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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
- WhereIsTheTruth 2y agofun easter egg, software became too serious nowadays
- _def 2y agoLove it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?
- dixie_land 2y agoI have a theory that at least some of them might be taking advantage of an (un)official website/forum that allows for free sharing/hosting of wsz files, which of course are just zips
- cstuder 2y agoA notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.
- metadat 2y agoThis happens to me almost daily. Almost never happens with Mac or Linux. How's that? :)
- RajT88 2y agoIt is an irony that Windows makes keyboard shortcut users out of even non-techies.
- imp0cat 2y agoYes, single click, then Enter, that's the winning combo here.
- Nition 2y agoIf you're willing to try something a little bit different, Windows also has a single-click to open mode ('View->Options->Change folder and search options' in Win 11). To only select, you point and hover for a moment.
- account42 2y agoI wish it would let do single click open without hover to select. It's just too easy to mess up your selection if you are not careful where you park your cursor for even a split second. KDE's Dolphin is much better here, can be set to single click open with drag selection box or click + icon to select.
- Nition 2y agoI know this is a ludicrous way to provide an option to the user instead of just putting it in the UI, but: - View->Options->Change folder and search options - Enable single-click, then on the View tab, enable "use check boxes to select items" - Then Regedit... - HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse - Set MouseHoverWidth and MouseHoverHeight to 0, or increase MouseHoverTime. Now you have single-click without hover-select, and checkboxes to select.
- layer8 2y agoFWIW, you can configure the minimum distance for a mouse move to count as a drag. The default was adequate for 640x480, but maybe should have been increased.
- razakel 2y agoCtrl-Z to the rescue!
- pavon 2y agoOh, this is the bane of shared network drives.
- ggm 2y agoSome of it was stupidity, some of it was cupidity, some of it was deliberate. The piece about people running slow IP over the text fields in the website for their frequent flyer miles homepage (accessible for free on in-flight wifi without paying for it) is an example of deliberate: I think some of this was early file sharing and warez in .. winamp skinz. "what does this do" causes a lot of things to happen. you zip up a folder and forget the metric tonne of other files in it, which don't interfere with the prime function so just come along for the ride.
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- RyanShook 2y agoWas the internet better back then or am I just old?
- doe_eyes 2y agoIt's still like that. There's a lot of weird things you're gonna find on the tail end of Github repositories, or Pastebin uploads, Imgur, or YouTube... it's just hard to find unless you crawl the whole thing or otherwise come into the possession of the underlying database (as this person did).
- 4gotunameagain 2y agoThe difference is that nowadays you have to shift through orders of magnitude more monetised manure in order to find the sprouting gems.
- asimovfan 2y agoSift
- echelon 2y agoYou were young and not working. The world was full of new frontiers and possibilities. Young people today are on Minecraft, Roblox, VRchat, Discord, and YouTube. That's their frontier internet, and they probably feel the same way about it as you do. A Geocities website, phpBB or EZBoard, webring, Xanga, and AIM/IRC has a similar analogues today. The pieces just have different names and shapes.
- dartos 2y agoAnd different monetization strategies.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoI get this argument from a lot of people but it is not true. There was a much higher spirit of sharing and just cool shit back in the day. Now everyone is trying to make a buck, and shit is slow, like Slack.
- Teever 2y agoWhat a fabulous find. It's really neat to find something that I grew up with like Winamp skins become a subject of anthropological/historical study. It's gonna be neat/kinda creepy to see how much of this sort of application of investigative techniques can turn up stuff from my younger years that I ever could have thought would still exist.
- nvy 2y agoIt really does whip the llama's ass.
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- locusofself 2y agoIt's probably property of AOL. But REAPER isn't open source either. Justin Frankel has released other open source stuff though.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoI think AOL sold it to a random company at least a decade ago, and then they announced they will modernize it and have a big surprise and shit, then nothing happened for years, and then maybe two years ago they actually released a new update to winamp 5. Also while it's not open source, the source also leaked years ago, and there are unofficial updates to the old AOL winamp too. No idea if they kept going once the real thing got an update...
