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Icons / Beecons – 250+ icons for your toolbar buttons

« on: November 05, 2022, 12:03:26 PM »

Now you can have a dedicated icon for every toolbar command.
If you wish to support my work as a creator, consider buying me a coffee

Download
Beecons



© original icons by phosphoricons.com / customized and tailored for MusicBee by T010

How to use
- unzip and copy all icon files to the App Data directory where you installed MusicBee. This is usually found in the path C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\MusicBee\Icons
- open MusicBee
- right-click the toolbar (where the tabs and searchbox reside)
- click Configure Toolbar
- pick a command for the button via the dropdown
- click the ... button to browse and select your preferred icon for this particular toolbar button
- optionally, click the + button to add a new toolbar button and repeat above steps
- click the Update button to save

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General Discussions / My quest to create complete set of toolbar command button icons

« on: October 01, 2022, 02:51:48 PM »

I took upon me the tedious task to find or create a fitting icon for every toolbar command available. I'd like to share with you my progress so far. I know about graphic design but not so much about music technicalities; if you see an icon you think is better represented by another symbol, feel free to critique my work.
Some icons will have alternate versions for the same command.

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Skins / Centrol Dark + Centrol Light — High DPI bitmap skin with centered media controls

« on: September 09, 2022, 04:32:21 PM »

Proudly presenting Centrol Dark + Light, a bitmap skin in two color tones, with centered media controls. An accompanying toolbar icon set is in development.

Please consider this a Beta release, if you find any visual bugs please post your findings, preferably with a screenshot of your MusicBee layout.

Tip: Use MusicBee's built-in automatic Time Of Day skin switcher setting to alternate between dark and light versions throughout your day.

Edit March 23, 2023
Now also available as Black version!

Download:
Centrol Light / Centrol Dark / Centrol Black

Download panel layout file:
Layout



Credits to diego and mvana for providing their skin source files; credits to phosphoricons.com for their icon set.

Download:
Centrol Light / Centrol Dark / Centrol Black

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Skins / Bitmap skin Progressbar stretch issue

« on: August 31, 2022, 09:53:47 AM »

I have this issue where the image used for the progressbar track is being stretched (for 125% Windows scale but issue also occurs on 150% scale) in an undesireable way.
Now I have to admit I do not understand the way the stretchY1 and stretchX1 parameters work, but both are set to value 7 (copied from existing bitmap skin, using same image dimensions). Changing this value does not seem to have any effect for me.

I do provide 100% 150% and 200% variants of the progressbar track image.

Top is the erroneous result, bottom is what is desired:

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Skins / How to allow for 'Progress Bar on Top / Bottom' on bitmap skins?

« on: August 25, 2022, 08:13:48 AM »

I'm basing my bitmap skin on another bitmap skin which already had the progressbar in the middle. But (most) non-bitmap skins have the option to set the progress bar to either Top/Middle/Bottom where the Top/Bottom ones span the entire window width.

Now I can't seem to figure out which code I need to apply to my skin to allow for the Top/Bottom variants fo the progressbar. Tips please?

Side question: how to set the TrackPosition to not be split on either side of the progressbar, but rather combined on one end of it?

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Icons / Mobee – fresh app icon set

« on: August 24, 2022, 08:10:51 AM »

Mobee brings you three new app icons – pick your favorite!

The .ico file contains various sizes from 16x16 up to 256x256 to make sure it looks crisp wherever it is displayed on your system.

Download:
in the Misc section of the Add-ons page

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Skins / Find a skin element's code akin to browser's element inspector?

« on: August 19, 2022, 10:23:20 AM »

I'm using someone's skin files to fully customize it to my liking, however I noticed the skin file does not contain every available skin element's code. Is there a way for me to find out the specific xml code for a certain element when I browse around MusicBee and see some element that I need to style, much like a webbrowser's element picker tool?

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Skins / Bitmap skin support for 125% Windows scale?

« on: August 19, 2022, 10:16:27 AM »

Hello,
I'm in the process of creating a custom bitmap skin but one thing that nags me are the blurry custom icons. Yes, I do provide 3 dpi variants for each image (100% 150% 200%)

My Windows is set to the recommended 125% scale on a non-retina monitor, but MusicBee accepts only either 100% or 150% scale images, while upscaling -- and thus making unsharp -- the provided 100% image if Windows is set to 125%.

Could there be an option/update to MusicBee that either allows skin creators to provide a 125% version of each custom icon, or an update that makes MusicBee downscale any provided 150% icon to the 125% Windows scale.