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 Appalbarry on Monday February 12 2018, @07:47AM (2 children)
Big shoutout for DeadBeeF [sourceforge.net], a lovely open source program that plays music. And pretty much nothing else.
If you don't want or need a multi-media,plays everything ever created and catalogs it, sorts it, make suggestions, skins itself inside out, visualizationizes, and includes not one, but two kitchen sinks while also being (mostly) iTunes compatible, this is what you need.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:39AM (1 child)
My spoken-word webcasts would be -so- disappointed.
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(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:56AM
No, it's DeadBeeF for music and Podcast Addict [uservoice.com] for podcasts. The latter offers a level of setting and customization options that beggars belief. I'd swear that somewhere in it is a setting to arrange podcast episodes by the height and hair color of the announcer.
(The developer even answers emails. Politely.) (Take that TinyTiny RSS)