it’s been some time since the last post, nevertheless the machinery in the background is working on new ideas.
Now you can help us in which direction development should go!

Answer the simple question: Do you use the Shademode?

We have started a poll at Skin Consortium for this. Feel free to participate!

Stay tuned for updates.

Although 2009 has been a quiet year during the last months, there are plans to take things to some new levels in 2010.
Right now we have released a New ClassicPro Version with a themable default skin and an improved widget manager. If you feel like the updated cPro skin needs more themes, please feel free to create some and submit them in our forums.

Thank you to all who have supported and continue to support SC You guys and gals are awesome and we have loved creating skins and cPro for your listening pleasure.

Well festivities are almost upon us, so we wish you all the best for Christmas.
Don’t drink too much and don’t eat too much Be merry and bright

It’s a time of giving and receiving so enjoy your family time, make the most of it!

Talking of giving and receiving, we are always grateful of donations. The PayPal button is to the left of our Skin Consortium site, give generously
We’ve certainly given you some great skins this year and cPro just keeps getting better. Look out for some new cPro stuff in 2010

Happy Christmas

Team SkinConsortium

the guys at the Winamp HQ in Dulles have released a new version of Winamp this week!
Winamp 5.57 has improved support for Video Playback (mkv, mp4, …) as well as improved Windows Vista / 7 Thumbnail previews.

Grabb the new Winamp now!

Winamp might be great but the developers think everyone runs Winamp in the perfect environment and doesn’t include ways for the installer to fix your Winamp installation for you. This means that if a user, that doesn’t know too much about Winamp, somehow brakes it (and it’s not always their fault) they won’t know how to fix it and probably use another inferior media player.

So what’s the problem you might ask?
Winamp saves all its settings in your application data folder and if you uninstall Winamp these files aren’t deleted and are left behind for if you someday want to install Winamp again and want to have all your settings back again. A simple reinstall also doesn’t touch these files so if these files get broken there’s no simple way for a average Joe to fix their Winamp installation with just a reinstall. Luckily this is just a Winamp problem and hopefully they’ll sort it out because on other installers like VLC ask the user on uninstall or install if it should delete these application data files for you and basically start a fresh installation for you.

Luckily it’s easy to fix manually and here is what you need to do:

1)       Uninstall Winamp

2)       Delete this folder: ”C:\Program Files\Winamp”

3)       Start > Run > “%appdata%/winamp”

• Now delete all the files & folders in this folder
• Deleting this folder will not delete any of your media files though (it will just erase all your settings and make sure Winamp start with a clean install)

4)       Now download the latest Winamp version and install it.

The above will surely fix 99% of all the problems you’ll ever encounter. Remember Winamp works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 so if it doesn’t work for you anymore then just do the above steps to fix it.

You might ask why did Winamp brake? Well this isn’t as straight forward as it might seem, but normally it can be one of 3 reasons:

• The settings file are corrupt (Probably a bug in Winamp or a plugin)
• Your Media Library became corrupt (The index file became corrupt)
• And old plugin was still in your Winamp/Plugin directory **

** Winamp tries to be compatible with all plugins from one version to the next but it’s possible you might have installed a faulty 3^rd party plugin that might not be playing ball with the llama. Luckily for you there will probably already be a new version for the plugin you use or there might be a different plugin for the same job. Ask around on the forum if you need help.

If your Winamp copy has become slow or you think Winamp should be faster you’ll have to wait for my next blog post about how to speed up Winamp.

We’ve been waiting quite a while – for the new Creed album and for the skin. I’ve already ordered the album from Amazon and expecting it to be shipped on Friday or Saturday. For all of you that need to wait for the album to arrive as well, go and download the Creed Full Circle ClassicPro Skin. The colors are similar to those found on the album artwork and the new Creed Website.

Also expect a review of the album appearing on this site soon.

It’s been some time since the last post. But despite leaning back we were doing some enhancements for the ClassicPro Widget Manager. You will see the new features in ClassicPro 1.14, that will be released in the end of October.

Now we are discussing at Skin Consortium what skin should be done next? I’ve come up with the idea of a Google Chrome inspired ClassicPro Skin. So head over to Skin Consortium Forums and vote for or against this idea.

Besides I will also start working on the ClassicPro Skin for the upcoming Creed album.

Stay tuned and vote!

At the time this article has been written the download count is already at 1,802,193! With the new ClassicPro 1.13 release we hope to pass to the next Million. ClassicPro 1.13 will reintroduce the short tab names, some of you missed so much since we have released version 1.1. So go on and check the new ClassicPro out!

We are also in the works on our next major release ClassicPro 1.2! This one will introduce Colorthemes for the ClassicPro default skin. And we will need your help for the new skin, since all the Colorthemes should be community created! Feel free to offer your help at the ClassicPro Beta Forum.

Here is a ZIP archive with all the ClassicPro Skins participated in the Contest.

The Skin Consortium Admins will decide on the winner of the competition during this week. Of course, we will keep you informed about the winner!

In the meantime you can check the poll at Skin Consortium Forums and vote for your favorite skin.

-Martin

CoolVU shows VU meter for that classic retro feel for your Winamp player!

The update makes it compatible with the latest ClassicPro. We also made it better language pack compatible and the colors of the widget now also match those of the skin you use!

So what are you waiting for? Install CoolVU now and make your ClassicPro even more Classier

Download CoolVU Widget for ClassicPro

These are the daily top songs compiled by Winamp Orgler for Every Day!
The Orgler takes the songs that users are listening too and generates the days top played list.

Check out the Winamp Charts

Want to participate as well? We have already written abot how to setup Winamp Orgler.