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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kiwijunglist" data-source="post: 538960" data-attributes="member: 76888">I actually prefer the old graphics equaliser, however this is just an animation that stop/starts with playback, it doesn't actually represent EQ or levels.  If any one has any screenshots of what they think the meter should like look, post the link and i could try and make an alternative one.  FYI:  The meter is made up of 10 images representing the volume level of each channel,  so it doesn't function like an EQ.  Here are the current sound meters <a href="http://streamedmp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Media/Animations/AnVu/" target="_blank">Analog</a> and <a href="http://streamedmp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Media/Animations/LedVu/" target="_blank">Digital</a>I started work on my own mymusicplayingnow.xml, unfortunately the fade transition between the artist image and the overlay doesn't look as smooth in mediaportal cf photoshop, I think mediaportal doesn't do a nice a job of displaying partially transparent images.  The solution to this is to either redo the overlay and make a more gradual fade or cleverly place the items (eg. cd cover / stars / divider) over the fade transition to make it look smoother.15 With your suggested changes + My go @ drawing a simple VU meter<img src="http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/kiwijunglist/playing%20now/mod15.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />16 Modified VU meter from another website<img src="http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/kiwijunglist/playing%20now/mod16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />17 Modified VU meter from another website<img src="http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/kiwijunglist/playing%20now/mod17.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />18 Modified VU meter from another website<img src="http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/kiwijunglist/playing%20now/mod18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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