7 ms·
Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)
- philonoist 5y agoWow, what a nostalgia! I wish somebody did this for Rainmeter of the early 2000s
- aasasd 5y agoLet's just agree that Pip-Boy 2000 / Vault-Tec are the best ones: they're stylish and usable. Some hi-tec designs, e.g. ‘Alpine’ or ‘Pioneer’ ones, are very neat, but somehow overly-clean looks felt jarring and empty on Winamp.
- shmerl 5y agoFound Woodamp 2 there, probably the most pleasant Winamp skin that I've seen: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ffe4cbcdc31388ed51f94d3b4fd8c127/Wood%20Amp%202.zip/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ffe4cbcdc31388ed51f94d3b4fd8c1...
- atum47 5y agoThe nostalgia is great with this one
- xpressvideoz 5y agoOh the nostalgia. I loved those anime-themed Winamp skins, which were admittedly of bad quality.
- sydd 5y agoVery cool! the whole thing could use some zooming in, everything looks very small it todays high DPI displays. Its OK to be a bit pixealted, We've looked at these on 800x600 CRT monitors :)
- sschueller 5y agoTo me many screen resolutions have gotten too small for comfort. Desktop large real estate is cool but sometimes I would rather switch desktops or run another monitor than squint my eyes to see another tiny window. This did not happen on mobile devices although they are all also 4k now. I think the main reason being that our fingers aren't any smaller either.
- iszomer 5y agoThere is a feature in Winamp (as well as QMMP) that lets you double the size of it's UI making your custom skins more legible. Found titipoco again. I know I have a backup of it on a CD-R but no longer have an optical drive to read them..
- usrusr 5y agoI'm in the opposite camp, compensation of high dpi is nice for "main show" screen parts like the active editor in an IDE, but stuff like Winamp is just perfect in an always-on windowshade living in as few millimeters as possible of the titlebar region of the left screen (dunno why it's the left, Winamp has been the left screen for almost two decades) On topic, where everyone mentions "their" winamp skin: for me, winamp is the pale blue of the inconsistently named trainatron/trinatron. Always on top, always minimized to shade, only expanded to toggle the playlist shade (but usually operated simply by drag&dropping album folders). One time ordering was broken when windows stopped to supply files in alphabetic order so I had to make a plugin that took care of that (my files are certainly named with padded index prefix). That plugin might have been the most wonky piece of c++ routinely ruining on my system, but it did the job for quite some years.
- grandchild 5y agoI think phone OSes just do DPI scaling better, because they've always had to deal with highly heterogeneous physical screen sizes. Desktops were firmly in 96DPI land for quite a while. I'd wager that if your screen pixels are "too small for comfort" you or your graphics setup hasn't gotten scaling right yet.
- remedan 5y agoThere do appear to be +/- zoom controls in the lower right corner of the page (on desktop).
- captbaritone 5y agoThanks for pointing that out. I just added it a few weeks ago. I wonder if it’s not visually obvious enough.
- einr 5y agoRight click -> Options -> Double size, just like in the original program :) That said, it doesn't seem to center the scaled version in the window in Firefox so it's not very usable.
- NKosmatos 5y agoA nice trip down memory lane. Older HN readers (like myself) will surely recognize and remember many of these skins, and we all know what comes after skins… MilkDrop :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
- grandchild 5y agoHint: https://webamp.org/ https://webamp.org/ -- have fun with Milkdrop :)
- tda 5y agoThanks! It even does fullscreen on mobile. Also surprisng how well the interface works for me on mobile. No hamburger menus needed to access basuc features, cause it is all there to be seen
- NKosmatos 5y agoWow!!! Milkdrop on the web, with excellent performance and the ability to load mp3s locally. Thanks for the wasted productivity :-)
- captbaritone 5y agoI wrote a blog post on the compiler I wrote to help make it fast, in case you are interested: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-visualizer-with-webassembly/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
- NKosmatos 5y agoThanks for your work, for coding all these and for your interesting blog posts, highly appreciated :-)
- visarga 5y agoI was a fan of Electric Sheep.
- shmde 5y agoPrevious discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373699 (694 points, 264 comments)
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dang 5y agoPast related threads: Winamp Skin Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373699 - Sept 2020 (264 comments) Winamp Skin Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371210 - Sept 2020 (3 comments) Winamp Skin Museum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366172 - Sept 2020 (4 comments)
- danybittel 5y agoCool. They even included one of the skins I made (search bkaro). That's twenty something years ago.
