Tomislav Uzelac is the

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n programmer who wrote an amp MPEG audio decoder that is considered to be the first successful software MP3 player.The History of MP3
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, Justin Frankel and

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adapted the decoder (which was originally written for

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systems) to work on

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and made it the MP3 decoding engine for the original version of

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(it was later replaced with Nullsoft's own Nitrane decoder, which was then replaced with a Fraunhofer ISO decoder). Uzelac studied at the University of Zagreb's

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(FER) under professor Mario Kovač, working on MP3 software decoding. In 1997 he created AMP,amp MPEG audio decoder readme file (version 0.7.2) (C) Tomislav Uzelac 1996,1997
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from FER. In order to manage AMP as a commercial product, Uzelac partnered with American media entrepreneur Brian Litman to form Advanced Multimedia Products "AMP". Advanced Multimedia Products was later merged into PlayMedia Systems - also co-founded by Uzelac. AMP was more widely marketed beginning in 1998 and facilitated world-wide MP3 popularization. Uzelac's company 2x2 Games is known for '' Unity of Command'' (2011), a strategy wargame, and its sequel '' Unity of Command II'' (2019).

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