skin shows up as default

[YardDoG]

Help. I've downloaded the basic skin, and made very few changes to it just to test it.(ie. stuck my name on it in various places) I zipped the folder back up, and changed the extension. But when I try to use the skin, it looks like I haven't made any changes to the basic skin. What am I doing wrong?

[Matt]

Make sure your skin is in the skin dir usually c:\program files\winamp\skins

Start Winamp and press ALT + S to open the skin browser. This will list all files. Your skin.wsz or whatever you've called it should be in the list. Select it Winamp should update and show your skin.

[Lion King]

winamp can read skins if they are located in the skins folder, default: \program files\winamp\skins

...\example.wsz
...\example.zip
...\examplefolder\[unzipped bmp and txt files]

those bitmaps cover each other, if you change eg. the titlebar in main.bmp the skin doesn't show the changes, because it uses titlebar.bmp for this part of the skin
you have to change ALL bitmaps, not only one

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It depends on where you "made very few changes to it". If you just altered the main.bmp file, then the volume slider, balance slider, titlebar, control buttons, and slider all cover the main window, like layers. Therefore if you changed the area where the play button should be, the buttons.bmp file will overlap and cover it.