Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Wootz@lemmy.world 1 month agoActually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
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.
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)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
It was the thing in its time.
*crickets*
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.
itsralC@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Same