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2. Sonique (media player) - Wikipedia

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   Sonique is an audio player for Microsoft Windows. Released as freeware, Sonique is capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and audio CDs. Sonique was in development until 2002. It was one of the most popular desktop audio players, second only to Winamp. The major features of Sonique include support for irregular skins ...

3. MP3 - Wikipedia

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   Expired patents [10] MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) [4] is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, [11] [12] with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

4. Winamp - Wikipedia

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   MP3 decoding was performed by the AMP decoding engine developed by Advanced Multimedia Products co-founder Tomislav Uzelac, which was free for non-commercial use. It was compatible with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. Winamp was the second real-time MP3 player for Windows, the first being WinPlay3.

5. Comparison of audio player software - Wikipedia

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   The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback. Multi-media players designed for video ...

6. WinPlay3 - Wikipedia

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   WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows, [2] [3] [4] both 16-bit (Windows 3.1) and 32-bit (Windows 95). Prior to this, audio compressed with MP3 had to be decompressed prior to listening. It was released by Fraunhofer IIS ("Institute for Integrated Circuits"), [5] creators of the MP3 format, on September 9 ...

7. Music download - Wikipedia

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   Music download. A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without ...

8. Pono (digital music service) - Wikipedia

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   Pono ( / ˈpoʊnoʊ /, Hawaiian word for "proper") was a portable digital media player and music download service for high-resolution audio. [1] [2] [3] It was developed by musician Neil Young and his company PonoMusic, which raised money for development and initial production through a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.

9. Portable media player - Wikipedia

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   A larger sized, hard disk memory type PMP: the Archos 605 (2000s) A small DAP: the SanDisk Clip Jam (2010s) A portable media player ( PMP) or digital audio player ( DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.