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WebAmp: WinAmp 2 in Your Browser
- toyg 8y agoIronically, "Add URL" is the only feature that doesn't work...
- captbaritone 8y agoThis is due to cross origin restrictions enforced by the browser. It’s a bummer!
- adrianhel 8y agoFlashbacks!
- exogeny 8y agoThis really whips the llama's ass.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoAh the nostalgia! I'd love an Android app that is just the main WinAmp window in portrait mode on my phone, and has the same basic features (simple MP3 player basically, maybe try add support for podcasts and some streaming music). It'd be so perfect for my car. WinAmp for car audio, Google Maps for mapping. I know it's purely for the nostalgia kick and the stock audio players work fine, but... WinAmp!
- swimfar 8y agoDo many apps have support for custom skins? I've never heard of any of them doing that, but it seems like it would be an awesome feature to be able to customize the UI. If someone made a music player app that could use existing Winamp skins that would be really cool. If nothing else you've get a lot of nostalgia installs. Also, do sites like Spotify and Pandora have APIs that allow other apps to integrate with their service? If you could integrate the Winamp playlist with different streaming services you would have a cool and useful music player. I don't even buy apps, but I would probably pay a couple bucks for something like that.
- slow_donkey 8y agoBy skin do you mean purely colors or also positioning of items? I have a really hard time imagining now that would work for iOS/Android apps in terms of implementation. Colors are easy because you just pull then from a styles file but you'd need a really good abstraction for custom views
- WD-42 8y agoAudacious is a great music player that has support for Winamp 2 skins. I use it all the time to stream online radio stations. It's so nice to use a music player thats not trying to be iTunes.
- poisonarena 8y agoI tried to get this to build so hard 6 months or so ago whenever it first came on hacker news, but no luck at all!
- captbaritone 8y agoWould you file an issue? I’d be curious to know what’s not working. I’d love to try to help. Documentation has improved a bit since then.
- xmichael999 8y agoForget about WebAmp, let's talk about the killer play list that has been prepopulated!
- captbaritone 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17584642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17584642
- mratzloff 8y agoIf you'd like to download the compilation (good songs, depending on taste), you can get it here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/netBloc_Artists/netBloc_Vol_24_tiuqottigeloot/ https://freemusicarchive.org/music/netBloc_Artists/netBloc_V...
- okket 8y agoPrevious discussion from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550 (208 comments)
- timdorr 8y agoThe biggest change since then is the addition of MilkDrop emulation with butterchurn: https://butterchurnviz.com/ https://butterchurnviz.com/ and https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
- bb88 8y agoThe last time I used WinAmp it had a memory leak of about 4K/sec on windows. You could look at the task on windows and see it grow slowly over time. I'm curious if this version still has this leak.
- crooked-v 8y agoIt's a new implementation, not a port.
- kyledrake 8y agoPlease make this an Electron app. I would use this all the time. Also it needs the equalizer presets. "Rock" was my favorite.
- krispbyte 8y agoWouldn't running actual Winamp 2 be much better? It works with wine so you can run it in Linux and I guess if you needed support for newer formats a plugin can be made for them.
- squarefoot 8y agoAgreed on running the real thing rather than a web version, but under Linux qmmp looks close enough to bring some memories as well and doesn't need wine. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
- rohan1024 8y agoAudacious too.The default skin is a windowed UI but it can be changed to WinAmp skin.
- rtcoolaid 8y agoBut then I don't get the hipster points
- darren0 8y agoIt has the xmms skin, love it.
- pkrumins 8y agoThis inspired me to create this comic: https://comic.browserling.com/13 https://comic.browserling.com/13
- T3RMINATED 8y agoits garbage i cant fast forward.
- dingo_bat 8y agoThe milkdrop is running better in the browser than it used to natively run in my old desktop.
- captbaritone 8y agoThe MilkDrop port is a separate project which we’ve work together to integrate into Webamp. Check it out here: https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
- benmarks 8y agoI'm wondering if even Atwood knew how right he'd be.
- glandium 8y agoThe Mac OSX v1.5 (Aqua) skin is its own share of nostalgia.
- andyidsinga 8y agodang!! what a blast from the past. I miss winamp.
- Vivtek 8y agoMiss it? I still run it. You can have my WinAmp when you pry it from my cold, dead hard drive.
- romwell 8y agoSame. Runs as fine on Windows 10 as it did on Windows 98 20 years ago. Just because it didn't get a new release in years doesn't mean it's somehow got worse. Some software just works.
- captbaritone 8y agoJust FYI, there are a few known security vulnerabilities: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7545/Winamp.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7545...
- romwell 8y agoThanks. They are all related to using Winamp to play rather obscure formats (Flash video and Univox streams - I had to look up the latter - and mp4 in a RAR when the user does something). In short, none related to how people use Winamp: to play music files and streams.
- themodelplumber 8y agoBe sure to try QMMP if you haven't already. It's an actively-developed WinAmp clone. I found that I still like manual m3u playlist management better than the dynamic or db-driven stuff. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com
- meddlepal 8y agoAgree. I used to use WinAmp on my Windows 95. (and later 98) IBM Aptiva. Still the best music player hands down.
- aplc0r 8y agoWhen I minimized the "components" and put them side-by-side, I immediately had a flashback to high school LAN parties. Almost everyone had this sitting above their taskbar in always on-top mode.
- nodesocket 8y agoWould be awesome if it stored your skin preference in local storage.
- captbaritone 8y agoWe have an open issue for storing your state in local storage. Just haven’t gotten to it yet.
- verisimilitude 8y agoI am very happy to report that the classic top bar easter egg[1] was reproduced in webamp. [1]: http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?t=72571 http://forums.shoutcast.com/showthread.php?t=72571
- captbaritone 8y agoI wasn’t sure anyone would notice :)