Winamp5 Beta

[DanL]

Originally Posted by evulish

Did anyone else ever use Winplay3? Made by Fraunhofer IIS.. same guys that developed MP3s in 1989. They have interesting papers (if you're interested in audio) on their site...which I can't seem to find right now. Hehe, and people thought Napster created MP3s.

MP3s were created in 1989? You sure it wasn't just some early form of the codec or something? Seems to me like if MP3 was around then, those old '89 DOS games (Commander Keen, anyone?) would be using more than synthesized MIDIs. I honestly don't know anything about the history of the format, but '89 seems too early for me.

[KyleGilbert45]

[Not to stray off topic, but then what was the topic of this thread]

Here is a history of the MP3 http://http://www.mp3-mac.com/Pages/History_of_MP3.html

It states that Fraunhofer recieved his patent for the MP3 in 1989.

[Trashed20]

Originally Posted by SuperDanman

MP3s were created in 1989? You sure it wasn't just some early form of the codec or something? Seems to me like if MP3 was around then, those old '89 DOS games (Commander Keen, anyone?) would be using more than synthesized MIDIs. I honestly don't know anything about the history of the format, but '89 seems too early for me.

Back then it took tons of processing power to make them, plus size was still a problem. Only in the pentium age did they become feasable to use, and now with cd roms and high speed internet they are easy to transfer. Anyone remember their 486's with VGA monitors, 5.5 and 3.25 floppy drives?

[Frank(Aflak)]

I dunno, the one click playlist of mp3's to Audio CD in iTunes is just toooooo nice.

[generalbrando]

I downloaded a "final release" of Winamp 5 today. I can't find anything on Winamp's site about winamp 5, so I'm not sure how true that is. Anyone know why they aren't talking about Winamp 5 on their site?

[Clark Gilbert]

Originally Posted by generalbrando

I downloaded a "final release" of Winamp 5 today. I can't find anything on Winamp's site about winamp 5, so I'm not sure how true that is. Anyone know why they aren't talking about Winamp 5 on their site?

I couldn't find anything on the main site for Winamp5. Maybe it's because they like their layout with Winamp 2 and 3.

There are some things about it in their forums though.