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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 years ago

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

jordaneldredge.com

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 years ago
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I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    It’s been a year later and just discovered this … great read and great find! Thanks for sharing

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      You’re welcome! I have no idea how I stumbled across it now, haha.

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    The Winamp Skin archive he built was a nostalgia trip I needed:

    https://skins.webamp.org/

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Did I hear that winamp has been open sourced?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      It was made source-available.

      • Amanda@aggregatet.org
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        I thought it will be released but it isn’t released yet right?

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          Oh, so it’s not even fake open source. It’s promised to be fake open source.

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            If you sign up with your email address, yep!

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    Cool dive, and I agree that winamp is rad.

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