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.
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday February 12 2018, @10:52AM (1 child)
I downloaded it back in the day (the files are dated Oct 1999) and have been using it ever since. I also have a pile of plugins for chiptune formats.
As I recall, it could just barely play a 96kbps MP3 on a 486DX4-100. I wonder how the JS implementation fares :p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @11:29AM
Any particular reason you didn't upgrade to the latest 2.xx version? They even put a few new updates out after 3 bombed.