Most skins have a playlist with a black background with green font letters. Are there any playlists that have a white background with black or any other color fonts, or anything without a black background?

myron -

You can edit the color of both the text and background in any skin (except the base skin, as far as I know).

Using Windows Explorer, go to your Skins folder (usually "C:\Program Files\Winamp\Skins") and click on any skin folder. Inside the folder is a file named "pledit.txt" and when you open that file (using Notepad), four of the lines read as follows:

Normal=#rrggbb
Current=#rrggbb
NormalBG=#rrggbb
SelectedBG=#rrggbb

"Current" refers to the text color of the currently playing song or most recently played song. "Normal" refers to the text color of all of the other songs in the playlist.

"NormalBG" refers to the normal background color, and "SelectedBG" refers to the background color when you highlight (select) one or more songs by single-clicking on them.

The "rrggbb" are the numbers corresponding to the red (rr), green (gg), and blue (bb) color settings needed to produce a specific color. Each color setting is a number from 0 to 255. In pledit.txt, each setting is converted into its hexadecimal (base16) equivalent.

For example, say you have a coral/salmon background color (red=253, green=126, blue=108) on your desktop. Converted to hexadecimal, those settings are FD, 7E, and 6C. If you wanted your playlist to have a matching background, you would edit the "NormalBG" line to read "NormalBG=#FD7E6C".

For the white background you requested (red,green,blue = 255,255,255 = FF,FF,FF), you would edit the "NormalBG" line to read:

NormalBG=#FFFFFF

For the "current" song to be in black text (red,green,blue = 0,0,0 = 00,00,00), you would edit the "Current" line to read:

Current=#000000

Note: If Winamp is open when you edit the "pledit.txt" file, you must close Winamp and re-open it for any changes to take effect.

I have found that this editing ability comes in real handy, since the creators of some skins appear to have been consuming drugs when they selected their playlist colors.

[This message has been edited by Reverend Ike (edited July 06, 2000).]