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Title: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 14, 2012, 03:44:35 PM
New to Musicbee? Coming from Windows Media Player 12 ? This would make you switch instantly!!

(http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q429/Silasje1/Untitled-2-8.png)


Download:

https://www.mediafire.com/?1eeudz3wy3mfr9n

Source:

https://www.mediafire.com/?ncgbwxglx6e6107

Changelist:

13 february 2014:
-Mostly smalle gui fixes and source cleanup

31 january 2013:
-Added new spectrum

16 juni 2013:
-Fixed the shuffle button highlight problem
-Tweaked the allignment in player bar
-Renamed source folder and skin

How to install:
Copy/Unzip the  WMP12v6.xmlc file into:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\Skins
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: Blinghound on April 14, 2012, 08:13:55 PM
I love the progress bar! I think its good you put the buttons on the side as opposed to the centre as in WMP, I think the playing track details deserve to be displayed in the middle. Keep it up!
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: SimonBRT on April 18, 2012, 02:48:30 AM
looks real nice so far....
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: SimonBRT on April 18, 2012, 07:03:37 PM
just downloaded the beta version.  looking very promising.  the progress bar and player controls are great.  plenty of work still to go - keep it up!
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: Steven on April 18, 2012, 08:28:22 PM
for the type of layout you are using where you have the progress bar occupying the entire width, you can achieve better vertical centering of fonts using a new element called: PanelMinusProgressBar
Code
<top relativeTo="PanelMinusProgressBar.VerticalCenter" offset="2" />

(it doesnt do horizontal centering for the track info panel before you ask!)

also if you are using the original dusk skin as the basis for this, its better to not have extra blank pixels above the progress bar otherwise that distorts the spacing calculations

you need to use an updated skincreator.exe which is in this zip:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tou6xfccdfhi4u3
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: SimonBRT on April 21, 2012, 04:34:19 AM
this is progressing well.  don't want to comment much until it becomes more complete.  anything i mention now you are probably planning on fixing anyway!
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: SimonBRT on April 23, 2012, 08:39:01 PM
Hey Silas, looking really great!  I have a few thoughts...

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6760/temp1cp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/temp1cp.jpg/)

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1. The grey in the column headers bar looks a little out of place.  Is it possible to make it some shade of blue but still stand out sufficiently?
2.  I think there needs to be a little more contrast on the command buttons to highlight them a little more.
3. (not shown) In artwork view the pale blue highlight around the selected picture is barely noticeable.
4. The last.fm button looks great but i'm not sure if its stands out too much with the red or black background.  It doesn't quite match the feel of the other buttons next to it...
5.  The menu's are all still grey, perhaps they should have blue backgrounds to match the skin?
6.  The new tab and forward/back navigation buttons are maybe a little dark.
7.  Are you planning on allowing skin windowless borders?  What you have done currently in that it maximises space and still allows aerosnap is great but visually i'm just not too keen on it.  Personally I have MB always maximised or minimised so love windowless borders.

Hope none of this seems like criticism, its not!  The skin is already looking fantastic, i'm just nitpicking...
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 23, 2012, 09:09:54 PM
Hey Silas, looking really great!  I have a few thoughts...

(http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6760/temp1cp.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/temp1cp.jpg/)

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1. The grey in the column headers bar looks a little out of place.  Is it possible to make it some shade of blue but still stand out sufficiently?
2.  I think there needs to be a little more contrast on the command buttons to highlight them a little more.
3. (not shown) In artwork view the pale blue highlight around the selected picture is barely noticeable.
4. The last.fm button looks great but i'm not sure if its stands out too much with the red or black background.  It doesn't quite match the feel of the other buttons next to it...
5.  The menu's are all still grey, perhaps they should have blue backgrounds to match the skin?
6.  The new tab and forward/back navigation buttons are maybe a little dark.
7.  Are you planning on allowing skin windowless borders?  What you have done currently in that it maximises space and still allows aerosnap is great but visually i'm just not too keen on it.  Personally I have MB always maximised or minimised so love windowless borders.

