HOW DO I ADD A SKIN TO MY WINAMP

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I LOOKED IN FORUMS FOR HELP ON ADD SKINS TO MY WINAMP FROM THIS SITE AND CAME UP SHORT. IF ANYBODY KNOWS HOW TO ADD IT IN PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME A STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS STARTING FROM AFTER DOWNLOADING THE FILE FROM THIS SITE TO GETTING IT TO BE SEEN IN THE SKINS AREA SO THAT I CAN CHANGE ITS LOOK. I WANT TO CHANGE IT TO THE ALPINE SKIN
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Usually all you have to do is unzip your download and click on the .wal file and it will self install. If it is just a folder after you unzip the download...move the folder to the skins folder within the WinAmp folder under "programs."
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The alpine skin is 'alpine.wal'.

Right-click the download button...

Save-as 'alpine.wal' to desktop

Double-click the downloaded file on the desktop and it will self-install...

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
HEY THANKS FOR THE TIP BUT THAT STILL DOES NOT WORK. ALL IN THE ZIP ARE FILES AND FOLDERS NOTHING THATS SAYS alpine.wal. I DID WAT YOU SAID AN ALL IT DOES WAS EXSTRACT AND THATS ALL. I CHECK MY SKIN AND STILL ONLY ONE IS THERE. PLEASE HELP
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
HEY THANKS FOR THE TIP BUT THAT STILL DOES NOT WORK. AFTER I NUZIP THERE ARE ALOT OF FOLDER THEY ARE
ABOUT
EQUALIZER
IMAGES
PLAYER
SCRIPTS
TOOLTIPS
XML
AND THEN THESE TILES
300alpine
alpine
digit
NO OTHER FILE IS THERE THAT WILL ALLOW ME TO SELFINSTALL. PLEASE HELP ME
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
one trick i learned download winamp first then change the file name to .wsz and it will download th wskin automatically.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not sure what your doing or where your getting the apline.wal skin...but it downloads from the WinAmp library here as apline.wal...no files or anything else except the file to install it. Maybe the browser your using is messing it up...not sure...I used firefox.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do as in #2....
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And lose the capitals...it's regarded as yelling, ie. impolite...
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Skin 'files' are generally renamed zips....in other words 'Alpine.zip' is renamed to 'alpine.wal' so that it is auto recognized by Winamp as a skin for it.

Rename that thing you looked into and found all those files...rename it to 'alpine.wal'....and double-click it....

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why is it that this download comes as a .zip for some and a .wal for others? Based in whats downloading for me...a .wal file, he shouldn't have to rename anything...just click the file.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Service pack 2 has been known to re-assign archives to 'zip'...so downloads are saved as such instead of their 'bootskin' or 'wba' or in this case 'wal' "rename".

That's why I referred to the process of "right click and save as".....

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ahhh yes...forgot about that Sp2 screwy thing.