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jbritton on Sept 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Winamp Skin Museum

Are there any details somewhere on how the skinning was implemented in software? It’s so amazingly flexible.

captbaritone on Sept 5, 2020 [–]

These "classic" skins were just a zip file (renamed to `.wsz`) containing a number of bmp sprite sheets. Future versions of Winamp had free form skins which consisted of XML and a custom scripting language called MAKI.

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