Author Topic: Is There A Winamp Big Bento Skin For MusicBee?  (Read 5949 times)

Night AoX

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As the title suggests, are there any Winamp Big Bento style skins for MusicBee? Winamp remains my daily driver due to that lovely Big Bento layout. I like MusicBee but, Winamp's Big Bento just has an Artist, Album sort by year layout that is unrivaled.. Unless there is something that has a similar layout..

This is how I currently have Winamp Big Bento set up:




Is there any way to replicate a similar layout in MusicBee? I'm currently using the Tron Punk skin in SKins>Dark which certainly looks the part but, the layout is just like a lot of the other skins.. I can get my music sorted by Artist alphabetically, Year oldest to newest and then finally Album Title but, in Winamp Big Bento, I can have my music sorted by Artist alphabetically then in the right-side window, I can sort albums by Album Title or Year depending on which album by that artist I need to look for specifically.. It was be awesome if I can find a similar solution in MusicBee especially since MusicBee is lighter and still being supported..
Last Edit: September 20, 2015, 02:58:59 AM by Casey Stellar

phred

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You can view all available skins here: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Skins#All_Skins_by_Author
Download the latest MusicBee v3.5 or 3.6 patch from here.
Unzip into your MusicBee directory and overwrite existing files.

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psychoadept

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You could get pretty close to that layout with a column browser for artist, a thumbnail browser for album, and track details view in the main panel.

Edited because my edit was wrong.  :)
Last Edit: September 20, 2015, 03:39:38 AM by psychoadept
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Zak

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Also, skins in MusicBee are really just for changing colour schemes and some of the control graphics (play/stop buttons etc.).
They won't/can't change the actual layout of where things appear like in Winamp - you'll need to wade through all of the configurationy toggley menu options for that.
Last Edit: September 20, 2015, 03:26:50 PM by Zak
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Night AoX

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This is how I currently have it laid out:



But, the issue is whenever I play 1 album by an artist, the entire catalog loads into the Now Playing list even though I just want 1 album loaded.. I can't seem to find a way to make it only play the 1 desired album. Any suggestions?