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'Skins for older desktop media players' appreciation
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Yeah, I remember for the non-apple Mac folks, this was the way you would put music onto your ipod from a Windows machine. Kind of crazy how ubiquitous this media player came so quickly because of the Apple tie in. Was there any other big reason this player became popular? I just remember seeing that program everywhere right around 2002.I really liked MusicMatch Jukebox default skin back in the day. Hell, I even used it before the complete brand redesign.
I think I might've seen it for the first time at my cousins' house, back in 1999/2000. Before the iPad (damn, that's old)
It looked like this (the OG logo, before the silver/blue redesign) though I used a graphite/grey skin instead of this one:
I loved them most of the time, but like 70% were from edgelords who got good reading photoshop filter tutorials. 🤣
mmkay thats cool
TRhis was my WinAMP skin through like all of high school
mmkay thats cool
Man this future sucks. I want the one where Winamp won and replaced windows as the OS of choice.
EVERYTHING IS AN MP3!
ALL LLAMAS ASSES WHIPPED.
EVERYTHING IS AN MP3!
ALL LLAMAS ASSES WHIPPED.
I remember making my own (Escaflowne) skins for winamp. I lost way, way too much time on that lol
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Damn haven't heard of that in a while. Neowin days.
BORING!
God this takes me back to college, my buddy I shared an apartment with was way ahead of anyone on this stuff, we had a PC in the living room just loaded with mp3s from Napster and one of these wild winamp skins, ran it through an amp to speakers and it was like a jukebox before anyone was doing media servers. We'd have crazy parties where people could play anything they wanted and minds were blown.
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Woah, that is completely wild! Haven't seen that one before! I got to look into that version. Like I said, 2001 or 2002 was the first year I saw Music Match. Before that, everyone mainly used winamp, at least on windows.I think I might've seen it for the first time at my cousins' house, back in 1999/2000. Before the iPad (damn, that's old)
It looked like this (the OG logo, before the silver/blue redesign) though I used a graphite/grey skin instead of this one:
Wait VLC supports Winamp skins? Why haven't I heard about that before?Wow. I remember using that HL2 skin. I looked up WSZ files on my computer to see skins I used back when I used winamp and just learned VLC straight up supports winamp skins, though looks like ones that are just the old style
Around the same time I used some of these skins I also had these little dicks running around my screen
There was also a little animated orange desktop buddy, but I can't find him.
Hah! I had this too. Was hilarious how they interacted with each other.
itunes didn't even exist when winamp was popular. It was the best music player to play all your (most likely pirated) music.
If I recall correctly there was a point where ripping and tagging was easiest in it.
I'm wildly nostalgic for this era while simultaneously disgusted at these overly cluttered, shiny, garish abominations.
ahh the 2000's
ahh the 2000's
I still rock this Panzer Dragoon Saga-themed one on occasion:
EDIT: Just checked and it's still available for download from PD Legacy, for those who want it :D
EDIT: Just checked and it's still available for download from PD Legacy, for those who want it :D
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This was probably the one I used the most as well. People were really creative back then.I rocked that one! This one, too:
Because we started caring about electricity and the life of our screens, most monitors are set to go to sleep after x minutes of inactivity as is Windows itself, to set up a visualizer you'd have to turn all those features off. Not that that's hard to do but I honestly think moving away from visualizers was a good thing for most people.
I don't know why these skins give me so much nostalgia, not even video games do this to me. Anyway this one was my favorite.
I ditched Winamp for Quintessential Player since it allowed for better song queuing at the time -- could start a playlist, queue up a random ass song, have it play next, and have the playlist resume -- before anyone else caught on. Shit, that's something that a lot of music player programs on phones or on the desktop still lack! Then after 4.1 the program went to shit and I stuck with it until I unfortunately migrated to iTunes, and it's where I've been ever since because it's holding my song metadata hostage and I don't feel like redoing it.
Took forever to find, but here's the skin I used, too.
Used that and only that for years; had no idea until today that there was a Winamp variant. I might have to migrate back to Winamp.
Took forever to find, but here's the skin I used, too.
Used that and only that for years; had no idea until today that there was a Winamp variant. I might have to migrate back to Winamp.
LGR had a really good video on Kai Krause who single handedly influenced the visual design style of this era.
My Windows basically still looked like Windows 98 all the way through XP to Windows 7 because I couldn't stand those gaudy and needlessly animated GUIs. Looks like I can't customize Windows to look like that any more with 10, although the default theme is inoffensive enough now at least.
My Windows basically still looked like Windows 98 all the way through XP to Windows 7 because I couldn't stand those gaudy and needlessly animated GUIs. Looks like I can't customize Windows to look like that any more with 10, although the default theme is inoffensive enough now at least.
If you wanna talk themes though you can't forget the era of alternative Windows shells like Litestep.
Here's some themes https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/litestep
Here's some themes https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/litestep