- captbaritone 5y agoSite author here. These types of comments make my day. Is this the one? https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ca2270b3513a831fb566b0867b04665d/bkaro.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ca2270b3513a831fb566b0867b0466...
- axegon_ 5y agoI've never felt nostalgia from looking at old games, photos, tech I used to own or anything that I can remember. This is a first. Still miss winamp tbh...
- ramraj07 5y agoI still can’t understand what exactly people saw (still see) in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- cammikebrown 5y agoOkay, I’ll bite. Even if you just watch the mech battles, and ignore everything else about the plot… they’re pretty entertaining battles!
- crocal 5y agoYou have to live in a world where there is no Netflix and no Disney/Pixar yet. Where the standard for mass-media japanimation is Dragon Ball Z. People had to wait for each episode for days if not weeks. At that point in time Ideaki Anno was a name only known to relatively few people, but we knew he could deliver stellar stuff. Evangelion started hyper-well animated and characters resonated with many viewers. Cool music too. The story arc looked promising with dark brooding villains and misteries everywhere. It was really something at the time. Where it ended is another (controversial) story.
- glandium 5y agoCorrection: it's Hideaki
- proxysna 5y agorobots are cool soundtrack is amazing typography is great
- rossy 5y agoReally? Even now it's still one of my favourites. Apart from the fantastic visual direction, soundtrack, and Anno's characteristic style, I love the way it plays with the viewer's expectations and I admire its authentic treatment of depression (Anno himself suffered from clinical depression at the time, which is reflected in the direction of the story.) I can imagine coming away from it slightly disappointed if you didn't finish with The End of Evangelion movie, but in my opinion, the final two TV episodes are underrated.
- nefitty 5y agoI made a clone in Observable in almost exactly 2 hours. Feel free to fork it and play around! You'll need to spin up a CORS proxy if you fork it, but it's otherwise straightforward from there. Feel free to leave comments here or on the notebook if you have questions! https://observablehq.com/@iz/winamp https://observablehq.com/@iz/winamp
- nefitty 5y agoThe height was messed up on this, so it got downvoted. It should be ok now lol
- captbaritone 5y agoAuthor of the Skin Museum here. The Internet Archive search API supports JSONP, so you should (in theory) be able to use that to avoid the need for a CORs proxy.
- nefitty 5y agoAwesome thanks for the tip! I'll check that out. The scattered API docs took some wrangling. I screencapped my work on this and that's what I spent the most time on.
- anthk 5y agoMeh. On Winamp and anime skins, once I got mp3blaster under Linux and tankoubon collections at MLDonkey/aMule, I stopped caring about appearance and reading all the mangas for true instead of having to wait for the TV schedule. I had no CBR reader for Linux back in the day, but a script could do the tring well. Altough Milkdrop was fun under XMMS.
- Hokusai 5y agoMany skins are just picture backgrounds. I stayed with the original ones, as they felt more coherent. But there are rarities like https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d9e/Fallout_Pip-Boy_3000_Green_v4.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d... It feels well designed as it's ready to read, and on theme. Before that: Searches 'skin museum', very interesting but upsetting images found. Better to click the link in HN. (Yes, I often look for the links myself too see what other things I find on the topic)
- salamandersauce 5y agoThey are but they kinda feel like late 90s/early 2000s time capsules. A lot of Neon Genesis Evangelion, FFX, Card Captor Sakura, Magic Knights Rayearth etc.
- madaxe_again 5y agoI always preferred k-jofol for its diverse and weirdly shaped skins - well, until someone released a plug-in for XMMS that allowed you to use k-jofol skins for it, some of which were absolutely wild.
- lleb97a 5y agoI remember some of those skins, especially the mass of Fallout ones. Yet I can't see the two I always used.
- HeckFeck 5y agoI recall QMMP on Linux (http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/) supports WinAmp 2x skins. Going to try a few of these on my Linux box after work!
- captbaritone 5y agoAuthor here, thanks for (re)posting! Happy to answer any questions. My GtiHub repo for Webamp (the interactive, in-browser Winamp clone) can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
- laughingbovine 5y agoThis is fantastic. Also not sure how my browser is not crashing. Well done!