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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 leftover on Monday February 12 2018, @02:49AM (5 children)
Used WinAmp until it died, switched to Linux for all desktops but still awaiting a player providing that solid and reliable experience. In the meantime, mpd plus Cantata are OK. Must admit that the OSS experience of having your desktop environment go down in flames periodically is getting really old.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @02:53AM
Audacious works pretty good, it supports Winamp 2.x skins if you want and several input plugins. I love MPD, but it doesn't play half the formats that Winamp/Audacious/XMMS can play.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @03:22AM (1 child)
> Used WinAmp until it died
Um, when did it die? Sure, it's not under development anymore, but it still plays most music files. I still use it (version 5), there's nothing better. It's a stable, mature piece of software, there are a bunch of skins and plugins available, and, partly thanks to it's age, it uses very little resources. Literally the only problem is it doesn't support Linux.
> Must admit that the OSS experience of having your desktop environment go down in flames periodically is getting really old.
That's... the "Windows experience" :/ And I have regular BSODs to prove it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @12:44PM
>It's a stable, mature piece of software
This. It's not often software reaches this point and stays there without getting bloated year after year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @11:44AM (1 child)
Is there something wrong with XMMS? I can use winamp skins too apparently.
(Score: 2) by leftover on Monday February 12 2018, @03:50PM
Mmph. Can't remember specifics (insufficient coffee?) I tried to install it but there was an issue of compatibility with other software on this workstation. Graphics libs|versions maybe?
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.