


With his collaborator Tom Pepper, he also developed SHOUTcast,a protocol that allows PCs to send a media stream through the Internet (like a web radio). It also supported plugins and skins: not very common features at this time for this type of software. Winamp was a huge technical innovation: this free player soon became a worldwide success. Justin Frankel created Winamp audio player back in 1997 when he was 20, at a time when music player software wasn’t really able to read mp3s in a simple way or create playlists and libraries. I really like the story behind REAPER and its original creator, because I find it inspiring and because it really helps to understand how REAPER became what it is now. Every DAW has a certain philosophy, a vision of audio manipulation and ergonomics, and therefore has a story to tell.
