Board Logo

BlueJ Skin
Audiosoft - 1-8-2007 at 12:36 AM

It is still a 'work in progress' but if anyone wants to download this skin it is in the 3rd post below.

eJukebox v4.3 setup and upgrade will install the finished version of this skin.
I am trying to decide if first time eJukebox users will startup with this skin or the classic default skin. Let me know what you think.


rllercstr7 - 1-8-2007 at 04:13 AM

Wow Audiosoft That looks great. I would be happy to test it out and report anything I find.

A couple things I see looking at your screenshot could be changed. The area around the search button looks a little funny because the area inside the C in the word search etc... is totally black and doesn't match the background of the area around it.

One thing I think would look really neat and go well with the skin is to make the word eJukebox and the teal bar above the Now Playing area a silver chrome type color. For some reason the teal bar and cream outlined eJuebox logo don't seem to flow the best, but thats just my opinion. You could go with the same box style outlines for the category headers (Home, Artists, Albums...) as the current skin and make them a similar silver color to match, or use the style you used previously on the Album list sorting options (See pic below). I think the little chrome-like outline around the words Albums, Refresh etc... looks really sharp and gives a 3D effect.

That was a nice suprise Audiosoft I can tell you spent a long time tinkering to get it where it is now. Great job :D


Audiosoft - 1-8-2007 at 05:03 AM

thanks rllercstr7, i am not sure about that blue neon bar at the top left. It looks pretty good just all black but i wanted the now playing section to seem active. the color changes to red when paused etc. chrome might look better. i am going to try a couple more modifications out. Here is the current skin.zip. I named it the 'BlueJ' skin for now. Feel free to make some improvements and to post alternate versions of this skin.

To install this skin...do not extract the zip. Save the attached BlueJ.zip file to C:Program FileseJukeboxSkins. Access 'BlueJ' on the Skin section of the Tools button menu.

Note: Skin download was updated at 7PM Jan 9th, 2006. Original skin had 10 downloads. Replacing this BlueJ.zip over the old one will install the updated version


rllercstr7 - 1-8-2007 at 06:45 AM

Thanks Audiosoft. I'll have a look tomorrow, but I don't know how much time I will have to modify as college classes are starting for me. Its really neat that you do this sort of thing so the users can give suggestions!


Pirk - 1-8-2007 at 06:00 PM

Thank you Audiosoft for your work on a new skin, I know that is not a small thing!! I like your new songlist header.
I'm also working on a new header for my own skin.. rllercstr7, mine is chrome! ;) Well currently..


rllercstr7 - 1-8-2007 at 07:24 PM

One other thing I notice in this skin is that some of the bars that kind of broke sections up and defined them are now gone. In the picture below you see the default and new skin. At the bottom of the old songlist there was a semi-transparent blue bar to help blend the album art in the background with the songlist. On the new skin there is an abrupt cut off line with no blend to help things flow. The playlist window has a similar situation, but it doesn't seem like it necesarilly needs any kind of bar.
Also if the albumart in not shown in the songlist and you hover over the album name it turns the box completely black preventing you from reading the name.
When the pause button is pressed a one pixel bright blue line develops in the playlist area right through the words Custom Mode as is shown in the screenshot. This disapears when you restart playback and skip ahead to the song that is up next.


Audiosoft - 1-10-2007 at 12:02 AM

I have updated the skin download in the 3rd post. The update fixes the blue line in the playlist problem. More updates will come soon. Feel free to post images or skin files of modifications you would like to see.