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Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutellapeer-to-peer network. Frankel is also the founder of Cockos Incorporated, which creates music production and development software such as the REAPERdigital audio workstation, the NINJAM collaborative music tool and the Jesusonic expandable effects processor. In 2002, he was named in the MITTechnology ReviewTR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.^[1]

Early life[edit]

Justin Frankel was born in 1978 and grew up in Sedona, Arizona. Frankel had an aptitude for computers at an early age. His skill eventually led him to running the student computer network of Verde Valley School, which he attended, as well as writing an email application for the students.

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Winamp[edit]

After graduating high school with a 3.9 GPA, he attended the University of Utah in 1996, where he majored in computer science, but dropped out after two quarters. A few months later, he released the first version of WinAMP under his newly formed company's name Nullsoft. By 1998, more than fifteen million people had downloaded the program. Since many people had sent in the $10 donation suggested in return for using the program, Frankel earned tens of thousands of dollars a month.^[2]

Frankel, along with Tom Pepper (who played a big part of the Winamp development and distribution), later completed SHOUTcast, which allowed ordinary users with an Internet connection to broadcast, or 'stream', audio over the Internet. He also created the Advanced Visualization Studio, a plugin for Winamp which enabled users to create their own music visualizations in real-time, without any programming knowledge required.

Sale of Nullsoft to AOL[edit]

In June 1999 AOL simultaneously acquired Nullsoft and Spinner.com in a combined purchase worth approximately $400 million.^[3] In a July 21, 1999 SEC filing by AOL, the transaction was recorded as a payment of 2,863,053 shares of AOL common stock to the 54 stockholders in the two companies being acquired. On July 20, 1999, the last reported sale price for AOL common stock was $113.1875 per share. Frankel's stake of 522,661 shares in the acquisition was worth approximately $59 million.^[4]

AOL[edit]

On March 14, 2000, Frankel and Nullsoft colleague Tom Pepper released gnutella, a public peer-to-peer file-sharing application, using Nullsoft's corporate web servers, without AOL's knowledge. Gnutella was a new peer-to-peer file-sharing system like the original Napster system, which was used by users to share their MP3 collections with everyone who ran a Napster client. Unlike Napster, however, gnutella allowed users to share any type of file, not just MP3s. It also did not have the single point of failure that Napster had: centralized servers that indexed where all the shared content was stored. Whereas Napster could be (and was) shut off just by turning off the centralized index servers owned by Napster, gnutella did not rely on any centralized servers to find out what users had what content, so once a gnutella network was created, it could not be shut off.

Since AOL was at the time merging with Time Warner, gnutella seemed like a conflict of interest to Nullsoft's parent company, which knew that Time Warner was one of the parties taking legal action against Napster at the time. AOL ordered gnutella to be taken off the Nullsoft corporate servers. However, thousands of people had already downloaded the software before it was removed from Nullsoft's web site. The source code was released later, supposedly under the GPL. Gnutella continued to be developed without Frankel's assistance, and became one of the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing networks of its time; compatible clients that were developed included BearShare, Morpheus, Gnucleus and LimeWire.

AOL watched Frankel very closely after that, taking down other projects that he tried to release to the public, such as an MP3 search engine and a patch for AOL Instant Messenger to block advertisements in the application. Frankel threatened to resign on June 2, 2003, after AOL removed his program WASTE, a private peer-to-peer file-sharing program, from the Nullsoft website. He stayed with AOL after that in order to complete Winamp version 5.0, a hybrid of the Winamp v2.x series and Winamp v3.

On December 9, 2003 AOL shut down Nullsoft's San Francisco offices and laid off 450 employees.^[5]

Frankel announced his resignation from AOL on January 22, 2004 on his blog, stating 'Won't repeat it here (in two words: I've resigned). So begins chapter 3... or something cliché/poetic there. Or wait, does I've count as a single word? ha ha.'

Post-AOL[edit]

Some of Frankel's current projects in development (according to his blog) are a programmable effects processor called Jesusonic and a new piece of software named NINJAM which allows several musicians to make music together via the Internet.

Under his new company, Cockos, he has been developing REAPER, a multi-track audio and MIDI sequencer for Windows and Mac OS X, with a version for Linux in beta.

Quotes[edit]

• 'For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave.' - from a blog posting announcing his resignation from AOL^[6]

References[edit]

1. ^'2002 Young Innovators Under 35'. Technology Review. 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
2. ^'Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself'. Ars Technica. June 24, 2012.
3. ^Beth Lipton Krigel (June 1, 1999). 'AOL buys Spinner, Nullsoft for $400 million'. CNet News. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
4. ^'America Online Inc S-3 filing'. Securities and Exchange Commission. September 21, 1999.
5. ^Paul Festa (December 9, 2003). 'AOL lays off 450 California employees'. CNET.
6. ^Paul Boutin (November 12, 2004). 'Nullsoft, 1997-2004'. Slate. Retrieved 2007-05-04.

