The best part of WinAmp by far was picking out a custom skin. This video compilation runs through skins made in 2001-2002 with the appropriate music to go along with each one.
This summer, WinAmp celebrated its 15th anniversary. I celebrated by eating a bag of Doritos while it play watching shapes along to Pink Floyd and intermittently saying "whoa". Unlike me, artists Silvio Lorusso (who also created the left-handed internet) and Adriano Vulpino created this video in memorandum.
Lorusso describes his appreciation for WinAmp:
WINAMP SKINPARTY is a tribute to a period in which musical experience on computers was much more visual and less standardized. At the same time it's a homage to those users that get their hands dirty and appropriate their softwares and interfaces.
Source: vimeo.com / via: silviolorusso.com
LINK: Complete list of the skin names and song selections
A few excellent skin choices:
Via: silviolorusso.com
