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<blockquote data-quote="JimCatMP" data-source="post: 931092" data-attributes="member: 103549">Hi Chris.&nbsp;Last question 1st - skin has no real impact on catalog of content - for movies, recommend MovingPictures for Movies&nbsp; &amp; MP TVSeries for TV collections.&nbsp; How easy it is to catalog with both plugins depends on your naming conventions - see Wiki &amp; Forum for specific help as and when needed.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Songs - don't have much music content myself, so I just use built in Music plugin &amp; database.&nbsp; &nbsp;You can than chop &amp; change on skins provided skin supports your plugins (and I think everything supports the two above), find skin that works for you in terms of look &amp; feel - personally I use a lightly mod'ed Frames (bespoke splash screen &amp; main menu images, layout change for MP TVSeries to make fuller use of screen space in listing series within genre &amp; higher contrast TV listings). &nbsp;As too skins themselves.&nbsp;Avalon is an EXE, you down load &amp; run it, Black Glass is mpe1 file, so it will be visible in extension manager.&nbsp;Assume you run &amp; installed Avalon, next step is to run the MPConfiguration tool.&nbsp;Under GUI would should simply see a list, &nbsp;DefaultDefault WideBlack Glass Nova HDAvalon&nbsp;Select skin you want, close the configuration and run MePo, don't like skin, exit, open config, try another..... &nbsp;Not a Win8 user, but from forum comments, MePo generally seems to do fine in Win8.&nbsp;TTFN - JCMP</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimCatMP, post: 931092, member: 103549"] Hi Chris. Last question 1st - skin has no real impact on catalog of content - for movies, recommend MovingPictures for Movies & MP TVSeries for TV collections. How easy it is to catalog with both plugins depends on your naming conventions - see Wiki & Forum for specific help as and when needed. Songs - don't have much music content myself, so I just use built in Music plugin & database. You can than chop & change on skins provided skin supports your plugins (and I think everything supports the two above), find skin that works for you in terms of look & feel - personally I use a lightly mod'ed Frames (bespoke splash screen & main menu images, layout change for MP TVSeries to make fuller use of screen space in listing series within genre & higher contrast TV listings). As too skins themselves. Avalon is an EXE, you down load & run it, Black Glass is mpe1 file, so it will be visible in extension manager. Assume you run & installed Avalon, next step is to run the MPConfiguration tool. Under GUI would should simply see a list, Default Default Wide Black Glass Nova HD Avalon Select skin you want, close the configuration and run MePo, don't like skin, exit, open config, try another..... Not a Win8 user, but from forum comments, MePo generally seems to do fine in Win8. TTFN - JCMP [/QUOTE]

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