- aziaziazi 2y agoI worked for that company 7 years ago, they were looking a way to make money with it but didn’t found out how. They already make money from radio advertisement products and didn’t seems willing to put resources on anything not lucrative. Updating/open sourcing was not on the agenda.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoTbh I'm not surprised. Or rather I'm surprised why that wasn't crystal clear to them before the acquisition.
- thedoctor_o 2y agoBecause they primarily wanted shoutcast (ironic since they sold that off last year & got played in the process of doing all of that) which meant taking winamp with it. It's all a mess now but most care not for that and just see that "winamp is back". -dro
- dzhiurgis 2y agoBob's car is from Greenock, Scotland (via geospy.ai)
- thebruce87m 2y agoLooks like a match: https://shorturl.at/SBYHT https://shorturl.at/SBYHT Edit: shorter url
- cwillu 2y agoThere is no reason to shorten the url here, and I much prefer to be able to see where I'm going before I click.
- thebruce87m 2y agoHere is the original: https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kilmacolm%2BRoad%2BViewpoint/data%3D!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ!2e10!6shttps:%252F%252Fgz0.googleusercontent.com%252Fp%252FAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ%253Dw414-h552-k-no!7i3024!8i4032!4m7!3m6!1s0x4889b105a0b0d8bf:0xf62aa0cffb734fbe!8m2!3d55.928565899999995!4d-4.7106362!10e5!16s%252Fg%252F11fpn_qb67?g_ep%3DCAISDTYuMTI0LjEuNzM0NDAYACDmiAsqYyw5NDIyNjk2Niw5NDIyNDgyNSw5NDIyNzI0Nyw5NDIyNzI0OCw0NzA3MTcwNCw0NzA2OTUwOCw5NDIxODY0MSw5NDIwMzAxOSw0NzA4NDMwNCw5NDIwODQ1OCw5NDIwODQ0N0ICR0I%253D&apn=com.google.android.apps.maps&afl=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kilmacolm%2BRoad%2BViewpoint/data%3D!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ!2e10!6shttps:%252F%252Fgz0.googleusercontent.com%252Fp%252FAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ%253Dw414-h552-k-no!7i3024!8i4032!4m7!3m6!1s0x4889b105a0b0d8bf:0xf62aa0cffb734fbe!8m2!3d55.928565899999995!4d-4.7106362!10e5!16s%252Fg%252F11fpn_qb67?g_ep%3DCAISDTYuMTI0LjEuNzM0NDAYACDmiAsqYyw5NDIyNjk2Niw5NDIyNDgyNSw5NDIyNzI0Nyw5NDIyNzI0OCw0NzA3MTcwNCw0NzA2OTUwOCw5NDIxODY0MSw5NDIwMzAxOSw0NzA4NDMwNCw5NDIwODQ1OCw5NDIwODQ0N0ICR0I%253D&isi=585027354&ibi=com.google.Maps&ibi=com.google.Rzimuth&ibi=com.google.Azimuth&ibi=com.google.Bzimuth&ibi=com.google.Czimuth&ibi=com.google.Dzimuth&ius=comgooglemapsurl&ifl=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kilmacolm%2BRoad%2BViewpoint/data%3D!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ!2e10!6shttps:%252F%252Fgz0.googleusercontent.com%252Fp%252FAF1QipPpt-joyGwDUQF1ZE44AaDN6NFZbmd87LGrERqZ%253Dw414-h552-k-no!7i3024!8i4032!4m7!3m6!1s0x4889b105a0b0d8bf:0xf62aa0cffb734fbe!8m2!3d55.928565899999995!4d-4.7106362!10e5!16s%252Fg%252F11fpn_qb67?g_ep%3DCAISDTYuMTI0LjEuNzM0NDAYACDmiAsqYyw5NDIyNjk2Niw5NDIyNDgyNSw5NDIyNzI0Nyw5NDIyNzI0OCw0NzA3MTcwNCw0NzA2OTUwOCw5NDIxODY0MSw5NDIwMzAxOSw0NzA4NDMwNCw5NDIwODQ1OCw5NDIwODQ0N0ICR0I%253D&cid=7116517576667346295&_osl=https://maps.app.goo.gl/ViounqhqFMipRA9f9&_icp=1 https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
- hanniabu 2y agoIt's great seeing all the skins https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/
- locusofself 2y agoI loved reading this. I was transported back to being 13 (27 years ago).
