Enables winamp to play archived audio files enables winamp to play archived audio files -should work with any command line driven archiver-although it was made for use with compressed mod's, since there's no sense in compressing filetypes like mp3, you can archive any audio-filetype supported by the other input-plugins. Winamp may seem to have to gone by the wayside in terms of technical advancement as a media player but this is not the case at all. Although it’s 21 years old it still commands a well-regarded fanbase and a big reason for this is the huge range of free and paid for plug-ins that are available.
Ffmpeg Archive
Introduction
Generally speaking, in order to play a module you're going to need a tool to play it in. Most commercial media players do not support module formats (e.g. iTunes), and the ones that do that are in widespread use as MP3/OGG and other streaming formats generally don't do a very good job on their own (e.g. Winamp)... This is where this list may come in handy.
It's important to note that 100% module replay accuracy is not guaranteed by the majority of players.
Why?
- Lack of standardization. For example, there is a multitude of editors for the classic MOD format, each of them with their own effect implementations and quirks.
- Poorly written code, well.. it's going to happen.
- Implementation of routines without taking into consideration the flaws that were present in the original module composition tools. These flaws were sometimes inventively abused by the musicians to create new and interesting sounds. Lack of support for these bugs means some modules break, fail, or just sound wrong.
Winamp Archive
So, here is a simple selection of a few players that have been tested by the community. It is in no way a complete list, but at least a good starting point.
WE HAVE ONE SIMPLE REQUEST…. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LLAMA.
Clicking on the Llama will release Webamp, a javascript-based player that mimics, down to individual strangeness and bugs, the operations of the once dominant Winamp, a media player considered to be one of the classic software creations of the 1990s.
To help you avoid this llama, we’ll tell you it’s in the upper right corner of any Internet Archive item that has a music player in it. This means the Grateful Dead recordings, radio airchecks, network record labels like monotonik, and all manner of podcasts now have the capability to be turned into a Winamp-like player that becomes your new default.
(If, by mistake, you click on the Llama, clicking on it again will turn off the Webamp player and restore the default player.)
This all got started because of the skins.
As part of our celebration of all things Internet, the Archive now has a large collection of Winamp Skins, which were artistic re-imaginings of the Winamp interface, that allowed all sorts of neat creative works on what could have been a basic media player. These “skins” were contributed to over the years (and new ones are still created!) and now number in the thousands. In the collection you’ll see examples of superheroes, video games, surreal images and a pretty wide array of pop stars and celebrities.
We have added over 5,000 skins (with many more coming), and then someone had the bright idea to make the Webamp player work within the Internet Archive to show off these skins, and here we are.
Winamp 2 Skins
Thanks to Jordan Eldredge and the Webamp programming community for this new and strange periscope into the 1990s internet past.