Don’t Panic: The story of Audion

Cabel Sasser, creator of the best t-shirts at MacWorld (narrowly beating my BOPJET shirts by virtue of their silverness), has written [an entertaining and insightful story](http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/)  about another one of his creations, Audion. It was one of the first MP3 players on the Mac, and, until iTunes happened, the most popular. They’ve officially decided to retire the application, and they’ve sent it off with a bang. It’s free. And they wrote a story.

During my time as a dotcom millionaire wannabe, I met the Panic guys briefly – congratulated them on their t-shirts, and probably said something nasty about Transmit (which a couple of weeks before had wiped out an entire FTP directory). Our companies were about the same size (although theirs was probably making money…) so I felt a certain kind of camaraderie, looking up to these guys who were doing what I wanted to do.

I still use it every so often, to play MP3-Pro files (which iTunes doesn’t support), and for listening to music in the office, where I don’t have access to my entire iTunes collection.

Anyway, I’m going to hoist a pint for Audion, and best wishes for Panic and all their other software. Congratulations for staying in the game so long.