Is it possible for someone to repair the Purity Skin? The section for Cloudplay is completely unreadable. This issue only occurs with this skin.
Unzip the attached file into MC's standard skin directory, which should be in one of the following locations, depending on which version of MC you have installed (or unzip to both locations if you have both 32 and 64 bit versions).
MC 32bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 32\Skins\Standard View
MC 64bit: C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 32\Skins\Standard View
This creates a new skin folder called
Purity Mod. Open MC and select the new skin from
View menu. I am not sure if Purity is one of MC's default installed skins, but if it is, having this separate modified Purity skin will prevent MC from overwriting the modification during one of the many/weekly program updates.
The reason
Purity has this problem with CloudPlay has to do with the Tree Background being light, while all it's other background elements are dark. Purity is one of the few skins that does this, which is why the problem only occurs with it.
To resolve this I darkened the Tree background image file, which is what CloudPlay "samples" to use for its main panel content background color. Since CloudPlay's content area uses a light gray
text color (the <List> Text hex value), when that is combined with the Tree's light gray
background it becomes unreadable (the colors turn out to be virtually identical). I darkened the tree
background image file so it provides reasonable contrast for both dark and light
text colors. Hopefully that all makes sense... or not. You probably don't care, so long as it works.
NOTE: you must restart MC, including the server if applicable, for the color change to take effect. CloudPlay colors are retained, even after refreshing the view and even after switching to different skins, until you do a full restart of MC (FYI: middle-clicking MC's close button will perform a restart). _______________________________________________
For the dev team:
I would be great if the CloudPlay colors updated in real-time instead of requiring a full restart.
Also, if Cloudplay would simply use the list background color for the main content area of CloudPlay (like it is in every other main content area) color conflicts would be automatically avoided for all skins - now and in the future. To provide contrast for the CloudPlay Header Area, use the Hex color specified in the <VIEW HEADER> section for either: [Background] or [HeaderBackground]