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Does anyone know what kind of UI library Winamp uses? I mean, if it's opensource, we can probably use it to build a lot more fun UIs since it's so "skinable".

• danmg 6y ago
  Win32 API.
• ptx 6y ago
  The skins were bitmaps and all the controls had a fixed size and mostly-fixed position, I think, so it wasn't a very sophisticated theming engine.
  • betwixthewires 6y ago
    That's true for winamp 2. For winamp 3 you could pick the design including button positions and the skins got way out of hand.
  • teraflop 6y ago
    That's true of Winamp 2, which was the most popular major version. Its skins were, as you say, basically just bundles of image files that were used to override the built-in assets. On the other hand, Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite, with a much more flexible theming system based on a custom-designed GUI framework, complete with its own XML-based layout engine and scripting language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi_(software) Unfortunately, it never really caught on, mainly due to the combination of performance problems and a lack of feature parity.
• anthk 6y ago
  You are like 18 years late. Check xmms and Audacious.