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Title: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on July 04, 2012, 01:09:13 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/4t4s4u1l.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/4t4s4u1.png)

download Crimson Creme 3.x (https://rebrand.ly/skin_Crimson_creme_3x)


Note:
The current version is only suited for MusicBee v3.x

Older versions for MB v2.x are still available here:
download Crimson Creme 2.x (https://rebrand.ly/skin_Crimson_creme_2x)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on July 20, 2012, 02:30:31 AM
Completely revised now.
No 'greenies' anymore?

Let me know if otherwise.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: beeing good on July 20, 2012, 03:34:37 AM
Very nice skin! Looks all good so far :)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on September 15, 2012, 03:08:25 PM
Updated with some small refinements.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on October 28, 2012, 12:12:55 PM
Updated the 'right drive' version since some proportions seem to have changed a little bit with the latest MusicBee 2.1 update.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: grayin on November 02, 2012, 04:23:35 PM
Really liking this skin.  I found one minor item that is still green in the right drive version that I am using.  If you right click on the Now Playing panel and select Search > Text Search a small search box (find) shows up above the now playing list.  The "X" to close this box to the right is green. 

When I first installed the skin I also had an issue with white on white text for the playing track in the library list view.  This can now be customized in Music Bee under preferences > Now Playing.  So I just changed it to a suitable red.

Thanks again for making this skin.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Nikkel on November 02, 2012, 05:42:40 PM
I really like this skin except for the red/darkpink color.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 02, 2012, 06:20:18 PM
If you right click on the Now Playing panel and select Search > Text Search a small search box (find) shows up above the now playing list.  The "X" to close this box to the right is green.
When I first installed the skin I also had an issue with white on white text for the playing track in the library list view.  This can now be customized in Music Bee under preferences > Now Playing.  So I just changed it to a suitable red.
Thanks again for making this skin.

Thnx for the thnx, and congrats on finding this little green eastern egg ;-)
It's fixed now.
This skin seems to be 'a silent force', not much comments, but one of my most downloaded. (and the one I use myself most often)

PS,
I have no clue why some text was white in your setup.
You mean the playing track when in detailed view?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 02, 2012, 06:21:52 PM
I really like this skin except for the red/darkpink color.

I took off my pink glasses, and still couldn't notice any pink really?
I really think it's 'crimson'.
What would be your preferred colour?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: grayin on November 02, 2012, 08:29:15 PM

PS,
I have no clue why some text was white in your setup.
You mean the playing track when in detailed view?

Yes in the track detail view of the main panel and the now playing list.  I was mainly passing it on in case anyone else sees it.  But now that I think about it maybe it was just something stuck in a setting in my MusicBee.  It won't do it now when I switch skins.   

BTW I could see how some monitors could make this look pink, but on my laptop it is definitely a Crimson red color. :)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Bee-liever on November 03, 2012, 12:38:52 AM
After all this time using this skin, I found a "greenie" when right-clicking a track  :(

(http://i.cubeupload.com/DAO5kn.jpg)

and any Command Buttons I have are white-on-white when highlighted. Is that intentional?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 03, 2012, 10:49:16 AM
After all this time using this skin, I found a "greenie" when right-clicking a track  :(
I'm sorry I made you sad. It's fixed now.
(this greenie doesn't show up in my Windows 'classic' mode)

Quote
and any Command Buttons I have are white-on-white when highlighted. Is that intentional?

Nope, that slightly bothers me too.
I would like it to be something like the buttons in the preferences panel, but they have an "id="Controls.Button.Highlight", and I can't find such an entry for the command buttons. (also not to be found through 'dummy skin')
Do you have a cure?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Steven on November 03, 2012, 11:00:57 AM
is this what you are refering to?
http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=2499.msg42117#msg42117

Panel.CommandButtonOverride
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 03, 2012, 11:14:37 AM
It concerns those buttons indeed, but I think a "highlight" entry would be needed to cure this small problem.
Just hoover over those buttons, and you see what we mean.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Steven on November 03, 2012, 11:17:16 AM
i'll have a look at it when i next revisit skins but it might be some weeks
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Nikkel on November 10, 2012, 08:48:13 PM
I really like this skin except for the red/darkpink color.

I took off my pink glasses, and still couldn't notice any pink really?
I really think it's 'crimson'.
What would be your preferred colour?
LOL! yeah i'm sorry. I meant like dark red/brown. But I didn't even know crimson was the name of a color.
In my opinion with the gray look of the rest turqoise or blue would fit with it.
Like: Bleu de France   #318CE7, CG Blue   #007AA5 or even Dark Electric Blue #536878.

I wonder what it would look like. Maybe it's just me, because i just don't like red.  :-\
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 14, 2012, 10:37:55 PM
You can do that yourself quite easily.
Just open the xml file, and replace the rgb values  111,0,0   130,0,0 and  96,0,0 by the color values of your liking.
(e.g. Notepad++ is handy for that)

This cannot be done for the 'right drive' version, since that is not an editable xml file.
If you want to have the crimson color replaced by another color for that one, let me know the rgb values you want and I'll do it for you.

Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on November 16, 2012, 07:48:24 PM
Updated.

