Winamp

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Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware / shareware.

Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1996. Current Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison (benski), Will Fisher, Taber Buhl, Maksim Tyrtyshny, Chris Edwards and Stephen (Tag) Loomis.

In 2005 Winamp grew from 33 million monthly users to over 57 million monthly users,[2] making it the second[citation needed] most actively used media player globally, second only to Windows Media Player.