check also the Winamp ClassicPro new skins layout >  http://cpro.skinconsortium.com/

and here you go for the all the Winamp full \lite\  beta \old versions > http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.php

Been to the izotope site but no free version there, only a paid one. So...off to the winamp site and got it from there plus a few skins to play with. To be honest though I saw a lot of skins that are, well, not what I'd call media players. Bulky, too flashy, too much other-worldly stuff.

"not what I'd call media players"

That is funny Uvah, that is what I would have said about xion. There is plenty of simple or plain jane skins. Frankell mentioned the classic pro site. You might like those skins. You can shrink them down to nothing more then the player buttons and when expanded you can have any window you want opened in them, ie eq, album art, playlist, visualization etc. Simply grabbing the corner with your mouse and dragging it smaller will get rid of everything so all you have is a media player.

Thanks JC. I downloaded a couple from the winamp site. I'll check out the other ones Frankell mentioned.

I don't listen to music because it distracts me from my writing and web page making. I had to go back into my downloads store and see what I had. I have an install copy of winamp5622_full_emusic-7plus_en-us I'm not sure if this is pre- or post bloat ware, but it does ask permission to install a winamp tool bar and set the search to AOL (I told it "no", I'll see if "no" means "no")

yeah you can really go minimal with the Corner Amp skin  (just chose one of the desktop corners, see mine at bottom-right)

or you can go even more minimal with the Winamp Tray Control which is bundled with Winamp 5.57 and above

I'm using this icon pack http://www.winamp.com/plugin/nullsoft-tray-control-plug-in-icon-pack/222396

It's also supposed to work, or at least at some point used to work, with Quintessential Player (aka QCD or QMP).

http://www.quinnware.com/

I've never used that, I have no idea what it might be like.

Dave I am not a WMP fan and therefore I am not familiar with configuring it. Have you used this with WMP? I bet it would do great things for that player.

In terms of sound and interface, it worked the same as it does on WinAmp.  It worked "ok" with WMP, though not as stable as it is with WinAmp.  WMP would sometimes get its "I've had a problem and disabled all plugins" states.  I'm guessing the problem was WMP updates that Ozone didn't keep up with, it worked better on the earlier WMP versions.  Most recent WMP I've used it on was WMP11, it ran ok but the "disabled plugins" error was somewhat common.

I quit using WMP altogether a couple of years ago.  Had to start it up just now to see what version I'd used, it was 11.  Loading up your music directories in WMP can screw up your album art in WinAmp.  WMP creates its little art thumbnail files in the directories and points the music files to them, then WinAmp's album art looks horrible (enlarged small images).  Fixing it within WinAmp wasn't as easy as you'd think, not sure that I ever really figured out a way to do it.  Could be some WMP setting, don't know, but I got tired of it, reloaded my music files to the hard drive from scratch (pre-WMP thrashing), and kept WMP out of it.

I've used for years and still use QCD with MADplugin, 24 and 32 bits sound decoding, the integrated crossfader and izotope Ozone for it's real time sound treatment to produce on my logitech 5.1 Z5500 and a xonar Dx a really nice sound. QDC has also some nice skins and is able to run Sonique visualizations almost like it's predecessor.

And talking about skins and visualizations, nothing compares to Sonique with it's transition effect and the responsiveness of it's display plug-ins. I, from time to time, lauch it just for the pleasure of the best one, Rappa, host of each display plug in you could have choosen to use by scripting, managed by duration, transition effect, cycling, etc... It's too bad the sound engine isn't up to it in these days.

Well it's Dec 20th.  Some beautiful human beings have migrated the forum to here:

http://winampforum.com/index.php

The original WinAmp forum is also still accessible as I type this.  Future remains unclear.

I still have QCD somewhere...I used to skin it.

And Sonique was the sexiest looking thing way back when.  A few years ago I attempted to redownload it...and my AV chucked a mental and deleted it....compression algorithm got it nervous.  Then I disabled the AV ...got it to DL...and moved it....re-enabled the AV and it promptly deleted it again...;p

Update here................http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/winamp-will-never-die/

The latest update - http://www.neowin.net/news/its-official-winamp-and-shoutcast-saved-via-radionomy-purchase

Not too shabby. Thanks for the update Hankers.  

Ahh Sonique.. there's an old fave.. I preferred it over Winamp. Would still use it if it played well with anything recent....

Well this is an old thread however winamp might be officially dead. The site has been dead since the takeover. I never thought that I would leave winamp but I now use Foobar2000. It is not as user friendly as other players but you sure can do lots with it if you want more than just a basic player, Here is how I have mine set up. It would look even better if I was able to run WindowBlinds.

That statement made me run right out and download it.    Yes indeed, installed it and it skins right up. That's so ... refreshing.  Don't have time to play with it right now, but it does have my interest.  Thanks for the tip.

If you can find foobar ,fth theme files they are the way to go. fth files are self installers. The majority of skins you find involve copying and replacing files. The theme I did in the screenshot I have as an fth file so if you want it let me know. 

I'm more interested in it using the currently loaded WB theme, which it seems to do extremely well.  I've run it through about a dozen skins, including several of those notoriously dark ones that tend to expose the mismatching of dark text to dark backgrounds or light text to light backgrounds, and it's held up great - seems to skin right across the board.  It does work better if the WB skin is applied before opening foobar, or restarting foobar after changing WB's, else the font sizes might get "off" from the command line images etc., but that's reasonable.

I've been playing with that more than the guts of the player.  The equalizer looks promising and so do the library custom view capabilities.  I'm not going to be dumping WinAmp right away but I think I'll like having this guy around. 

Quoting DaveRI, reply 71

I'm more interested in it using the currently loaded WB theme, which it seems to do extremely well.  I've run it through about a dozen skins, including several of those notoriously dark ones that tend to expose the mismatching of dark text to dark backgrounds or light text to light backgrounds, and it's held up great - seems to skin right across the board.  It does work better if the WB skin is applied before opening foobar, or restarting foobar after changing WB's, else the font sizes might get "off" from the command line images etc., but that's reasonable.

I've been playing with that more than the guts of the player.  The equalizer looks promising and so do the library custom view capabilities.  I'm not going to be dumping WinAmp right away but I think I'll like having this guy around. 

You can add a lot of components from the foobar site that make it even better. There is a better Equalizer you can add too.

Here it is skinned with blinds.

I still just use Winamp 2.9x ]with my skin] as a controller of music while I'm on the comp....nothing completed....and certainly no need to be.

Equalizers and other bling are just that.....and pointless....;)

As pointless as your statement. It must kill you to keep things positive. If ""equalizers and all other bling" was pointless why do millions of people use them including professional studios? Sound shaping/editing has a purpose. Perhaps some of the eye candy is not needed for the home users but if someone likes the appearance than it serves a purpose. People skin their computers and what is the point? It certainly does not make the hardware run better. They do it because they like how it looks so skinning a player is no different. Everyone hears sound differently and flat settings do not work for everyone so that is why there is a need for some of the kit you think is pointless. So go ahead and argue with me if you like but the way my media player looks and sounds serves a purpose for me. If bling is pointless than Stardock should kill Windowsblinds and not even bother releasing the next version.