Hope none of this seems like criticism, its not!  The skin is already looking fantastic, i'm just nitpicking...
1. Yes this can be tweaked :)
2. Uhm isnt it already visible enough? But will make it a bit more darker anyways
3. I have to look into it never use th album view.
4. I think i will leave the LAST.FM buttons... maybe i will make them aprox 1/2 pixels smaller to see if it looks slim
5. They will be fixed sorta. The menu color you see here will be blue but the menu after hovering over it will be grey since it is in wmp 12 too
6.Yep, they can be easily be tweaked... just need to trail and error.
7. I dont know what you mean whit this... you got a sample screenhot?
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: Blinghound on April 23, 2012, 11:01:17 PM
This is really coming on brilliantly! Well done  ;)

As SimonBRT said, I think the grey column headers should be a shade of blue. Also, would the grey headers on the left navigation panel look better if they blended into the panel colour? The only other slight annoyance I also encountered when making my bitmap based skin was the fact that I could never get the shuffle and repeat buttons to line up properly vertically - or is it just my eyes?  ;D I'm now using this as my primary skin atm, cheers!
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 24, 2012, 10:27:50 AM
This is really coming on brilliantly! Well done  ;)

As SimonBRT said, I think the grey column headers should be a shade of blue. Also, would the grey headers on the left navigation panel look better if they blended into the panel colour? The only other slight annoyance I also encountered when making my bitmap based skin was the fact that I could never get the shuffle and repeat buttons to line up properly vertically - or is it just my eyes?  ;D I'm now using this as my primary skin atm, cheers!

Thanks :)
I will fix somethings next wednesday i think.... the vertical allignment is a bit diffrent because you have diffrent images and thus a diffrent look.
So color fixes are on they way soon.
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 25, 2012, 08:24:28 PM
Have added no artwork images and a custom splash screen. FEEDBACK WANTED GUYS :) did a nice update so please gove something back  :-*
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: Steven on April 25, 2012, 08:50:09 PM
first off i think what you have done is great but for my tastes the use of blue is now too much.
But colour preferences are a very personal thing and if you feel it is right then stick with it! Having a look WMP just now they make use of black. I dont know if that would work or not with your skin, but maybe worth trying out
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 25, 2012, 09:41:38 PM
first off i think what you have done is great but for my tastes the use of blue is now too much.
But colour preferences are a very personal thing and if you feel it is right then stick with it! Having a look WMP just now they make use of black. I dont know if that would work or not with your skin, but maybe worth trying out
I will need to tweak the library blue to something lighter blue. Wmp12 uses blue as primary color. Wmp11 uses black. Already planned on doeing a black version too
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: SimonBRT on April 26, 2012, 07:07:06 AM
havent had time in to look at the latest version yet but i will post something when i can... 
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: Steven on April 26, 2012, 09:01:17 PM
first off i think what you have done is great but for my tastes the use of blue is now too much.
But colour preferences are a very personal thing and if you feel it is right then stick with it! Having a look WMP just now they make use of black. I dont know if that would work or not with your skin, but maybe worth trying out
I will need to tweak the library blue to something lighter blue. Wmp12 uses blue as primary color. Wmp11 uses black. Already planned on doeing a black version too
just to be clear, i am just suggesting to try making the column headers black not the whole skin
Title: Re: [DEV] - WMP Skin
Post by: silasje1 on April 27, 2012, 11:52:03 AM
first off i think what you have done is great but for my tastes the use of blue is now too much.
But colour preferences are a very personal thing and if you feel it is right then stick with it! Having a look WMP just now they make use of black. I dont know if that would work or not with your skin, but maybe worth trying out
I will need to tweak the library blue to something lighter blue. Wmp12 uses blue as primary color. Wmp11 uses black. Already planned on doeing a black version too
just to be clear, i am just suggesting to try making the column headers black not the whole skin

Ahh ok... i will make a dark version for the 'lovers' WMP 11 has a black layout and WMP 12 Blue...
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: ma_t14 on May 04, 2012, 04:28:37 PM
As good as finished:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wn9vb24nvd3mvno

no big changes just color fixes

Waiting for skinned borders  :)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 04, 2012, 05:48:23 PM
As good as finished:
Download in TS

no big changes just color fixes

Waiting for skinned borders  :)

