available for download from 20 December 2013, a notice on its website announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Winamp.com website \u201cand associated web services\u201d will also be shut down from that date, the notice said.<\/p>\n<p>In a report on the era-ending announcement, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2013\/11\/after-15-years-of-llama-whipping-aol-shuts-down-winamp-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica quoted former WinAmp employees<\/a> who had previously blamed AOL\u2019s mismanagement for the media player\u2019s demise.<\/p>\n<p>While all the downloadable components of WinAmp such as skins, plugins, and the player itself can live on after the website is shut down, it isn\u2019t confirmed how services such as Shoutcast will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.winamp.com\/showthread.php?t=373778\" target=\"_blank\">members of the WinAmp community<\/a> expect the Shoutcast Internet radio service to join Nullsoft TV and the Winamp.com website (including the forums) in Internet Valhalla.<\/p>\n<p>For your nostalgic llama whippin\u2019 pleasure, a YouTube video of DJ Mike Llama\u2019s legendary intro is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKqKrH0O9yg\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/91285-buy-windows-phone-apps-with-airtime-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Buy Windows Phone apps with airtime in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/90441-android-4-4-kitkat-launched.html\"><strong>Android 4.4 KitKat launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89493-bbm-for-android-iphone-arrives.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iPhone arrives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/19185-android-media-players-hot-up.html\"><strong>Android media players hot up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/nephp\/1830.html\"><strong>\u2018Critical\u2019 exploit hits Winamp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day the llama died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":92165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,22585,12907,22583],"class_list":["post-92163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-dj-mike-llama","tag-shoutcast","tag-winamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}