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Spotify, compared to Winamp, seems passive. There was also something about having to sort through files and dig up album art that encouraged a sort of engagement with music that feels, to me, very different to todayРІР‚в„ўs streaming model. I could customize Winamp skins, sure, but also my whole desktop, down to my extremely carefully collated music collection. Personally, they remind me of an era when it felt like I had more control over my computer. This is the weird thing about Winamp skins, though: they donРІР‚в„ўt just capture a visual aesthetic, but a mode of interaction with technology. But perhaps that would have been too much for todayРІР‚в„ўs modern, sleek UIs to handle. The only disappointment is that the format of the museum doesnРІР‚в„ўt lend itself to supporting the stranger skins that transformed the size and shape of WinampРІР‚в„ўs various elements. On display, you can see anime skins, gaming skins, communist skins, sci-fi skins, skins dedicated to particular artists, and a cornucopia of indescribable vibes in between. It has all of the artistic value of a national art gallery, but it focuses in on late-РІР‚в„ў90s / early-РІР‚в„ў00s aesthetics with enough raw energy to bring back nР“С metal. The taste on display in the Winamp Skin Museum is, in a word, stunning. On Twitter, Eldredge notes heРІР‚в„ўs still taking collections for the project if you have any skins you want to donate, and he describes the collection as capturing РІР‚Сљan iconic moment in internet art history.РІР‚Сњ

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The skins were previously collected on the Internet Archive but assembled into this new accessible format by Facebook engineer Jordan Eldredge.

Infinite scroll through 65k Winamp skins with instant search and in-browser interactive preview /JbCbtiFAw2- Jordan Eldredge September 3, 2020 Finally ready to share the Winamp Skin Museum