2000: Playmedia 1997 News item archived 2000-08-18: ::97.06.01:  Nullsoft licenses the AMP® 0.7 Layer 3 Decoder for MP3-Playback in Winamp.  Now the world's most popular MP3 music player for the PC. ::97.02.01:      Dmitry Boldyrev, creator of MacAMP, becomes the first licensee of the AMP® 0.7-series MP3 decoder for the now-legendary MacAMP MP3 player for the Macintosh™ operating platform.  Shortly thereafter, Boldyrev introduces MP3 technology and the AMP® decoder itself to Justin Frankel.   Boldyrev and Frankel subsequently form Nullsoft (now a unit of AOL) with Branden Williams and others. 