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Winamp Shortcuts

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Winamp Keyboard Shortcuts

Thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share. It’s no big secret and easy to find, but Winamp has a ton of helpful keyboard shortcuts. I’ve copy and pasted the list below, but in case you need to find the list again…

Open your Winamp player, go to your toolbar and click on Help > About Winamp. A dialog box opens, and you’ll see four tabs: Winamp, Credits, Keyboard shortcuts, and Version history. Click on the keyboard shortcuts tab

Keyboard Shortcuts (these can be used in most Winamp windows)

Key Action
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F1 Open Help
Ctrl+F1 About Box
Ctrl+A Toggle Always on Top (N/A in playlist editor and media library)
Ctrl+Alt+A Toggle always on top (playlist editor)
Ctrl+W Toggle Windowshade mode (main window, unless in playlist editor)
Ctrl+D Toggle Doublesize Mode
Ctrl+E Toggle Easymove (only applicable in classic skins)
Ctrl+T Toggle Time Display Mode
Alt+W Toggle Main Window
Alt+E Toggle Playlist Editor
Alt+G Toggle Graphical Equalizer
Alt+V Toggle Video Window
Alt+L Toggle Media Library
Ctrl+Tab Cycle through different Winamp windows
Alt+S Go to Skin selection
Ctrl+P Go to Preferences
Alt+F Open Main Menu
Alt+K Configure current visualization plug-in
Ctrl+Sh+K Start/stop current visualization plug-In
Ctrl+K Open visualization plug-in section of preferences
Ctrl+J Jump to time in current track
J or Keypad . Open jump-to-file box
Ctrl+Alt+N Spawn new Winamp instance
Alt+M Minimize Winamp
Ctrl+H Show recently played files/streams (History 🙂

Skin Tutorial

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Skin Making Tutorial

Last updated: 28/12/2020
File Size: 2.99 MB

Before creating a complete skin, you will need the following tools. There are some suggestions below, but we don’t necessarily endorse or require you to use any of them. We leave you to choose one that you’re most comfortable with.

Stuff you need:
1. A paint program such as Photoshop, Gimp, or even good old MSPaint will work too. How else will you “paint” your skins? Must be able to recognize the .BMP format.
2. Winamp’s Base 29x Skin – to use as a template.
3. Text Editor – For use in configuring the fonts and colors of the Mini-browser and Playlist editor. Also used if you do any transparency. eg. MS Notepad, MS Word, Corel Wordperfect
4. Icon Editor – You will need an Icon editor if you are hardcore and want to edit the cursors and pointers associated with your skin. eg. NeoSoft Icon Editor, Icon Edit Pro, Impact Microangelo
5. Zip Compression Tool: Absolutely necessary to publish your skin. Winamp.com will not accept an unzipped skin. eg. WinRAR PKZip, WinZip
6. A good imagination and a good attitude 🙂

Winamp-Skin-Tutorial

The general process is pretty easy. Simply create a new folder in your Winamp\Skins directory. For example, go to your Skins directory in file manager, right click, and choose ‘New Folder’. Name the folder something unique, like ‘NewSkin’. Unzip the Winamp Base Skin into that folder using your favorite unzip utility.

Once you’ve installed the Base Skin, you could look at the files in that folder. Inside the folder should be a whole bunch of .cur (cursor) files, a whole bunch of .bmp files, and a few (3) .txt files. All of these files are optional. Any missing files will use Winamp’s defaults. So, for example, you can just change one cursor in a skin by having a single .cur file.

The names for the cursor files are pretty self explanatory. In addition, EQTitle.cur means that this cursor is for the EQ’s title bar. normal.cur is the default cursor used in Winamp’s main window. PWSSize.cur means that this cursor is for the Playlist Editor Window Shade sizing area. and so forth. If in doubt, you can just try making a major change to see where the change takes effect. You will see cursor changes, there’s no need to reload the current skin in Winamp to see them. To edit cursors, we recommend any paint program.

Editing the BMP files is more complicated. ‘pledit.bmp’ changes the look of the Playlist Editor, ‘eqmain.bmp’ changes the look of the Graphical Equalizer, and all the other .bmp files change the look of individual controls of the main interface [why we didn’t just use a single .bmp file for the main interface like we did for the EQ/PL is a different story]. Once you have made modifications to the different BMP files, press F5 in Winamp to re-upload the pictures.

At the end, you can change other aspects of Winamp using the three .txt files included in the Skin. After modifications to these files, be sure to press F5 in Winamp to reload the skin.

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About Winamp

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Winamp was published by Nullsoft in 1997 as the public supported multimedia player and was a pioneer as well as a disruptor in the Internet space. Lead by Justin and other developers, Winamp soon became one of the most revolutionary applications of its kind. Nullsoft, acquired by AOL in 1999, also published SHOUTcast, Gnutella and NSIS. Winamp was an early leader in community developed programs and helped to spawn the open source software movement for music. You can drop by the team & alumni pages to learn more about the people responsible for creating the player, turning out new revs, maintaining the website, and fostering relations with the developer community.

Winamp is one of the most popular multimedia players allowing users to manage and play audio and video files. Winamp supports playback of 70 audio and video formats, and is available in two versions: Winamp Standard and Winamp Pro. To name a few, it features robust tools for creating playlists, customizing your playback experience (aka “skinning”), managing podcasts, syncing portable devices, listening to internet radio stations, and accessing remote media (Winamp Remote).

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The Winamp Pro version provides you with several additional features like mp3 ripping, high speed audio CD burning/ripping, extra-small file size encoding with AACPlus, and native support for H.264 encoded video. If you have not tried this multimedia player, downloading the Winamp must be your first stop.
At its core Winamp is all about individuality and customization, that’s why we offer add-ons to extend functionality beyond the original design. Thanks to the efforts of the development community, Winamp offers over 10,000 add-ons including skins, plug-ins, visualizations & online services.

Skins:

In addition to its breadth of features and support of high fidelity playback, one of Winamp’s main differentiators is its skin-able interface. This level of customization gives you the control to reflect your own individual personality. To date the Winamp community has created over 8,000 skins. Browse our gallery to find one that fits your taste, or if you are the DIY type, make your own.

Plug-ins:

A Plug-in extends the functionality of Winamp and allows you to add just about anything to your Winamp player including equalizers, additional codecs, language packs, games and more. There are over 3000 community developed plug-ins to choose from, so you can browse the plug-in gallery or make your own.

Visualizations:

You can also bring your music to life with any one of Winamp’s world renowned visualizations. Essentially they’re dynamic add-ons that produce images, colors, and textures that change based on elements of the music being played. There are nearly 2,800 presets available for download in our visualization gallery. As a side note, the creator of Milkdrop (one of the two visualization platforms in Winamp) in Ryan Geiss. Ryan who now works for Microsoft, is a core developer of the human-tracking algorithms for Xbox 360’s Kinect. Explore our Winamp visualization gallery and select the best one.

If it isn’t clear already, we’ll say it again… we love our user community! Be sure to support them by downloading and using their add-ons — be it a new skin, a tweaked out visualization, an online service, a plug-in, or one of the 30 different language packs. Winamp is for people who like to customize: offering the widest range of extensions, skins, plugins, and Internet services. If you like the add-on, give them some feedback by reviewing, rating, or leaving a comment.