
Being popular, much like being green, or other related activities, ain't easy. Everyone of a certain age has gone through the relentless pressure cooker of schoolyard hierarchy, and, for girls especially, navigating these shark infested social waters can often be a harrowing feat. And believe it or not, Winamp skins face much the same sorts of pressures that we did-or still do-face. Lets face it, it's gotta be hard out there for those Plain-Jane skins, with all those especially pretty skins preening and prancing around, showing off their nifty little features and nuances, and somehow always going to prom with the high school quarterback skin. But if your current Winamp skin is down in the dumps and feeling less than adequate next to all the beauty queens on the block, don't worry. With the help of a new skin, she slide seamlessly into the coolest clique of girls around-the Teen Girl Squad.
That's right, Homestar Runner fans, you're now just a click away from your very own Teen Girl Squad Winamp player. The skin, much like the online comic strip style, is stylistically simple, to an almost exaggerated extent. The entire interface looks like it was hastily handdrawn, with chicken scratch trapezoids outlining the Play button and childlike handwriting judiciously scattered throughout the display. The real beauty of the skin, though, lies in the details. The cursor is now an oversized pencil that, when hovering over the "x" button of the top right corner, cleverly reverses, so that it now clicks with the eraser side. And of course, a few characters are present in the "Equalizor-d" display, which, in keeping with the schoolyard theme, sports a college-ruled notebook paper background, against which are a few sketches of the girls wearing diva pins and $100 tags on their dresses. All in all, it's a clever and cute way to dress up your Winamp, so that regardless of the music you're playing, it'll always look "SO GOOD!"
Download your TGS Skin here.
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facebook .... 1. really considering how many outstanding bugs winamp has, shouldn't you be working on that instead of adding more crap to it...
i mean, its 2009, there are a ton of other free players out there, not to mention windows media player, youre charging for this product so someone might expect it to work properly?
referring to being unable to burn cds in x64 vista/7
crashing while scanning media library
not staying on top
other bugs that have been in winamp for several years now...
2. @hapbt thanks for the comment.
And you are right there is always room for improvement. The Winamp dev team is hard at work offering new features & addressing bugs. As far as Win7 is concerned, we are aware of several issues and will have a new Winamp release out soon that address some of these concerns.
The spirit of this blog post is to highlight one of our community skin developers. Community developers are not Winamp employees, but rather they're loyal Winamp users like yourself, who have provided cool add-ons that expand the look, feel, functionality, and customization of Winamp. Since Winamp is such a community driven product, we just wanted to give a shoutout to the folks responsible. Going forward we hope to spotlight even more community developers (Skin, Plugin-in, Visualizations, and Online Services developers... as well as our language pack translators) so if you have your favorite, just let us know.
One part genius. Three parts llama. And a sprinkling of corporate AOL. That's what Winamp is all about.