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If you were an early Internet kid you'll recall a little app called WinAmp that was, in short, the best MP3 player ever made ever. The little program looked like skeuomorphic stereo receiver with a full range of equalizer sliders and included an important MP3 that explained WinAmp's primary mission: whipping the llama's ass.
A programmer named Jordan Eldredge has created an homage to WinAmp in JavaScript. The widget allows you to create a standalone music player on any web page and it can be styled with themes straight out of WinAmp history. You can try it out here and download the code here.
"The original inspiration was a realization that Winamp skins were implemented in a very similar way to CSS sprites," said Eldredge. "I spent many hours as a teenager playing with Winamp skins. In fact, it was the first constructive creative work I did on a computer."
The emulator uses the Web Audio API to simulate almost everything WinAmp could do in its original incarnation.
Story at TechCrunch
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @03:27AM
as if people had nothing to do on their computers except play music
Going back a lot of years, KMandla was an enthusiast of old hardware (laptops only).
He would pick up stuff from the secondhand shop and see how much more service he could get out of it.
A major element of that was identifying command line Linux apps.
What he found, he put in his blog. [wordpress.com]
That blog came to a conclusion and there was a hiatus.
...then he started another blog on the same topic. [wordpress.com]
I remember him telling about the machine he had retired as his main box then mounted vertically and used as a media box.
(The mounting wasn't especially well done and the machine later took a devastating tumble.
A temblor in Tokyo, as I recall.)
So, at the kind of prices and the system load he was working with, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
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