Damn, your media player is ugly.

June 25, 2001 11:33 AM

Damn, your media player is ugly. You should fix it. This site has one of the best collections of skins for various programs I have ever seen under one URL. They almost make WinMedia worth it.
posted by jcterminal (10 comments total)

Am I missing something? I couldn't find any skins to download, just a bunch of marketing hype. Link to the actual skins, s'il vous plait?
posted by briank at 12:39 PM on June 25, 2001

Link. Note that the most interesting ones are for Window Media Player 7 and something called Mediascience Sonique.

Do WinAmp skins have to be rectangular?
posted by jfuller at 12:51 PM on June 25, 2001

Whoops, sorry, that link doesn't go direct to the skins either. Over on the left side, under "The Factory", click on "Our Portfolio." They're organized in pages of five.
posted by jfuller at 12:54 PM on June 25, 2001

Their skins might be nice (I've yet to find any) but their website design skills suck. I've clicked on just about everything on that page and have found nothing interesting.
posted by milnak at 12:55 PM on June 25, 2001

Huh. Nothing could make WiMP worth my time.

I like RealJukebox skins.
posted by jragon at 12:55 PM on June 25, 2001

That site is such an obvious rip-off of The Iconfactory.
posted by dayvin at 12:56 PM on June 25, 2001

jragon--
not even a decent player that can handle media and not make everything look fuzzy and gross while buffering 100 times each minute?
posted by dogmatic at 12:58 PM on June 25, 2001

I swear, there's nothing there to actually download. Jfuller, you did notice the frameset means that index2.asp is the only URL that appears in the address bar, no matter where you click?

There's a "downloads" section, but that leads to the players at their vendor sites. There's a demos section. There's a guidelines section.

I'm afraid this site IS all hype, unless somebody can come up with actual "skins". They may create them for some high-falutin' clients, but they don't make 'em available here.
posted by dhartung at 2:12 PM on June 25, 2001

i think the design is nice, and the skins are great, although i really cant stand WMP7.0.

dayvin- i looked at the iconfactory site and it was not even close in design... ?

for those who cant find the skins - just go to the portfolio section - if you look closely you will see a bolded link that says "Download this skin".
posted by skinjob at 2:23 PM on June 25, 2001

"not even a decent player that can handle media and not make everything look fuzzy and gross while buffering 100 times each minute?"

fuzzy = encoding & connection
buffering = encoding & conection

next...
posted by fooljay at 4:02 PM on June 25, 2001