Monday, September 14th 2020
The Famous Digital MP3 Player Winamp Gets Its Own Internet Museum
Today there is a little bit of nostalgia to be brought for your reading pleasure. In the early days of dot com boom, when the internet was taking off, there was a service called Napster which allowed users to download entire music albums in MP3 format for free. Logically you needed an MP3 player to listen to these songs and there came Winamp - the most popular MP3 player at the time with a lot of features like sound equalizer, bitrate adjustment, and more. The users of this piece of software especially liked it because of the one thing - customization. You could have applied all kinds of skins to it, and users distributed a lot of them online. From anime to TV shows, you could find all kinds of skins for it. So to honor the software, there is now an online museum containing over 65.000 skins that you can view in JPG format and download to apply to your Winamp application. You can check out the museum here.
Source:
Hardwareluxx.de
17 Comments on The Famous Digital MP3 Player Winamp Gets Its Own Internet Museum
Still with this skin.
skins.webamp.org/skin/5975fb2cbf381c184f2e15e8b15809ca/MooAMP_Wide_Screen.wsz/
webamp.org/
butterchurnviz.com/
and a chrome extension of butterchurn vis
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/butterchurn-music-visuali/jfdmelgfepjcmlljpdeajbiiibkehnih/related
It Really Whips the Llama's Ass
In the days when you had to really work to install and configure Windows, i used that jingle to check if my sound card was working properly :)
Still using Winamp on the HTPC downstairs. Works fine. Will keep. :D
Made some good money at the end of highschool burning custom CDs for people.
I use this skin called anunaki: www.wincustomize.com/explore/winamp/1269/
If you ask me, Winamp is still one of the best software for playing mp3 files.
Also, Spider Player was my replacement for Winamp, still use it to this day.
Skin I use Pimeer 2.4
www.wincustomize.com/explore/winamp/1722
I used it for casual playlists until I discovered Foobar2000.
The Winamp ram usage footprint was ridiculous IF you had a big media library.
Foobar was and is still is much lighter on resources. even with 20-40 plugins.
this is true for basically all software that opens files especially if it was made with old or inexperienced coding practices, it goes beyond the user opening files to also include the OS displaying thumbnails on filesaudacious also loads the skins
both of them have windows versions, not linux specificwinmx came after napster
(what about audiogalaxy, morpheus, or soulseek which is still up)