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