[timkpaine]

Frankel is a a developer I hold in really high esteem. IDK what I would do without LICEcap, which I use on a daily basis (and I'm sure it was just a little side project they through together to make debugging easier in a short amount of time). And REAPER is probably the only user-customizable and extendable digital audio workstation in existence. You can see the echos of Winamp in it...

[Optimal_Persona]

It's perplexing that the article makes very little mention of what Justin Frankel did after Winamp - founding Cockos and creating REAPER, LICECap. As you note there's nothing quite as fully scriptable/customize-able as REAPER in Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)-land.

I've not found a media player I like as much as the original Winamp - especially the ability to use plugins, and how devs and users could easily change the look/feel. I've never understood how literally the worst media app I've encountered (especially on Windows) - iTunes - took over, aside from the fact that it made it easy to buy music and load it onto your iDevices.

[WhatIsDukkha]

Here Justin Frankel is talking with Paul Davis (the Ardour developer) about... developing DAWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94rP7lWnnxI

[bkyan]

If anyone is interested, here is Frankel's personal blog → https://1014.org/