March 2000
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 59m
English
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Skins: Dressing Up MP3 Players
As shown throughout this book, WinAmp and other MP3 players can be “costumed” with alternate interfaces called “skins.” Because skins are merely collections of bitmap images with pre-specified names and sizes, skins are not tied specifically to WinAmp, or even to Windows. While WinAmp is by far the most common place to find WinAmp skins in use, you’ll also find MP3 players for Mac OS, BeOS and Linux that wear WinAmp skins. In addition, there other MP3 players out there with even more radical interfaces (such as Sonique and K-Jöfol) that also wear skins. Note, however, that these players don’t wear WinAmp skins; see their sites for availability of skins for those players.
How to Get WinAmp Skins
There are a number of large skin repositories on the Internet. The definitive collection is on WinAmp’s own site, at http://www.winamp.com/skins/. There you’ll find nearly 3,000 downloadable skins made by WinAmp users like yourself, categorized into groups like “Computer,” “Game,” “Stereo,” “Anime,” and even “Ugly” (and believe me, some of them deserve their place in that category). You’ll probably find the highest quality skins in the “Best Skins” category, a group that has been selected by WinAmp employees for their finesse and professional look. There are (at this writing) three other notable skins sites out there: http://www.1001winampskins.com is a site run by WinAmp fans for other fans (not connected to NullSoft), while http://www.skinz.org and http://www.customize.org ...
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