Tomislav Uzelac

Tomislav Uzelac is a Croatian programmer from the University of Zagreb's FER computer science faculty in Zagreb who created the AMP MP3 Playback Engine in 1997, considered as first successful MP3 player. [ [http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MPThree.htm The History of MP3] ] [ [http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/amp-0.7.3/readme.html Amp MPEG audio decoder readme file (version 0.7.2) (C) Tomislav Uzelac 1996,1997] ] Two students from the University of Utah, Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev adapted it to work on Windows and called it WinAMP. [ [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:sOKKcCBdmswJ:ahyco.ffri.hr/seminari2005/MP3/multi/1_uvod.pdf+Justin+Frankel+and+Dmitry+Boldyrev&hl=hr&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=hr&client=firefox-a 1.2. Nastanak MP3-a] ] In order to manage AMP as a commercial product, Uzelac partnered with American media entrepreneur Brian Litman to form Advanced Multimedia Products (AMP). Advanced Multimedia Products was later merged into PlayMedia Systems - also co-founded by Uzelac). AMP was more widely marketed beginning in 1998 and facilitated world-wide MP3 popularization. [ [http://www.e-novation.info/2_sto_je_to.html Što je to Vidi e-novation natječaj?] ]

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