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.^[1][2] Two students from the University of Utah, Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev adapted it to work on Windows and called it WinAMP.^[3] 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. ^[4]

Notes

1. ^ The History of MP3
2. ^ Amp MPEG audio decoder readme file (version 0.7.2) (C) Tomislav Uzelac 1996,1997
3. ^ 1.2. Nastanak MP3-a
4. ^ Što je to Vidi e-novation natječaj?

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