[dba-Tech] Winamp in JavaScrip

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

This project is more like a proof-of-concept as it could never be commercially viable. Clients inter-face with browser based application rather than desktop type programs, these days, migrating an old desktop program to browser app is just an example of how far we have moved towards full functionality within our browsers.

I will probably download the app and pull it apart and see how it works. It would be nice to have a adaptable (fit to any video real-estate) version of a music player. The Winamp app is not my choice of a music player front end either...maybe a nice clean Google/Microsoft modern design?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 11:18:21 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Winamp in JavaScrip

Hi Jim

Sorry to say, but his efforts have turned into an excellent example of the horror of skeuomorphism.

The rendering sets the interface so tiny on a normal desktop that it is close to be inoperable, but - if you can manage and are a brave person not afraid of the wilderness - click top-left on the system icon (a tiny sinus wave) and select the skins one by one. 

After a few, you will probably shut this piece down once and forever. If you continue, be warned: It will take some minutes to regain appetite. But be strong - after a while you'll be able to pick a strong cup of coffee and an Oreo - well deserved, you did it.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Peter Brawley
Sendt: 13. februar 2018 06:31
Til: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Winamp in JavaScrip

On 2/12/2018 23:14, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> Nothing really, except that the entire application is now written in easy to edit JavaScript. This allows it to be actually run from/on a desktop, from a server, across a network, across the internet, run via any modern browser, from any website and then it can be edited to look and act like anything a host/developer would want.
>
> The creator of this project just decided that, for nostalgia sake, the 
> app should look and act like the old Winapp program. :-)

Mebbe somebody will build a Studebaker on a 3D printer :-).

PB

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> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter brawley" brawley at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 12:44:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Winamp in JavaScrip
>
> On 2/12/2018 13:12, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Truly a blast from past.
>>
>> Now you can install Wimamp on your web pages with all the features or just run it on your computer. It will run on all platforms and on all browsers but it has an aversion to the IE browser (like everything else does):
>>
>> https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/
>>
>> You can download the app/source code/help via GitHub:
>>
>> https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js
> What would make it preferable to VideoLan?
>
> P
>
>
>> Jim 

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