External links[edit]

• (c[a,o]s[a,o][s] de justin), Justin Frankel's blog
• The World's Most Dangerous Geek; Interviewed by David Kushner; RollingStone.com; January 13, 2004.
• Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp; Interviewed by Nate Mook, BetaNews, January 3, 2005.
• Turn Off The Internet; A site made by Steve Gedikian and Justin, as a joke.
• Interview with Justin Frankel on Winamp and the Reaper; In depth interview on the design and the history of Winamp. Digital Tools, April 2008.
• The Men Who Stole the World; By Lev Grossman, Time, November 24, 2010

Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualizationplugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. AVS has a customizable design which allows users to create their own visualization effects, or 'presets'. AVS was made open source software in May 2005, released under a BSD-style license. AVS is currently at version 2.83 and is included with Winamp, though the distributed version has later been reverted^[1] due to compatibility issues. Winamp currently ships with version 2.82 for Windows Vista (and later) and 2.81d for older Windows versions.

History[edit]

Initial releases[edit]

The first versions of AVS came with a set of pre-defined effects that could be arranged in any combination. Later versions introduced codeable components, most notably the 'SuperScope' render effect and 'Dynamic Movement'. The AVS plugin-in can be extended itself with AVS Plugin Effects (APE).

Version 2.81b of AVS was released by Nullsoft in 2003. It was faster and added several new features like arrays and interactivity in visualizations. 2.82 is the current stable release after some minor updates by Darren 'DrO' Owen. For a short period, version 2.83 was distributed, a decision that was eventually reversed due to incompatibilities.

Open-source and third-party versions[edit]

On May 18, 2005, it was announced^[2] that AVS would now be open source software, released under a BSD-style license.

Long after having left the company, Nullsoft founder Justin Frankel released a fork in August 2010 of the plug-in, titled 'Cockos Happy AVS'.^[3] It was first released as version 2.9, continuing the version scheme where the official version left off.

As of October 2013, AVS presets can be played directly in the browser using the Webvs^[4] visualizer.

Acquisition by Radionomy[edit]

With the release of Winamp version 5.66 on November 20, 2013, AOL announced that Winamp.com would shut down on December 20, 2013, and Winamp and its components would cease to be offered for download after that date.^[5] Resulting in the shutdown, many AVS downloads will be lost. The AVS Archive^[6] is an attempt to preserve some of the more popular AVS packs. The following day, an unofficial report surfaced that Microsoft was in talks with AOL to acquire Nullsoft.^[7] Despite AOL's announcement, the Winamp site was not shut down as planned, and on January 14, 2014, AOL sold Nullsoft to Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy; no financial details were publicly announced.^[8][9] In fear of a shutdown, a mirror of the Winamp-hosted AVS forums has been published on GitHub.^[10]

Making presets[edit]

Every preset is made up of different components. There are three categories of components: Render, Trans and Misc. Render draws shapes, Trans transforms the current image and Misc contains the components that don't fit in other two categories. The components are plugged into a list, which is executed from top to bottom, each component doing something with the image and sending the result to the next one. A lot of components are configurable and a few are codable. Effect lists can be included, which act as presets within presets.

Codeable components[edit]

The codable components allow the most customizability, when a preset author can control and program effects through AVS' simple scripting language. The scripting language is compiled to native code at runtime for maximum performance.

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The following components can be scripted:

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• Superscope
• Triangles
• Texer II
• Movement
• Dynamic Movement
• Dynamic Distance Modifier
• Dynamic Shift
• Bump
• Effect List
• Global Variable Manager

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User-generated presets may be featured on websites such as Winamp.com, DeviantArt or customize.org.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Winamp 5.61 Version History'. Winamp.com. March 15, 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
2. ^'vis_avs'. GitHub project
3. ^Frankel, Justin (August 7, 2011). 'Cockos Happy AVS'. AVS Forum Mirror
4. ^'Webvs'. Webvs project on GitHub
5. ^Farivar, Cyrus (November 20, 2013). 'After 15 years of llama-whipping, AOL shuts down Winamp for good'. Ars Technica. Retrieved November 20, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'AVS Archive'. Visbot Network. November 1, 2013.
7. ^'AOL reportedly wants to sell Winamp to Microsoft'. The Verge. Retrieved November 21, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Lunden, Ingrid (1 January 2014). 'AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy'. TechCrunch. AOL.
9. ^'Winamp lives on after acquisition by Radionomy'. The Verge. Retrieved 14 January 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^'AVS Forums on GitHub'. Visbot Network. November 23, 2013.

External links[edit]

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