Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...
That is why those of us that could do it, would bring our ZIP drives to the university labs and plug them into the parallel port. :)
A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#12Author here. I wrote a Twitter thread demonstrating many of its features. You can find it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/captbaritone/status/9612747140133...
Nice! Was trying to find that video of the live drag and drop updating of the skin that I saw on Twitter last night. That's super slick.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#13Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make sense, I would 100% go for it. Skinning should make a come-back.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#14Brings back the good old days :) But I don't have any mp3s anymore. Spotify.
They had a Winamp client for a brief time, but it got pulled. https://news.spotify.com/us/2013/12/20/spotiamp-long-live-th...
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#15I hope the random function is still as “random” as the original :)
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#16Brings back the good old days :) But I don't have any mp3s anymore. Spotify.
Implementing this looks like it would be a fun project: https://github.com/JMPerez/spotify-web-api-js
You'd still need the Spotify desktop client open (Winamp2-js would function as a remote), but you could do things like populating the playlist window with a user playlist.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#17Very cool! The sad thing is that I figured out that I didn't have a single mp3-file on my computer. Things have changed.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#18Brings back the good old days :) But I don't have any mp3s anymore. Spotify.
Implementing this looks like it would be a fun project: https://github.com/JMPerez/spotify-web-api-js You'd still need the Spotify desktop client open (Winamp2-js would function as a remote), but you could do things like populating the playlist window with a user playlist.
Unfortunately, you can never fully work. DRM means we can’t get raw access to the audio stream so EQ, visualization, balance, (for example) won’t work.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#19Yes, but does it really whips the Llama's ass?
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