I also like the new bento skin and I completely switched to it, but there one thing I don’t like about it. There’s no visual indication about where the focus is (main panel, media library, playlist… ?) and you can’t keep the focus always on the playlist.

That bothered me at first as well, but I’ve grown accustomed to the way the new skin works. They should still add some sort of indication to the Bento skin that lets users know which panel is selected.

Note that (on my computer) it only worked when the Winamp window was NOT maximized. If it was, the window simply disappeared (even if I maximized it after activating the easter egg) and I had to right click on the windows taskbar to close and restart Winamp.

I also like the new bento skin and I completely switched to it, but there one thing I don’t like about it. There’s no visual indication about where the focus is (main panel, media library, playlist… ?) and you can’t keep the focus always on the playlist. With previous skins, you could always use Ctrl-Tab to switch between the different parts of the window, which is useful because there are different shortcuts for each parts, and sometimes the same shortcut has different effects in different panels (e.g. Ctrl-A means “always on top” in the main panel, but it means “select all” in the playlist).

With the bento skin, there’s no shortcut (that I know of) to switch between the different panels, and if you switch to another window then come back to Winamp, the focus always returns to the main panel, which I find a bit annoying, since I mainly use shortcuts related to the playlist. So I have to click on the playlist to give it focus again and use these shortcuts (for instance : “Up/Down arrow” to navigate, “Del” to remove selected entry, “Ctrl-Shift-1/2/3″ to sort the playlist, “Shift-Del” to remove duplicates, “Space” to bring currently playing item into view, “Insert” to add a directory to the playlist, “Ctrl-A” to select all entries, and so on).

Oh that was fun. I noticed that it works in other modern skins too. It looks like it throbs to the beat of the playing song. Probably like a visualizer. Cool nonetheless. Any way to make it permanent?

I was kind of thinking the same thing, but I haven’t seen any mention of making it permanent.

I tried that and it didn’t work for me. Oh well, I think it’s just as easy to restart the player.

Microsoft did do a really nice job with Windows Media Player 11, but I also think Winamp’s new Bentoo skin is really nice.

I hope this program gets cleaned up in time when I get Vista with my new laptop.

One more thing…for my songs without album art cover. Winamp uses other songs’ album covers for the wrong song…for instance. My song “Dreams of an Absolution” dosen’t have an album cover. Winamp dosen’t use the “No Photo” like WMP 11 dose but it uses the “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” cover.