Spinner (website)

Short description: Music and entertainment website

Spinner

Type| Subsidiary
Industry| Media player
Fate| Merged into LiveXLive
Founded| United States
Defunct| April 26, 2013 (2013-04-26)
Headquarters| United States
Parent| AOL
Website| http://spinner.com

Spinner was an online music and entertainment service.[1] An AOL Music property, it was acquired by AOL on June 1, 1999, along with Nullsoft for $400 million.[2][3][4] Based in San Francisco, California, the website was the first Internet music service and was the largest by 2001, while offering promotional features from high-profile recording artists.[5] In 2002, AOL combined Spinner with the former's Netscape portal to form Netscape Radio.[6] Spinner broadcast over 100 radio stations,[7] including Radio CMJ.[8]

In 2008, Spinner was revamped by AOL as a music website aimed at the "music aficionado".[9] The website offers exclusive interviews of recording artists,[10] streams of albums and live performances, and a free music download daily.[11]

Spinner, along with all AOL music sites, was abruptly shut down in April 2013.[12][13] The URLs to all former AOL music sites, including Spinner, were re-directed to aolradio.slacker.com starting in August 2013. Several AOL Music blogs, along with Comics Alliance, were sold to Townsquare Media in June 2013.[14]

## References

1. ↑ Calhoun 2011, p. 102
2. ↑ Alderman 2002, p. 97
3. ↑ "AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million" (in en). https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-buys-spinner-nullsoft-for-400-million/.
4. ↑ Farivar, Cyrus (2017-07-03). "Winamp's woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself" (in en-us). https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/.
5. ↑ Khosrowpour 2006, p. 104
6. ↑ Fries 2005, p. 110 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFries2005 (help)
7. ↑ Axford 2004, p. 214
8. ↑ "CMJ On Air". CMJ New Music Report 79 (5): 29. March 15, 2004. https://books.google.com/books?id=6hV6g87Is-MC&pg=PA29. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
9. ↑ Brung, Anthony (May 24, 2008). "The Billboard Q&A". Billboard 120 (21): 23. https://books.google.com/books?id=VxQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
10. ↑ "The Spinner Interview Posts". Spinner. http://www.spinner.com/category/the-spinner-interview/.
11. ↑ "Mp3 Of The Day Posts". Spinner. http://www.spinner.com/category/mp3-of-the-day/.
12. ↑ "Updated: AOL Music, Spinner Shutting Down" (in en). Billboard. April 26, 2013. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1559947/updated-aol-music-spinner-shutting-down. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
13. ↑ Sandoval, Greg (2013-04-26). "Large portion of Aol Music division shuttered" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/26/4271212/is-aol-music-shutting-down.
14. ↑ "Townsquare Acquires Various AOL Music Sites, Comics Alliance". Billboard.biz. http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1565601/townsquare-acquires-various-aol-music-sites-comics.

## Bibliography

* Alderman, John (July 11, 2002). Sonic Boom: Napster, Mp3, And The New Pioneers Of Music. Basic Books. ISBN 0738207772.
* Axford, Elizabeth C. (July 1, 2004). Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810850273.
* Calhoun, Scott, ed (December 16, 2011). Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll?. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810881570.
* Fries, Bruce; Fries, Marty (April 26, 2005). Digital Audio Essentials. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0596008562. https://archive.org/details/digitalaudioesse0000frie.
* Khosrowpour, Mehdi (April 3, 2006). Cases on Electronic Commerce Technologies and Applications. Idea Group Inc.. ISBN 1599044021.

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