Now Playing Screen - All elements [SUGGESTIONS] (1 Viewer)

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    Hi

    Trevor has been helping me design a replacement for the default music: now playing screen that will include fanart. Trevor has already designed a minimalistic now playing screen that has fullscreen fanart. The requirements for the default now playing screen are that it has to include all skin elements that are supported in the now playing screen and must be consistent style with the rest of streamedmp.

    The requirements are:
    • Non fullscreen fanart artist image
    • Currently playing details - Album thumb / Artist / Track / Album / Track # / Year
    • Playing next - Album thumb / Artist / Track name
    • Links for - Playlist / My Lyrics / Search music
    • Tag lists - Best album tracks x3 / Other tracks tag with... x3
    • EQ/VU Meters - 3 types (Analog / Digital / Old Style EQ)

    Later on I will make a version that doesn't have the Tag lists (ie best album tracks etc) - That will be easy to do.

    Here are lots of mockups. Some of the mock ups are actual screen shots.
    Please tell me what you like and any suggestions. It is difficult to avoid the cluttered look.

    This is the fullscreen version which is already fairly sorted, please don't comment on fullscreen fanart, because this thread is to sort out the default fanart screen that includes all elements
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    tweak01.jpg

    tweak02.jpg

    tweak03.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod4a.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod4b.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod4c.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod5a.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod5b.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod5c.jpg


    Now-Playing-Mod6.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod8a.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod9a.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod10a.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod11a.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod11b.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod11c.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod11d.jpg


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    Now-Playing-Mod12a.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod12b.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod12c.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod12d.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod12e.jpg

    Now-Playing-Mod12f.jpg


    Some more, these maybe the best.

    Now-Playing-Mod13a.jpg


    Now-Playing-Mod13b.jpg


    Now-Playing-Mod13c.jpg


    Possibly final versions:

    Now-Playing-Mod15a.jpg


    Now-Playing-Mod16.jpg


    or without using the title bar as a menu

    Now-Playing-Mod17.jpg


    Now-Playing-Mod18.jpg
     

    Zinu

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    I like the first one, but I can understand why some people will like the other ones.

    Maybe you could release both: one with real fullscreen art (like first one) and one in the style of the rest (which i'm not judging, since I personally don't like the way those look with fanart transition).
     

    jojo1411

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    I agree - First one is awesome!

    Can we use it already, with support of the FanArtHandler?
     

    Zinu

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    I'm using skin files I ran across in the other thread (so I'm using one of these designs), and it works fine. You do need FanArtHandler to get it to show fanart.

    Where can I find the skinfiles for the first one btw?
     

    Henkie Flits

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    First of all let me say I am a great fan of many of your mods, you already know that because I gave feedback and thanks.
    And again I really admire all the work put into this skin part.

    I think the idea behing the mod is great, however I really dislike the "fading" effect used with the fanart. I personaly would really prefer some kind of fixed place or frame were the image would be shown.

    There is already quite a lot of information on screen and this combined with a very busy background (the soundboard) makes it a bit cluttered up I think. A bit more minimalistic or clean whould be awesome I guess. Less is more? ;)

    I hope you understand what I mean and please don't feel offended because that was certainly not my intent, thanks for all your effort!
     

    Zinu

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    First of all let me say I am a great fan of many of your mods, you already know that because I gave feedback and thanks.
    And again I really admire all the work put into this skin part.

    I think the idea behing the mod is great, however I really dislike the "fading" effect used with the fanart. I personaly would really prefer some kind of fixed place or frame were the image would be shown.

    There is already quite a lot of information on screen and this combined with a very busy background (the soundboard) makes it a bit cluttered up I think. A bit more minimalistic or clean whould be awesome I guess. Less is more? ;)

    I hope you understand what I mean and please don't feel offended because that was certainly not my intent, thanks for all your effort!

    I think that quite sums up why most people will pick the first mockup. At least I agree completely with this being my 'reason why' ;)
     

    adam_purkis

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    i actually kinda like both styles, sort of hard to choose, i get what people are saying with the fullscreen fanart, and that is pretty cool, but then i also do like a the info slightly bigger too :confused: haha, would probably have to test them both out and see which i prefer
     

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