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Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite from the ground up, built around the new skinning engine and the "Wasabi" scripting language. But as you say, it wasn't very per
by warning26 5y ago
Winamp 3 was a complete rewrite from the ground up, built around the new skinning engine and the "Wasabi" scripting language. But as you say, it wasn't very performant, and it was also super buggy.
I believe there was some drama which resulted in the lead dev for 3 getting fired, and then the skinning engine (which was the most popular part of 3) was grafted onto the 2.x base for version "5".
- res0nat0r 5y agoI've been using my minimal Winamp install and the noerror skin for like 15+ years now. Still the best mp3 player on Windows IMO. https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8a466a39534e4be0dc6ca5cc0d6f5a80/noerroramp.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8a466a39534e4be0dc6ca5cc0d6f5a...