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laserkaspar ,

Really enjoyed the ride, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

nonfuinoncuro ,

I miss foobar2k

ToaofTime ,

Did it go somewhere?

Deebster ,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Nope, it’s still great on Windows. Perhaps they went to Linux since it’s still Windows-only.

FiniteBanjo ,

Post the Flintstones image, you coward!

AgentGrimstone ,

This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.

andrewth09 ,

If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.

Cocodapuf ,

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.

camr_on ,
@camr_on@lemmy.world avatar

That’s really cool

grrgyle ,

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).

MonkderVierte ,

Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of .avs files

fileinfo.com/extension/avs

… is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).

Will try at some point.

ClipperDefiance ,
@ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world avatar

Qmmp can use them too.

FrostyCaveman ,

That was truly strange, awesome

admin , (edited )
@admin@lemmy.my-box.dev avatar

Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.

…

I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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?

LittleBorat2 ,

The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don’t remember the visuals

el_abuelo ,

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.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Screenshot

el_abuelo ,

So much nostalgia right now. I wish we could go back to those days!

jonkenator ,

Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!

Junkernaught ,

This threw me for a sec because I was like “no way was someone playing Total Annihilation and not listening to that incredible OST”.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Me and a friend used to love the menu background sound. Like a deep mechanical humming sound.

We used to call it “indust”. My friend looped it for an hour and recorded it to minidisc.

Maybe this is why I like dark ambient drone sounds so much even today…

Cocodapuf ,

Hell yeah!

Menschlicher_Fehler , (edited )
@Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org avatar

Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.

I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

You must be a l33t h4x0r!

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

Boom! Headshot!

Alphane_Moon ,
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Wootz ,

Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?

itsralC ,

I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.

Interstellar_1 OP ,
@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Same

Plopp ,

crickets

CommanderCloon ,

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)

LittleBorat2 ,

It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.

Alphane_Moon ,
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world avatar

It was the thing in its time.

LainTrain ,

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.

Mojave ,

Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge

Alphane_Moon ,
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.

I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.

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