Its 2000s and you've got your friend over to show them your collection of Windows Media Player skins...
"Here's a llama there's a llama and another little llama....."
Some of us still are.
Yeah, all I could think even watching this was that I was just using the basic ass Winamp default and it was all I needed. Though I would later move to Windows Media Classic.
They had some really nice visual plugins. Like Milkdrop. Nothing better since. Unless someone wants to share.
There is an app on Microsoft store called eye tune. It can even be set up to run the old winamp visualizations. It will react to any sound playing out of your default audio device..pretty decent. But I still like(d) my winamp visualizations more. But I have a lot of winamp visualizations imported into it.
Can't pull up anything, do you have a link? I have tried apps like that before but they sucked.
Sorry, I guess it is under projectM now on the Microsoft store. Like I said, it's not the greatest but it works. Mess with the settings. I can't remember now how I put old winamp visualizations into it but you can. And they don't all work right but many of them do. I know you have to enable experimental presets in the apps options at least and of course, get your winamp visualizations.
This app also has a GitHub page.
It's compatible with milkdrop visualizations to be exact. Which were also used in winamp.
Kodi with the Shadertoy plugin.
WINAMPPPP!!!
WINAMP!
I still am but I used to, too.
Winamp skins?
Windows Media player was trash, all the cool kids were using Winamp.
Came here for the Winamp
Oh man I miss those days of fun creative customizations. There’s nothing like this anymore.
LCARS
It’s bittersweet to realise that most of our memories are of a world that no longer exists.
A few months ago I found my high school hard drive. I booted it up, and it was like a time capsule from 2005-2009.
Win xp with xfire, ventrillo, aim (complete with all of my aim logs), warcraft II and warcraft III the frozen throne. Starcraft BW, Diablo II, CS 1.6, DoD 1.3, Age of Empires II, etc etc.
It made me super depressed, most of the services no longer worked.
It exists, its just not the in the zeitgeists of today and may return in ways you never expected.
I used Winamp the most.
Peak internet was AIM and winamp
ICQ baby! I still have my number memorized!
Uh oh
Italito mailito
Shout out to my boys at badassbuddy.com!
Truth
Everybody did.
I miss the media player skin culture
Winamp: it really whips the llama’s ass
Oh shit - that brings back memories.
GTA San Andreas in the corner.. those were the days..
But Winamp was superior in every .. single .. way :D
HL2 one had me 'almost' use it instead of winamp
:') this brings back more memories than I can handle at the moment....
This felt like peak technology in 2001
Ahhh yes, Back in the Future....
Good times
It was a simpler time. It was a really good time.
My favorite memories as a kid are playing StarCraft or Diablo II with winamp playing shitty punk music in the background on summer break.
Windows XP was great to use when it wasn't infected by umpteen malwares and viruses.
Was going to say changing the skin was a whole process
K-Jöfol, anyone? 🎶
There's a guy on deviantart that turned the older Windows Media Player into skins. It even got live radio stations and they work on any OS even Windows 11. It's worth checking it out if you want to experience the nostalgia
What’s this banger called again?
Robert Miles - Children
I wish Spotify would do this for its app
That Alienware skin is boss!
*Rest in peace, Robert Miles.🙏
What is this song? It's right on the tip of my tongue!
Children By Robert Miles
It was like, "hey we had awesome cool things, life is awesome", then society collectively decided, "hey, why don't we just make everything bland and boring instead". And now everything looks like a depressed middle aged adult, from media players, website design, to the local McDonalds.
So cool, why dont we have these any more?
I'm STILL looking for this badass Perfect Cell Theme from DBZ remix I used to listen to on that green alien head themed player...
My friend would be There for three days with the loading times back then, this wasn't helped by the fact I unwillingly would of downloaded countless bloat softwares.
Always had MMD3 skin for Winamp (beeeeeeeee)
But wait. Why am I just finding out that this is a thing
Hardcore Winamp user was I
I certainly remember all the skins available for WMP and Winamp (which was my player of choice) but I almost always stuck with the default ones because they were actually usable. Most of the skins you'd find looked really cool but were mostly insufferably annoying to actually use.
Sonique had the best skins!!
That's a weird way to spell Winamp plugins, but yes!
WinAMP.
Enuf said.
My oldest son used to sit in my lap and listen to pink Floyd with me. Great times
this gives me feelings i cannot describe...
Oh man that alienware skin brings back so many memories and a time when Alienware was king!
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Back when tech had soul
That’s Winamp, not WMP
Ah, Children was my favorite song.
They still look really cool
And vlc player was my go to for playing torrented videos that weren't .mpeg
Honestly, can we make a time machine dudes and dudettes? I miss those days so much. 90 -2010 was fire. Now we are on fire. I miss the simpler days so much.
Winamp... It kicks the llamas ass....
this could so easily have been my recording lol
Except the song playing was 90s…
Back in the 00's, I was STILL whipping the Llama's ass!