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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The author touches on this near the beginning-

Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension

So they're treating them like archives and extracting them

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Everything is just a zip file with a different extension

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I take issue with "everything", as most things are not. But it is a common trick when a developer wants to make a "new" file format that encapsulates a bunch of different files.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Everything, including you, is a .zip file.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Transcription is just unzipping your coding

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's just .zip files all the way down

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I just came here to say stuffit.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Seriously though, it's been some time be afaik any microsoft product file that ends in x, .docx, .xlsx, .pbix are all just archives and you can totally interact with them programmatically if you want. Really easy to corrupt them but hey, found it interesting years ago.