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Winamp Clone Whips the Llama's Ass on an Espressif ESP32
- zoobab 3y agoI made my own Winamp skin back in the days.
- bartislartfast 3y agoI never understood the reference "It really whips the llama's ass" Was the llama a competitor or something? or some kind of weird in joke?
- lakomen 3y agoMaybe it came from the future warning us about the AI craze
- maaark 3y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2lepog/til_that_winamp_took_their_slogan_it_really_whips/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2lepog/til_t...
- detritus 3y agoHuh, and there had I been all those years simply assuming it was some oblique Jeff Minter reference!
- eep_social 3y agoThis article [1] made me think so. [1] https://www.polygon.com/23613576/jeff-minter-profile-akka-arrh-atari-llamasoft-arcade https://www.polygon.com/23613576/jeff-minter-profile-akka-ar...
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- smcl 3y agoJust wanted to add something in case anyone thinks Wesley Willis was just a bit of a joke act people enjoyed ironically[0], there is one album produced by Steve Albini where he performed with a band under the name "The Wesley Willis Fiasco" that's genuinely quite good. They also did a really fun cover of Girls on Film by Duran Duran that iirc isn't on the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arFMBo_W9io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arFMBo_W9io [0] - listening to a whole album by Willis in one sitting can be a bit of a challenge, but his lyrics are undeniably stupendous
- bitwize 3y agoEveryone I'm aware of who appreciated Willis, did so completely unironically. It's very similar to the later fandom for Terry Davis and TempleOS.
- jstarfish 3y ago> As a solo artist, Willis filled his albums with funny, bizarre, tense, and often obscene statements about crime, fast food, cultural trends, bus routes, violent confrontations with superheroes, and commands for his "demons" [delusions brought on by schizophrenia] to engage in bestiality What's not to love? He's something for everyone.
- smcl 3y agoHonestly the lyrics are so good, I cannot fault them. My only problem is that, as I said, it's a little hard to listen to a lot of him - he really leaned hard on a few stock keyboard beats so when you put on a whole album it's a little bit challenging. I truly love his work though, it's worth pushing through especially when you can slip a track like "Suck a Cheetah's Dick" or "The Chicken Cow" into the playlist of someone's house party.
- tokai 3y agoI always thought it was llama as the 1337 slang. You know noob/lamer.
- bigbillheck 3y agoRock over London, Rock on Chicago.
- mnky9800n 3y agoI loved winamp. I miss winamp. The problem is, I don't have any mp3s. In college I found a giant CD book in a parking lot in the dorms. Realizing that it's owner was no where to be found, I walked off with it and ripped all the CDs to my hard drive (500gb at the time I believe) and forgot about the CD book. A few months later I was at a party listening to a girl talk about how someone stole a giant CD book out of her car in the dorm parking lot. That someone was me. I gave her back most of her CDs. I think some of my friends had pilfered some from me. Today, I don't have a CD player to rip CDs from, I don't have napster or limewire (thank god). I don't really know where to get mp3s from. I supposed I could torrent a giant stack of them. But there was a time when I downloaded all the music I listen to. I don't think it is a good thing. I don't seem to listen to new music as frequently. Streaming algorithms all seem to be unable to recommend new things and only recommend me things I have already heard. So while this project is great, I don't know how I would use it.
- bovermyer 3y agoThe new MP3s I get these days I get from Bandcamp. Getting MP3s of mainstream music, though? No clue. I stopped torrenting in the 00s and haven't paid attention to that arena since.
- jannw 3y agoYou'd probably just rip them from spotify: e.g. https://spotify-downloader.com/ https://spotify-downloader.com/
- tyingq 3y agoUsing the -x option to get just the audio via one of the YouTube downloaders is also popular.
- rtpg 3y agoI go onto bandcamp and click around randomly listening to songs. I try to not focus on overly synth-y/lofi stuff on there (which is a whole supra-genre that's overflowing these days).... and you find a lot of decent stuff there. Collecting up mp3s of stuff I like, sticking them on my NAS and walkman, and having it is a fun exercise, even if it's not my everyday listening collection. I do often open up a music player and listen to my MP3s pretty often, just to listen to an album I owned. I do like listening to internet radio a bit, tho honestly a lot of that is "greatest hits" stuff, so discoverability isn't what it used to be. Youtube used to be really good for discovering new music! But their algo is now "your recommendation feed is the same on every video" leading to getting Ben Eater recommendation vids after watching some video about biking down a mountain or something absurd like that. I miss real recommendation systems...
- Gravityloss 3y agoApropos: https://www.rickgude.nl/work/winamp https://www.rickgude.nl/work/winamp EDIT: I had original link to https://physicalwinamp.com/ https://physicalwinamp.com/ but looks like it might not be legit. I don't know anything about the project.
- s4i 3y agoSeems like that's a scam? "It has been brought to my notice that my artwork has been misappropriated and used to deceive individuals into believing that they can purchase an actual physical device." [1] [1] https://www.rickgude.nl/work/winamp https://www.rickgude.nl/work/winamp
- Gravityloss 3y agoThanks for highlighting this. I edited my original post.
- soco 3y agoBut as a custom face for my car player... 3d printing and a bit of a paint job, definitely not unthinkable.
- dale_glass 3y agoThis is interesting. I think they actually made Winamp good. I was around back when Winamp was big, and still don't get the appeal, to be honest. Looking at the ESP32 version that seems kinda nice, but it's odd to see a program become more appealing well after its time. It's almost like Nullsoft accidentally designed a program that fit a tablet well before tablets were a thing. In the original Windows app incarnation UI is very meh. The main appeal seemed to be making gaudy skins for it, but since they're just skins they don't change anything besides graphics. The big thing that was neat is the Geiss plugin, but that had little to do with Winamp itself, it just happened to be written for Winamp and not something else. Now what I was really in love with was the old version of KDE Amarok (which now goes by "Strawberry"). Well done player, solid standard UI that's not limited by the fact that changing anything would make hundreds of skins useless and make lots of people angry. I may be biased because the NSIS installer still somehow hangs around and is still a complete pain to deal with.
- avidphantasm 3y agoWinamp was cool, and this is cool. However, Winamp’s tiny UI elements look to translate poorly to a touch interface.
- nipperkinfeet 3y agoThats pretty cool. Even today, I continue to use Winamp.
- IYasha 3y agoMost cloned software player ever. Because it's the best.