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I just read the sticky but still confused about skin selection.

I put the path to Askin,vlt in the box with no result.

Does the other phrase give a menue of the stores skins in the skins folder.

I'm just trying to install a new skin permanently. What has happend is
running Skins2 gives the black and white, or I've dragged the
Askin into the vls basic and it only holds for one load.

Please give the exact pathname to paste into the dialog.

From the sticky:

- open the preferences, and in the 'Interface --> General' section change the 'Interface module' from 'Default' to 'Skinnable interface' (in the dropdown control, not in the checkbox). Do not forget to save the preferences, and then restart VLC.

This will make the skins interface the default one. Once this is done (i.e. when you start VLC you have a skin, not the default interface with a menu bar), you can change the skin to use ASkin.

Ok, I found it, made the change from the dropdown box and then
restarted.

Loading VLS this time had the Aslan skin active.

The skin2 option is still confusing though. To make another change,
I don't see the skin2 reading the downloaded skins in the skins folder
anyplace. Shouldn't all installed skins appear on a menu someplace?

I ask this because if I wanted to make a change, I still don't know how to
do it.

If you place the skins in the "skins" directory of VLC installation (or in the "skins" sub-directory of the configuration directory, for example ~/.vlc/skins on Linux), the skins will be listed in the popup menu, when you right-click on the current skin to change it. But if you choose "Open skin..." in the popup menu (or use the Ctrl-S shortcut), you will be able to select a skin from anywhere on your drive, and this skin will be remembered from one session to the next until you change the skin again.

Ok I see that now.

Pretty cool.

Additional question for streaming audio is that the skins nor the
default shows buffering when an audio dropout occurs. Winamp
shows a buffered percentage until the stream catches up as does
Real Alternative- Real One.