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General => Skins => Topic started by: ariszlo on April 02, 2021, 04:11:47 PM

Title: Installing Quinto v3.6 for WACUP
Post by: ariszlo on April 02, 2021, 04:11:47 PM

Quinto Black CT (https://winaero.com/download-quinto-black-ct-a-winamp-skin/) is the best skeuomorphic (https://99designs.com/blog/creative-inspiration/truly-lickable-skeuomorphic-designs/) Winamp skin for modern desktops, imho. In his 2018 blog entry, dro mentions (https://getwacup.com/blog/index.php/2018/04/20/21-years-of-winamp/) it as one of the "two skins that stand out from the last year".

Unfortunately, Quinto's installer is not WACUP-friendly. It only recognizes one installation path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins

This post will guide you how you can install Quinto for WACUP in the following two scenarios:

• You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine.
• You only have WACUP and do not want to install Winamp just for the sake of Quinto.

1. You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine

• Launch the installer and install Quinto for Winamp.
• Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins

Do not remove Quinto from Winamp because certain features will only work if Quinto finds the appropriate makis in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins\Quinto Black CT v3.6\SCRIPTS

2. You only have WACUP (and do not want to install Winamp)

• In File Explorer, go to C:\Program Files (x86)
• Create a new folder named Winamp
• Enter the newly created Winamp folder and create a new folder named Skins
• Copy winamp.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup to C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp*
• Launch the installer and install Quinto into the Winamp directory
• Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins

Do not delete the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins because certain features will only work if Quinto  can find the appropriate makis in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins\Quinto Black CT v3.6\SCRIPTS

*You do not really need the real winamp.exe. It is in fact enough to create a 0-byte plain text file with the filename winamp.exe.

Title: Re: Installing Quinto v3.6 for WACUP
Post by: dro on April 03, 2021, 01:14:52 AM

Well that completely explains why some have been having issues getting it installed even with normal winamp installs if it's assuming a fixed path which would also break things on 32-bit versions of Windows (i.e. XP for those running retro setups).

-dro