Digg Winamp Skin
Here is something I wanted to do for a long time. There are two things that I need a fix every single day; a source for what's popular online and, of course, food for the soul - music! Being a design and usability conscious person, I look for the cleanest and the fastest ways of doing things. In this case, the weapons of choice are Digg and Winamp.Digg is a site that I check to find interesting news submitted and "dugg" by users. I think the reason why it is the most successful social bookmarking site on the web is not only because it is a democratic system where users have the editorial control over front page material, but also because the design and usability is perfect. There is nothing to criticise! Its functional, user friendly design is removed of all the unnecessary clutter and elements you don't need.
Winamp has focused on four primary design tenets that drive its success: Continued focus on the size and performance of the player itself, support for the widest range of audio and video formats of the major players, unique features for the audiophile looking for the highest quality output from a digital media player and a design architecture that allows as much community-driven extensibility as possible. Enough said!
Now, let's make some fusion! Inspired by the Digg WMP skin I found yesterday, and after 5 hours of pixel play in MS Paint, I made the Digg Winamp Skin:
9 thoughts:
I just did an overhaul to my pc after a format of my hhd and clean install of xp and I decided to go for something a bit more lite than iTunes, my previous media player, bc of all my music and it started craxhing after I found the ONE plugin for a skin and I went for winamp, LOVE IT... THen you posted this, lol. I've only owned a pc for about 8 months now and thats my history on the internet. Im serious, newbie at it all, i catch on quick... SO if you have ANY recommendations on other things I can do for fun, e.g. winamp and digg, PLEASE POST. ( i picked through the post with you suggestions of programs to use and found it useful) BTW, a side note, I use liteshell instead of explorer.exe and I prefer it over all. blah
I'm iTune user and nothing is going to make me change!.. :P
Full Screenshot of the Skin.
Minimal Screenshot of the skin and the way I like to use it.
Btw, it is my music taste but something must be there in order to show you how it looks when working.
I don't use winamp but the design great...
Hey Ilker,
Nice design. I'll have to check out winamp.
K.I.T
Ms. Latina Renee
I would have to disagree on one point about digg.
it's slow.
i'm sure this is mainly to do with the traffic but still.
Pifko made a slightly edited version of the original Digg Winamp Skin. He says that "on most skins there is an icon in the bottom right to show the Media Library. I've just used the thumbs up icon so it's a bit easier to navigate." Here is the screenshot and the link for direct download. Enjoy!
@Anonymous: Yeah, Digg seems to be slow at times. Also I found out that some people consider it to be rigged!
Seems like there is more to be discovered about Digg. I feel bad now that I promoted Digg in this post but have a look at what the topic of discussion was 155 days ago:
1. 'Democratic'? 'User-driven'? These do not describe Digg
2. Is Digg being Rigged? More data..
3. The Downfall of Digg
If you read the comments, it shows that there are quite a few people who are disturbed from the censorship taking place.
Maybe it is time we switch to Netscape.
What do you think? Post your thoughts..