A Wisdom Archive on winamp - history

Winamp - Winamp 1 and Winamp 2. Although Winamp 1 (first version released in May 1997) was used among early adopters of the MP1, MP2, and MP3 formats, it wasn't until Winamp 2 was released that it became widely used, and was one of the most downloaded pieces of software for the PC. Winamp - Winamp3. The next major Winamp release, Winamp3 (spelled condensed in this way to include mp3 in the name, as in Winamp3, but more commonly spelled Winamp 3), surfaced on Augus ...

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Winamp is an audio player made by Nullsoft, part of America Online. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. It also now plays streamed video content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. Originally, MP3 playback was based on the AMP decoding engine by PlayMedia Systems, Inc.'s [1] Tomislav Uzelac et al. In later versions this was replaced with Nitrane, an allegedly 'proprietary' decoder fabricated by Nullsoft and disputed by PlayMedia. A lawsuit was filed ... Including:

• Winamp - History
• Winamp - Winamp 1 and Winamp 2
• Winamp - Winamp3
• Winamp - Winamp 5.0
• Winamp - Concepts
• Winamp - Skins
• Winamp - Plugins
• Winamp - Features
• Winamp - Derivative work

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The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. XMMS - History. XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997, citing a 'lack of good mp3 players for linux'. [1] The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp skins since its release. Though the original release was made under a license that did not ... Including:

• XMMS - History
• XMMS - Criticism
• XMMS - Features

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XviD is an open-source MPEG-4 video codec originally based on OpenDivX. XviD was started by a group of volunteer programmers after the OpenDivX source was closed in July 2001. XviD features MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, Trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantisation matrices. XviD is a main competitor of DivX (the word XviD is DivX spelled backwards). While XviD is open source, DivX is available as either a freeware bin ... Including:

• XviD - Legal
• XviD - History
• XviD - Sigma Designs controversy
• XviD - Playing XviD encoded files

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XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997, citing a 'lack of good mp3 players for linux'. [1] The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp skins since its release. Though the original release was made under a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code, it is now released under ...

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Hawthorne Heights released an album entitled "The Silence in Black and White" in 2004 on Victory. The song "Ohio is for Lovers", which was released as their first major single, was at one point bundled in .mp3 format with Winamp. Another version of this album, "The Silence in Black and White: Limited Edition", was released with 7 bonus tracks and a DVD. The band has recently finished recording their second album, "If Only You Were Lonely", which is scheduled for release on February 28, 2006. This album also features two separate covers, a man and a woman sleeping alone in their be ...

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Apple Computer endorses only one official method for synchronizing with the iPod: iTunes. However, several third-party tools exists that addressed synchronization of the iPod. Many of these third-party tools allows functionality not available through iTunes, such as the ability to copy music off the iPod back to the host PC. Some of the more notable examples are the ml iPod plugin for Winamp, that allows users to manage their iPod content through Winamp, and Anapod Explorer, produced by Redchair Software, which presents a Windows Explorer-li ...

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Trillian is a closed-source application, but the Pro version can be extended by plugins. Plugins by Cerulean Studios itself include spell-check, weather updater, a mini-browser (for viewing AIM profiles), e-mail checker, Winamp song title scroller, stock exchange monitor, and RSS feedreader, as well as a plugin for the Jabber and Bonjour networks. Others have developed various plugins, such as a games plugin which can be used to play chess and checkers, a protocol plugin to send NetBIOS messages through Trillian, a plugin to interact ...

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Plugins are available for the following applications: [1] amaroK (integrated support) AmigaAMP Beep Media Player foobar2000 gmusicbrowser (unofficial plugin) iTunes J. River Media Center MPD (unofficial, mpdscribble) Muine (unofficial plugin) musikCube (unofficial beta plugin) Noatun Quintessential Player/QCD Quod Libet Rhythmbox SlimServer Winamp Windows Media Player Xbox Media Center (integrated support) XMMS ...

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In January 2001, DivXNetworks founded OpenDivX as part of Project Mayo, which was intended to be a home for open source multimedia projects. OpenDivX was an open-source MPEG-4 video codec based on a stripped down version of the MoMuSys reference MPEG-4 encoder, however the code was placed under a restrictive license and only members of the DivX Advanced Research Centre (DARC) had write access to the project CVS. In early 2001, DARC member Sparky wrote an improved version of the encoding core called encore2, which was updated several times be ...

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The station and concept was started by Ari Shohat on December 6, 1999 with just the initial trance channel. Since then, Digitally Imported has grown into something much larger and far more popular than anyone had conceived. The team behind the station has increased to about a dozen people since then, while the number of concurrent listeners now peaks at well over 50,000. The first trance channel is still the most popular, often ...

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July 1, 2000 Initial Release, 0.50 of Trillian as an IRC client. August 11, 2000 Version 0.52 released with more IRC-specific features. November 29, 2000 Version 0.60 released with AIM, ICQ and MSN support. Many other features were also added. December 23, 2000 Version 0.61 released. Includes Yahoo! Messenger support. January 28, 2001 Version 0.62 released. March 23, 2001 Version 0.63 released. June 04, 2001 Version 0.635 released.

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Audioscrobbler began as a computer science project by Richard "RJ" Jones while at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. RJ developed the first plugins, then opened an API to the community, after which many music players on different operating system platforms were supported. Audioscrobbler was limited to recording music its users played on a registered computer, which allowed for charting and collaborative filtering. Last.fm was founded in 2002 by Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker and Thomas Willomit ...

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