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: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday February 12 2018, @04:08AM (2 children)
Great, instead of downloading a MP3 and playing it on your own local computer under your control, let load a web page for it instead.
Wait... are they bringing back auto playing embedded music files? *runs*
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 12 2018, @04:14AM
What if you need to make a Myspace clone, or spruce up your GeoCities page?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @11:25AM
> Wait... are they bringing back auto playing embedded music files? *runs*
Why would they? Now there are autoplaying embedded video ads! So much better!