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Edit: Should actually be labeled (2012). Was republished in 2017.
by munchler 3y ago
Edit: Should actually be labeled (2012). Was republished in 2017.
- __s 3y agoarticle was written in 2012, & republished in 2017 > But during the last 15 years or so, that wasn't always the case. Today, we resurface our look at the greatest MP3 player that was—Winamp. This piece originally ran on June 24, 2012 (and Winamp finally called it quits in November 2013).
- nailer 3y agoYep. My 486 DX4 100 was just fast enough to decode an MP3 using winamp as long as I didn’t do anything else on a CPU. Does anyone else remember layer3.org? Or VQF? Kjofol? The Xing encoder 16mhz scandal?
- toast0 3y agoYeah, I jused K-Jofol for a while, I seem to recall it used a smidge less cpu, and it had wild themes with shaped windows. I recall using this litestep theme, with a matching k-jofol skin [1]. Current track title would show up in the bar near the center about 10% up off the bottom. That was fun. I also remember using mpg321 on a 486, because integer based decoding was just faster enough that I could play almost all my mp3s on that. [1] https://archive.org/details/turtlesoupii-mariner_202208 https://archive.org/details/turtlesoupii-mariner_202208
- nailer 3y agoSo cool. Microsoft would eventually start aping this style with some of the more insane media player skins, but Kjofol popularised it years beforehand.