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Author Topic: NEW: Two New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey  (Read 36498 times)

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We now have the new skins.  You will need MC17.0.132 or above to use them.  There will be a build that works at the top of this board.

Please report any problems.

Both skins are on the Accessories Page now:

http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php

Click on the "Most Recent" button.



Black on Black
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Pearl Bailey
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More skins can be found on our Third Party board and on our Accessories page (link at bottom of this page).
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 02:33:43 pm »

LOVIN the Black On Black!
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 03:41:25 pm »

Looking nice. I'll check them out when they are available. :)
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 04:04:18 pm »

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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 01:01:20 am »

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 01:55:27 am »

LOVIN the Black On Black!

+1 but snow white is very nice too. ;)
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 02:50:58 am »

Will look very nice next to Firefox with the FT DeepDark skin. My two most used apps with beautiful matching skins. What could be better?
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 04:09:23 am »

Looks great
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 04:50:59 pm »

Feeling the black on black
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 05:00:40 pm »

Oh no. I'm the only one who hates all black. I find it SO hard on the eyes to read a white font on a black bg.
Noire will still be available, right?
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 05:03:52 pm »

Yes.
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 06:34:47 pm »

Oh no. I'm the only one who hates all black. I find it SO hard on the eyes to read a white font on a black bg.

You aren't the only one.  This old skin that mimics iTunes 4.x provides the right level of contrast for my eyes.



I made a few adjustments to the skin, adding window shading in the file list area and the stop button.

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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2012, 10:46:26 am »

More skins can be found on our Third Party board and on our Accessories page (link at bottom of this page).
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2012, 11:05:09 am »

xplain has a couple of nice Theater View skins on the Third Party board.  Here's one:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=70190.0
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2012, 09:53:51 pm »

Will this skin be just for JRiver 17?? Can it possibly work with 16??
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Re: New Skins Coming Soon -- Black on Black and Snow White
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2012, 01:22:56 am »

Oh no. I'm the only one who hates all black. I find it SO hard on the eyes to read a white font on a black bg.
Noire will still be available, right?
U can use one of mine who is very white here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=53745.0
Scroll to the bottom of the page for to see it
Good job JRiver team for the new one i like it!
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2012, 09:50:04 am »

We now have the new skins.  Please see the first post in this thread.  A Download link will be posted in a few minutes.

You will need MC17.0.132 or above to use them.  17.0.132 is at the top of this board.

You may still find minor errors, but expect them to be corrected shortly.
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2012, 10:23:16 am »

When I try to download Black on Black, it is required that I enable Windows Aero. HI don't know what it is and how to find and enable it. Can someone help?
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2012, 10:27:55 am »

Black on Black requires Vista or Windows 7, with Aero / Glass enabled.
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2012, 10:28:02 am »

Both skins are on the Accessories Page now:

http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php

Click on the "Most Recent" button.
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2012, 10:31:23 am »

Wow. The black on black was magically installed when I downloaded it, even with the message that I would need Windows Aero.
It is wonderful. Congratulations.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2012, 10:33:17 am »

Will this skin be just for JRiver 17?? Can it possibly work with 16??
MC17.0.132 or higher is required.  It's at the top of this board now.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2012, 10:35:33 am »

Black on Black complains about no Aero on my XP system but still seems to work and looks nice.

Pearl Bailey does not complain about Aero but is unusable on XP because unselected tab text cannot be read.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2012, 10:51:26 am »

Honestly, at the moment they both look like they need quite a bit more work done to them(Pearly Bailey especially) and the work needed hardly seems minor. This is obviously just a subjective opinion of but one person though, so don't take it too hard. And one more thing, do you plan to include these skins in future MC builds and if so, are you planning on making either of them the new default skin?
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2012, 10:52:55 am »

Please report any problems you find.

We haven't made any decisions yet on how they will be used.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2012, 11:02:13 am »

I like the Black on Black, but I personally have a big problem with the lack of borders. It all blends into one huge surface, and that just feel wrong. I'm thinking of the lack of separation of the left Tree menu and action window as well as the scroll bars (scroll bars is not THAT important). There is also something wrong with the graphics around the search box. Other than that it looks very good. The same goes for the White one. The lack of borders... And the black Header backgrounds are not good. The contrast is just way to big.

I would use these skins for sure if some of this is fixed.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2012, 11:04:09 am »

There is also something wrong with the graphics around the search box.
That sounds like you're not using 17.0.132.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2012, 11:06:44 am »

Pearl Bailey looks pretty good. I'll probably stick with that until I finish my own skin :P

Text on inactive tabs is very hard to read though.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2012, 12:01:39 pm »

Black in black looks great with me.

