June 8 / 2K26

So if we're in a nostalgia contest about old internet, how many points would I advance because I made a Winamp skin, because I made one. Took me like, about two years, but I made one Classic style.

Now, I'm sure that a few of you would recommend to me that I should throw it in the site in the form of webamp, but I skinned parts of winamp that webamp doesn't support. I'm talking the video player, the old buttons, even that minibrowser that I have no clue if anyone actually used after like 2005. No file was left untouched, except for regions, idfk what that does, so I'm leaving it there as is.

Yes, the amateur webnovice who learned how to make a neosite for the sole purpose of blogging by hand and with the neocities editing tool has made another pretty image. I'll embed images of my player later.

It started when I was searching for cool winamp skins to use for it's more updated cousin, WACUP. As I searched more, I got more and more frustrated with the selections. Skins that were pretty much picture holders, amateur solid colors, WAYYYY too overdesigned skins that looks less like a music player and more of a rendering of a mechanical beast. So like the person that I am, I decided that since there isn't an item that satisfies my particular tastes, that I make it myself with my own two hands. That means iterating the pixel art and eyeballing what elements to put in. No templates, no artificial ineptness, and 93% "Pick up a Pencil" energy.

Some parts that were fun was adding some small animations to stuff, the buttons in particular. Getting to use the entire equalizer window to make a wicked cool image was also another one, but I am not one willing to stretch it to encompass the entire thing. Animating the EQ bars, that was some great stuff, there was one winamp skin in the museum that had that and I wanted to incorporate that kind of thing in my skin, just because many people just change it to be a simple line.

The pain part was the GEN images, in particular the pixels at the top, that reskins the media library. Both a blessing and a curse, because that means less pixel art to try and stitch up, but at the expense of trying to fiddle with different colors so that it doesn't make it look like such an eye ache. Overall I can say that making your own winamp skin is a pretty devoted project, because staring at cyan and pixel art all day tires the soul.

Well, stay tuned for where I post this thing. Either I'm going to throw it up on the Deev, or maybe just settle for the humble google drive link.

EDIT: Here's the file! I'm sure that'll make at least one Winamper somewhere in the world a bit happy that I tried.