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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: 5, Insightful) by chromas on Monday February 12 2018, @05:11AM (2 children)

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 12 2018, @05:11AM (#636575) Journal

    and then made version 5

    They skipped 4 so we couldn't have Winamp 4 skins 😢.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @12:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @12:17PM (#636650)

    They skipped 4 so we couldn't have Winamp 4 skins 😢.

    I always thought they went to 5 to signify merging the best(?) bits of 2 and 3, since 3 was utter trash to use and bloated. Personally I reverted to 2.91, I still have it installed although I don't use it now.

    But your explanation makes more sense.

    • (Score: 2) by chromas on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:29AM

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:29AM (#637000) Journal

      They actually offered up both explanations, but yours was sort of the 'official' one. One cool thing WinAMP does (as does Foobar2000) is read archive files, so when I buttpirate a 'discography' rar, I don't even have to unpack it to load it into the player.

      If you want a WinAMP2-alike (with skin support, even), there's XMMS [xmms.org] and several descendants, such as QMMP [ylsoftware.com], Beep Media Player(x) [beep-media-player.org] and Audacious [audacious-media-player.org].