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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

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Post by inferiorhuman »

msie wrote: post #84
greymeister wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It looks harder to completely replace the Windows shell than before. I've looked long and hard for a replacement that looks like Windows 95 (menus and windows controls especially) but no luck. There is WindowShades but it doesn't completely replace everything.

XP always had the option to turn off themes which resulted in a w2k-ish (and by extension w95) look. Is this no longer an option?

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by gorbachev »

pcocko wrote: post #8

Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...

I moved dorms almost entirely for this reason when I was in College. The new dorms were being built with a broadband Internet connection straight into the College network.

It was leecher heaven!

That is until some wiseass thought it'd be a good idea to run a private ftp site for a piracy group from their dorm room. The damn thing saturated the entire network until they got caught.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by digi_owl »

yitchelle wrote: post #82
pcocko wrote: post #8

Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...

Too many, I'm afraid. But do you remember the first time you had broadband and the time needed to download an mp3 was so short that you can't queue up the next download.

Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up.

I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an upgrade is on my todo list. ;)

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by kinkrtyavimoodh »

_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, 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…

The closest thing we have to skinning on a major mainstream website today is subreddits being allowed to customize their CSS, and looking at what utter disasters the vast majority of subreddits look in their custom skins, I am somehow not super stoked about the idea.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by digi_owl »

themodelplumber wrote: post #149
digi_owl wrote: post #118

Not sure if should be impressed or appalled. These days i think i'll just use Foobar2k on Windows, and Deadbeef (or a terminal player) on Linux.

I like QMMP. It's a lot like Winamp

Interesting. And the dependencies seems reasonable as well. I'll gice it a look later.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by chme »

greymeister wrote: post #25
_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, 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…

> 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.

What you had to make skins yourself??? You didn't just get them via micro-transactions and loot-boxes???

/s

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