In sad news from Shoutcast and Winamp owners AOL today. Reports have emerged the company is planning to shut Shoutcast and Winamp services and web sites. Although it’s very early days yet and very little is known at this stage. The company have released the following announcement on both web sites.

“Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.”