Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Submitted 3 months ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/
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Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
el_abuelo@programming.dev 3 months ago
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp…something about kicking unsuspecting animals in the ass.
jonkenator@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
This threw me for a sec because I was like “no way was someone playing Total Annihilation and not listening to that incredible OST”.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Me and a friend used to love the menu background sound. Like a deep mechanical humming sound.
We used to call it “indust”. My friend looped it for an hour and recorded it to minidisc.
Maybe this is why I like dark ambient drone sounds so much even today…
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hell yeah!
LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don’t remember the visuals
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Wootz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
itsralC@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 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.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
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)
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
*crickets*
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 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.
Mojave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there’s nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.
mr_satan@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Why use an app when there’s a web site? In case of Wikipedia I fail to see any functional benefit for an app.
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yes that works, and you can also use something like URLCheck and just drop that path
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a “KOOL” tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 3 months ago
Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.
I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I download back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
You must be a l33t h4x0r!
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Boom! Headshot!
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 months ago
Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Post the Flintstones image, you coward!
andrewth09@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That was truly strange, awesome
josefo@leminal.space 3 months ago
what a great article
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there’s always treasure to be found.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfiles… is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world 3 months ago
camr_on@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s really cool
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I miss foobar2k
ToaofTime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Did it go somewhere?
Deebster@programming.dev 3 months ago
Nope, it’s still great on Windows. Perhaps they went to Linux since it’s still Windows-only.
laserkaspar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Really enjoyed the ride, very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 months ago
An AMA with the kid whose dad got him a custom winamp skin would be neat.
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
nice findings!
superkret@feddit.org 3 months ago
This is the Internet I miss!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What? You don’t like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???
You don’t LOVE that?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Please accept the cookie policy before any of that stuff…
whostosay@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Name verified
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It’s all just links to subscription based stock image sites.
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K…
LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Onboarding the general population was such a historic mistake
kalpol@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.