New Winamp gather your podcasts and strimingovye services in one place

Company Radionomy, which owns Winamp, Restart the legendary media player as a mobile service for local music, podcasts and strimingovyh services I told TechCrunch. For the original desktop app upgrade also released.

The next year will see a completely new version - considering Winamp heritage, but also more consistent listening experience. You can not listen For MP3-files, which can be in your home, but also the contents of the cloud, podcasts, streaming radio stations and custom playlists.

Sabundzhyan Alexander, CEO of Radionomy

for Winamp update did not come in 2013, but the application is still used by about 100 million people each month. Most of them are located outside the United States, and Radionomy wants to use this audience to create a new platform. The focus will be on mobile devices.

In the next few weeks will update desktop player at number 5.8. It eliminates compatibility issues with Windows 10 and corrects a number of errors. And in 2019 will be released version 6.0 - a much more serious update.

Today you have to go from one player to another player, or aggregator, if you want to listen to the radio, and podcasts to the player, if you want to listen to the podcast. it is inconvenient for me.

Alexander Sabundzhyan

Sabundzhyan want all the content you can listen to in one place. It is in this place will Winamp for iOS and Android. In the desktop version to implement it will not work, because all the niche occupied iTunes and web applications.

CEO of Radionomy not told what services will be available through the new Winamp and how they will interact with the application. He said that negotiations are under way, but the licensing agreement and is not the main difficulty. TechCrunch said that other platforms can be much more profitable to remain separate from the rest.

Winamp player came in 1997. Two years later it for $ 80 million bought American conglomerate AOL. By 2000, at the player it had 25 million users.

The latest official version of Winamp was released in 2013. Then it became known that the program will cease to exist.