/retro/ - Y2K

Even if I'll never find any use for these, I appreciate your efforts as a fellow archivist. Thank you anon.

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>>187 (OP) 
Just updated the skins collection. Screenshots of every single skin have been added and I uploaded a few default skins that were missed when I first put the collection together.

These are gorgeous, thank you!

goot catch. i can remember some of these, especially the green head theme. does this kind of customization even exist anymore in software?

>>254
>does this kind of customization even exist anymore in software?
No, not really. Unless you count old software that still runs today like Winamp classic.

>>187 (OP) 
A lot of these are from Windows ME right? I wish people still used these.

>>254
No, you nazi bigot pedo psycho, only Client Side Decorations and Web Interface are allowed.

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Another 8 skins have been added to the collection, mostly promotional skins for movies and games.

>>343
Thank you so much anon, really happy to see all these skins archived.

I never knew there were so many of these.

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>>343
>that HL2 skin
Goddamn that takes me back. I still think it looks baller.

This is probably a dumb question, but are these compatible with foobar?

>>382
I'm afraid not, which is a shame really since foobar is my favorite. Just run a VM with Windows XP or something and install the skins in it.

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OP here. It's been a while but I recently created a Neocities site for my WMP skins collection. Should be a lot easier to navigate than the archive.org link. https://wmpskinsarchive.neocities.org

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>>1357
The official New Super Mario Bros skin has been added after an anon on /g/ reminded me of its existence.

Missing post | No.987 | 03/27/2021 06:42:47

>>187 (OP) 
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>>343
Oh jeez I love these things.

I wish there was a Linux media player that supported these like there are at least two for old Winamp skins.

>>4118
VLC has similar theming capabilities, maybe they could be ported? https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

>>4118
>>4119
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmp/skin-creation-guide

They still have instructions on how to make WMP skins, so the format's pretty much available for anyone to read up on. 

I remember being like 11-12 and trying to make my own with Paint (and getting nowhere because I only understood maybe half of it). Now I want to make an MPD client that uses these skins, only thing is that I don't know what would be a good GUI toolkit for this.

>>4120
Looking at some of these skins, I don't think this is going to happen. They all seem to rely on Javascript, and I don't know if devs would be willing to throw a JS engine into their players just to get WMP skins to work.

At least I know why I gave up making my own skin way back when. It's because I couldn't be bothered to learn programming yet, not for another year or two.

>>4121
>They all seem to rely on Javascript
That explains some of the fancy widgets, you could probably still maintain most of their essence with recreations for other players though.

>>4120
>what would be a good GUI toolkit for this.
I would recommend SDL2, it's not exactly a "GUI toolkit" like Qt and GTK but it's probably the best fit for your project. SDL2 lets you create shaped windows and control rendering/input like you would when making a game or multimedia program, plus it's pretty lightweight and supports multiple platforms including Windows XP (!)

>>4121
>>4122
How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.

>>4123
>SDL2
Sounds good, I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can get it just to draw the basic skin at first. It'll just take some time for me to learn it.

>How important is the JS when rendering the skins? Just being able to map the play/pause/stop/etc buttons on each skin would be a good first step.
I don't think it's vital yet, there's specially-defined XML tags for basic playback controls (playbutton, pausebutton, etc) that don't use JS.

Does anyone know if its possible to retrieve the streaming radio list and station infomation from winamp/realplayer/wmp?

I want something like this for VLC. Not too many choices apparent so far.

Lol, google sucks now.