These are the functions included by default in the latest version. Listen to and manage your music collection, play videos, and listen to the radio on the Internet. And although its latest stable version was released in 2013 and it has been sentenced to death, it's still surviving in a context in which anything offline seems to be doomed. In any case, going back to MP3 and to 1997, we're talking about one of the most popular and charismatic audio and multimedia players in history: Winamp Media Player, with a version for Windows PC, but also macOS and Android smartphones and tablets in APK format.Īcquired by AOL during that Internet frenzy we suffered at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, it soon became one of the best and most popular music players for PC that stood out not only due to this function but also for its customization possibilities thanks to its skins as well as its extensions that allowed us to adapt its functioning to our needs. The truth is that in this era, all these changes that are subject to the development and evolution of online technologies take place very quickly, and we've seen how MP3 has moved on from being a physical format killer (mainly CDs) to being killed by music streaming services of the likes of Spotify, Apple Music or Deezer.Ī classic MP3 player that doesn't want to die. The rest of the story is well-known: a revolution in the music industry model that in only a few years, and thanks to the Internet, has changed the business forever.
The latter, born in 1987, was capable of reducing to only a few MB the size of a song thanks to its digital compression system. Back in 1997 many people hadn't even heard about the existence of the MP3 audio format.
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