With interest in Winamp resurging after the beta release, we thought our readers would enjoy these. These skins were discovered by Dan, a friend of MajorGeeks who recently found these 160 skins on a backup drive. The project is authored by programmer and singer Jordan Eldredge, who collected the skins from the Internet Archive and decided to make them available in this more friendly format. Winamp Skins is a collection of 160 skins for Winamp that still work with the latest release including Winamp Lite and Winamp Full. Best of all, if you don’t find material that you consider crucial, you can also upload your own skins to the service – everything is collaborative and very purposeful. All skins are interactive and you can play with the buttons and levers.
Just log on to the site and browse around (or use the search feature to find a specific topic). There are currently 65,000 skins for you to view. If you see an Options button in the toolbar at the top of the media player, click on it, click on Skins in the contextual menu, browse to the skin you want to apply, select it and click on Open (or something similar) to. Yes, as the name suggests, it is a virtual museum dedicated to collecting thousands of skins for the most famous music player in history. Now comes the next part applying the skin you downloaded and installed to Winamp.
Unfortunately, the Winamp that exists today has nothing to do with that nineties wonder, but you can still enjoy a nostalgia session by visiting the Winamp Skin Museum. Perhaps it is the possibility of customize it with skins created by other crazy members of the community that formed around the player, enabling a level of customization that, until then, had never been seen in computer software. Okay, Spotify can even be cool … But there is something about Winamp, the classic music player that rocked in the late 90s, which makes us miss it even today.
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