The Winamp era (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam.

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Featuring:

• Jordan Eldredge – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Webamp.org
• The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
• Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum
• The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
• Winamp Skin Museum
• AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video) - YouTube
• Tom Waits - “Alice” - YouTube
• A 1979 Tom Waits interview : r/OldSchoolCool
• Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Led Zeppelin IV - Wikipedia
• Jain - Makeba (Official Video) - YouTube
• One Jump Ahead - YouTube
• Justin Frankel - Wikipedia
• All Apologies - YouTube

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Chapter

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Paragon (00:00:43)

https://www.useparagon.com/changelog

3. Alarm clocks & Friends (00:04:21)

4. Still hacking on Winamp (00:04:54)

https://webamp.org

5. Winamp nostalgia (00:08:04)

6. Sooo many Skins (00:09:33)

7. The anatomy of a Skin (00:11:07)

8. Napster changed everything (00:14:55)

9. Favorite albums (00:18:57)

10. Welcome to "The Voice" (00:24:23)

11. When Napster went away (00:28:29)

12. Music discovery today (00:30:12)

13. The medium is the message (00:38:33)

14. Sponsor: 1Password (00:42:02)

https://1password.com/changelogpod

15. Early exposures (00:45:08)

16. The year of Napster (00:49:29)

17. Back to Winamp (00:52:50)

18. Skin archeology (00:54:27)

19. Wicked_Ways.wsz (00:55:52)

20. What's the point? (00:57:12)

21. Sigs or calling cards? (01:02:12)

22. Standing around the hoop.jpg (01:06:04)

23. ellie.bmp (01:07:48)

24. New life for these files (01:09:27)

25. cool.mp3 (01:10:05)

26. Old men yell at clouds (01:11:44)

27. Sponsor: Unblocked (01:12:50)

https://getunblocked.com

28. Labels need social media (01:15:54)

29. Who needs a label today? (01:19:26)

30. Snoop at the Olympics (01:27:33)

31. Jordan is transcendent (01:31:57)

32. The Skin Museum (01:34:55)

https://skins.webamp.org/

33. Supporting his efforts (01:35:39)

34. Bye, friends (01:37:03)

35. Coming up next (01:38:23)