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rpeterclark — Simple
Published: 2005-08-01 00:22:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 46087; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 16149
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This skin does not use any graphics (other than a single required file) and only uses Winamp's XML/MAKI elements for the interface. It does have a couple small issues/limitations as a result but overall it works well. The most noticeable limitation is that it cannot support color themes, although if someone was determined enough they could easily open up the code and tweak the color values to make it look however they wanted.
Turned out well enough for an experiment though, enjoy the skin!- 4 player modes: Normal, Integrated Playlist, Compact and Shade
- Normal player mode includes auto-switching album art / AVS area
- All components skinned
- Notifier with album art feature
BTW, if anyone does come up with cool color modifications to this, I'd like to see them!
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Comments: 115
I love this, very cool idea and would love to see a smaller taskbar mode and something to maybe edit the colors instead of doing random themes have it so you can change the colors on your own with a slider
thanks and again GREAT work
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Simply brilliant!
i've been using this for a week now. It's very unobtrusive, but still manages to be interesting enough to keep on there. Nice work
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oooo 
I don't sopos theres a wmp / itunes skin in the works is there?
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I luv it, but more colours would really be great.
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I'm not really fan of the colors,but still a great looking skin and nothing is missing.
very good good work as always
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that's what i am talking about... fantastic minimalistic skin!
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very cool idea to not use any graphics. seens to have turned out quite well. ncie!
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Thanks Jark! My support goes out to you.
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ok, Love the skin although i sent my friend the link to the download. he installed it and was all running smooth until he double clicked on the AVS, and it went full screen. Then it showed his desktop as huge somehow its screwed up him msn messenger. i have a picture if you need to see it, but this sounds really odd. Don't suppose you know why?
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Np, here's a quick lesson... 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
1. Rename Simple.wal to Simple.zip
2. Extract Simple.zip, the structure should end up like ...\program files\winamp\skins\simple\(zip contents)
3. Open up the various XML files in Simple\xml in a text editor, the color values in them should be relatively obvious
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Pay special attention to common.xml, elements.xml and xui.xml as they define most of the colors that are used. That's all there is to it! Have fun!
Looks like the comments system stripped out all of my backslashes, but I'm sure you get the idea.
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i guess so
i already extracted all of the stuff by opening the skinfile in WinRAR but deleted the extracted contents again
guess i have to extract them again
thanks for pointing me in the right direction
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great skin... can you make a black or grey color-theme ?
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in the future, all skins will work like this
now how do we go about messing with the colours....? heheh
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Yeh, any easy way of changing the colours?
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Unfortunately because of the way this skin was built without graphics, it does not support color themes. 
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yeah, i opened it up earlier, and dispite being amazingly complex (how did you to that?? lol) it looks fairly straightforward to change colours.
I'm having a go at changing it to match my Mac Tiger theme - if it looks half decent I'll email to to you.
thanks for another brilliant theme
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Ok wow this is such a brilliantly simple concept yet it works so well.
This is the type of skin I love, simple and brightly coloured.
This fits in quite well with my latest setup. Burns your cornea but you cant help but feel happy looking at my screen.
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coooooooooool~~~ i love it! yet a little pity that it doesnt fit my desktop style at the moment.
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~Ipiki-Ookami , I'm getting only about 7.5 MB memory usage. Maybe your computer is fuxx0rz3d?
This is a great skin, but it's been crashing on me in odd ways -( I'll try and doc it the next time it happens and send a note. Maybe Winamp's MAKI parser is broke?
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I love your skin. I have a question for you, does it usually make winamp use 70+mb of ram? I must admit my comp is a lil messed up but I was just wondering if it was a limitation of usuing no graphics. I am usuing transparencies and alpha blending but it never just up that high on any of my other skins. Anyways I am still gonna use it I love the notifications and I want color themes!!! ^_^
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It certainly shouldn't be taking up that much memory. Try basic stuff like restarting WA or your computer. Load it with an empty playlist to see if that is making a difference. From my experience and the feedback I've received this is a light-weight skin.
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hey pete. i meant to mention this before, but i too have been getting wierd memory issues with skin. when using singlegui or most other modern skins, winamp hovers at 0-1% cpu usage and 10-20 megs of ram to run, but with simple cpu usage jumps around from 5 - 15% and jumps up to 35+ megs of ram (as im writing this) even though im keeping it docked and shouldnt be using much at all. at first i though it might be me, but ive dumped my plug-ins and its not happening with any other skins, and im not keeping a huge playlist or anything. the worse part, though, is ive gotten windows memory overflow messages when left on for long periods.
anyways, i attribute the problem to winamps internal rendering system being less than perfect, as we see when stretching gradients and what have you. superb work, as usual.
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Interesting, I deliberately disabled desktop alpha, limited Timer object use, and I did not place any moving elements under partially transparent gradients in an effort to save CPU. It runs really light on my computer but I've learned that WA can behave very differently from system to system for whatever reasons.
It could just be that WA has to think a little harder since it's rendering the interface itself I guess, but I don't like to hear that it's causing overflow problems...
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I have similar problem with this skin. Task Manager shows that Winamp process use ~40MB, after closing winamp process still runs and i have to kill it, and there are some other stability problems with this skin. Maybe it's winamp fault, I use Winamp 5.094 and Windows Server 2003. What winamp version you use?
But skin is very beatiful.. nice work
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wow pete!!! :up: you always surprise me! its even better the original! great work as always!
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Lechbite, Thanks! But I think you are imagining things!
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oops, i didnt realize it had 4 modes before. 
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Yes, I'm willing to agree to that.
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Amazing skin rpeterclark i must say this is amazing guess graphics arent always needed to make a screen and this is just so killer.
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Great colorchoice peter and pretty nice working skin. More !
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It's missing the
I Love The Skins Factory
sticker though
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It's on the back of the skin, you just can't see it until I finish the rendered hydraulic-powered rotational position shifter animation!
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You know i should have figured that's where it was. damn i'm getting slow as i get older.
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This is really awesome. I love the different sizes. This is almost exactly what I've been looking for
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Media Library window displays Magic Pink when stretched (resized) over 1024 px :\
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