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Nullsoft

Index Nullsoft

Nullsoft, Inc. was an American software house founded in Sedona, Arizona, in 1997 by programmer Justin Frankel. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 34 relations: AOL, Audio codec, Bleeping Computer, Bonnie Burton, Gnutella, InstallShield, Justin Frankel, Llama, Mascot, Media player software, Microsoft, MP3, Parody, Peer-to-peer, Radionomy, Real-time computing, Rolling Stone, San Francisco, Sedona, Arizona, Shoutcast, Software, Software company, Spinner (website), Streaming media, Subsidiary, TechCrunch, Tom Pepper, Townsquare Media, Ultravox (software), Video codec, WASTE, Wesley Willis, Winamp, WinPlay3.

  2. Companies disestablished in 2013
  3. Former Time Warner subsidiaries
  4. Radionomy

AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET. Nullsoft and AOL are former Time Warner subsidiaries.

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Audio codec

An audio codec, or audio decoder is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio.

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Bleeping Computer

Bleeping Computer is a website covering technology news and offering free computer help via its forums that was created by Lawrence Abrams in 2004.

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Bonnie Burton

Bonnie Burton (born July 12, 1972) is a San Francisco-based author, journalist, comedian, actress, and show host.

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Gnutella

Gnutella is a peer-to-peer network protocol.

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InstallShield

InstallShield is a proprietary software tool for creating installers or software packages.

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Justin Frankel

Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.

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Llama

The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.

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Mascot

A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.

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Media player software

Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Radionomy

Radionomy was an online platform that provided tools for operating online radio stations.

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Real-time computing

Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sedona, Arizona

Sedona is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,031. It is within the Coconino National Forest. Sedona's main attraction is its array of red sandstone formations.

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Shoutcast

Shoutcast (formerly SHOUTcast) is a service for streaming media over the internet to media players, using its own cross-platform proprietary software. Nullsoft and Shoutcast are Radionomy.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Software company

A software company is a business entity that specializes in the development, distribution, and maintenance of software products and services.

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Spinner (website)

Spinner was an online music and entertainment service. Nullsoft and Spinner (website) are Defunct software companies of the United States.

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Streaming media

Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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Tom Pepper

Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the Gnutella peer-to-peer system.

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Townsquare Media

Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York.

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Ultravox (software)

Ultravox or Ultravox Media On Demand Server (UltraMODS) is a streaming video project by AOL.

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Video codec

A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video.

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WASTE

WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms, and file browsing/sharing capabilities.

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Wesley Willis

Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist.

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Winamp

Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. Nullsoft and Winamp are Radionomy.

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WinPlay3

WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows,"1995: (...) In the same year, Fraunhofer provides a first PC based Layer 3 codec as shareware."— both 16-bit (Windows 3.1) and 32-bit (Windows 95).

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See also

Companies disestablished in 2013

Former Time Warner subsidiaries

Radionomy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft

Also known as .nsh, DJ Mike the Llama, EclipseNSIS, Mike the Llama, Modern UI (NSIS), NSIS (installer), NSIS Media, NSV (format), Nullsoft Inc., Nullsoft Install System, Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, Nullsoft Streaming Audio, Nullsoft Streaming Video, Nullsoft Video.