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Tomislav Uzelac

Inventor of WinAMP MP3 player & Founder of 2x2 Games

Tomislav Uzelac is the Croatian programmer who wrote an amp MPEG audio decoder that is considered to be the first successful software MP3 player.


Uzelac studied at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) under professor Mario Kovač, working on MP3 software decoding. In 1997 he created AMP, and also graduated with an engineer's degree from FER.


Uzelac's company 2x2 Games is known for Unity of Command (2011), a strategy wargame, and its sequel Unity of Command II (2019).