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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
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[–] OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.

[–] Seraphim@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You could actually set it to change skin on every song in playlist. Great feature if you were skin hoarder like me.

For anyone wanting to get a nostalgia hit: Winamp Skin Museum

Edit: Spelling

[–] HangingFruit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Ah. This is great. It even plays the music

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

The best part was the commercially "exploited" parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.