Not really my taste... WMP12 uses windows buttons itself... so see no good point on using them... but please enlight your opinoin so you would convince me?
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: Steven on May 04, 2012, 07:01:25 PM
looks good - it has a nice light feel about it. Only suggestions would be when you have multiple tabs open (horizontal - vertical looks good), the background for the tabs bar doesnt fit in my opinion. Also the whole x button in a tab blacks out on mouse over which doesnt seem right.
Is it intentional that the library explorer header is black? It looks good but its the only panel that uses black that i could see
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: ma_t14 on May 15, 2012, 11:16:12 AM
Please add this to Musicbee. I think it is finished.

Download is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?20e0c8in9r2yhq4

There is no highlight when selecting nodes in the left side panel. (e.g Music, Inbox, Playlists etc)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 17, 2012, 10:27:14 AM
Fixed the highlight part and auto centered the current track name. Please give some feedback since it seems to have some rough edges

Download in TS

-Updated topic start with new images and changelog


New update!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: ma_t14 on May 17, 2012, 11:32:48 AM
Fixed the highlight part and auto centered the current track name. Please give some feedback since it seems to have some rough edges

http://www.mediafire.com/?iars335sca8sjh1

-Updated topic start with new images and changelog

Can you please make it so that is uses the new "whole line" hightlight? Thanks

Also the colour of the love button when you select a track should not be red if the track is not loved... It's a bit misleading this way  ::)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 17, 2012, 12:09:42 PM
Fixed the highlight part and auto centered the current track name. Please give some feedback since it seems to have some rough edges

Download in TS

-Updated topic start with new images and changelog

Can you please make it so that is uses the new "whole line" hightlight? Thanks

Also the colour of the love button when you select a track should not be red if the track is not loved... It's a bit misleading this way  ::)

Fixed:
Download in TS

Someone has a good testimonial :P?
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: boroda on May 18, 2012, 04:54:59 AM
Someone has a good testimonial :P?
Yes, I have. ))
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 18, 2012, 07:30:48 AM
Someone has a good testimonial :P?
Yes, I have. ))
Would you share it?  :D

edit:

added new screenshots in TS

Edit2:


Download in TS]

Fixed pause button being a bit too big :P
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 22, 2012, 09:36:47 AM
Fixed a Auto DJ header color problem and added default autodj icons (havent seen them in the player at all yet but they are there)

Downloads in TS
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: Blinghound on May 22, 2012, 12:22:30 PM
Well done Silas  :) I'm enjoying it!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 22, 2012, 12:54:34 PM
Well done Silas  :) I'm enjoying it!

Im glad you do :) Thanks for the love ;D
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 24, 2012, 01:38:05 PM
Latest update!

I reccomend updating with newest MB update.

Download in TS

Source will be up in a bit ;) Show me some love :P

Edit:
Source is Up!

Also added new screenshots in TS (topic start)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 26, 2012, 11:10:49 AM
Fixes a Offset problem in the Shuffle icons.

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Also new Auto DJ icon

new source:
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download in TS/OP
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 27, 2012, 08:13:45 PM
Redone the Mini Player so it looks slik. Small color fixes in the player itself

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Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 28, 2012, 07:28:00 PM
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New version with:
-New icons (thanks to Mikebo for all icons, changed 2 to the WMP 12 icon)
-NEW BG2 and BORDER added on multiple places.
-Changed some color and inactive colors to be nicer to view.

Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 28, 2012, 08:08:03 PM
Hotfix:
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adds a new progressbar which isnt too grey
fixed a white pixel in progressbar due too a wide image.

sorry for the mass updates im doing :) im going to slow it down now... just big releases
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: azeal on May 31, 2012, 03:43:55 PM
First of all I have to thank you very much for this theme! I always loved musicbee but I liked how wmp looked much more, and now I can't even say it anymore and musicbee is the best of the best  ;D
Anyway, I think the background of the artwork view should be light blue like the others view and not gray, which is a bit out of style with the rest of the skin. Also, I noticed that the play/pause button should bigger than the previous/next buttons, while is almost smaller, and that maybe the red of the lastfm icon is too outstanding and perharps it would look better if there was only the symbol of lastfm and not the whole square. In the end maybe the autodj icon should be smaller to fit best. They're only suggestions though  :) Thank you for your hard work!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on May 31, 2012, 05:18:43 PM
First of all I have to thank you very much for this theme! I always loved musicbee but I liked how wmp looked much more, and now I can't even say it anymore and musicbee is the best of the best  ;D
Anyway, I think the background of the artwork view should be light blue like the others view and not gray, which is a bit out of style with the rest of the skin. Also, I noticed that the play/pause button should bigger than the previous/next buttons, while is almost smaller, and that maybe the red of the lastfm icon is too outstanding and perharps it would look better if there was only the symbol of lastfm and not the whole square. In the end maybe the autodj icon should be smaller to fit best. They're only suggestions though  :) Thank you for your hard work!

Your welcome :)

Artwork view grey? it is blue here :) Make a screenshot pointing this out please.

I know the Play/Pause buttons would be alot bigger indeed ... but i dont think it would look good due to the small player bar height

The Last.FM icon i made is either had or like :P sorry wont change that

AUTO DJ icon? you mean the shuffle etc button? it is the same afaik
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: azeal on June 01, 2012, 12:46:46 AM

Your welcome :)

Artwork view grey? it is blue here :) Make a screenshot pointing this out please.

I know the Play/Pause buttons would be alot bigger indeed ... but i dont think it would look good due to the small player bar height

The Last.FM icon i made is either had or like :P sorry wont change that

AUTO DJ icon? you mean the shuffle etc button? it is the same afaik


That's what I mean:
Here's blue
(http://i.imgur.com/5ubWIl.png)

and here's gray (artwork view, sorry, that's italian)
(http://i.imgur.com/FCm3bl.png)

You're right about the play button.. maybe it could be resized the next/previous buttons then? o.o
Ok for lastfm xD Is it possible to change it myself?
Yes, that's what I mean, I see that on other skins looks a bit smaller
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 01, 2012, 01:58:26 AM
I see the grey color now yes. Will be fixed.
You can make the last.fm icon smaller by using the source download link. It should be clear enough what to do than
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: azeal on June 01, 2012, 01:02:07 PM
Thank you very much, I'm looking forward to see it :D
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 01, 2012, 01:50:44 PM
Thank you very much, I'm looking forward to see it :D
Updated:
1 June:
-Fixed gray background in album view
-Fixed some more small bugs in album view
-A bit lighter track color now
Edit:
-Removed some borders to make the top adress bar look smoother.

Download is in OP
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: azeal on June 01, 2012, 05:21:23 PM
Thank you, that's great :) though I liked the previous track color best xD (but that's just my taste)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 05, 2012, 01:00:11 PM
SMall fixes:

-Added support for the menu button
-Reverted track color
download is in Topic Start

NEW source!

add new screenshots
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: Nikkel on June 17, 2012, 02:07:26 PM
nice! i'm going to try it out  ;D
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 17, 2012, 05:56:24 PM
Great to hear ! Please report any questions or  bugs ;)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: VX on July 14, 2012, 11:16:54 AM
I don't like WMP12 nor use it, but this skin is simply great  :) It's very professional and well designed.

It deserves to be distributed with MB 2.0 as it could help some newcomers to switch form WMP to MB.

Thanks Silas  :)
 
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on July 14, 2012, 12:04:57 PM
Thanks for the love man! Im still liking the Skin and use it for daily use. Just need to update it if there are updates. But it is very stable (? ehh well finished)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on October 07, 2012, 07:43:53 PM
New to Musicbee? Coming from Windows Media Player 12 ? This would make you switch instantly!!



Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?kgq5a35ccb5a53l

Source:

http://www.mediafire.com/?0ac8ttdz0d4ms6j/b]

Changes since 11 June:

-New progressbar from WMP12 (not the one i made myself in v1 and v2)
-Progressbar on top now
-New rating colors to try matching WMP12
-Small general fixes
EDIT:
-Hotfix to solve no clickable player controls
-Improved some layout things


I updated the first post to give to guys a new fresher look for MB :) Dont be affraid to thank me =]
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: Steven on October 07, 2012, 07:57:01 PM
looks really good now and very professional.
I dont see the button on the progress bar like in your picture (not that it matters as it still looks good)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on October 07, 2012, 07:58:34 PM
i will look into that ;)

edit:
i cant click my player control buttons?

fixeD!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on October 07, 2012, 09:12:48 PM
I did some quick fixes! please look in first post!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: stopbrickwalling on December 22, 2012, 07:11:22 AM

Silas, this WMP skin is wonderful!  I am coming over from WMP and this makes me feel at home.

Is there anyway to have a sort by first letter separator line like in the art view of WMP?
My understanding is that the MB program does not allow it, but I would love to have that as an option.
Just thought I would ask since you have done such a great job channeling the WMP look on this skin and would know what I am speaking of.

Thanks again!

(http://www.mediafire.com/conv/1c4fc37eddada3d2a3b12668495a4edf6bb42c50ebace65f7c09b4c13a0ccbbe6g.jpg)

Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on December 22, 2012, 09:35:02 PM

Silas, this WMP skin is wonderful!  I am coming over from WMP and this makes me feel at home.

Is there anyway to have a sort by first letter separator line like in the art view of WMP?
My understanding is that the MB program does not allow it, but I would love to have that as an option.
Just thought I would ask since you have done such a great job channeling the WMP look on this skin and would know what I am speaking of.

Thanks again!

(http://www.mediafire.com/conv/1c4fc37eddada3d2a3b12668495a4edf6bb42c50ebace65f7c09b4c13a0ccbbe6g.jpg)



i think thats nearly impossible for me :) There must be done some coding first i think. I can try and see what happens though
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: stopbrickwalling on December 22, 2012, 11:02:12 PM

Silas, I think  you are probably correct about the coding part.  I just figured you would be the person to ask because you have done a great job on this skin.

There is a separator line in the track detail view, just not in the artwork view and that is pretty much where I live.

I wish there was an option to list the artist/album info to the right of the artwork like in WMP but I assume that's probably a coding thing as well.

Keep up the good work!
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on January 31, 2013, 06:43:41 PM
New Spectrum added since it looked ugly and was broken. Download in First post -> http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=6207.msg35432#msg35432
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 16, 2013, 03:18:35 PM
Made some fixes for Musicbee 2.1.

Changes:
16 juni 2013:
-Fixed the shuffle button highlight problem
-Tweaked the allignment in player bar
-Renamed source folder and skin

Download is in first post:
http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=6207.0
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: VX on June 19, 2013, 06:37:08 AM
This is one of the best skins for MusicBee I've ever used. I've never used Windows Media Player but I like this skin for MB a lot.
Thanks for the update  :)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on June 19, 2013, 08:37:42 AM
This is one of the best skins for MusicBee I've ever used. I've never used Windows Media Player but I like this skin for MB a lot.
Thanks for the update  :)

Thanks alot for the feedback :)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: silasje1 on February 13, 2014, 02:52:22 PM
did some really small things with GUI and some icons. source code is also cleaned ;)

Enjoy the WMP12 skin which still looks like WMP of course
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: hbenthow on May 07, 2018, 06:44:59 PM
Does anyone know how to enable the stop button in this skin? I know that it can be done, as another user showed that he did it. However, he never explained how he did it, and apparently may no longer be active on the site. The thread showing that someone did it can be found at the link below.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233 (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233)
Title: Re: WMP12 Skin
Post by: redwing on May 07, 2018, 07:44:18 PM
Does anyone know how to enable the stop button in this skin? I know that it can be done, as another user showed that he did it. However, he never explained how he did it, and apparently may no longer be active on the site. The thread showing that someone did it can be found at the link below.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233 (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233)

I replied to your original post: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20233.msg145264#msg145264