Over Yonder

[Bee-liever]

ATTENTION!
This skin has been updated for MusicBee 3.0.
Compatibility with version 2.5 or earlier is not guaranteed.

A light blue skin based on the colour Wild Blue Yonder

Over Yonder

Updates

September 18, 2016:

• MusicBee 3.0 changes incorporated;;
• minor tweaking of colours;
• 'No Artwork', 'Unknown Artist' and splashscreen images optimised for smaller file size;
• icons updated.

September 5, 2015:

• released as regular download

Downloads

Download from Skins section of MusicBee Add-ons here

Skin installation instructions and other information can be found on the wiki

[boroda]

Thank you for your support!

[Mr. Trev]

The colour scheme kind reminds me of the 'ol c64

[phred]

A light blue skin based on the colour Wild Blue Yonder
To help test boroda74's plugin, this skin is currently only available for download from Add-on Manager

Looks very nice.
Is there any way to get this skin without using the Add-on Manager?  For the time being, there are a number of reasons I don't want to use the Add-on Manager, not the least of which is the need for Google Drive.  Personally, I'm wanting to have less and less to do with Google. 

Thanks.

[boroda]

@phred, you don't need to use or have google account to *download* customizations.

[phred]

Not to hijack this tread, but...
Thanks for the feedback boroda74.  What about the ability to put the 20+ files from the Add-on Manager's zip into a subfolder of Plugins?  That's another deal breaker for me.

[Gory Reer]

Ummmm... take it as a compliment or take me as a saddo: I registered for the sake of this single skin!

Any hints at when it'll be free from the shackles of an add-on? I did my part in "testing" the plugin, 45 minutes spent & i didn't even manage to activate the exe. file!

As anxious as I am, I could handle the nerve-racking wait better than further footering around with fragile files... well, so long as I believe the wait will pay...

So... any hints?

[Bee-liever]

Ummmm... take it as a compliment or take me as a saddo: I registered for the sake of this single skin!

LOL!

With a compliment like that, what else could I possibly say but...

Direct download link now available in first post.   

[Gory Reer]

LOL!

With a compliment like that, what else could I possibly say but...

Direct download link now available in first post.  

Beautiful!  

These kinda blues are my favorites, yet I often forget they even exist as no one uses them... anywhere! Deep & Baby blues were getting awfully tiresome.

Anyways, cheers! Finally a blue background that won't blend with umpteen album covers.

[Moshi_]

I love it! Thanks!

[AngryBert]

Really compliments my desktop theme - thanks very much - nice work.

[Bee-liever]

Updated for 3.0
See Add-ons section or link updated in first post

[naresh]

Hi Mr. Bee-liever

How did you get your headings in that manner? 2 Cellos - Discover, then Released on ...?

Naresh.

[Bee-liever]

I use virtual tags for my LH and RH grouping header:

LH is:

Code: "Header (variable)"

$If($And(<Disc#>>1,<Album Complete?>="Y"),$If($Or($Contains(<Genre Groups>,Classical),<Album Artist>="Various Artists"),<Album>,<Album Artist>" · "<Album>),$If($Contains(<Path>,Classical),$If($First(<Grouping>)="Album [Compilation]",<Album>,<Sort - Composer>$IsNull(<Grouping>,,$IsNull(<Conductor [surname]>,," ["<Conductor [surname]>]))" ¦ "<Album>),$If(<Album Artist>="Various Artists",$If($Left($First(<Grouping>),5)!="Album",$Split(<Album>,·,1)" ["$Split($First(<Grouping>),[,2),<Album>),$If($Contains(<Album Artist>,;)="T",$IsNull(<Artist - Display>,$Replace(<Album Artist>,;," &"),<Artist - Display>),<Album Artist>)" · "$If($Or($Left($First(<Grouping>),5)!="Album",$Right($First(<Grouping>),8)="Box Set]"),$Split(<Album>,·,1)" ["$Split($First(<Grouping>),[,2),<Album>))))

This references other custom and virtual tags to give a header that displays:

• 'album artist · album' if a standard album
• 'album artist · album [type]' if a single, EP, Boxed Set or other non-standard album
• 'album' only if a Various Artists compilation
• 'composer [conductor] - album' if a classical music album with a single composer

You could do something similar (and simpler  ) with just:

Code: "Header (variable)"

<Album Artist> · <Album>

For the RH:

Code: "Release Info"

<Release Date> on $First(<Publisher>)

This references other custom and virtual tags to give a header that displays either:

• year
• month year
• day month year

depending on how much of the full release date is known.

You could do something similar with just:

Code: "Release Info"

Released: <YYYY> on $First(<Publisher>)

[naresh]

Thank you very much. I am going to give that a shot.

Naresh.

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Edit: 18-09-16, 2300hrs.

Mr. Bee-liever, thank you for the assist. I gave the code a shot and it works very well. Opens up a lot of possibilities.

Cheers.

Naresh.