Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
31 May 2017 Acquired SoundJam (iTunes)
“I mean, there are no APIs for this stuff. It’s not handled natively in the Mac OS, nor I think in Windows which I think is why WinAmp took off.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 31 May 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SoundJam (iTunes)
Transcript context
…Yup. It’s funny how we take MP3 for granted today but it was not a widely known thing people were distributing MP3s. They had to become world experts on reading the ISO spec for what is the MP3 file format and how would go about decoding it. Yeah, amazing. I mean, there are no APIs for this stuff. It’s not handled natively in the Mac OS, nor I think in Windows which I think is why WinAmp took off. Interesting. Yeah, that makes sense.…
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