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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: Awesome Donkey on April 18, 2025, 09:47:05 am
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These are forks of the current Modern Cards: Grey Edition and Dark skins that better fit the Windows 11 aesthetic and are the successor to the old Modern Cards: Acrylic series of skins I released a few years back. My other/older/Linux skins can be found in this topic (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,106397.0.html).
Some notes about these skins:
- These skins come in three varieties, Modern Cards: Mica Light, Modern Cards: Mica Dark and Modern Cards: Mica Dusk
- These skins have a semi-transparency inspired by the Mica (and MicaAlt) material. Worth noting it doesn't exactly match the Windows 11 amount of transparency, noise and gaussian blur used in the Mica material itself (if you know how to replicate this in an image, please contact me!) but it tries to come as close as possible.
- These skins support Windows 11's rounded corners when Media Center is windowed if using Media Center 34.0.19 and newer.
- These skins have been synced against the current changes made to the Modern Cards skins by EnglishTiger in MC34, so special thanks to ET for all that hard work!
- There are a few other main.xml tweaks made, including to the system button positioning to eliminate the empty pixel line on the edge between the edge of the frame and the edge of the close button (to exactly mimic what happens in Windows 11).
- Unlike the old Acrylic skins I released, these skins do support scaling, YAY!
NOTES: Modern Cards: Mica Dusk is a fusion of the dark skin's main frame with the light skin's inner lists and a white search bar. Also for best results I recommend using the Segoe UI fonts or the Segoe UI Variable fonts in Media Center's settings when using these skins, to help better fit the Windows 11 aesthetic.
Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zdc6t6tecmb3xg2/ModernCardsMicaSeries.zip/file
How To Install (Windows):
Drop the folders into C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 34\Skins\Standard View if using the 64-bit version of Media Center. If using the 32-bit version of Media Center the path would be C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 34\Skins\Standard View. If you're using another version of Media Center (e.g. Media Center 33) just substitute 34 for the version of Media Center you're using in the paths above.
Here's some screenshots!
Modern Cards: Mica Light
(https://i.ibb.co/tMs3Z405/Light.png) (https://ibb.co/tMs3Z405)
Modern Cards: Mica Dark
(https://i.ibb.co/DDxJzXqG/Dark.png) (https://ibb.co/DDxJzXqG)
Modern Cards: Mica Dusk
(https://i.ibb.co/k2jmQNBB/Dusk.png) (https://ibb.co/k2jmQNBB)
Enjoy! :)
P.S. Yes, I do intend on doing updates to the Linux skins. There's been changes the last few years I need to adapt to and update for.
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Did a minor update with some main.xml changes suggested by ET, and fixed the minimize/maximize buttons for the Dusk skin, while uploading the screenshots to an alternate site. :)