![]() And then with plug-ins and skins…ĪIMP is clearly a spiritual successor to Winamp – customizable, skinnable, with extensive plug-in support, and the kind of compact views that made Winamp beloved. Looks conventional enough at first, though even the basic skin allows unparalleled freedom for where you want your player on-screen. Pre buyout, the software was still cool enough to boot up with an in-joke about genius schizophrenic Chicago street musician Wesley Willis – something no Apple or Spotify exec would ever do. ![]() ![]() That software would make co-creators Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev richer in the ’99 tech boom (AOL snapped it up), which also cleared the way for Justin to go on and make beloved DAW Reaper. Before iTunes, there was Winamp ( still officially at ) – the prototype MP3 player jukebox of 1997, back when the idea of playing your whole music collection digitally from your computer was still novel. So now we just need a player to match, whether you miss Winamp – or even if you miss vintage Soviet hi-fi machines. 2020 is the year enthusiasts revived their love of downloaded music – thanks, Bandcamp.
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