MacAmp is an early
GUI-based
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. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...
audio player, first released on April 13, 1997, for the
Macintosh
Mac is a brand of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 1984. The name is short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), a reference to the McIntosh (apple), McIntosh apple. The current product lineup inclu ...
[("For the Macintosh, we recommend MacAmp.")] by
Dmitry Boldyrev of
Nullsoft
Nullsoft, Inc. was an American software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by programmer Justin Frankel. Its products included the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server.
History
In 1997, Justin Frankel, ...
(and later Subband).
[("Dmitry Boldyrev, one of the developers at Nullsoft, creators of the most popular MP3 players, WinAmp and MacAmp")][("Dmitry Boldyrev, otherwise known to Macintosh users as the founder and developer of MacAMP (later renamed MACAST)")] Its MP3 decoding capability was based on the
PlayMedia Systems AMP MPEG-2, Layers 1, 2 and 3 decoder.
By 1999, MacAmp was cited as a "premier MP3 player" and most popular such player for the Macintosh.
[("@soft's MacAmp is the premier MP3 player for the Mac.")][("MacAmp is the hands-down coolest MP3 player for the Mac")][("the MacAMP player has been the mp3 player of choice for Macintosh users")][("MacAmp is popular with the Apple computer crowd, and there's a Macintosh version of RealJukebox, too.")][("To hear mp3s you'll need an mp3 player software program, of which there are dozens. Winamp (www.winamp.com), a shareware program for Windows, and Macamp (www.macamp.com), free for the Mac, are reliable and constantly being updated.")][("The most popular Macintosh player is MacAmp (www.macamp.com)")]
In September 1999, a revamped version of MacAmp was released under the name "Macast".
[("MACAST 1.0, a revamped renamed version of the MacAMP MP3 player, has been released.")]
See also
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Comparison of media players
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DOSamp
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Winamp
Winamp is a media player (software), 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. It was then acquired by Rad ...
References
External links
Playmedia Systems, Inc.Owner of AMP trademark
MacAmp ReviewThe Past Really Is Soon!
Macintosh media players
Computer-related introductions in 1997
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