Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

Jordan Eldredge, the author, has done some amazing WinAmp-related projects over the years, including WebAmp (a web-based, from-scratch reimplementation of much of WinAmp) and a WASM engine for WinAmp-style music visualisation.<p>His project page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordaneldredge.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jordaneldredge.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;</a>

I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making&#x2F;releasing skins for any&#x2F;every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications).<p>To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount of customisation my Linux theming gives me.<p>I feel like a huge reason the indie web died off was OSes and programs limiting user customisation which was a gateway drug for many. MySpace themes would get people learning html&#x2F;css. Winamp skins got people learning photoshop&#x2F;graphics. mIRC scripting taught people basic coding. OS customising had all of it. Now you just shut up and use it as they dictate.

I’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams

I loved reading this. I was transported back to being 13 (27 years ago).

I remember “Sovereign Sect” as having something to do with skateboard(apparel)[1]. Not totally sure what or how.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thrashermagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;the-regrouping-of-the-sovereign-sect&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thrashermagazine.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;the-regro...</a>

I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.

It really does whip the llama&#x27;s ass.

What a fabulous find.<p>It&#x27;s really neat to find something that I grew up with like Winamp skins become a subject of anthropological&#x2F;historical study.<p>It&#x27;s gonna be neat&#x2F;kinda creepy to see how much of this sort of application of investigative techniques can turn up stuff from my younger years that I ever could have thought would still exist.

It&#x27;s great seeing all the skins<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skins.webamp.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skins.webamp.org&#x2F;</a>

Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?

I bet the worm game was written in Turing and one of the guys in the photo did it in high-school.<p>It was what I did in a class in high-school and it instantly reminded me of that.

I thought “corrupt Winamp skin” means it&#x27;s infested with digital parasites feeding on the RGB values of the pixels, making them look like rusty metal or rotting flesh. But this isn&#x27;t bad either.

Bob&#x27;s car is from Greenock, Scotland (via geospy.ai)

fun easter egg, software became too serious nowadays

My favorite Winamp skin was a <i>Jimmy Eat World</i> skin for their album <i>Bleed American</i> (later [renamed][1]).<p>Sadly, I haven’t been able to find it on any of the archives. Does anyone remember this one?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bleed_American" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bleed_American</a>

If you need to decrypt old zip file this tool is amazing if you know couple of characters in the archive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimci86&#x2F;bkcrack">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kimci86&#x2F;bkcrack</a>

I went to listen to the songs featured in the playlist screenshot from resubmitted.2003_rsx.wsz file. From the Youtube comments I figured a lot of people also did.

Love this stuff - so weird and obscure. The Acura skin is cracking me up. I&#x27;m listening to OP&#x27;s playlist now

Looks like a lot of people thought that if you place a single image file in the zip, you&#x27;ll get a skin

This site make want to install winamp again. And try skins. Even if I dont listen music from local files anymore.

Anything similar to winamp for macos? Better if open source

I&#x27;ve always love WinAmp due to the simple reason that it is keyboard friendly. For example, the 5 buttons for Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next map to zxcvb. Simple and fun. Operations like searching for and queuing up files to play are lightning fast compared to Spotify, YT Music, et al. Also, I absolutely detest how YT Music keeps A&#x2F;B testing ALL THE TIME, changing the location of things around. Ultimately, a website is never in your control.

Was the internet better back then or am I just old?