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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Why does Google do this. There isn't any need for so much data just to link a resource

They do offer a link for sharing as an alternative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZMATsSJJhpcejoJ8

That's just another shortlink though.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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post #55

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Soon source available at least, slow progress: https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co... Not quite clear to me which version they are releasing though.

source available is not the same as open source nor have any terms been provided on what that'd actually be other than it's seemingly just about them getting a free dev team or looking to be doing some good from an investors view point. -dro

That's what I meant with slow progress.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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post #83

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Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.

Digital camera sensors are still quite noisy, perhaps even more so as sensors have gotten smaller while resolutions have gotten higher (meaning even smaller pixels). We just process all the noise away most of the time.

Good point. “Visibly noisy” would have been more accurate.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…

There's another benefit to opening this kind of functionality to apps - it's very friendly towards developing interfaces that are more friendly to the disabled. I have certain disabilities where specific types of UI designs are basically unusable to me, and without the ability to customize them, I kinda just cannot use them (unless they provide an API as an alternative).

Until they rug-pull the API access that countless third parties built those accessibility features around....

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

#106
post #46

I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.

It's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.

It's not from a digicam, it's a scan of a photo. The white bar on the left is from a subpar cropping job and is slightly crooked. The resolution (1275x1167) is higher than a typical 3:4 digital image sensor of the day, which would have maxed out at 640x480 in the late '90s to early 2000's, maybe 1024x768 for a really high-spec (expensive and uncommon) camera.

As for the "look", I'm not a photographer but this was likely taken on either a low-end handheld film camera or disposable jobbie, which were absolutely ubiquitous around this time frame because they were so cheap (practically free, until you went to develop them). The picture was taken on an overcast day at dusk, later in the evening. Just dark enough to auto-trigger the insufficient flash which lights up the middle of the image and puts everything in the periphery in a dark shadow.

I do like that the kid with the beer isn't looking at the camera and seems to have missed the point that everyone was supposed to be holding the ball.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

#107

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They do offer a link for sharing as an alternative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZMATsSJJhpcejoJ8

That's just another shortlink though.

You can try the original then:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

#108
post #36

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 websi…

My favorite Winamp shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+R to randomize the playlist. I wish every application with a playlist could do this.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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post #90

I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…

I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not.

I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets.

Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a little!

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