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posted by martyb on Monday February 12 2018, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the Devo-claims-dibs-on-"Whip-It" dept.

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


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 12 2018, @03:52AM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 12 2018, @03:52AM (#636565) Homepage Journal

    Unfortunately the linux world has followed suit, and finding a decent music app is a chore.

    Qmmp [ylsoftware.com]. You're welcome.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday February 12 2018, @11:31AM (2 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday February 12 2018, @11:31AM (#636637) Journal
    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 12 2018, @11:43AM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 12 2018, @11:43AM (#636642) Homepage Journal

      See, I'm a luddite there. I specifically do not want bells and whistles in my mp3 player. If I'm gui-ing it, I want a small gui player that plays my tunes and nothing else. If I'm cli-ing, there's mpg123.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @08:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @08:43PM (#636818)

        I use mpd and mpvc (which does the same thing for mpv) to remotely control my media center box. Press a hotkey, ncmpcpp slides out, plus I have the play/pause, next, previous hotkeys. Another hotkey will show my videos and ask me which screen and audio out to use. It's very convenient for my setup, although I would probably just use moc if I didn't have the media box.