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Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Downloads Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for Internet distribution.
[December 22, 2008, 10:25]
News Burst: Nullsoft releases guilt-free Winamp
News In addition to the usual array of bug fixes, new features include skin selection in the main menu and added streamed file saving to in_mp3.dll, although this feature will not work with Shoutcast. A recent stream list has been added to the open...
[August 26, 1999, 16:01]
Gnutella creator may quit AOL
News Gnutella author Justin Frankel is considering quitting Nullsoft, the company he founded and sold to America Online, following repeated clashes with his corporate parent over software projects. However, a source close to Nullsoft said the posting...
[June 4, 2003, 7:42]
Winamp gets critical patch
News Nullsoft has released an update to Winamp to fix a serious security vulnerability that opened up systems to remote attack. The update from Nullsoft, a division of America Online, has been made available for download at the Winamp Web site.
[January 31, 2006, 9:20]
AOL admits failure of Winamp revamp
News America Online's celebrated Nullsoft division is taking a page out of Coca-Cola's playbook, reviving a "classic" version of its flagship Winamp MP3 player amid widespread criticism of the latest rendition of the software.
[June 27, 2003, 13:27]
Winamp pioneer makes peace with AOL
News Nullsoft founder Justin Frankel may be sticking around at America Online after all. In a posting on Saturday on his Web log, Frankel said he will remain at the company to work on the latest version of Nullsoft's popular Winamp digital media player...
[June 24, 2003, 13:49]
Fight over MP3 player technology
News NullSoft is the maker of the popular MP3 player, called WinAmp -- or is it? On Friday, PlayMedia filed a complaint in Los Angeles District Court accusing NullSoft of copying its AMP digital music player to create the basic engine of NullSoft's...
[March 16, 1999, 13:01]
AOL pulls file-sharing software
News A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The product became available on Nullsoft's Web site on Wednesday, just days shy of...
[June 2, 2003, 9:52]
Winamp glitch may benefit open source
News AOL Time Warner's Nullsoft subsidiary has been encouraging people using its Winamp 2.79 player to upgrade to a new version as a fix for a security vulnerability discovered Friday. Although the vulnerability is a setback for Nullsoft, it could help...
[May 2, 2002, 11:58]
MP3.Com sued by PlayMedia
News PlayMedia initially aimed its lawsuit solely at rival Nullsoft, developer of the WinAmp MP3 player. PlayMedia alleged that Nullsoft stole code from its own AMP MP3 player to develop the WinAmp player.
[May 18, 1999, 16:38]
Gnutella rides the Net
News Gnutella is a Napster-inspired MP3 application produced by the developers that created Winamp at AOL Time Warner subsidiary Nullsoft. AOL Time Warner recently forced Nullsoft to pull down the Web site hosting the Gnutella application, and claimed...
[March 21, 2000, 11:04]
Winamp returns to simpler roots
News The Winamp5 update highlights a return to simpler times for Nullsoft, the original developer of Winamp, which AOL acquired in 1999 to jumpstart its online music strategy. The previous version, Winamp3, was an ambitious attempt by Nullsoft to create...
[December 16, 2003, 7:35]
Internet radio: The sound of money?
News AOL followed Tuesday with its $400 million acquisition of Spinner Networks Inc.and Nullsoft Inc. Spinner operates an Internet radio network, while Nullsoft develops software for radio broadcasting and playing high-fidelity music files.
[June 2, 1999, 14:09]
New program mimics Napster
News This was actually designed to exchange recipes," insisted Tom Pepper, a product manager at Nullsoft. Frankel's company, Nullsoft, was later bought by AOL, giving him a net worth exceeding $70m (£43m).
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
AOL aims to supercharge streaming
News Though integrated into AOL operationally, the Nullsoft team has been on the cutting edge of the online giant's software development efforts. The Nullsoft alumni have been preaching a new media software dubbed "Wasabi," which can run on various...
[June 27, 2002, 13:26]
A Year Ago: New program mimics Napster
News Frankel's company, Nullsoft, was later bought by AOL, giving him a net worth exceeding $70m (£43m). This was actually designed to exchange recipes," insisted Tom Pepper, a product manager at Nullsoft.
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
Music file flaws could threaten traders
News People who use NullSoft's popular WinAmp software also have to watch out, said Foundstone's Kurtz. Kurtz said that the company has notified NullSoft and has a patch prepared. The newest version of NullSoft's WinAmp is available on the company's...
[December 19, 2002, 7:51]
Winamp bug leaves back door open
News Winamp is a freeware application produced by the Nullsoft development team. No information about this exploit has yet been posted to the Winamp/Nullsoft Web site and BugTraq reports that it is not aware of any software patch to remedy it.
[January 13, 2000, 15:07]
AOL beefs up Winamp
News Meanwhile, Winamp3 supports a long list of audio and video formats, including MP3 and MP2; MPG and MPEG; Microsoft's WMA, WMV and the ASF; the open source and patent-free Ogg Vorbis audio format; MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) and...
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
Winamp's creator turns his back on AOL
News The announcement brings to a close a chapter in the annals of dot-com history, which began in 1999 when the then-20-year-old Nullsoft founder sold his company to AOL in a deal reportedly worth $100m (£55m).
[January 27, 2004, 9:35]
