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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

This happens to me almost daily.

Almost never happens with Mac or Linux. How's that? :)

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

It is an irony that Windows makes keyboard shortcut users out of even non-techies.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

It is an irony that Windows makes keyboard shortcut users out of even non-techies.

Yes, single click, then Enter, that's the winning combo here.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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I've always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play are lightning fast compared to Spotify, YT Music, et al. Also, I absolutely detest how YT Music keeps A/B testing ALL THE TIME, changing the location of things around. Ultimately, a website is never in your control.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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It's probably property of AOL. But REAPER isn't open source either. Justin Frankel has released other open source stuff though.

I think AOL sold it to a random company at least a decade ago, and then they announced they will modernize it and have a big surprise and shit, then nothing happened for years, and then maybe two years ago they actually released a new update to winamp 5.

Also while it's not open source, the source also leaked years ago, and there are unofficial updates to the old AOL winamp too. No idea if they kept going once the real thing got an update...

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Was the internet better back then or am I just old?

When a new island is formed, usually it is first inhabited by algae and moss. As the ecosystem matures, plants, birds, insects, and all sorts of organisms populate it. You can still usually find the early algae and moss. They are just harder to spot due to the thriving and abundant ecosystem. I think the Internet is a lot like that.

This is a beautiful way to see it, thank you for leading me to it.

Guess I'll have to consider myself a bryophite of the information age from now on.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Was the internet better back then or am I just old?

It's still like that. There's a lot of weird things you're gonna find on the tail end of Github repositories, or Pastebin uploads, Imgur, or YouTube... it's just hard to find unless you crawl the whole thing or otherwise come into the possession of the underlying database (as this person did).

The difference is that nowadays you have to shift through orders of magnitude more monetised manure in order to find the sprouting gems.
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