I'd love an Android app that is just the main WinAmp window in portrait mode on my phone, and has the same basic features (simple MP3 player basically, maybe try add support for podcasts and some streaming music). It'd be so perfect for my car. WinAmp for car audio, Google Maps for mapping. I know it's purely for the nostalgia kick and the stock audio players work fine, but... WinAmp!
Do many apps have support for custom skins? I've never heard of any of them doing that, but it seems like it would be an awesome feature to be able to customize the UI.
If someone made a music player app that could use existing Winamp skins that would be really cool. If nothing else you've get a lot of nostalgia installs. Also, do sites like Spotify and Pandora have APIs that allow other apps to integrate with their service? If you could integrate the Winamp playlist with different streaming services you would have a cool and useful music player. I don't even buy apps, but I would probably pay a couple bucks for something like that.
By skin do you mean purely colors or also positioning of items? I have a really hard time imagining now that would work for iOS/Android apps in terms of implementation. Colors are easy because you just pull then from a styles file but you'd need a really good abstraction for custom views
Audacious is a great music player that has support for Winamp 2 skins. I use it all the time to stream online radio stations. It's so nice to use a music player thats not trying to be iTunes.
When I minimized the "components" and put them side-by-side, I immediately had a flashback to high school LAN parties. Almost everyone had this sitting above their taskbar in always on-top mode.
Wouldn't running actual Winamp 2 be much better? It works with wine so you can run it in Linux and I guess if you needed support for newer formats a plugin can be made for them.
Agreed on running the real thing rather than a web version, but under Linux qmmp looks close enough to bring some memories as well and doesn't need wine. http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
Thanks. They are all related to using Winamp to play rather obscure formats (Flash video and Univox streams - I had to look up the latter - and mp4 in a RAR when the user does something).
In short, none related to how people use Winamp: to play music files and streams.
Be sure to try QMMP if you haven't already. It's an actively-developed WinAmp clone. I found that I still like manual m3u playlist management better than the dynamic or db-driven stuff.
