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Hey! Project author here! Happy to answer any questions.

This project is open source and the code, and instructions to use it on your site, can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

Webamp's ability to render classic Winamp skins led to a collaboration with the Internet Archive where we preserved ~70k (and counting) classic Winamp skins.

I also built the Winamp Skin Museum (https://skins.webamp.org/) where you can infinite scroll through those 70k skins and try them out in your browser with one click.

Most recently I've been experimenting with improving the visualizer's performance with an in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler. Blog post here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...

The project has given me lots of enjoyment over the years, and I'm glad to see that others are enjoying it as well.

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Have you considered spinning off the visualizer as a separate project? I'd love to it running on its own, on top of any audio I may have playing on the background

Someone just posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265

Yes, it's already its own project and the developer who built it helped integrate it into Webamp.

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn

If you want to visualize audio coming from the browser (Spotify etc) check out his browser extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-...

Props for Diablo Swing Orchestra! Never would have expected to see that there.

Listening to them now - loving it

Good job! I am really impressed. Reminds me of XMMS as well of which I have great memories. Your blog post on the in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler sounds really interesting, will read!

How is the Skin Museum's default layout organized? I assumed by most downloads, but I'm not sure from where and the Archive sorts by views which is a completely different list.

Really impressive project, I was surprised how well it worked on my phone.

Thanks! The list is ordered by the most number of likes/retweets from the @winampskins twitter bot I run.

I wrote a post about the design of the site here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/winamp-skin-musuem/

And then gave a meetup talk based on that post which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUr_NzP6xg&t=2s

Didn't expect that, the list seemed so similar to the ones I browsed twenty years ago I assumed they had the same source. I guess the collective nostalgia is very similar to my memory at least. Thanks for the answer!

This is great! I see there's Winampify but I can't figure out how I would connect my Spotify account to it. Any ideas?

Try opening one of the folders.

Oh nice! haha I kept trying different buttons on the player and settings, never thought to just click a folder. Thanks for this!

A couple years ago I tried to integrate this into a website specifically for the visualizations, but couldn't get it working... did the work you did on the visualizer just increase performance, or did it also increase support or ease of getting it setup on a new site?

Setting up Webamp with the visualizer is sadly not any easier. If you’re still interested, come join our Discord https://Webamp.org/chat and we can help you figure it out. This example would be a good start: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp/blob/master/examples/...

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