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Hey! Project author here! Happy to answer any questions. This project is open source and the code, and instructions to use it on your site, can be found here:

Hey! Project author here! Happy to answer any questions. This project is open source and the code, and instructions to use it on your site, can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp Webamp's ability to render classic Winamp skins led to a collaboration with the Internet Archive where we preserved ~70k (and counting) classic Winamp skins. I also built the Winamp Skin Museum (https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/) where you can infinite scroll through those 70k skins and try them out in your browser with one click. Most recently I've been experimenting with improving the visualizer's performance with an in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler. Blog post here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-visualizer-with-webassembly/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi... The project has given me lots of enjoyment over the years, and I'm glad to see that others are enjoying it as well.

blue_cadet_3 5y ago
This is great! I see there's Winampify but I can't figure out how I would connect my Spotify account to it. Any ideas?
- captbaritone 5y ago
  Try opening one of the folders.
  - blue_cadet_3 5y ago
    Oh nice! haha I kept trying different buttons on the player and settings, never thought to just click a folder. Thanks for this!
darig 5y ago
A couple years ago I tried to integrate this into a website specifically for the visualizations, but couldn't get it working... did the work you did on the visualizer just increase performance, or did it also increase support or ease of getting it setup on a new site?
- captbaritone 5y ago
  Setting up Webamp with the visualizer is sadly not any easier. If you’re still interested, come join our Discord https://Webamp.org/chat https://Webamp.org/chat and we can help you figure it out. This example would be a good start: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/blob/master/examples/minimalMilkdrop/index.html https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/blob/master/examples/...
airstrike 5y ago
Have you considered spinning off the visualizer as a separate project? I'd love to it running on its own, on top of any audio I may have playing on the background
- nitrogen 5y ago
  Someone just posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265
- captbaritone 5y ago
  Yes, it's already its own project and the developer who built it helped integrate it into Webamp. https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn If you want to visualize audio coming from the browser (Spotify etc) check out his browser extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-visuali/jfdmelgfepjcmlljpdeajbiiibkehnih?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-...
redwall_hp 5y ago
Props for Diablo Swing Orchestra! Never would have expected to see that there.
- chadcmulligan 5y ago
  Listening to them now - loving it
boomboomsubban 5y ago
How is the Skin Museum's default layout organized? I assumed by most downloads, but I'm not sure from where and the Archive sorts by views which is a completely different list. Really impressive project, I was surprised how well it worked on my phone.
- captbaritone 5y ago
  Thanks! The list is ordered by the most number of likes/retweets from the @winampskins twitter bot I run. I wrote a post about the design of the site here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/ And then gave a meetup talk based on that post which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUr_NzP6xg&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUr_NzP6xg&t=2s
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    Didn't expect that, the list seemed so similar to the ones I browsed twenty years ago I assumed they had the same source. I guess the collective nostalgia is very similar to my memory at least. Thanks for the answer!
rijoja 5y ago
Good job! I am really impressed. Reminds me of XMMS as well of which I have great memories. Your blog post on the in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler sounds really interesting, will read!

blue_cadet_3 5y ago

This is great! I see there's Winampify but I can't figure out how I would connect my Spotify account to it. Any ideas?

captbaritone 5y ago
Try opening one of the folders.
- blue_cadet_3 5y ago
  Oh nice! haha I kept trying different buttons on the player and settings, never thought to just click a folder. Thanks for this!

darig 5y ago

A couple years ago I tried to integrate this into a website specifically for the visualizations, but couldn't get it working... did the work you did on the visualizer just increase performance, or did it also increase support or ease of getting it setup on a new site?

captbaritone 5y ago
Setting up Webamp with the visualizer is sadly not any easier. If you’re still interested, come join our Discord https://Webamp.org/chat https://Webamp.org/chat and we can help you figure it out. This example would be a good start: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/blob/master/examples/minimalMilkdrop/index.html https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/blob/master/examples/...

airstrike 5y ago

Have you considered spinning off the visualizer as a separate project? I'd love to it running on its own, on top of any audio I may have playing on the background

nitrogen 5y ago
Someone just posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265
captbaritone 5y ago
Yes, it's already its own project and the developer who built it helped integrate it into Webamp. https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn If you want to visualize audio coming from the browser (Spotify etc) check out his browser extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-visuali/jfdmelgfepjcmlljpdeajbiiibkehnih?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-...

redwall_hp 5y ago

Props for Diablo Swing Orchestra! Never would have expected to see that there.

chadcmulligan 5y ago
Listening to them now - loving it

boomboomsubban 5y ago

How is the Skin Museum's default layout organized? I assumed by most downloads, but I'm not sure from where and the Archive sorts by views which is a completely different list. Really impressive project, I was surprised how well it worked on my phone.

captbaritone 5y ago
Thanks! The list is ordered by the most number of likes/retweets from the @winampskins twitter bot I run. I wrote a post about the design of the site here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/ And then gave a meetup talk based on that post which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUr_NzP6xg&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUr_NzP6xg&t=2s
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  Didn't expect that, the list seemed so similar to the ones I browsed twenty years ago I assumed they had the same source. I guess the collective nostalgia is very similar to my memory at least. Thanks for the answer!

rijoja 5y ago

Good job! I am really impressed. Reminds me of XMMS as well of which I have great memories. Your blog post on the in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler sounds really interesting, will read!