- Added customized colors for the wave bar. (v. 2.1.4702 or higher required)
- Several small improvements
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on February 09, 2013, 06:57:07 PM
Updated
(support for new spectrum visualizer in Now Playing panel)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on February 13, 2013, 06:43:47 PM
Made some slight improvements.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on April 15, 2013, 08:04:01 PM
Updated.
Track info panel and controls are now being re-positioned depending on whether 'spectrum', 'track rating' and 'last.fm love' are displayed or not.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: psychoadept on April 29, 2013, 07:37:05 AM
i'll have a look at it when i next revisit skins but it might be some weeks

was this ever looked at?  I am having similar problems - I can't seem to get the highlight of the command buttons to match the rest of the toolbar, or vice versa.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: jistme on April 29, 2013, 08:30:35 AM
i'll have a look at it when i next revisit skins but it might be some weeks

was this ever looked at?  I am having similar problems - I can't seem to get the highlight of the command buttons to match the rest of the toolbar, or vice versa.

No it hasn't yet.

A similar request I hope will be implemented is a change in behaviour when hoovering over an inactive tab in the right now playing panel.
Currently when you hoover over an inactive tab, the bg color takes the color of the highlighted tab, but the fg color stays the same.
This results in unreadable fg text for some skins.

This could be solved by either a separate fg setting for hoovering over these tabs, or having the fg also taking the color of highlighted tab when hoovering over.

I'll post a link to this in the skin developers topic.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on November 30, 2015, 08:21:06 PM
This skin has been updated.
The download link has also been updated in the starting post of this topic.

Changed:
Under MusicBee v2.x it was not behaving very well with custom font types and sizes for the player info panel.
That should now have been vastly improved, and the skin is now also up to date for 'MusicBee v3demo'
(which is in development and in alpha stage at this moment of writing)

Please feel free to comment, be it good or bad.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on January 20, 2016, 07:25:30 PM
I added an experimental new version of my Crimson Creme skin.

Lots of tweaks, and a brand new player panel.

But, be aware:

- it will only function under MusicBee v3.x
- it will only work with the default font for the main player panel, not with other, or more specifically, larger fonts.

This is because I knowingly broke some rules designing it, so don't report any issues related to this skin to Steven.

The download link can be found in the start post.
 
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: EffenBlue on January 21, 2016, 11:24:33 AM
Looking at the v3 beta, it looks nice but there seems to be a problem with "dimmed/deleted" files in the playing tracks area as shown with the default skin and yours:
(http://i.imgur.com/95GPcTC.gif)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on January 21, 2016, 04:42:57 PM
Looking at the v3 beta, it looks nice but there seems to be a problem with "dimmed/deleted" files in the playing tracks area as shown with the default skin and yours:

Thnx for reporting EffenBlue.
I'll see if there's something I can find that I can do about it.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Steven on January 21, 2016, 05:52:24 PM
@hiccup, you probably dont have the .Disabled variation of the element set or are using 0 alpha for the background
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on January 21, 2016, 06:11:52 PM
@hiccup, you probably dont have the .Disabled variation of the element set or are using 0 alpha for the background

Thanks, but having a quick look that doesn't seem to be the case, but I'm sure you are pointing me in the right direction.

I want to replicate the issue to find the solution, but I have no clue how to invoke such a disabled entry in the Playing Tracks panel?
If I have a deleted track in that panel, I don't get the error from EffenBlue's screenshot, but I get this:

(http://i.imgur.com/8xLyyGWl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/8xLyyGW.png)

So if anybody can explain to me how to invoke a 'disabled' entry in the Playing Tracks panel, please let me know?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: Alumni on January 21, 2016, 06:17:08 PM
So if anybody can explain to me how to invoke a 'disabled' entry in the Playing Tracks panel, please let me know?

Perhaps a radio station, or another kind of streaming?
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on January 21, 2016, 06:22:30 PM
Perhaps a radio station, or another kind of streaming?

Thnx Alumni, getting there now ;-)

(http://i.imgur.com/H96nk6sl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/H96nk6s.png)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on January 31, 2016, 10:06:45 PM
- it will only work with the default font for the main player panel, not with other, or more specifically, larger fonts.

Fixed this, larger fonts will work well now, and the progress bar behaves slightly better.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on February 02, 2016, 10:32:21 AM
Made some more improvements on the version for MusicBee v3.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on May 15, 2016, 05:14:37 PM
Updated with some tweaks and additions.
The download link is in the start post.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on May 09, 2017, 06:33:31 PM
Minor update/tweak
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on June 04, 2017, 09:46:28 PM
Updated.

- The player panel has been improved a bit, and will now remain slim & slender™, also when larger fonts are selected for the main player’s track info.
- A couple of updates for MB v3.1

The download link is in the start post.

(MB v3.1.6363 or higher is recommended)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on July 29, 2017, 02:53:50 PM
updated

(and probably final for MB v3.1)

the download link is in the startpost
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on September 03, 2018, 06:15:48 PM
updated
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on March 11, 2019, 03:27:01 PM
updated for MB 3.2
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on April 07, 2019, 06:39:52 PM
minor update
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on December 25, 2019, 01:39:58 PM
Updated, minor tweaks, device icons added.

(these device icons will only show up in MusicBee v3.4> which is not yet available at this moment)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on December 27, 2019, 07:11:29 PM
Updated again, the Mini Player has been improved.
(needs MB 3.3.7299 or up to display as intended)

My apologies for this forum bomb (again ;-) , but it's probably useful to users of these skins that have subscribed so to get notifications on updates.
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on June 21, 2020, 12:31:20 PM
updated

Main changes:
- The Jukebox view is skinned.
- The readability/contrast of sub-text fields in 'Album and Tracks' view and in the Expanded Album panel is improved.

note: both these updates only function under MusicBee 3.4
(which is currently under development and in alpha release state)
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on April 11, 2021, 09:56:03 AM
updated

improved the contrast/legibility of the text in the status bar
Title: Re: Crimson Creme skin
Post by: hiccup on October 23, 2021, 09:21:10 AM
updated

The last.fm scrobble button can now be hidden.