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AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music
- traeblain 13y agoWinAMP and ShoutCast are no longer a fit for AOL. This is most likely the writing on the wall for them. Sad because WinAMP is still a great product.
- w1ntermute 13y ago> I'm hearing that Winamp/SHOUTcast are still intact. https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/statuses/327865634924933120 https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/statuses/327865634924933120
- astrodust 13y agoWinAMP is a great product by the standards of 1998.
- vy8vWJlco 13y agoYou're right - it's an excellent product by today's standards. :)
- ferongr 13y agoIf "standards of 1998" means proper parsing and display of metadata in various character sets from various sources (local file, internet streams etc), wide input format support, gapless playback and Replaygain support, relatively low resource usage, instantaneous search and unrestricted customizability then I wished more music players followed them.
- eli 13y agoIf you haven't already read it, this long Winamp retrospective from Ars last year is really worth it: Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...
- iamtherockstar 13y agoI read the headline and thought that HR was literally watching Twitter while the internel jumbles were going on, and any employees tweeting about it were being fired. I thought "how innovative and terrible of HR." Turns out, the headline was just a bit weird.
- nathanb 13y agoI thought the same. Should probably read "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Spinner; Staff Live-Tweet the Whole Thing"
- dkulchenko 13y agoThe fact that they didn't write it that way makes it seem like a deliberately misleading headline.
- teraflop 13y agoI suspect they just omitted a comma; it should have been "AOL Is Shutting Down AOL Music And Firing Staff, Who Are Live-Tweeting The Bloodbath".
- notmarkus 13y agoLive tweeting that you're getting fired seems like a terrible idea to me.
- Zikes 13y agoWhy? Are they in danger of being fired for it?
- eterm 13y agoThere's a difference between being fired and being made redundant usually. (Although perhaps US terminology is different, in the UK usually "fired" refers to dismissal, redundancy is a different process with more compensation and a process employers must follow.)
- eli 13y agoThe equivalent phrase here would probably be "laid off" but the definitions are a little fuzzy. People say "laid off" as a polite euphemism for fired and people use "fired" when they're upset about about being laud off.
- anigbrowl 13y agoWould you want to hire someone that live tweets everything that goes on at your firm? Most companies would rather not risk being held hostage (so to speak) by their employees if the management decides it needs to shut down a department or stop offering a product.
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- danalmeida 13y agoWill anyone other than the writers miss these websites?
- weitzj 13y agoMan... That's bad.Aol Music really has unique, good, high quality video content. For me the content was always hard to find, but when I found a star I wanted to watch/listen, I was amazed what exclusive videos they have had produced with that particular star. - maybe I confuse Aol Sessions with Aol music - Aol sessions is great.
- niggler 13y agoI wonder when we'll see "AOL is shutting down TechCrunch"