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What would compel Spotify to hand over their music library to another application? How’s that going to work? Would you really subscribe to Spotify and pay for Winamp? Seems unlikely. Here’s the thing: creating a new mobile application that connects to Spotify, Google Music, Audible, and has a cohesive experience across the board… is pretty unlikely to happen. RELATED: What Happened to Winamp, and Can You Use It Now? Too Good To Be True? Because the “war is over” for desktop anyway. So… maybe… there might be a desktop Winamp update to version 6, but it sounds like the real effort will be in creating a completely new mobile application and slapping the Winamp name on it.

But mobile audio is fractured and inconvenient. On desktop, “the war is over,” he said, and between the likes of iTunes and web apps, there’s not much room to squeeze in. The planned version of Winamp for iOS and Android will be that place, Saboundjian claims. Still, any potential for a new version of Winamp got people really excited.īut later in the article, this curious paragraph makes us wonder: The only problem is that it was leaked completely anonymously and distributed on a pretty shady site (we wouldn’t recommend downloading it anywhere but a VM). They noted that last month, a long-awaited beta update to Winamp leaked online, bringing the version up from 5.666 to 5.8, fixing a truckload of shortcomings in the app, and changing it to freeware. Sounds… a little too good to be true, right? He talked about creating a new music player that can connect to Spotify, Google Music, podcasts, Audible, play your MP3s, and have a search feature that let you use all of it. Techcrunch interviewed Alexandre Saboundjian, the CEO of Radionomy, the company that bought the rights to Winamp. Llama Llama, red pajama, reads a story with his mama… and according to this story in Techcrunch today, Winamp might be coming back next year as version 6-but just like this paragraph, it doesn’t make any sense.