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[–] MIDItheKID 109 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times... Real good times.

[–] OopsOverbombing 68 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maaan, I had so many different skins for my Winamp player. Was such a great time to be on the internet. It was open and anonymous and had yet to be fully commercially exploited.

[–] Hule 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.

[–] Seraphim 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You could actually set it to change skin on every song in playlist. Great feature if you were skin hoarder like me.

For anyone wanting to get a nostalgia hit: Winamp Skin Museum

Edit: Spelling

[–] HangingFruit 7 points 5 months ago

Ah. This is great. It even plays the music

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

The best part was the commercially "exploited" parts were so woefully done. It was great seeing mega corporations stumbling to figure out how the internet worked, while the little guy has full control over it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

FYI there's a stand alone version of milkdrop but on crack called nest drop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

[–] b3an 2 points 5 months ago

This! 😵‍💫