[teleforce]

For me the best audio player ever is Napster [1].

It's not just an audio player but an eco-system, and for better or worst it changed the music industry forever.

Perhaps the modern version should make a p2p music streaming from peers rather than direct downloading.

[1] Napster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster

[soulofmischief]

Spotify was originally p2p. The early principal engineer was the same dev who built µTorrent, Ludvig Strigeus.

I'd also recommend looking at communities such as Soulseek. And Limewire is still around!

[teleforce]

Thanks for the info although I was around during the released of µTorrent and one of its early users, I didn't know Ludvig Strigeus was instrumental in the Spotify early days.

Apparently he also the original author of OpenTDD and ScummVM, and it seems that he's the legit Carmack 2.0 [1].

[1] Ludvig Strigeus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus

[soulofmischief]

Strigeus, Fabrice Bellard and Carmack are three of the most GOATED hackers ever, I look up to them as examples of real 10x engineers.

[slurpyb]

Do you ever think about how the mp3 lead to napster, facebook, then whatever hellscape we have now?