Winamp Skin Museum

Re:Winamp Skin Museum by captbaritone on Thursday July 02, 2026 @11:35AM (#48763181)

Oh! Author of the project here, but not op. Happy to answer any questions.

The code for the Museum as well as the Webamp player that powers the interactive preview can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

You can also find a blog post I wrote about the project here: https://jordaneldredge.com/winamp-skin-musuem/

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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by ntoskrnl_exe on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:04PM (#48763546)

I have a question: It seems that all the preview PNGs and the WSZ files themselves are fetched from hxxp://webampskins.org. When I go to that website directly, I get redirected to some shady looking website pushing crypto and gambling. Can you give me some background about this?

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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by captbaritone on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:15PM (#48763690)

Interesting! I've only ever actively used subdomains of webampskins.org, however during early testing I set a hard coded IPV4 IP as the A name for the root domain. Now it looks like that IP has been handed off to someone else who is hosting a spammy site.

Thanks for flagging, I removed that A name record.

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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by ntoskrnl_exe on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:29PM (#48763866)

No problem, glad that got sorted out :)

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