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). 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.

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.

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