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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by poyu » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 8:54 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #110

sen wrote: 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 littl…

> I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks

Shapeshifter! Those were the days...

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by shiftpgdn » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #110

sen wrote: 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 littl…

I used to use Litestep on 2000 and XP, it had such a big community and feature set.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by metadat » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 10:03 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #100

metadat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens to me almost daily. Almost never happens with Mac or Linux. How's that? :)

Do you have your Linux file browser set to click to open or double click to open?

Double click.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by Nition » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 12:02 AM UTC

account42 wrote: post #99

Nition wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're willing to try something a little bit different, Windows also has a single-click to open mode ('View->Options->Change folder and search options' in Win 11). To only select, you point and hover for a moment.

I wish it would let do single click open without hover to select. It's just too easy to mess up your selection if you are not careful where you park your cursor for even a split second. KDE's Dolphin is much better here, can be set to single click open with drag selection box or click + icon to select.

I know this is a ludicrous way to provide an option to the user instead of just putting it in the UI, but:

- View->Options->Change folder and search options

- Enable single-click, then on the View tab, enable "use check boxes to select items"

- Then Regedit...

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse

- Set MouseHoverWidth and MouseHoverHeight to 0, or increase MouseHoverTime.

Now you have single-click without hover-select, and checkboxes to select.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by romellem » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 12:07 AM UTC

My favorite Winamp skin was a Jimmy Eat World skin for their album Bleed American (later [renamed][1]).

Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by captbaritone » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 12:50 AM UTC

romellem wrote: post #125

My favorite Winamp skin was a Jimmy Eat World skin for their album Bleed American (later [renamed][1]). Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American

Possibly this one? https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8fab8401c9ed83068a677f8ec08842...

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by mmwelt » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 1:12 AM UTC

KronisLV wrote: post #111

donatj wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 littl…

> Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a little! There are some nice communities around custom desktops, like https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/top/?t=year (despite the odd name) For other OSes there’s also https://www.reddit.com/r/desktops/top/?t=year That said, for many the defaults are sufficient and I guess people just use what’s there out of the box to get things done.

Rainmeter[1] is also quite alive on the Windows side.

[1] https://www.rainmeter.net/

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by alekseiprokopev » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 1:34 AM UTC

I went to listen to the songs featured in the playlist screenshot from resubmitted.2003_rsx.wsz file. From the Youtube comments I figured a lot of people also did.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by Yiin » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 2:12 AM UTC

supportengineer wrote: post #118

donatj wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 littl…

I feel like the cost of housing along with layoff culture has caused an underlying sense of desperation, software isn’t fun when you’re just trying to avoid being homeless/deported

More likely is that was most of your online entertainment, while today people are mostly hooked on cheap sugar that is social media/short content (me included unfortunately)

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by giantrobot » Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 2:24 AM UTC

chankstein38 wrote: post #120

sen wrote: 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…

Agreed! mIRC scripting is the reason I am a developer today and the reason it's been my career!

mIRC scripting as a career?! No thanks! /s