Saturday, August 8, 2009

Changing Audacious Skins/Using Winamp Skins in Audacious

Linux has an abundance of MP3 Players, most popular being, Amarok, RhythmBox, Xmms, Audacious and so on. Totem is the default player for Gnome, and Amarok for KDE. The development of Bmp stopped last year.
Audacious is a good substitute for Xmms and very fast.

Audacious installation is very easy in Ubuntu (sudo apt-get install audacious). Now, the good thing about Audacious is that it can use the skins of Winamp. Wow! And how we do that?

Extract the winamp skin file and copy it to "/usr/share/audacious/Skins/" and (NOT "~/.audacious/Skins" which is being told on many sites on the Internet).

To do it, open your terminal of choice. On default Ubuntu installations the gnome-terminal is available under the main Applications>Accessories menu. Type or copy+paste the following and then enter your superuser password:

sudo nautilus /usr/share/audacious/Skins/

When you paste the skins in this directory, you will immediately see them in the Skins List in the Audacious player. If not, then press the small Refresh button over there. Or simply, restart the Audacious player.
Enjoy! :D

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