- gorlilla 2y agoI, too, was 13 some 27 years ago. Coincidentally so were many of my friends! Happy 4th decade!
- carl_dr 2y ago5th decade … Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884356
- harph 2y agoThis prompted me to check how long ago I was 13 years old. It was 26 years ago. Are we old yet?
- coldpie 2y ago"Old" is a state of mind. If you find yourself believing that everything new is terrible and you want to go back to "the good old days," then yeah, you're old. If you're still open to learning new things and adapting to and exploring the world as it changes around you, then you're not old yet.
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- pandemic_region 2y agoI had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.
- serf 2y agoI did too, I wonder if this image was included in some other package somewhere?
- hoyd 2y agoReminded me of pointerpointer.com and for some reason new kids on the block.
- mikae1 2y ago> TinEye searched over 69.1 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- voidUpdate 2y agoGoogle's reverse image search (images.google.com, click the little camera) can perform better in many cases, though here it only finds the linked page
- account42 2y agoYandex reverse image search can also be useful often, although in this case it just gives you other images of people with basketballs. Curse whoever decided to introduce AI to reverse image search.
- lmm 2y agoIt's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.
- cpach 2y ago
- vijucat 2y agoI've always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play are lightning fast compared to Spotify, YT Music, et al. Also, I absolutely detest how YT Music keeps A/B testing ALL THE TIME, changing the location of things around. Ultimately, a website is never in your control.
- loa_in_ 2y agoAs a home grown hacker from before the time of internet, I increasingly understand why people despise computers. I was always telling people, that you can make computers do your bidding, make them part of your life, frictionless. But I never needed IT help, I knew that whatever frustrations I might have are because of something I can work and fix with some digging around. But having things like Windows auto updates, websites ever changing makes even me feel the frustration and friction. It's no longer a wrench, it's a wireless corporate-run ad-powered e-wrench which needs printer ink for bolt-screwning.
- mcny 2y ago> Windows auto updates if I remember correctly, Windows Updates were a pain in Windows 98 or even Windows XP. Maybe it was just a pain because I was on slow as molasses dial up but just the fact that active x(?) only worked on Microsoft Internet Explorer and it was required(?) for Windows Update, made me wonder why updating Windows requires a web browser. I think Windows auto updates are a good thing. I just think people should have to opt IN to auto updates for different stuff differently and then opt IN to automatic reboots. An operating system should never auto reboot without at least a one time user consent. Any corporate computer I've ever used disables this automatic reboot when a user is logged in. I think this is proof that the setting should be like this. Of course, over the long term, what we really need is to make more of updates not require a reboot, but that is a different conversation.
- h4jrheue388 2y agoWindows auto update could always be disabled. A person must be extremely tech incompetent if they couldn't do the simplest of windows tasks.
- danielovichdk 2y agoI bet the worm game was written in Turing and one of the guys in the photo did it in high-school. It was what I did in a class in high-school and it instantly reminded me of that.
- yoz 2y agoJordan Eldredge, the author, has done some amazing WinAmp-related projects over the years, including WebAmp (a web-based, from-scratch reimplementation of much of WinAmp) and a WASM engine for WinAmp-style music visualisation. His project page: https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/ https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/
- thenthenthen 2y agoI remember “Sovereign Sect” as having something to do with skateboard(apparel)[1]. Not totally sure what or how. [1]https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/magazine/the-regrouping-of-the-sovereign-sect/ https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/magazine/the-regro...
- syntaxless 2y agoIt’s the name of the distribution company a bunch of brands are housed under. > By the end of 1999 an idea that has been talked about for years begins to take seed. The Habitat is formed under the Sovereign Sect in December…The Alien Workshop and its divisions are guided by this philosophy to this day. A Sovereign Sect of individuals with the goal to evolve skateboarding, projects and ideas free from outside pressures or rules.
