Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design

You wake up. It’s the year 2003. Some upstart software developer called Audio Damage wants to let you patch a combo filter-delay however you like, including ways that will break your ears. Ronin is reborn as ShinRonin, from a time when software developers let you run with scissors and do strange things. This is one […]

Forget channel closures: watch every decade of MTV music videos online

No, MTV is not shutting down, though Paramount Skydance did shutter some all-music video channels in various markets. But never mind: the internet can best even vintage MTV. Tune into MTV REWIND and hit shuffle by decade.

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2026

A free Winamp clone, for macOS, with FLAC and Milkdrop visualizations

It might be a funny intersection of interests. But developer Matt Greenwood built a macOS-native clone of the legendary Winamp in Swift, MIT-licensed, with MP3 and FLAC playback and Milkdrop visualization support (including fullscreen).

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2025

That time Jem and The Holograms went synthesizer shopping

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2025

Recreate classic MP3 visualizers, free – and use them in VJ apps

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2017

Windows startup sounds transformed into amazing ambient music

Peter Kirn - August 25, 2015

Watch a full-length electronic documentary from the 90s, and more free videos

Peter Kirn - August 21, 2015

Windows 93 OS in Your Browser Comes with LSDJ, Pd, Nanoloop Music Apps

- October 28, 2014

Playable 8-bit Game as Promo, and Okkervil River’s Nostalgia-Drenched Wonderlands

- August 26, 2013