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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Very interesting article!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It was the thing in its time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

*crickets*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they're essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they're not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.

How far off am I?

Mind, I'm far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I'm pretty familiar

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Wasn't implying it was hidden knowledge.

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