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MusicBee & Add-Ons => Customizations => TheaterMode => Topic started by: Bee-liever on December 16, 2013, 05:47:26 AM

Title: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on December 16, 2013, 05:47:26 AM
This is really just a full-screen, scalable version of redwing's old "Home Alone" that I originally modified for my personal use.
With his generous permission I have decided to share it on the forum.

Mod'ernaire

(http://i.imgur.com/pWUvUaq.jpg) (http://imgur.com/pWUvUaq)

controls show with mouse-over of bottom RH of screen

Updates

February 11, 2017:

some of the changes to the original 'Home Alone':

Background image credit:http://www.ewallpapers.eu/w_show/philips-home-theater-1680-1050-5671.jpg (http://www.ewallpapers.eu/w_show/philips-home-theater-1680-1050-5671.jpg)

Download from Theater Mode section of MusicBee Add-ons here (http://getmusicbee.com/addons/s/?type=4)

I use it with my "Faded" skin. Love the throw from old to new  :)
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bigmelwalter on December 17, 2013, 08:23:59 PM
Looks Decent
thanks
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: timelezz on December 17, 2013, 11:04:56 PM
How to install the font?
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on December 18, 2013, 12:55:37 AM
Font installation instructions, in several languages, available here (http://www.dafont.com/faq.php)
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: ropeadope on April 24, 2014, 07:47:59 AM
I don't think you have gotten enough credit for this beautiful theme. Very nice! :)
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: alv117 on October 16, 2014, 07:01:22 AM
Just installed this and I am enjoying it very much,well done!
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Big Mons on December 27, 2014, 02:46:55 AM
I FIGURED IT OUT!
This post can be ignored I suppose....  ::) I feel like a total dumbass. I just now changed MusicBee from a portable install to a full install. Then I fired up Mod'ernaire to see if it would work. I just happened to randomly discover that the controls are "hidden" in the bottom right corner of the screen. Those controls allow me to display the other items on the screen. I don't know if it wasn't working properly in the portable version, or if I just never moved the mouse over the controls in the bottom right. Probably the latter.  :-[
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I'm fairly new to MusicBee; I've only installed one other theater view before this one. With this one, I don't get any controls or the track list or anything. I only see the background with the artist pics on the TV and I guess the "soundgraph/wavebar". I installed the font by double clicking the ttf file and then clicking on "install". The font shows up correctly in Notepad.

EDIT: I installed the files as such (I'm using the portable version):
C:\Users\NAME\Desktop\MusicBee\Plugins\TheaterMode.List\Mod'ernaire.xml
C:\Users\NAME\Desktop\MusicBee\Plugins\TheaterMode.List\SharedArtwork\Home_Theater_1680 x 1050.jpg

Also, a separate question. Inside the artwork folder is a text file with the following instructions:
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By default, a .jpg file with the same name as the settings XML file will be loaded, but you can override this behavior by applying this to the settings file:
<settings backgroundImage="xxx.jpg" />
which will cause the plugin to load xxx.jpg in this folder as the background image
Where is this "settings file"? I don't care for the pic of the table with a flower sitting on it. I'd like to use the image in Mod'ernaire as the default.

EDIT: Sorry, one last edit. I changed the "Default Landscape.jpg" to "Default Landscape.jpg.bak" and then made a copy of the Mod'ernaire pic and named it "Default Landscape.jpg" and that seems to fix that last issue unless that will cause some issue that I'm not aware of.
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on January 01, 2015, 05:43:44 AM
I FIGURED IT OUT!

Sorry I wasn't able to respond sooner, but I'm glad to see you worked it out.  :)
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: weare on January 31, 2015, 07:44:00 AM
very clever, tnx 4 sharing
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on February 11, 2017, 07:14:02 AM
updated to version 1.2

details and link in first post
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: WannaBee on September 26, 2017, 08:42:13 AM
Hi Bee-liever

Thank you, for all your beautiful creations across the site.

I am experiencing a problem after installing my first ever TheatreMode [TM] view, in this case, Mod'ernairre, and I hope you can assist me to sort it out. My first guess is that I have installed Mod'ernairre incorrectly at the very beginning- probably due to not properly comprehending the Wiki-install guide (http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Theater_Mode).

This is how I installed the Theatre Mode, and the sequence of events:

1.] I created two sub-folders in MusicBee > Skins

2.] Inside the Skins folder, I created two sub-folders called:

2.1] TheaterMode.Embeded "sic"
2.2] TheaterMode.List

3.] After downloading it, I extracted Mod'ernairre to the latter folder.

4.] I access Mod'ernairre via the MusicBee Menu > View > Skins > TheatreMode.List > Mod'ernairre

5.] Upon clicking on Mod'ernairre, a MusicBee restart is initiated, but fails due to an "exception" error, that reads:

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The type initializer for '#=qaeYoNAAo4O6oP6qr1XdlCIsqBo3iBfcd2QI5nR3P9bA=' threw an exception.

6.] Renaming the two TheatreMode sub-folders [2.1, 2.2] gets MusicBee started again.

7.] My PC is equipped with Windows 7x64, and the MusicBee version is v3.1.6477.

Noteworthy: I have tried two other TM Views now, with the same results, hence my guess that I most probably have an install error at hand, but how do I correct it?

Thank you.
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on September 26, 2017, 11:54:09 AM
Hi WannaBee  :)
When you unpack the the downloaded zip, you will have a TheaterMode.List folder.
Just copy that entire folder to your existing MusicBee\Plugins folder.
Then, from any skin, you can select
View> Theater Mode> Mod'ernaire
to use it.
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: WannaBee on September 26, 2017, 01:04:21 PM
Hi WannaBee  :)
When you unpack the the downloaded zip, you will have a TheaterMode.List folder.
Just copy that entire folder to your existing MusicBee\Plugins folder.
Then, from any skin, you can select
View> Theater Mode> Mod'ernaire
to use it.


Thank you, Bee-liever. The Plugins-folder is where I started- before trying the wrong folder where I ran into the errors. I have now corrected the TM-install directory as per instruction, but still the TM-option is absent from the View menu. Is there anything else I should perhaps have a look at?
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: Bee-liever on September 27, 2017, 11:11:58 AM
Is there anything else I should perhaps have a look at?
Is the theater mode plugin enabled in Preferences> Plugins?
Title: Re: Mod'ernaire
Post by: WannaBee on September 27, 2017, 01:11:38 PM
Bee-liever, foolish, foolish me.  :-[

Thank you!

...and Mod'ernaire looks smashing!