WinAMP looked like nothing else on the very utilitarian Windows OS, and I think that was a big part of the appeal.
To me the design seemed like a copy of the earlier MOD players that were popular on the Amiga platform.
To me the design seemed like a copy of the earlier MOD players that were popular on the Amiga platform.
If it had had a standard windows GUI we would have used it all the same - it could load a 13,000 song playlist off a network share without trying to load each file, so time to first sound was incredibly short.