

The actual size of each Winamp window is 275 pixels by 116. If you do not want your pictures to stretch or shrink, then use a paint tool like Gimp to edit your bitmaps before making them into skins.

You have also to note that any bitmap loaded will be stretched/shrunk to fit. If you want to use the lovely photo clicked on your brand new digital camera to make the skin which is in jpg format you will first have to convert it into a bitmap. You have to note that we can use only bitmaps to make the skins. You can choose one, two or three pictures to make the winamp skin as per your wish. On starting QuickSkin it displays the window shown below. These skins can be loaded directly into a browser via Webamp.We can create cool Winamp skins in a jiffy with QuickSkin.

Additionally, Eldredge has the Winamp Skin Twitter bot that tweets a different Winamp skin every few hours. Infinite scroll through 65k Winamp skins with instant search and in-browser interactive preview /JbCbtiFAw2īoth the Winamp Skin Museum and Webamp are side projects that Jordan Eldredge is responsible for. Webamp is a browser-based version of Winamp 2 that runs on HTML5 and JavaScript.įinally ready to share the Winamp Skin Museum Interactive because you can scroll through and click on a skin to immediately preview it, and functional because with one more click, the skin can be loaded into Webamp. The Winamp Skin Museum takes the Winamp skins that have been preserved over at The Internet Archive, and presents them in a much more interactive and functional interface. From Final Fantasy VII to Surge, the whole gang is here.

Frankly, this is what 2020 has been missing. The interactive Winamp Skin Museum recently went live, and it doesn't get much more late 90s and early aughts than this.Ī collective history of Winamp skins, all aggregated onto one infinitely scrolling page isn't something you know you need - until you see it. Blast from the past: If you're looking for a solid fix of nostalgia, look no further.
