Editing Advanced Visualization Studio (section)

=== Acquisition by Radionomy ===

With the release of Winamp version 5.66 on November 20, 2013, [[AOL]] announced that Winamp.com would shut down on December 20, 2013, and Winamp and its components would cease to be offered for download after that date.<ref name=ars-shutdown /> Resulting in the shutdown, many AVS downloads will be lost. The AVS Archive<ref name=avs-archive /> is an attempt to preserve some of the more popular AVS packs. The following day, an unofficial report surfaced that Microsoft was in talks with AOL to acquire Nullsoft.<ref name=microsoft-talks /> Despite AOL's announcement, the Winamp site was not shut down as planned, and on January 14, 2014, AOL sold Nullsoft to Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy; no financial details were publicly announced.<ref name=sale-tc /><ref name=sale-verge /> In fear of a shutdown, a mirror of the Winamp-hosted AVS forums has been published on GitHub.<ref name=forum-mirror />