Winamp: A fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows (1998)

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by marcodiego • 5 years ago

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emreb• 5 years ago

WinAmp, it really whips the llama's ass :) What was your favorite skin on Winamp?

bovermyer2• 5 years ago

Nothing specific. Usually it was sci-fi interface stuff with high contrast buttons so the skin didn't obscure the function.

themdonuts• 5 years ago

No skin. My internet was too slow and paid per minute to browse for skins :(

agumonkey2• 5 years ago

- vanilla - ported v3 skin - some deluxe hifi brand (pioneer, Denon forgot)

Strange times where skeumorphism reigned supreme.

MisterTea• 5 years ago

Speaking of skeuomorphism, before MP3 was a thing and Winamp I played many a MIDI and wav file in addition to actual CD's on Audiostation: https://www.audiostation.org/

__void• 5 years ago

one customized by me from a gray plain (I think it was a macosx like)

i lost a lot of hours instead of studying for that skin, somewhere in the Ark-HDs I should still have it (I hope)

theandrewbailey• 5 years ago

I remember playing with skins for a while, but since I mostly used Winamp without looking at it, I stopped caring about skins and appreciated the stock 2.x look. Who knew that a modular, black/gray aesthetic reminiscent of high end audio equipment would be timeless?

I've tried to use other players (Foobar, VLC) with Winamp skins, but they never looked or functioned right, so I kept coming back to the original.

crtasm• 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacious_(software) supports Winamp 2 skins well, including the default Winamp look.

spiffistan• 5 years ago

Major Tom: https://archive.org/details/winampskin_Major_Tom_v5

Mobius01• 5 years ago

You just detonated a nostalgia cobalt bomb, this was my favourite as well. So well crafted in it’s thoughtful details.

mental1896• 5 years ago

Fallout: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgJZbFAWAAEelSb.png

diimdeep2• 5 years ago

I like colors https://skins.webamp.org/skin/9bddbdeb502cdd6703b602789d1675...

Const-me• 5 years ago

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/d3191256028abba38e1bf89a07fd7f...

Works OK in my Winamp 5.666.

bovermyer2• 5 years ago

Also notable:

* https://www.clementine-player.org/

* https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

zekica• 5 years ago

I'm using clementine from the first version. I kept using Amarok 1.4 after KDE reimagined it in 2.0, and Clementine keeps all the good stuff from the old Amarok.

bluedays• 5 years ago

This aesthetic bugs me. I don't know why so many open source apps look like this. I think they are extremely unattractive looking apps.

apocalyptic0n3• 5 years ago

In some cases, they're very skinnable and the ugly theme is just the default. Both Winamp and Foobar2000 were extremely popular in the desktop customization community when it was at its height around 2004-2006ish for that reason.

It's also because most of these projects don't have dedicated designers working on them. So you end up with the "designed by developers" aesthetic and let's be honest: we developers generally suck at designing UIs.

omega3• 5 years ago

Does anyone know how the media library scanning was implemented in Winamp, I remember it was orders of magnitude faster than any (even modern) music players for very large music collections.

betaby• 5 years ago

I can recommend https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

kaetemi• 5 years ago

Still using Winamp here. It works, it looks good, and it doesn't take half my screen space.

haunter• 5 years ago

Switched to foobar long long ago and never looked back https://www.foobar2000.org/

chiddekel• 5 years ago

xmms - has quite crispy clean sound - and look of winamp https://www.xmms.org/

diimdeep2• 5 years ago

For macOS people out there,

re:AMP https://re-amp.ru https://www.producthunt.com/posts/re-amp

bni• 5 years ago

This is almost great. Looks a bit abandoned though.

I wish the source was available so I could build it on Apple Silicon and perhaps make a few customizations.

wink• 5 years ago

The first "useful" tool I ever wrote in the 90s (in VB 5 if I am not mistaken) was a M3U to HTML converter for MP3 playlists. Winamp added the feature a bit later.

sparker72678• 5 years ago

Don't miss https://webamp.org

poisonborz• 5 years ago

A successor that wasn't mentioned yet but is much more similar in goals is AIMP.

yayr• 5 years ago

I mostly miss the programmable visualisations.

tristanc• 5 years ago

You might be looking for ProjectM [1]. Reimplements WinAmp’s Milkdrop visualizer plugin to run standalone on practically every modern platform.

[1] https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectM

captbaritone• 5 years ago

We have those working at https://webamp.org

pupppet• 5 years ago

These iddy-biddy pixel-perfect UIs are a lost art. Most of the UI's these days look like something from a Fisher-Price toy.

Winamp: A fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows (1998)

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