Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...
that mp3 will be ready in 5 minutes. woohoo!
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
#22Wow, 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 se…
I've noticed lots of chat apps are adding skins/themes lately. Telegram is a great example, I believe slack also has basic theme support.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#23Wow, 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 se…
Absolutely. I don't get why skins fell out of style. I remember back in the day when I was working on an accounting app, even that I made skinnable. You may just be reconciling your bank account, but at least you could do it in a form that looked like it was made from marble, or wood, or whatever you wanted! It just made everything feel just a little bit less tedious... at least to me
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you visit the app ( https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/ ) and press play?
OMG, end of the day here and I really needed that one! Thank you. Oh, the old days of internet right in front of me.
Same here! I mostly tried the link to see if it also ported the lama, and it sure did deliver on that!
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#25Wow, 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 se…
I always used skins in Winamp/XMMS, but I'm immediately filled with nostalgia upon seeing the default skin. I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of customizing the look and feel of applications. All of the walled gardens have intertwined design with functionality to the point where skinning doesn't really exist in the same way. I haven't used Windows 10, but I wonder if it's possible to replace the Windows shell like I used to in college.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#26Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...
23 minutes to download Usher - Yeah and Outkast - Hey Ya!.mp3 - those were the days.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#27What about running it without the browser chrome?
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#28Wow, 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 se…
I always used skins in Winamp/XMMS, but I'm immediately filled with nostalgia upon seeing the default skin. I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of customizing the look and feel of applications. All of the walled gardens have intertwined design with functionality to the point where skinning doesn't really exist in the same way. I haven't used…
Honestly, skinning is probably easier today than it ever has been. With custom client-side stylesheets, there's no reason someone couldn't roll out custom skins for sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#29Amazing.
Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for small groups and teams back in the day. I miss the era when things were more commonly/naturally peer-to-peer and decentralized.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#30Author here. I wrote a Twitter thread demonstrating many of its features. You can find it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/captbaritone/status/9612747140133...
Damn! Right in the nostalgia.
Now you just need shoutcast support ;).