Just open one of the bmps in a paint program, change it and save it again. The basic process of editing the skin is very simple. They contain all the graphics for the skin: buttons, text, background and so on. There may be up to 15 of them, depending on which windows a certain skin changes. The txt files can be ignored for now, I'll get to them later. The bmp files are what most people change, and they're the ones which make the biggest difference. For example, if you don't plan on changing the cursors, you can remove all cursor files from the folder. For every file Winamp fails to locate in a skin, it will use its default setting. In fact, you can delete any file in your new skin folder you don't plan on changing. Don't worry, you won't need to change all of them. Once you have a skin folder to use as a base, make a copy of it and open the copy.Īs you can see, there are a lot of files in the folder (especially if you've started with the base skin). Best is probably to download the base skin from, as it contains all files you can possibly have in a skin. You can get my GreenAmp skin here, otherwise there are tons of skins to be found on.
If you don't have any skins, you will need to get one before you can start.
Any skin will work as a base, as long as it has all the files you wish to change. Now, working completely from scratch is probably enough to drive any man into madness, so you'll need a skin to use as a base. Any folder in the skins folder will show up in Winamp's skin browser as a skin, regardless of the folder's contents.
Right, let's do it!įirst, locate your Winamp folder, in that folder is another folder simply called skins. This guide is written after use of Winamp 2.5c, but is probably fully correct for other versions as well. Comments, critisism and stuff like that are always welcome of course. The Winamp homesite doesn't say too much about the process of creating skins, so I'll try and say a bit more on this page. It's not all that hard to create your own skins, although there are a few things which can go wrong in pretty annoying ways too. So, Winamp skins, you say? Why, yes, I actually do. Fredrik Björeman's homepage, Winamp section
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