Description
Do you miss the days of filling up your computer’s harddrive with MP3 files, burning CDs with your favorite party mixes, the glam and grunge fashion styles, waiting every week for the latest episodes of Friends and Sex and the City (sorry, no binging on streaming episodes), and all that came with the 90s? Do you wish the WordPress core blocks offered you more styles to match your interests? Then look no further, because this plugin transforms a bland audio block into a llama-riffic Winamp-stlyed audio block!
Disclaimer: Winamp and the Winamp logo are property of Nullsoft Inc. and its owner Radionomy Group (now defunct). This project also leverages the MIT-licensed Webamp player, many thanks to Jordan Eldredge for his efforts there.
Changing Player Skins
In order to select alternate player skins, browse the Winamp Skin Museum and find a preferred skin, copy the URL of the specific skin (e.g., https://skins.webamp.org/skin/bb0bf8064d108271afea419308dcb6ea/NES_Duck_Hunt.wsz/), and paste that URL in the Skin URL field in the Winamp Block Skin settings.
Screenshots
The Winamp player with the base, default skin. 
Winamp Block settings showing the Skin URL setting updated to an alternate Winamp skin. 
Winamp Milkdrop visualisations. 
Winamp player skin selector.
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Winamp Block A Winamp-styled audio block for all your retro music player needs.
Installation
- Install the plugin via the plugin installer, either by searching for it or uploading a ZIP file.
- Activate the plugin.
- Use a Winamp-styled audio player block on your site; what retro fun!
FAQ
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This is amazing, how can I help contribute to this plugin?
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Great question and I could not agree with you more! You can help contribute to this Winamp Block plugin on GitHub or to the Webamp project on GitHub.
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Ok this is making me nostalgic, how can I submit a new skin for the player?
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Details on how to create a new skin is available here. We recommend downloading the base Winamp skin, renaming the file extension from .WSZ to .ZIP, unzipping that file and inspecting all the bitmap and textfiles. Then use your favorite design program to craft a skin design, cut it up into the component bitmap parts, add your info to the relevant textfiles, then ZIP all that up and rename the extension to WSZ. Finally, upload your custom skin to the Winamp Skin Museum and once its accepted you’ll be able to reference it within the Winamp Block’s Skin settings. Good luck!
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Retro Winamp Block” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
1.3.0 — 2023-04-18
- Added: E2E tests using Cypress (props @vikrampm1, @barneyjeffries, @iamdharmesh, @cadic) via #87.
- Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version from 6.1 to 6.2 (props @jayedul, @peterwilsoncc) via #92
- Changed: Support Level from
ActivetoStable(props @jeffpaul, @Sidsector9) via #94. - Security: Bump
simple-gitfrom3.15.1to3.16.0(props @Sidsector9) via #82. - Security: Bump
http-cache-semanticsfrom4.1.0to4.1.1(props @peterwilsoncc) via #85. - Security: Bump
@sideway/formulafrom3.0.0to3.0.1(props @faisal-alvi) via #86. - Security: Bump
webpackfrom5.73.0to5.76.2(props @faisal-alvi) via #90.
1.2.0 — 2023-01-25
Note that this release changes the minimum PHP version to from 5.6 to 7.4.
- Added: Ability to change player skin from predefined list of skins with an option for custom skin input (props @zamanq, @Sidsector9 via #60).
- Added: Support for Milkdrop visualisations (props @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh, @jeffpaul, @iansvo via #67).
- Added: Pre-release build ZIP Github Action workflow (props @vikrampm1, @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh via #80).
- Changed: Bump minimum PHP version from 5.6 to 7.4 (props @Sidsector9, @cadic via #66).
- Changed: Bump minimum Node version from 12 to 16 (props @Sidsector9, @cadic via #66).
- Changed: Bump minimum Composer version to 2 (props @Sidsector9, @cadic via #66).
- Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version to 6.1 (@jayedul, @dkotter via #72).
- Fixed: Updated initialTracks to include metaData to prevent a LockedStream console error (props @iansvo, @ajmaurya99, @Sidsector9, @cadic via #71).
- Fixed: Page jank and scrolling as the Webamp widget loads (props @iansvo, @cadic, @peterwilsoncc, @Sidsector9, @iamdharmesh via #56, #78).
- Security: Bump
terserfrom 5.14.1 to 5.14.2 (props @jeffpaul via #58). - Security: Bump
momentfrom 2.29.3 to 2.29.4 (props @jeffpaul via #58). - Security: Bump
moment-timezonefrom 0.5.34 to 0.5.37 (props @jeffpaul via #58). - Security: Bump
markdown-itfrom 12.0.4 to 12.3.2 (props @faisal-alvi via #63). - Security: Bump
@wordpress/scriptsfrom 19.2.4 to 24.3.0 (props @faisal-alvi via #63). - Security: Bump
gotfrom 10.7.0 to 11.8.5 (props @faisal-alvi via #62). - Security: Bump
@wordpress/envfrom 4.9.0 to 5.4.0 (props @faisal-alvi via #62). - Security: Bump
loader-utilsfrom 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 (props @Sidsector9 via #70). - Security: Bump
simple-gitfrom 3.14.1 to 3.16.0 (props @jeffpaul via #73, #82). - Security: Bump
json5from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 (props @peterwilsoncc via #76).
1.1.0 — 2021-06-21
Note that this release changes the minimum WordPress version to 5.8 and minimum PHP version to 5.6.
- Added: PHP 8 compatibility and GitHub Action workflow (props @Sidsector9, @faisal-alvi, @jeffpaul via #39).
- Added: Dependency security scanning (props @jeffpaul, @peterwilsoncc via #48).
- Added: PHPCS ruleset (props @peterwilsoncc, @iamdharmesh via #53).
- Changed: Bump WordPress version “tested up to” 6.0 (props @jeffpaul, @sudip-10up, @peterwilsoncc, @dinhtungdu, @vikrampm1 via #35, #51, #52.
- Security: Bump
follow-redirectsfrom 1.14.5 to 1.14.8 (props @dependabot via #36). - Security: Bump
nanoidfrom 3.1.30 to 3.3.1 (props @dependabot via #37). - Security: Bump
minimistfrom 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 (props @dependabot via #41). - Security: Bump
ansi-regexfrom 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 (props @dependabot via #42). - Security: Bump
momentfrom 2.29.1 to 2.29.2 (props @dependabot via #43). - Security: Bump
asyncfrom 2.6.3 to 2.6.4 (props @dependabot via #49).
1.0.1 — 2021-12-08
- Changed: Documentation and linting updates (props @dkotter, @mitogh, @jeffpaul).
- Fixed: WordPress 5.9 compatibility to ensure
useInnerBlocksPropsimport works and does not crash the block when selecting audio files (props @fabiankaegy, @helen). - Fixed:
block.jsonerrors limiting appearance in Block Directory (props @jeffpaul, @fabiankaegy).
1.0.0 — 2021-11-18
- Initial release of the Winamp Block plugin. 🎉