Winamp skin 4 pack with .tar extension ?

Published on August 12, 2006 By Fairyy~ In WinCustomize Talk

This new winamp skin look pretty good and i'd like to get the other 4 colours. The author left the web site where to download them from..but it says its a .tar extention so I downloaded to my desktop thinking id deal with it later. When I looked at it it says its a Zip...but when I open with winzip nothing is in file. What am I doing wrong ?

The skin ( almond xmmss ) at WC :
WWW Link">Link

The site for the almond xmmss 4 pack: ( skins for applicationss section )
WWW Link

Thanks in advance..although everyones asleep. Guess I'll check back in the morning.

Comments

Jafo

on Aug 12, 2006

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm ...

Jafo

on Aug 12, 2006

That dl is a tar of a tar.

You'll need to extract it then add the suffix then extract again to get the 4 wsz versions inside.

Pain in the bum, really...

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

Pain in the bum, really..

Thanks Jafo - at least I dont feel so dumb now - but not sure how to extract it when it s blank - but i know it download 600 or 800 kbs.

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

Why do people use wierd crap to zip up files - groan.

Jafo

on Aug 12, 2006

Why do people use wierd crap to zip up files - groan.

There's way more than just one compression/archive format than 'zip'. Every man and his dog with [or without] half a brain has formulated his own version....just to make life complicated....

TXpatriot

on Aug 12, 2006

There's a ZIP on the download page. Why not download that one?

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

There's a ZIP on the download page. Why not download that one?

the one at WC is for just the almond version - there are 4 more colours and I wanted one of those for a retro thing im working on. Those are at another site and those are the TAR file i cant open.

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

There's way more than just one compression/archive format than 'zip'. Every man and his dog with [or without] half a brain has formulated his own version....just to make life complicated.

I know - usually its either zip or rar compression..I cant open rar either but usually i just mail them to buzzh58 and he opens and sends back so its open already. But his puter is still out of commision and im out of luck..guess ill have to live with the other 9 billion winamp skins i have - ( who am I kidding - i'll just use foobar )

TXpatriot

on Aug 12, 2006

the one at WC is for just the almond version - there are 4 more colours and I wanted one of those for a retro thing im working on. Those are at another site and those are the TAR file i cant open.

I'm not talking about the WC download. There is a ZIP avaiable on this page
http://simon.porta.hu/Themes/MediaPlayers/Almond%20XMMS%20skin/AlmondXMMSSkin.html

That ZIP contains 5 skins.

Koasati

on Aug 12, 2006

I know - usually its either zip or rar compression..I cant open rar

I don't know what formats WinZip can handle, but there are several free apps available that can handle pretty much all the compression formats. ZipCentral, IZArc, ZipGenius, to name a few....

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

I don't know what formats WinZip can handle, but there are several free apps available that can handle pretty much all the compression formats. ZipCentral, IZArc, ZipGenius, to name a few...

thanks - ill look into those - i never needed anything but winzip before but i notice the rar is coming up more and more these days.

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

I'm not talking about the WC download. There is a ZIP avaiable on this page
http://simon.porta.hu/Themes/MediaPlayers/Almond%20XMMS%20skin/AlmondXMMSSkin.html

Thanks - he must of added that since last night - thats the same page I downloaded from...maybe others couldnt open the file either ...im glad you replied again cos i doubt i would have gone back there a 4th time.

Fairyy~

on Aug 12, 2006

Downloaded and all installed - life is good once again...
thanks again jafo - koasati and p-dok

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