WTF skin

[Sarge]

When I first started making skins it was hard (still is) finding all the correct Element names and places to change the colors.
So I would do a few different things (along with asking help from Rotem.. thanks friend) I would use odd colors that i could try and identify the correct places. It helped me spot where to change things.

So I would jot down all the colors I was using as a guide..and move through the file changing things. After many mistakes and a lot of yelling    " What the %$^#& ! "

I decided to take all those odd colors i used as test colors and put them together into a skin. And I call it WTF skin  (for lack of a better name) . So here are a couple screenshots and a link to download it. If you want.

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Update 4-18-2011 by request I made a small change to the track detail screen. Removed the alternating gray

Skin File:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6vmz7uczgp46iuc

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WTF ! Here are some Testimonies :  

 "I must be sick..I like this..err well sorta" ....by member phred

 "I really can't use this for very long."       .....by member phred

 "I like it... to some extent"                    .....by member VX

  "Pretty psychadelic. It's like a pop art print"  .....by member 9cupsoftea

  "About the skin..it just sucks "             .......by member jackuars

  " If I were still alive...I'd use this skin"         ....... by Pablo Picasso

Album and Track View ( Use this skin when you load up your favorite 60's collection. )


Artwork View


Compact Player

[VX]

You couldn't have found a better name for the skin 

I like it... to some extent  I think it's worth to keep as it shows the unlimited power of skinning in MB.
Furthermore, some colour choices look really great, so the WTF skin could be inspiring for other skin Creators 

And this is the work of Art 

Have a nice day 

[Sarge]

You couldn't have found a better name for the skin 

I like it... to some extent 

Ha ha ha @ "to some extent"   It's like a road accident...it ain't pretty but somehow we slow down and look at it.
To have it as your default skin, you must be Drunk , Stoned , Crazy,   or all 3.

P. S.  It's my default skin.

thanks for the comment.

[9cupsoftea]

Pretty psychadelic. It's like a pop art print.

[Sarge]

Pretty psychadelic. It's like a pop art print.

You're right...it wasn't intentional but after seeing the Album cover for the Montery Pop Festival it almost nails those colors exactly.

Groovy man ..peace n love.   thanks for the comment

[phred]

I must be one sick puppy because I like this.
Errr ... not enough to use it full time, but perhaps when I'm listening to the Woodstock soundtrack.  Or Jimi, or Starship.

And it's a good thing Steven created the Multi-Color folder because if he hadn't I wouldn't know where to put it.

Thanks Sarge.

[Sarge]

I must be one sick puppy because I like this.
Errr ... not enough to use it full time,

   ok so you're only half crazy..it's funny because I just threw a bunch of old 60's tunes in the playlist and was grooving myself.

Plus you can dig out your old Partridge family and Monkees songs also. I won't tell anyone.
thanks for the comment

[phred]

HA!!
While I may (reluctantly) admit to having some Fabian and Frankie Avalon tracks (and the original 45s) I never had anything by the Partridge Family.

Far out, Man.

[Sarge]

Play the full 18 minute version of Iron Butterfly ..In a Gadda Da Vida and stare at the track list. Now that's Far -Out  

p.s. ha ha ha ha @ Frankie Avalon

[Sarge]

Pretty psychadelic. It's like a pop art print.

10 songs to experience with this skin.

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - Electric Prunes

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Journey To The Center Of The Mind - The Amboy Dukes

Psychotic Reaction - Count Five

Over,Under,Sideways ,Down - The Yard Birds

In A Gadda Da Vida (long version)  - Iron Butterfly

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Strange Brew - Cream

Montery - Eric Burdon and the Animals

[phred]

And here's five more in case you're still seeing straight after those...

Sgt Pepper (any track or the entire album) - The Beatles

Something Happened to Me Yesterday - The Rolling Stones

Eight Miles High - The Byrds

Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead

Break on Through - The Doors

[Sarge]

Great list... I think the Beatles was the 1st group to get people buying Albums, until then those 45's were the hot ticket.

And The Doors , I think was the 1st group to break the 4 minute song time barrier on the radio. Until Light My Fire all the popular songs were around 2:50 'ish   in time.

Those 60's and 70's Album covers were awesome back then, wish I kept some. I used to stare at the Sgt.Pepper one And pick out all the stuff on it.. Remember the "Paul is Dead" hoax..  ?   ha

thanx for sharing your list

[phred]

You are correct on all accounts, Sarge.

The Beatles, especially with Sgt Pepper, got folks to consider the album as the thing to buy.  Also Days of Future Past by The Moody Blues, which came out shortly after Sgt Pepper.   And The Who pushed the concept album to new heights with Tommy. 

Yes, The Doors broke the -3- minute barrier with Light My Fire.  I was a (very small time) DJ at the time and I immediately threw away the rule book.  My two hour show would always begin with a Beatles song.  At both half-hour marks I would play a long (>5 minute track) so I could go outside on the fire escape and have a "smoke."  Then at the top of the second hour I would always play a Rolling Stones tune.

I still find things on the Sgt Pepper cover that I've missed.  (Or perhaps had forgotten.  If you remember the sixties you weren't really there.)  At one point I had over 3,000 LPs.  I'm now down to about 700-800.   Plus about 100 45s.  I have less than 50 CDs.  Most of my digital music has been converted from vinyl, which has truly been a pain.  But I know exactly where in a track I'm going to hear a scratch.  And when I listen to that same track on a CD, I find myself waiting for the scratch and never hear it.

[Getting back to the topic at hand...]
While I really can't use WTF for more than a few minutes, I like the reasoning for it's development.  Thanks again.

[Sarge]

While I really can't use WTF for more than a few minutes,

      ha ha ha you're killin me with that. Too much flasback with it on..ha ha ah ha ha
one day that skin will be in a museum and you'll say..oh crap I knew that guy.

That should be a new MB contest....how long can you endure this skin for ?

[Sarge]

I made a change to the Track Detail panel on 4-18-2011
screen shots show the changes.