ZuneSkin [v1.6]

[nohitter151]

Nice, seems to work! Great!!!

Now that the worstproblem is fixed, some other suggestions:
1. Here it looks like the ring in the Zunebutton isn't perfectly centered. Is that intended? Also the play- and and the pause-icon are a bit too much on the right IMHO. It's not a technical problem like in the older versions and it's also not as bad, it's just a graphical thing.
2. Isn't it possible that the 'dot' on the seekbar starts at the beginning and not after about 25 pixel of the seekbar?
3. When you pause the music in MM, then you switch to another program and then back to MM the visualizer needs one or two seconds here to show again. Probably not really a skin but an skinengine 'problem'.

And don't understand me wrong. I already love this script - specially the SP-version. But there's always room for improvements!

1. Actually the ring is perfectly centered - it isn't in the full-sized player skin, but it is in the SP version. Sorry about the play/pause glyph. I've fixed it and re-uploaded the skin.
2. Its possible, but it will be a challenge if I want to keep the "blending" where the white fades to gray. This happens in both versions but of course its much more noticeable with the smaller player. I will try and think of some ideas for a better solution.
3. Yes, a skin engine problem common to all skins. Not much I can do, unfortunately.

Thanks for your kind words/comments/suggestions! Always good to know the skin is being used, and of course, criticisms and suggestions are always welcomed.

[drjboulder]

Looks nice!
The "next" and "previous" buttons seem to be "more" round.

[Mizery_Made]

Something that iritates me about the skin sometimes is the Next/Previous Track buttons. Why? Because if you put your cursor inside the circle, but anywhere above the symbols, your no long 'on the button.' *Scratches Head* I've clicked in this area as I quickly try to skip a track or go back, and get frustrated when I must click again because I missed the button by landing in this area.

Fixable?

[Big_Berny]

Great, thank!

And now I just discovered another thing which was different in the last 1.6, could that be? The time isn't exactly in the corner anymore. Intended?

PErfect skin for me!

[Dreadlau]

Thank you for the new versions and the enhancements Nohitter.

And thank you for the time you take in making this skin pleasing for a max of users.

[nohitter151]

Looks nice!
The "next" and "previous" buttons seem to be "more" round.

Thank you for the new versions and the enhancements Nohitter.

And thank you for the time you take in making this skin pleasing for a max of users.

Great, thank!

And now I just discovered another thing which was different in the last 1.6, could that be? The time isn't exactly in the corner anymore. Intended?

PErfect skin for me!

Thanks to everyone! I couldn't improve anything without your help!
@Big_Berny: No this wasn't intended, thanks for pointing it out. It should be fixed now.

Something that iritates me about the skin sometimes is the Next/Previous Track buttons. Why? Because if you put your cursor inside the circle, but anywhere above the symbols, your no long 'on the button.' *Scratches Head* I've clicked in this area as I quickly try to skip a track or go back, and get frustrated when I must click again because I missed the button by landing in this area.

Fixable?

Yes, its fixable - it will be my #1 priority for the next version.

[rovingcowboy]

Something that iritates me about the skin sometimes is the Next/Previous Track buttons. Why? Because if you put your cursor inside the circle, but anywhere above the symbols, your no long 'on the button.' *Scratches Head* I've clicked in this area as I quickly try to skip a track or go back, and get frustrated when I must click again because I missed the button by landing in this area.

Fixable?

nohitter151 i believe the black images for focus are not stretching i have seen this in some of my skins so i began changing all the black images to the size of the button to make
sure they were click-able anyplace on the button.

[magicalpig]

Hey nohitter, I noticed the volume button on the mini-player has shifted out of center...

Another thing : I think it's been asked before but I can't find the post. Would it be possible to change the design of the browsing bar or whatever you call these. They look like they're not skinned. For example, the royal skins have those bars modified and they look much more part of the custom look as a consequence. Hope you understand what I'm talking about...

And don't you think the kbps indicator feels alone in its corner? I don't have much of a solution to solve this issue apart from grouping it with the title/artist/length zone. Maybe shift the zone a tad up and position the kbps just below with a black-ish color...

