January 04, 2005
Justin Frankel, Founder of WinAmp, Interview
Betanews has the first interview with Justin Frankel, the founder of WinAmp, after he left AOL. Frankel is back up to his revolutionary antics starting a new company called Cockos.There were a few little pieces of software that I worked on for a bit, getting to the point of usability, and then haven't really touched in a while. Primarily these are a program called Assniffer (which is a HTTP sniffing program that logs the actual files transferred), and PathSync (which I use to interactively synchronize directories on different computers/drives)... The Jesusonic is a tool for real-time effects processing of audio (which can be used on many different sources, such as vocals, guitars, basses, etc).
Cool projects indeed. Nothing earth shattering like WinAmp though. On that topic:
I'm always hoping that they will come around and realize that they're killing it and find a better way, but AOL always seems too bogged down with all of their internal politics to get anything done. [Sighs] I suppose it doesn't help that I pissed them off so bad, so I should take part of the blame. I'd love to see Winamp back in the hands of people who really care about it.
Once again the familar story of a big corporation buying something innovative and squashing it.
