WinAmp recreated inside Spotify at SF Music Hack Day
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13 February 12 by Duncan Geere- Tweet
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Remember WinAmp? The tiny music player that really whips the llama's ass? Well, it's back. In Spotify.
German Soundcloud engineer Robb Böhnke has managed to recreate the software in a Spotify app, complete with clickable buttons, a working spectrogram and custom visualisation. He made the hack at San Francisco Music Hack Day 2012, and it's unfortunately not available to download, but you never know -- perhaps AOL (who now own the software) will let Böhnke replicate the player's distinctive looks publicly.
Several other impressive hacks were put together at the event. Concert 2021 puts you in the shoes of a festivalgoer in the not-too-distant-future where a major ticket corporation has taken over the world. You can move about in a virtual festival to hear different songs and sounds, powered by Soundcloud. "Use the a and d keys to move your hands to rawk out," say its creators.
Alexandre Passant's SeatTrip combines SeatWave with Tripit, allowing you to send your plane ticket by email and get back a list of concerts in the area that you're travelling to for you to make musical plans with. For the time being it only works with Aer Lingus, which isn't much good, but what do you expect for a weekend's work?
Audible Harvest, by Peat Bakke, sifts through your social networks to find music references, letting you track listening trends, and The Ambience Board, by Daniel Kennett, lets D&D players use an iPad to produce environmental sounds for their games. On the hardware end, The Tangible Theremin links two iOS devices together over Bluetooth to simulate the controls of a theremin, and then there's Aeolus. Which is a bit difficult to explain, but watch this video and you'll get the idea.
If this all sounds like heaps of fun, then you should definitely head on down to the next Music Hack Day, which will be in Amsterdam on 24 and 25 March, 2012. More details can be found here.
Edited by Nate Lanxon