Using 132, aero enabled, but I seems to have little problem with my font? Some dots before the song name, artist...

Any thoughts?
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2012, 12:06:58 pm »

Using 132, aero enabled, but I seems to have little problem with my font? Some dots before the song name, artist...

It's a known issue.  Hopefully fixed in a coming build.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2012, 12:11:06 pm »

thanks Matt. But I like the black in black. Gonna use it for now.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2012, 12:44:18 pm »

Both of the skins drastically need borders. Pointing over the new tab button on both skins doesn't highlight it. Text in Pearl Bailey's tabs suffer from massive lack of contrast when their not highlighted. There's also a seemingly randomly occurring bug(independent of skin choice) that does this:http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4231/capturekrl.jpg I'll update this post when I have more to add.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2012, 12:49:48 pm »

Are you using build 132?
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2012, 01:00:30 pm »

Yes, and I've even done a complete uninstall before installing this build.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2012, 01:38:35 pm »

Once you go black you never go back  ::)
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #35 on: April 23, 2012, 02:10:15 pm »

That sounds like you're not using 17.0.132.

You're correct. I had build 123. Search box looks good with 132. I like the dark gray look better each time I see it, but I just don't know if I'll get comfortable with those missing borders. I'll write my opinion in a couple of days.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #36 on: April 23, 2012, 04:29:56 pm »

I actually think that's the borderless approach is very good. Colors on the bright skin (I love the red) are of very good choice. Some EyeCandy with some Contrast coming to JRiver after all: Perfect. Right way to go.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #37 on: April 23, 2012, 04:39:41 pm »

With the black skin especially, the little expandie triangles (norgies) in the tree, to the right of Playing Now, Audio, Video, etc. now look out of place.  They seem more like graphics glitches than UI elements.  I'd like to suggest reconsideration of moving them to the left of the text:

 > Playing Now
 v  Audio
      > Albums
      > Artist
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #38 on: April 23, 2012, 05:21:01 pm »

+1 for that
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #39 on: April 23, 2012, 05:29:58 pm »

Black on Black requires Vista or Windows 7, with Aero / Glass enabled.

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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #40 on: April 23, 2012, 09:34:47 pm »

Love the color scheme but I'm not liking the lack of borders. It's just too hard to delineate panes. I wish we could get the top of the black on black theme (blended) on top of Noire.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2012, 09:58:22 am »

Updated skins are available:
http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php

Requires MC17.0.133 or higher, available at the top of this board.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2012, 10:38:45 am »

No.4 has been my staple for years now, but Black on Black looks like it may be replacing it. But I would ditch the windows logo in the upper left corner. Seems really out of place ? Ahhh I see now, it was on Noire just not as noticeable. Hmmm guess I could edit it out if the skin is 'done'. Anywho great skin! Easy on the eyes and now I get to enjoy some areo glass in media center!
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Re: New Skins -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #43 on: April 24, 2012, 10:49:08 am »

Black on Black requires Vista or Windows 7, with Aero / Glass enabled.

I see there is both a "Noire" and a "Noire Glass", will this be true of "Black on Black" as well?

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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #44 on: April 24, 2012, 05:46:37 pm »

I like the Black on Black, but I personally have a big problem with the lack of borders. It all blends into one huge surface, and that just feel wrong. I'm thinking of the lack of separation of the left Tree menu and action window as well as the scroll bars (scroll bars is not THAT important). There is also something wrong with the graphics around the search box. Other than that it looks very good. The same goes for the White one. The lack of borders... And the black Header backgrounds are not good. The contrast is just way to big.


agreed.  It is very hard to grab the lower windows to resize.  Also it appears so flat without something there.

Maybe a dark grey for any borders?

Thanks!
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #45 on: April 24, 2012, 07:33:08 pm »

I think that borders at least between the tree and main window would be nice, that said I haven't tested my plasma just on the laptop...
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #46 on: April 25, 2012, 01:26:47 am »

Love, Love, Love Black on Black!!

BUT.... +1 vote for some subtle,dark borders to help in locating the edges of panels.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #47 on: April 25, 2012, 02:29:07 am »

I like the skin more and more my self. As many mentions, it would be really nice to have some kind of border for the panels. Especially the arrows for the left tree and action window looks very out of place. I've mainly tested Black on Black.
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #48 on: April 25, 2012, 03:26:49 am »

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love the black skin BUT the results of file import very hard to read
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Re: New Skins Available -- Black on Black and Pearl Bailey
« Reply #49 on: April 25, 2012, 04:34:47 pm »

love the black skin BUT the results of file import very hard to read

Yeah, the results of an import are showing dark text on the dark background -- have to manually highlight the text in the dialog box to read it.

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