Frankel remains an AOL employee, but his future at the company is uncertain.
Shortly after AOL pulled Waste from Nullsoft's site, Frankel stirred up chatter by posting a notice on his Web site about his unhappiness and then threatened to leave. Waste-a reference to the secret postal network in Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49"-lets people set up private networks of 50 people or less in which participantsĬan swap computer files, instant message one another, and communicate in real time. Called Waste, the service was typical Frankel: simple, small and potentially controversial.
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In recent weeks, Frankel has caused a stir by publicly pondering a departure from AOL after the Internet giant pulled his latest software creation. The central figure in this complexity is Frankel, the original developer of Winamp. Meanwhile, a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the team of young
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Wasabi code also is still being toyed with inside the halls of Nullsoft's San Francisco loft and will be found inside certain applications in Winamp 5, such as its skinning engine and its media library.
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Elements of Winamp3 and Wasabi will be combined with the faster, slimmer Winamp 2 for the next version of Winamp, called Winamp 5 (versions 2 plus 3), due out in late 2003. Ultravox has been incorporated into dial-up and broadband products and is central to AOL's move away from RealNetworks' streaming format.Īlthough the Winamp3 movement has been put on the back burner, it's by no means dead. Nullsoft developers also were the brains behind Ultravox, server software that streams multimedia. Content providers that sign exclusive deals to stream their media on AOL will be required to use Nullsoft's formats. Nullsoft audio and video formats, called NSA and NSV, respectively. Unlike previous incarnations, AOL will push for companies to use Like previous versions, Llama will include support for playback files encoded in Microsoft and RealNetworks, with the new addition of Apple's QuickTime technology formats. This summer, AOL plans to release the next version of its online service, currently dubbed AOL 9.0, that will include a new media player, code-named Llama, created by the Nullsoft team.
Parent company AOL, which remains the largest Internet service in the world, has used Nullsoft to code its proprietary digital media player since 2001. That's not to say Winamp is devoid of its own distribution giant. "The problem was there were many horses that could do that trick." "It was a one-trick pony, and the trick it did was really good," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter Research. The mainstream appeal of Microsoft and RealNetworks players have sidelined Winamp into a more enthusiast crowd. The companies also have beefed up their players to offer many features once popularized by Winamp such as personalized interface skins, music libraries and CD playback. Microsoft and RealNetworks have tied their own media players more closely into their core assets, the Windows operating system and the RealOne subscription service. Winamp3's holdup may have allowed its competitors to make greater inroads into the explosive growth of digital music. Technology to compete in digital media, but it is unlikely to help. Prospects of the Winamp player and AOL's ability to use Nullsoft It's unclear exactly how the Winamp3 detour will affect the long-range
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