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Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by captbaritone on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:45AM (#13576827)
For those looking for a quick dose of nostalgia, I wrote a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9, which you can load in your browser: https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/

It even supports skins (just drag the .zip/.wsz file over the player).

Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by TorKlingberg on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:54AM (#13578042)
Nice! I wish you had a button to show it in 2X or 4X size. Winamp looks tiny now, but back in 2000 everyone had low resolution screens, so Winamp had to be tiny or it would fill up the whole screen.
Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by captbaritone on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:39AM (#13579260)
It does! Winamp had a "double" mode, and I've reproduced it faithfully. Try clicking the tiny "D" to the left of the visualization area.
Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by bharani_m on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:32AM (#13577932)
This is wonderful! Thanks for making it.

Is this a wrapper around the browser's default audio API?

Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by captbaritone on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:43AM (#13579295)
Correct. You can see all the We Audio API stuff here: https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/blob/master/js/me...
Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by csense on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:33AM (#13590470)
This is awesome, thanks for making it!
Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by stuaxo on Monday February 06, 2017 @07:16PM (#13585736)
Awesome it works with skins, I dug out ArcticAmp skin + it looks fantastic.

Any plans to get the playlist to work ?

Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by captbaritone on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:13AM (#13605069)
I do! You can see the work in progress here: https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/#playlist

Much of he UI works, (lots of subtle problems solved, like window snapping, tiling of individial sprites from the sprite sheets, etc) but updating the media component to work with multiple files will probably require a non-trivial amount of work. If anyone wants to help out, let me know. Otherwise, slow and steady wins the race

Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by gri3v3r on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:38AM (#13577955)
Looks cool. Time travelling.
Re:Whatever happened to Winamp? by captbaritone on Monday February 06, 2017 @08:40AM (#13579278)
And it's built on Redux, so you can time travel in that way too! ;)

https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools