The evolution of music from a record to a CD, media player had created the need. Although we listen to songs from services such as Spotify and Apple Music today, such services did not exist in the past. Instead, we listened to the songs stored on the local disk with programs such as WinAMP. WinAMP, a miraculous software for its period, memorable marketed its interface as NFT.
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WinAMP sells its 1997 interface as NFT
While PC usage is not very common in Turkey, if you are one of the lucky ones, you may remember the first version of WinAMP. Unlike current streaming services, the program gives you some customizations could offer. You could play with the bitrate directly and also change the mixrate frequency. Since stereo was a kind of luxury at the time, there was an interface that quickly switched between mono and stereo speakers.
WinAMP offered this interface and the accompanying 20 customized themes as NFT. In the auction, which will last until March 22, the highest bidder will have the original source files of this legendary interface. According to Thierry Ascarez, Head of Business Development at WinAMP, the person who buys NFT will have the right to copy and reproduce this file. However, it will not be copyrighted.
The program, which experienced a major decline with the advent of the 2010s, in 2014 It was acquired by the online radio company Radionomy. They also announced that a new update will be released in the near future. We wonder if this old friend will be with us again in the future.