Media Player had just added skinning support, and it went far beyond what you could do in Winamp – which is where you started getting all kinds of weirdly-shaped players, like the famous Windows Media Player Head. To demonstrate the new Winamp skinning system, AOL had the Winamp team create a brand new default Winamp skin. It was based on the existing Winamp player layout, but the interface was slightly larger and it was given a more modern, “professional” look. Unfortunately a lot of people didn’t like it. Being slightly larger made the player a bit too bulky for the types of docking you’d normally use Winamp for, and the alpha transparency and extended feature set made it significantly slower to render. I want to say Winamp 5 did not originally launch with backwards compatibility for old Winamp skins, but after enough people complained, future versions of Winamp 5 included backwards compatibility and the original classic Winamp skin. This is a long way of saying eventually somebody ported the modernized Winamp 5 skin to the classic skin form factor, and for like 13 years, that’s the one I used. Over the last 2-3 years I guess I got bored with that and I’ve been trying on new skins. Generally I settle for something that’s clean, readable, and stylish. Like CitySkin, which reminds me of the old pre-Steam Half-Life 1 menu system.
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