My Winamp Skin

[nehalmistry]

most skins strain your eyes finding the damn play button... this one is nice and simple looking... tell me what ya think....

btw, winamp.com reviewers are pure idiots....
http://www.winamp.com/customize/deta...ponentId=29043

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P5A-B AMD K6-266@300
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
64meg Ram
Ali V agp chipset
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[dZeus]

wel... I must say that I personally am not really fond of 'colours'

However, you know at least how to make a skin (I once played around with making one, but I didn't have enough patience to really finish it ).

Try to make one with a lot of 'Matrox Blue' (i.e. #000066), because I also am not that fond of the current Matrox skin

[DentyCracker]

What do you use Himself?

[Paddy]

I used to use Creative's WinDAC but now i use Media Player 6.5? - works fine once you install the codec and its much faster than MP7

[dZeus]

use WinAmp with the mpg123 plug-in... The default Nitrane decoder is really one piece of ****

[Wombat]

I like the default skin for XMMS.

Also, mpg123 is a pretty nice decoder.

[Brian R.]

How can you guys stand to listen to the poor sound quality (compared with CDs)? The only time I've listened to audio files, they sounded like AM radio. Is that your experience and you just put up with it, or are you getting good quality sound and I made some error somewhere?

[Hunsow]

RealAudio sounds like AM radio, allthough they claim it's almost cd quality, perhaps you heard that. It also depends on the bitrate.

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[Helevitia]

Brian, are you referring to MP3's?

Dave

[Kruzin]

A properly recorded MP3 can be at or higher than CD quality. A poorly recorded one can sound like a scratchy old 45.

And of course, for a winamp skin, what else would I be using?

[Wombat]

I make my MP3's at 160 or 192kbps. I use bladeenc, since it's got what's arguably the best-quality compression.
I wouldn't say that MP3's can exceed CD quality though (format v. format) since one is lossy, and the other is not.

[Hunsow]

Amazing... there are about a million skins and there isn't a single one that I like. I do use the Matrox skin, it's the only one better than the default one.

I don't like this one because the buttons and the mixer have kiddie colors, it really doesn't help finding the play button, in fact it strains my eyes.

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[Rags]

Oh, but both are lossy, it's just that one is moreso than the other

[Brian R.]

Yes, I meant MP3s. I don't remember the circumstances, but the experience cooled me to the use of MP3.

[Helevitia]

Brian, MP3's usually recorded @ 128kbps or lower do sound crappy. Try downlaoding a 192kbps version fo something and hear the difference

Dave