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https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!

Glad you like it! The code’s all on GitHub if you want to take a look: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

your project was very inspiring, thanks for making it!

Thanks for including it in your list! You’ve done a great job collecting so many of them. We have a Discord with a few people interested in this type of thing. You can find a link in the Webamp readme if you are interested

This took me back to one morning early in my career, where I arrived at work following an Easter weekend still heavily under the influence of ecstasy. I hid under my desk from the boss, with Prodigy playing from Winamp into my headphones.

Taxi straight from party to the office. I didn't realize until I was sitting at my desk how fucked I was

The winxp has it also https://winxp.now.sh/

Comes with a game, paint and notepad.

I really miss Winamp!

Man I had so many custom skins for Winamp. It really was a different time back then.

That last sentence took an unexpected turn.

I'm using a Macross Plus Winamp skin for QMMP as I write this, so it was funny to read your comment...I got so sick of iTunes that a few years ago I went back to the old way. I wrote some scripts to select & generate playlists and bound the scripts to keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Super+Media Keys. QMMP has been really solid.

I (author of Webamp) worked with the internet archive to archive ~50k Winamp skins. The collection even features Webamp integration is you can try them out in the browser. https://archive.org/details/winampskins

Beautiful! Brings me back to my early teens. We've really lost something in modern software.

I really appreciate your work, this is awesome.

Does it work with milkdrop? That visualiser is exceptional. Unfortunately project M isn't as good.

I always preferred Geiss, but either way, I wish such visualisation capabilities were built in to Spotify... Or is there a suitable in_xxx plugin for Winamp that will let me use its visualisations with Spotify?

Also follow your @winampskins twitter bot for daily nostalgia :)

Wow!! Dear sir, you are quite the superhero! Winamp is one of my favourite applications!

You are the Hero we need but not the one we deserve.

Audacious. It's compatible with the skins, even.

Can't you still use it? I still use it.

Yep, still using build 5666, the last build before Nullsoft got bought out.

I think it’s build 3615, version 5.666, right?

You can say thanks for the memories buy purchasing a copy of Reaper, and get a serviceable DAW in the process..

For those who don’t get the connection, Reaper is made by Justin Frankel who was the original developer of Winamp.

I still use Winamp.

Same, I was also a fan of Sonique [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player)

One promising continuation is WACUP

https://getwacup.com/

I stumbled on rahul.io and was blown away: includes word, webamp and wolf3d!

The visualizers in this are really slick, I wonder if they're built from scratch or borrowed from somewhere.

The visualizer comes from https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn glad you like it!

any change of getting AVS here? I spent years playing with that!

Looks like they're borrowed.

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn

Only a matter of time, when someone throws an electron wrapper around it, would be funny

https://desktop.webamp.org

I use AIMP. I love it. Really customizable and has youtube playback too.

I loved that one too.

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