In January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them. Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension, so I tried extracting their files to see what I could find.
This all aligned perfectly with my love of Winamp, my love of found items and was enabled by storing all the data I have about these skins in an sqlite database (as discussed on Hacker News).
Another was called bobs_car.wsz and, as advertised, contained just this picture, which I have to assume is the titular “Bob’s car”.
I took the opportunity to learn about tools for brute forcing passwords in zip files. Soon enough, I cracked it, and found its contents:
Another one had been created by a dad in Thailand who made an Adobe Illustrator mock up illustration of a Winamp skin he had designed as a gift to his two and a half year old son. But he didn't know how to make it a skin, so he sent it to winamp.com (along with a text file letter) asking that it be made into a skin that he could use. The letter was very touching but he asked them not to share the skin, so I have not included it here.