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<title>Spotiamb tutorial</title>
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<h1><a href="/index.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">>> matt novelli <<</a>
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<h1 style="text-align: left;">Reviving Winamp for Spotify: visualizers, equalizers, and themes</h1>
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<p>
Music streaming has changed how people control the music they listen to. The Spotify desktop app has
equalizer settings tucked away and difficult to access. There's no native visualizers,
either.
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<p>
I've found a solution that involves integrating Spotify with Winamp, allowing the user to enable
custom equalizations, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/">visualizers</a>, and themes.
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<img src="/spotify_media/example1.gif" alt="portrait"
style="object-fit: contain; box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px lightgrey;" /><br />
<figcaption>how music was meant to be watched.</figcaption>
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<h3>Spotiamb</h3>
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Spotiamb (pronounced "Spotiamp") is a modified version of winamp released by legendary programmer and
Spotify dev <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus">Ludvig Strigeus</a> cir. 2015. It
allows the user to
login with their Spotify Premium (sorry) account and stream music through the winamp interface.
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Although the Spotiamb page is no longer live, you can still
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160113191228/http://spotiamb.com/">view the site on the internet
archive</a>
and download it below. You'll also need to download the latest compatible version of winamp in order to
extract the visualizer code.<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="ware/Spotiamb_0.2.1_Setup.zip">[spotiamb
download]</a><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/winamp566_full_en-us.exe">[winamp download]</a><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
href="http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/favorite_presets_2013_12.zip">[visualizer presets]</a>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://skins.webamp.org/">[winamp themes]</a><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="ware/msvcr90.zip">[required dll file]</a>
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<em>
<strong>How to install the visualizer plugin from winamp:</strong>
<ol>
<li>Create a folder named <code>plugins/</code> in the
Spotiamb program folder.</li>
<li>Copy the <code>vis_*.dll</code> files (and necessary companion files) from Winamp.</li>
<li>Unzip the <code>msvcr90.dll</code> file into the
same folder as Spotiamb.exe.</li>
</ol>
</em>
<img src="/spotify_media/example3.gif" alt="portrait" style="box-shadow: 3px 3px 10px lightgrey;" /><br />
<a href="/index.html">[home page]</a>
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<font size="1" color="gray">(c) 2021 - ∞ Matthew Novelli.</font>
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