- _7acn 2y agoI’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoIf you're in Windows you should check out Tray Player https://www.trayplayer.com/ https://www.trayplayer.com/
- agret 2y agoNo mention in the page if it's compatible with Winamp skins?
- NamTaf 2y agoOne of the first things I did on my Steam Deck was to get Winamp running via Bottles :) it lives on the inbuilt screen when I’ve got it docked in desktop mode on my 2 desktop monitors.
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoAudacious with a Winamp skin is close enough that it has replaced the need to have Winamp proper on my Linux workstations. Mostly because I want MPRIS integration, but also because I just can't be bothered to setup WINE or Crossover these days.
- archon810 2y agoSame! Winamp was hugely popular in the post Soviet countries, like Ukraine where I grew up. And now, like you, I stream di.fm through it.
- nwsm 2y agoLove this stuff - so weird and obscure. The Acura skin is cracking me up. I'm listening to OP's playlist now
- sen 2y agoI miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount of customisation my Linux theming gives me. I feel like a huge reason the indie web died off was OSes and programs limiting user customisation which was a gateway drug for many. MySpace themes would get people learning html/css. Winamp skins got people learning photoshop/graphics. mIRC scripting taught people basic coding. OS customising had all of it. Now you just shut up and use it as they dictate.
- JohnMakin 2y agoThere's another benefit to opening this kind of functionality to apps - it's very friendly towards developing interfaces that are more friendly to the disabled. I have certain disabilities where specific types of UI designs are basically unusable to me, and without the ability to customize them, I kinda just cannot use them (unless they provide an API as an alternative).
- gorlilla 2y agoUntil they rug-pull the API access that countless third parties built those accessibility features around....
- WD-42 2y agoI completely agree. I, in no small part, owe my career as a software dev to falling in love with Linux because of the ability to theme everything, apps, desktops, ui toolkits. Of course, this was back in the kde3 and gnome(2?) days. It’s different now, it seems like theming has become actively discouraged, especially in Gnome. It makes me sad wondering how many young creative people the community is missing an opportunity to captivate.
- donatj 2y agoI truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a little!
- nokeya 2y agoThis site make want to install winamp again. And try skins. Even if I dont listen music from local files anymore.
- dakiol 2y agoAnything similar to winamp for macos? Better if open source
- sawaali 2y agohttps://ionica.app/ https://ionica.app/ Not open source, but it’s the closest I have come to Winamp. It’s really good!
- og2023 2y agoIt's quite beautiful, thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, seems to not support FLAC's cue files for track lists, which is quite a bummer.
- al_borland 2y agore:AMP seems like a pretty good clone that supports skins and everything. Up to you if you want to trust it or not. https://re-amp.ru/ https://re-amp.ru/ It’s the most true WinAmp for Mac I’ve ever found.
- Thaxll 2y agoIf you need to decrypt old zip file this tool is amazing if you know couple of characters in the archive: https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack
- romellem 2y agoMy favorite Winamp skin was a Jimmy Eat World skin for their album Bleed American (later [renamed][1]). Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_American
- captbaritone 2y agoPossibly this one? https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8fab8401c9ed83068a677f8ec08842ac/JimmyEatWorld.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/8fab8401c9ed83068a677f8ec08842...
- romellem 2y agoWow, the nostalgia. Thank you, that's it!! This must have been added since the last time I searched.
- alekseiprokopev 2y agoI went to listen to the songs featured in the playlist screenshot from resubmitted.2003_rsx.wsz file. From the Youtube comments I figured a lot of people also did.
- jolj 2y agoLooks like a lot of people thought that if you place a single image file in the zip, you'll get a skin
- tempodox 2y agoI thought “corrupt Winamp skin” means it's infested with digital parasites feeding on the RGB values of the pixels, making them look like rusty metal or rotting flesh. But this isn't bad either.
- elPresiden 2y ago[dead]