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The dozen people still using Winamp rejoice...
I'm one of those 12 people apparently. I don't know, I still listen to mp3 music on my PC almost every day... And I have yet to find another player that is as fast and lightweight as WinAMP
But what I really want to know is: will it really kick the LLaMAs ass now with AI features?
I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.
The fact that you can re-skin it at runtime with such a wide variety of skins and load such a variety of plugins puts modern software to shame.
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I use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it's excellent. I've tried other media players but always come back here. I'm not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly. https://getwacup.com/
It's windows-only? Weird.
The architecture of Winamp is made of various plugins. WACUP is replacing them bit by bit.
Once everything is replaced then porting could be possible, though it's been only built for Windows so there must be a lot of Windows-isms in there.
I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.
Here's an example: http://www.delphicorner.f9.co.uk/articles/forms4.htm
Good. Love the reimplementation in HTML https://webamp.org/
It's fantastic. I can easily spend hours on the skins website. https://skins.webamp.org/
https://skins.webamp.org/skin/d77a144cdb775a0937617389b6e0e4...
I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.
The fact that you can re-skin it at runtime with such a wide variety of skins and load such a variety of plugins puts modern software to shame.
Skinning was pretty easy to do. The packaging format was a zip archive with a renamed extension. You could do a lot with a little photoshop skills and trial and error.
So many people used it that skins would get a lot of distribution, too.