YOZ NOTES FROM 2025: I gave this talk at Noisebridge's semi-regular "5 Minutes Of Fame" event on 11 November 2012. (It took me more like ten minutes, but pretty much everyone else overran too.) I gave a longer version of this talk at Notacon 10 in Cleveland, Ohio a year later; you can watch the video online but unfortunately the audio cuts out around the 6 minute mark: https://archive.org/details/NotAConArchiveInfocon/notacon+10+-+2013/Video/Notacon+10+-+Track+2+Talk+13+-+The+Winamp+Imperative+-+Yoz.mp4
You can grab the slides for this talk (10MB PPTX file) here: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZRBh95ZAHRd8NerGxuhDsjmnttePS1l9KDy
This is about Winamp, a 15-year-old music player that I've been obsessed with for a long, long time, even though I haven't really been able to use it since I switched to the Mac six years ago. Since the arrival of MP3, Winamp is the one app that's reflected, better than any other, the changing power structure of music. And it single-handedly kickstarted its own ge