A nice trip down memory lane. Older HN readers (like myself) will surely recognize and remember many of these skins, and we all know what comes after skins… MilkDrop :-) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop</a>
Author here, thanks for (re)posting!<p>Happy to answer any questions.<p>My GtiHub repo for Webamp (the interactive, in-browser Winamp clone) can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp</a>
I've never felt nostalgia from looking at old games, photos, tech I used to own or anything that I can remember. This is a first. Still miss winamp tbh...
Found Woodamp 2 there, probably the most pleasant Winamp skin that I've seen:<p><a href="https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ffe4cbcdc31388ed51f94d3b4fd8c127/Wood%20Amp%202.zip/" rel="nofollow">https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ffe4cbcdc31388ed51f94d3b4fd8c1...</a>
Let's just agree that Pip-Boy 2000 / Vault-Tec are the best ones: they're stylish <i>and</i> usable. Some hi-tec designs, e.g. ‘Alpine’ or ‘Pioneer’ ones, are very neat, but somehow overly-clean looks felt jarring and empty on Winamp.
Many skins are just picture backgrounds. I stayed with the original ones, as they felt more coherent.<p>But there are rarities like <a href="https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d9e/Fallout_Pip-Boy_3000_Green_v4.wsz/" rel="nofollow">https://skins.webamp.org/skin/06312f93d7b9499dc5dd0176133d6d...</a><p>It feels well designed as it's ready to read, and on theme.<p>Before that: Searches 'skin museum', very interesting but upsetting images found. Better to click the link in HN. (Yes, I often look for the links myself too see what other things I find on the topic)
I recall QMMP on Linux (<a href="http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/</a>) supports WinAmp 2x skins.<p>Going to try a few of these on my Linux box after work!
Very cool! the whole thing could use some zooming in, everything looks very small it todays high DPI displays. Its OK to be a bit pixealted, We've looked at these on 800x600 CRT monitors :)
Meh. On Winamp and anime skins, once I got mp3blaster under Linux and tankoubon collections at MLDonkey/aMule, I stopped caring about appearance and reading all the mangas for true instead of having to wait for the TV schedule.<p>I had no CBR reader for Linux back in the day, but a script could do the tring well.<p>Altough Milkdrop was fun under XMMS.
I always preferred k-jofol for its diverse and weirdly shaped skins - well, until someone released a plug-in for XMMS that allowed you to use k-jofol skins for it, some of which were absolutely wild.
I made a clone in Observable in almost exactly 2 hours. Feel free to fork it and play around! You'll need to spin up a CORS proxy if you fork it, but it's otherwise straightforward from there. Feel free to leave comments here or on the notebook if you have questions!<p><a href="https://observablehq.com/@iz/winamp" rel="nofollow">https://observablehq.com/@iz/winamp</a>