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Winamp Skin Museum
- red-iron-pine 3mo agosomething something slaps llama something
- Lalabadie 3mo ago"It really whips the llama's ass" Archived soundbite: https://archive.org/details/youtube-LWKxtWEkS1c https://archive.org/details/youtube-LWKxtWEkS1c
- goodwillhunting 3mo agoOMG, you just catapulted me back to being 12 again!
- datakan 3mo agoThe first internet memes were just winamp skins
- hobscure 3mo agoIt took me a while to realize that they are fully working if you click on it.
- jihadjihad 3mo agoI'll have to spend some time trying to find it if it's on there, but I had one at one point called "Pimeer" where the text was rendered in such a way to look like a Pioneer stereo. Fooled me at the time.
- captbaritone 3mo agoLooks like that was a "modern" Winamp skin, which are unfortunately not displayed in the museum: https://winampheritage.com/skin/pimeer-v2-2-ultime/142664 https://winampheritage.com/skin/pimeer-v2-2-ultime/142664
- jihadjihad 3mo agoWow, indeed, this is it! Great sleuth work, detective!
- rebyn 3mo agoYesterday someone put a Winamp-vibe radio player on a Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.54 LCD. Now if only these skins can be ported to that too. I’m in awe!
- a34729t 3mo agoI always though the skin model would be a great UX paradigm for an OS to follow. Pity we have gone the opposite direction and it is turtlenecks and "user delight" all the way down.
- VikingCoder 3mo agoI don't want to use it, but I would laugh if someone made Visual Studio Code look like Winamp...
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- deadbabe 3mo agoIf someone is looking for an insane project, please make Winamp player as a tactile real world physical device, with all the same features. Maybe with a little E-ink display too.
- captbaritone 3mo agoThis is an idea that 3D artists have been playing with for years. I've collected 63 different artists imaginings of this here: https://jordaneldredge.com/physical-winamp/ https://jordaneldredge.com/physical-winamp/
- deadbabe 3mo ago…yea, so why doesn’t someone build one?
- pseudalopex 3mo agoYour reasons were what?
- deadbabe 3mo agoNo skills, no resources
- geephroh 3mo agoTake my money!
- netsharc 3mo agoE-ink would be too modern, needs an analog matrix display, like https://i.imgur.com/wgnCKrh.png https://i.imgur.com/wgnCKrh.png (but miniaturized).
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- zthrowaway 3mo agoThe thing about back then that was so amazing is the amount of personalization you had with your desktop environment. Windows 95/98 had different skins/themes you could use. Winamp and many other apps allowed skins. You used to be able to make your computing experience your own. We've lost that and really need to get it back. There's the ability to do this with Linux DE's of course, but that's not enough.
- altmanaltman 3mo agoI wrote a blog on this focusing on the frutiger aero style and how/why we moved from making the desktop look like a real/character-filled space to the whole "best ui is no ui" and flat design thinking. Fortunately, it seems like style is coming back in... style. The blog post: https://decodingvibes.com/blog/genz-and-frutiger-aero/ https://decodingvibes.com/blog/genz-and-frutiger-aero/
- ktosobcy 3mo agoI like the customization of the OS but I hate when the app developers are feeling creative and can't fit into (my OS of choice) Look&Feel :/
- DaanDL 3mo agoThe thing is, back then, it worked, because every app looked completely different from each other, and so it was a clusterfuck anyway :-D
- marginalia_nu 3mo agoBig thing that allowed this degree of personalization and skinning was that everyone was running fairly homogenous display equipment. When you don't need to deal with a whole spectrum of aspect ratios, input affordances, and DPIs, skinning and customization is something you can do in any image editing software.
- DaanDL 3mo agoCorrect, and the same goes for webpages, they were built for 15" and/or 17".
- cosmic_cheese 3mo agoIt could still be relatively simple if the industry could agree on a few standard DPIs for screens. While still a substantial amount of extra work, raster images with clean 1x, 2x, and maybe 3x variants are a lot more flexible and easier to produce something good looking with than trying to fight vector formats that will end up looking “fuzzy” 70% of the time due to lines landing on half-pixels and such.
- marginalia_nu 3mo agoCan't really put the toothpaste back in the tube on that one. Too many monitors that are like 30-40% off any clean integer scaling in the wild for that to be viable now.
- cosmic_cheese 3mo agoProbably true, but I think if I were writing a theming system I’d still key it off of clean multiples and have fractional screens as second tier targets. Fractional screens are going to look somewhat compromised no matter what, so may as well let themes be their best if the user happens to have an integer scaling screen.
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- nivals 3mo agoone of the best desktop apps ever made, should be in the software smithsonian along with winzip, netscape, a few others from that era.
- wpm 3mo agoThe Mr. Bean one is amazing
- captbaritone 3mo agoOh! Author of the project here, but not op. Happy to answer any questions. The code for the Museum as well as the Webamp player that powers the interactive preview can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp You can also find a blog post I wrote about the project here: https://jordaneldredge.com/winamp-skin-musuem/ https://jordaneldredge.com/winamp-skin-musuem/
- ntoskrnl_exe 3mo agoI have a question: It seems that all the preview PNGs and the WSZ files themselves are fetched from hxxp://webampskins.org. When I go to that website directly, I get redirected to some shady looking website pushing crypto and gambling. Can you give me some background about this?
- captbaritone 3mo agoInteresting! I've only ever actively used subdomains of webampskins.org, however during early testing I set a hard coded IPV4 IP as the A name for the root domain. Now it looks like that IP has been handed off to someone else who is hosting a spammy site. Thanks for flagging, I removed that A name record.
- ntoskrnl_exe 3mo agoNo problem, glad that got sorted out :)
- mghackerlady 3mo agoThe amazing foss music player audacious supports winamp skins in case anyone wants to use these on a modern cross platform program that's actually foss
- tjpnz 3mo agoWhy can't we have nice things anymore?
- lysace 3mo agoJony.
- coreyburnsdev 3mo agoah, brings back memories. third one from the left was my favourite.
- Getchowned 3mo agoWinamp is a blast from the past!
- dethos 3mo agoSo many memories. We definitely lost something along the way.