Very interesting article!
Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp…something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.
So much nostalgia right now. I wish we could go back to those days!
Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!
Hell yeah!
The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don’t remember the visuals
This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can’t imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Same
I’m under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it’s some music software from the skins’ pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven’t googled anything yet)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
It was the thing in its time.
*crickets*
27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they’re essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they’re not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.
How far off am I?
Mind, I’m far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.
Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn’t work and poked into the files to see what was in there.
Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn’t work.
Idk maybe it’s because I’m not American so we didn’t have the latest tech at all times, but I’m in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don’t mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.
I’m 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I’m pretty familiar
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.
What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a “KOOL” tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there’s nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.
There’s a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.
Try it. It’s great.
How much time do you spend on Wikipedia?
My man, I think I have over a hundred tabs and saved wikipedia articles alone that I always refer to when needed. The app works great for me
I would assume, and hope, it works really well for such usage. I only tend to end up on Wikipedia a couple of times a week, and 95% of that is on my desktop to have a quick look at something I won’t be getting back to ever again.
Then the app is not for you. 😊
Time? Pff, no clue. But I look things up all the time and don’t have time to finish articles the first time round, ever (two kids under six).
So it’s great to have and get back to articles.
Yes that works, and you can also use something like URLCheck and just drop that path
What is that, an extension?
That was truly strange, awesome
Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfileshttps://fileinfo.com/extension/avs
… is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.
This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there’s always treasure to be found.
I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).
Will try at some point.
Qmmp can use them too.
That’s really cool
Really enjoyed the ride, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I miss foobar2k
nice findings!
