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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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This is what n-gate.com would call “webshit”. Other than showing an animated GIF of an audio player from 25 years ago, no sound comes out when I press the play button. Even though “README.md” explicitly says that it supports Safari (I’ve latest Safari).

I hope this story gets enough points so that it makes it to n-gate’s “Webshit weekly”; can’t wait to read what he’ll have to write about it.

+1 from me!

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#192

This is what n-gate.com would call “webshit”. Other than showing an animated GIF of an audio player from 25 years ago, no sound comes out when I press the play button. Even though “README.md” explicitly says that it supports Safari (I’ve latest Safari). I hope this story gets enough points so that it makes it to n-gate’s “Webshit weekly”; can’t wait to read what he’ll have to write about it. +1 from me!

Have you tried clicking the play button or double clicking the single, 5 second audio file in the player? It doesn't play by default and it isn't a .gif

Unless you're using Safari 5.1 on Windows (it also explicitly states modern versions), the supported browsers are seen here https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#193
post #192

This is what n-gate.com would call “webshit”. Other than showing an animated GIF of an audio player from 25 years ago, no sound comes out when I press the play button. Even though “README.md” explicitly says that it supports Safari (I’ve latest Safari). I hope this story gets enough points so that it makes it to n-gate’s “Webshit weekly”; can’t wait to read what he’ll have to write about it. +1 from me!

Have you tried clicking the play button or double clicking the single, 5 second audio file in the player? It doesn't play by default and it isn't a .gif Unless you're using Safari 5.1 on Windows (it also explicitly states modern versions), the supported browsers are seen here https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api

Yes of course I’ve tried clicking the play button!!! Just who do you take me for?!?

And no it’s not Safari on Windows! And yes I’ve the latest Safari!!!

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#194
post #192

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Have you tried clicking the play button or double clicking the single, 5 second audio file in the player? It doesn't play by default and it isn't a .gif Unless you're using Safari 5.1 on Windows (it also explicitly states modern versions), the supported browsers are seen here https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api

Yes of course I’ve tried clicking the play button!!! Just who do you take me for?!? And no it’s not Safari on Windows! And yes I’ve the latest Safari!!!

Just tested it in Safari 10 on Sierra and Safari 11 on High Sierra and it worked fine in both - so the issue is very likely something on your end.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#195
post #8

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

I didn't have internet in my dorm, so I was downloading mp3s at university and retrieving them at home by floppy disk. That is, 128kbps mp3s, which is about 1MB per minute (iirc), on 1.44MB floppy disks. split(1) to the rescue. I did the same for (short) videos too. Crazy days.

I still remember zipping/splitting files to fit on floppies. I permanently have the number 1457664 (size of a 1.44MB 3.5") in my head.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#196
post #194

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Yes of course I’ve tried clicking the play button!!! Just who do you take me for?!? And no it’s not Safari on Windows! And yes I’ve the latest Safari!!!

Just tested it in Safari 10 on Sierra and Safari 11 on High Sierra and it worked fine in both - so the issue is very likely something on your end.

No. The software is unmodified; the system has not been tampered with.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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post #129

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Drives me nuts that the sidebar is the only them-able part. The white background in the chat window destroys my eyes.

On the web, install stylish and use https://userstyles.org/styles/117475/slack-night-mode-black

Now I feel dumb. I use Dark Reader [0] for all my web browsing. I was just so used to the desktop Slack client I forgot about the web one. Thanks for reminding me.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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post #143

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Originally stylesheets were meant to be recommendations. It was envisioned that user agents, users, and web pages would have their own, separate stylesheets, and the user agent would negotiate between the different stylesheets to determine the final style. I would argue that Twitter is going against the original spirit and best practices of the web with their technical decision to use css-in-js.

Meanwhile most people who have to use the web as a platform to build things view it as an incredibly painful mash of half implemented ideas and couldn't care less what the founders intended. Let's stop using divs for presentation whilst we're at it and spend man-years on picking the right semantically named elements with no benefit to anyone anywhere ever. No ajax or js either, I'm pretty sure they didn't envisage th…

To be honest, yes. The web was designed for hyperlinked documents. 90% of what I use the web for is still following links to pages with text and images. It is an unfortunate historical accident that people are trying to build thick client interactive applications using a technology envisioned and designed for sharing documents.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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I like QMMP. It's a lot like Winamp

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

God damn it, this was smooth to get working. Only got some odd error regarding the tag writer on vorbis, but not a major loss. Had it been a GTK based project i fear the number of "esoteric" sub-sub-sub-dependencies i would have had to track down...

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

#200
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 spent a lot of time customizing Windows skinning back in the late 90's and early 2000's. Unfortunately that kind of fell out of style as well. Third party ui shell replacements and easy customization are things I miss. I know you can supposedly do this with Gnome etc, but I really haven't taken the time/effort to do so, as I just don't have it these days.

I will say I really like(d) the windows 7-10 taskbar in general, and the windows 7-style start menu interaction with the windows 10 look (without the tiles). I switched to Ubuntu with gnome last year after win10 just pissed me off one too many times with the "user engagement" crap that gets loaded with win10. Though I've thought about going back a few times. (Laptop at home and at work are 2014-2015 mac pros)

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