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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
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Very interesting article!

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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they're essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they're not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.

How far off am I?

Mind, I'm far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.