What about running it without the browser chrome?
you can run it on Firefox
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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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 https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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I wonder why we are not skinning websites 🧐
Could have sworn that browsers have the capability to load custom CSS. But then writing CSS may well be a full time job, so...
CSS is pretty simple. Lots of people offer custom stylesheets for websites at https://userstyles.org.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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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?
Since Windows 7.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#165Weird. I need to set my chrome zoom to 75% to get crisp graphics with this? 100% looks blurred.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#166The quad amp skin was my favourite (proud owner of a quad 22 valve stack gathering dust)
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#167Wow, 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…
It came as a surprise to me but I found out literally today that VLC is skinnable: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html If you don't want/can't run Winamp, VLC might almost be what you want.
Foobar2000 is a nice and customizable/skinnable audio player also.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Doesn't ClassicShell still work in Win10?
Please don't get my hopes up!
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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It came as a surprise to me but I found out literally today that VLC is skinnable: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html If you don't want/can't run Winamp, VLC might almost be what you want.
Foobar2000 is a nice and customizable/skinnable audio player also.
i've been using fb2k for more than a decade now, but i gave up trying to do anything to fancy with it because its addon support was such a clusterfsck, mostly because i found over time that a lot of addons became defunct as their developer vanished, or the links broke or etc, and trying to get support on hydrogen audio was like sticking your hands into a bees nest.
to be fair it's been a long time since i looked into skinning it and things may be better now. it's still an excellent clean audio player, i just keep it close to stock with a few addons so i send audio to a chromecast.
there sure were some wild and beautiful fb2k skins and themes back in the day.
Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
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I bet there's branding and usability reasons for Facebook to avoid allowing you to skin/theme it to the extent Winamp was skinnable. Not sure I know what those are, but I just really doubt they'll ever add that feature.
While it worked great for Winamp and a few other apps, the process was a negative for others: MySpace being a big example. People modifying their pages to look like Angelfire/Geocities sites from back in the day killed any interest I had in them.
What's the issue with people making their own space look like Geocities if it's what makes them happy and is how they want to express themselves.
Would also like to point out that customisation on MySpace is probably responsible for a whole generation of not only developers but non-tech focused people learning how to code. Met a lot of artists and designers who now work on the internet who MySpace was the starting point.