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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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Post by tracker1 »

laumars wrote: post #61
bhauer wrote: post #29

Amazing. Wishful thinking: If this included something akin to Shoutcast (perhaps via WebRTC), it would give us back the peer-to-peer listening joy we had for small groups and teams back in the day. I miss the era when things were more commonly/naturally peer-to-peer and decentralized.

Shoutcast and the real-time visualisations are two killer features Winamp had that I don't think any media player since has even come close to competing with. I'm not saying there aren't still decent media players out there, but honestly I think Winamp is still the best there's ever been.

Agreed, vis were awesome... with the TV apps that have Pandora and Spotify and similar, I miss it a lot.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by tracker1 »

rocky1138 wrote: post #39
polemic wrote: post #32

Oh wow. If I could get this as an Electron app I'd be a happy (nostalgic) user.

Why don't you just download the real Winamp 2.9 and save yourself the potential GB of RAM usage?

I spent a fair amount of today actually trying to get winamp via wine on MacOS High Sierra... no joy (doesn't show any audio devices for dx9)

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by anderspitman »

terrantech wrote: post #130
anderspitman wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dialup? Lucky. I had 14.4k through my dad's Startac until I was about 15.

That's still Dial-up. 56k was just the last version of Dial-up. I started on 9600baud (9.6k) and it started well before that even, at something like 0.1k.

In my experience almost anyone referring to dialup is talking about 56.6k, or at the very least some sort of modem connected to the PTSN, screeching noises and all. Is your experience different?

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by dwarman »

Native WinAmp has two dropin extension systems. The one everybody seemed to use was MilkDrop, but they also had AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio), for which I wrote a bunch of extensions about a decade ago. These included several composition dlls (multi-lane video pipes, MIDI control, joystick control, 30 sec rolling video recorder/playback) and also a number of effects (image animations, placers, blenders, oscillators). This made for a very engaging interactive experience, especially flying through using the joystick to control pretty much any set of parameters. Turns out the visualizers have hidden strange attractors that never appear when just using passive mode. That was in XP, I have waiting a Windows 7 build TODO.

I'm semi-guessing the browser re-implementation does not support these. Pity.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by ice3 »

_diyu wrote: 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…

It even supports the old Winamp easter egg!

Type nullsoft

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by Fnoord »

captbaritone wrote: post #111
jihadjihad wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree, nothing came close to the awesomeness of Milkdrop 2 in Winamp. That's one of the reasons I got into programming, by being curious about how it "knew" how to move to the music. Still have it installed on an ancient PC, will never delete it!

Have you seen https://butterchurnviz.com ?

Cool, but it depends on Soundcloud (dying platform AFAIK given the recent exodus). How's that gonna help me if I use Spotify? Spotify can stream to my TV using Chromecast, showing lyrics via Genius. Why can't it also do some VJing? projectM is open source.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by captbaritone »

_sdegutis wrote: post #189
captbaritone wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People in this thread might also enjoy this Twitter bot I wrote that tweets Winamp skins: https://twitter.com/winampskins

Super cool. Where are you finding the skins? I went looking for some skins I made and put up on deviantart, but the download links are all broken. Do you just scrape the web or are they your personal collection, or are you querying a specific site?

I found a massive zip file of ~3K skins somewhere. I’m selecting skins from that set.
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