Tomislav Uzelac is a Croatian programmer from the University of Zagreb's FER computer science faculty in Zagreb who created the AMP MP3 Playback Engine in 1997, considered as first successful MP3 player.[1][2] Two students from the University of Utah, Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev adapted it to work on Windows and called it WinAMP.[3] 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. [4]
