I made a PCB for the progress bar using 25 RGB LEDS, which covers about 5.5 inches along just for testing purposes. I ordered long time ago about 100 RGB addressable LEDS ( APA102) in small package (SMD) and I wondered if they could be used to "SIMULATE" position and movement, and also take advantage of they ARE RGB LEDS!!! The BIG PROBLEM, but really BIG PROBLEM, are those 80's look like SLIDERS that Winamp uses everywhere (for volume, balance, EQ and so on), because doing a mechanical version of them would be expensive, bulky and noisy, but also I won't be able to remote control this kind of mechanical sliders without ataching them some sort of motor. a BIG GREEN Screen will be used, and I have this one (5.5 Inches), which I used to build this retro-game-clock before and posted here on Hackaday. I always think about the Winamp main screen, and I believe it's so small.I understand that when Winamp was made, the software just couldn't consume many resources (my first Winamp ran on a Intel pentium mx).
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#Minimal space winamp skins skin
So, I started over again, rescuing some ideas and code, but keeping in mind about creating my own real life Winamp.įirst, I started from a "modern" skin, which preserves the main features of Winamp, and I choosed Quinto Black CT and blended this skin with my own skin created years ago. In fact, I created a music audio player inspired on the Winamp's main dock some years ago ( You can see here) but obviously it doesn't look like Winamp, since it lack off some of the features mentioned above.
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#Minimal space winamp skins how to
Of course, one thing is a render and another is how to practically build the whole thing.įirst off all, we had to abstract which features make a Winamp to be Winamp, and what we found was this:ġ.- The main dock ALWAYS has 5 buttons (gray color), used to change functions, but 3 of them are quite redundant: PLAY PAUSE and STOP.Ģ.- There are secondary buttons, for EQ, PLAYLIST, SHUFFLE and REPEAT.ģ.- It MUST HAVE and audio spectrum analyzer which is one of the coolest features about Winamp.Ĥ.- It MUST HAVE a text bar, who shows the current music track information.ĥ.- The MAIN COLOR MUST BE GREEN (monochromatic): This feature had always been since the first version and brings this so RETRO feel.Ħ.- It MUST have a progress reproduction bar, which indicates the song time progression.ħ.- All the sliders looks like 80's audio hardware sliders (but they are really difficult to implement). We searched the web and found many renders about how a REAL Winamp should be and look like, but none of those ideas were made for real.