Well, now I feel bad about pointing out so many things, but I have MM turned on all the time so I see your skin a lot...

Except for that, the skin is better with each update. I especially like the fact you can stop the equalizer animation on the player if you click on it. I was gonna ask you if it was possible to get rid of this thing when I discovered that I could. Nice (... though if you stop it while a song is playing the animation freezes but doesn't disappear. Sorry, I had to mention it )

Thanks,
Victor.

[nohitter151]

Hey nohitter, I noticed the volume button on the mini-player has shifted out of center...

Another thing : I think it's been asked before but I can't find the post. Would it be possible to change the design of the browsing bar or whatever you call these. They look like they're not skinned. For example, the royal skins have those bars modified and they look much more part of the custom look as a consequence. Hope you understand what I'm talking about...

And don't you think the kbps indicator feels alone in its corner? I don't have much of a solution to solve this issue apart from grouping it with the title/artist/length zone. Maybe shift the zone a tad up and position the kbps just below with a black-ish color...

Well, now I feel bad about pointing out so many things, but I have MM turned on all the time so I see your skin a lot...

Except for that, the skin is better with each update. I especially like the fact you can stop the equalizer animation on the player if you click on it. I was gonna ask you if it was possible to get rid of this thing when I discovered that I could. Nice (... though if you stop it while a song is playing the animation freezes but doesn't disappear. Sorry, I had to mention it )

Thanks,
Victor.

I'm not sure what you mean, I can't find any volume button that is out of center...

Do you mean the track browser?

It seems to match the rest of the skin to me...

Re. the kbps indicator, no, I don't feel like it is alone over there. Its directly above the visualizer and seems to fit well for me. Do the rest of you feel otherwise?

Thanks for the comments, please follow up on my questions for you.

[magicalpig]

Hey nohitter, thanks for taking the time!

The out of center button is this one :



And yeah I meant the track browser. I checked the skin preferences trying to solve the track browsers issue, adding/substracing options (there aren't millions of them anyway) without success. Mine look like that :



And this happens from time to time but minimizing/maximizing seems to resolve the problem :



The kbps position is just a matter of taste I guess... The thing is I don't use the visualizer so it's left alone...

Victor.

[nohitter151]

Oh, so you mean the scroll bars. Yeah, I have them left to take whatever the windows default scroll bars are for now. Some day I'll get inspired and make custom scroll bars, but not for now.

Thanks for showing me the volume bar. I'll try and come up with something better for the next version. I'll also take a look at that weird player resizing bug.

Thanks again!

[magicalpig]

Thank you and sorry for the vocabulary mess-up!!

Victor.

[spacefish]

Re. the kbps indicator, no, I don't feel like it is alone over there. Its directly above the visualizer and seems to fit well for me. Do the rest of you feel otherwise?

I posted earlier on this but you must have missed it.

I don't know. I think it looks kind of cramped where it is. The text is not on the same level as the track title for example; there's no space at the top of the text. Yes, I'm a complete neurotic when it comes to spacing, placement, order, and symmetry. Perhaps if the text were the same shade of grey as the artist name, it would lend the illusion of spacing and I would like it better.

[Guest]

The Position of the kbps indicator looks not very good. Can you move it for example behind the timer?

[nohitter151]

Re. the kbps indicator, no, I don't feel like it is alone over there. Its directly above the visualizer and seems to fit well for me. Do the rest of you feel otherwise?

I posted earlier on this but you must have missed it.

I don't know. I think it looks kind of cramped where it is. The text is not on the same level as the track title for example; there's no space at the top of the text. Yes, I'm a complete neurotic when it comes to spacing, placement, order, and symmetry. Perhaps if the text were the same shade of grey as the artist name, it would lend the illusion of spacing and I would like it better.

Sorry Spacefish, I did miss it! You must have posted that right as I was making my next post, so I didn't even see it.

@All: The general consensus seems to be that it should be under the timer, but don't you think that the left side will be too cramped with it over there?