Winamp Tutorial: Make Your Own Winamp Skin

Winamp Tutorial: Make Your Own Winamp Skin

Category: Tutorials, Category: Video Posted by Tarik, Jul 25th 2008 9:00AM

Have you ever wanted to know how to make your own Skin? Anyone can!

(WARNING: Advanced users, or skin developers... you may want skip this one.)

Even if you have no programming experience, it's pretty easy. Trust me... if I can do it... anyone can. All you have to do is make a few minor edits to some pre-written code from Kevin Farnham's Winamp Skins Development Tutorial, and you should be able to make your Skin in no time (Thanks Kevin!).

Check out the bottom of this post for great reference sites and links to download some killer skins.
(TRANSLATION: Learn how to make & download skins that are WAY BETTER than mine!)

Stay tuned for more tutorials from the team...

References:
* Winamp Skins Development Tutorial - Kevin Farnham's tutorial used in above video
* Winamp - Create a Skin
- Classic Skin
- Modern Skin
* Skinconsortium - Winamp Classic Skins Wiki
* Ken Chen's Skinning Tutorial

Download Skins:
* Winamp.com/skins
* SkinConsortium
* deviantART (Happy 8th Birthday)

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1. this is great!

Posted at 1:31AM on Jul 29th 2008 by sherlock

2. I'd love to download the new Winamp if download the new Winamp was actually highlighted as a link? LOL

Posted at 11:17AM on Aug 4th 2008 by James Vaglia

3. What I found so irritating is that there not a constant stream. Now youy have the few seconds to with. Ver annoying. How can I solve this program?

Posted at 6:51PM on Sep 30th 2008 by Ellen

4. winamp is the shit.. its 1000 times better than any other player out there!!!!!! peace!!!!!

Posted at 1:18PM on Nov 25th 2008 by ceethanasouk

5. Greate manual for lamerz :))

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Posted at 3:55PM on Nov 27th 2008 by alex

6. Joke...really interesting and usefull for all winamp fans

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Posted at 3:58PM on Nov 27th 2008 by alex

7. This is awesome!

Posted at 6:29AM on Dec 24th 2008 by Drunken Wolf

8. the tutorial was interesting, I followed it "word for word" but all it did was show the old default player, I tinkered with it a little, and then it stopped showing the player all together, all it showed was the video box and media library, still in the default player format, so could someone please e-mail me with a solution to this problem?

Posted at 5:35PM on Apr 25th 2009 by Fox

9. Any chance for us to see another (more in depth) tutorial, or perhaps tutorial series?

Posted at 6:28AM on May 31st 2009 by Dave

10. Dave - glad you like them. In total we have 9 tutorials with more to come. So far they cover anything ranging from "Getting Started" to "Highlighting Missing Files"- http://blog.winamp.com/category/tutorials/ As far as a new or in depth tutorial on creating skins, we'll see if we can get one scheduled.

Posted at 8:47AM on Jun 1st 2009 by The Winamp Team

11. Also you should check out our developer network. There's information for Skin, Plugin, Visualization, & Online Service developers. The dev network tells you how to get started, provides documentation, tools, and links to Community forums in case you need help or have questions. - http://dev.winamp.com/

Posted at 9:25AM on Jun 1st 2009 by The Winamp Team

12. Fantastic! It just works, great instructions.

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