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Title: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Matt on October 02, 2013, 04:45:46 pm: I'd like to get a sampling of what skin people use most.

Thanks.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Vocalpoint on October 02, 2013, 04:48:43 pm: Voted Noire - but would love to have some better choices with the stock stuff...

VP
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: 6233638 on October 02, 2013, 05:04:57 pm: I mostly use Noire now; I switched to it in MC19 once changes were being made to it for testing and have mostly stuck with it.

I do occasionally change to Black on Black though, if I'm watching a video in a window. (I often avoid detached windows, because there are no playback controls)
I don't really like that skin for library management though, it's too low contrast for list views.

In MC18 I was using a custom skin based on Fusion X3 that I had customized to look like the latest version of iTunes rather than iTunes 10. I prefer the flatter look it has to Noire.
While I use it now, Noire has always felt dated to me - all the stock skins do.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: georgem29 on October 02, 2013, 05:16:39 pm: I voted third party. I use a version of Purity that I've made slight modifications to. It was really close to great.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: terrym@tassie on October 02, 2013, 06:02:51 pm: I use PixOS- Noire is just too............Black :)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: FastKayak on October 02, 2013, 06:25:27 pm: I voted Noire but at the moment I'm using Black on Black and I frequently use Purity. Each of these skins do something that I find useful...so I switch when I need to......like yesterday when I couldn't read the text in the Purity tree because of the light gray background (from the couch) so I switched to Black on Black. Noire and Purity get used the most.

FastKayak / Larry.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: syndromeofadown on October 02, 2013, 07:31:30 pm: I have been happily using 'Black On Black' since it was first available.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: rjm on October 02, 2013, 09:00:20 pm: Noire since MC19. FusionX4 prior to MC19.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: kensn on October 02, 2013, 10:45:23 pm: Noire.. 2 reasons

1) Kinda like it

2) pretty much guaranteed to work

Ken
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: NNTK on October 03, 2013, 12:03:13 am: I use two standard view switch one is Noire.
Two is modify black on black by remove <GLASS><Data Enabled="1" /></GLASS> from main.xml^^.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: astromo on October 03, 2013, 12:33:10 am: I like the frenchified-ness of the old Henry Ford adage. Honestly though, most of the time that I'm enjoying MC, I've got album art visualised on the screen or am watching video output. In both cases, the skin is superfluous.

What would concern me most is if the layout and fundamental navigation methodology was changed. I know it's not mooted here but this question immediately brought to my mind the propensity of M$ to continuously change their operating system GUI, with little concern for user annoyance at dealing with another learning curve.

I think the approach that the MC team has taken is the right one, i.e. come up with a Henry Ford standard and give the tinkerers out there the flexibility to change the GUI to suit their personal taste. Leaving dinosaurs like me to wander around the Jurassic in comfort of familiar surrounds.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Castius on October 03, 2013, 12:54:23 am: Purity
But could always use more options. 8)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Arcturus on October 03, 2013, 02:41:54 am: Black on Black.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Mr ChriZ on October 03, 2013, 04:02:36 am: Pearl Bailey with red and green flipped for a few years now. Really like it.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Junghwan on October 03, 2013, 04:38:58 am: FusionX4.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Vincent Kars on October 03, 2013, 04:52:07 am: PixOS
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: pluto on October 03, 2013, 06:16:05 am: In my view, straightforward “Blue Steel” does the white-text-on-dark-background thing better than any other combo.

My only moan is its lack (by default) of the 'audio path direct' button color change.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Micromecca on October 03, 2013, 06:25:28 am: Albedo, my thanks to Alex :)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: mark_h on October 03, 2013, 07:31:49 am: Thunderstorm for many many MC versions now...
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: SkGe on October 03, 2013, 07:42:52 am: My own skin design which is already on share.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: connersw on October 03, 2013, 07:52:50 am: Quote from: kensn on October 02, 2013, 10:45:23 pm
Noire.. 2 reasons

1) Kinda like it

2) pretty much guaranteed to work

Ken

Quote from: 6233638 on October 02, 2013, 05:04:57 pm
While I use it now, Noire has always felt dated to me - all the stock skins do.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: jgreen on October 03, 2013, 10:01:43 am: "Aruba" with "Negative" effect applied. This is a deep blue skin with white font and still my favorite. "Noire" is nice and dark but more gray-scale than I prefer.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: amiti on October 03, 2013, 10:02:25 am: MC 18. Skin is purity.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: pcstockton on October 03, 2013, 04:55:20 pm: Quote from: pluto on October 03, 2013, 06:16:05 am
In my view, straightforward “Blue Steel” does the white-text-on-dark-background thing better than any other combo.

My only moan is its lack (by default) of the 'audio path direct' button color change.

Same here. I think Blue Steel is the second best after Black on Black.

I use Blue Steel on my Server (XP) and Black on Black for my HTPC.

It seems like there should be more options in the poll question.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: StFeder on October 03, 2013, 05:59:53 pm: I'm using MetroX by Maverick07 when I use MC at Dancing lessons. So this is how most people will see MC when I use it and because of that I voted third party skins.

At home I switch to Black on Black (using a batch file).
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: DoubtingThomas on October 03, 2013, 06:41:15 pm: PixOs.... I hate change....
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: rayooo on October 03, 2013, 08:29:27 pm: Black on Black :)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: struct on October 03, 2013, 10:17:14 pm: metro x
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: pcstockton on October 04, 2013, 12:06:07 am: Quote from: rayooo on October 03, 2013, 08:29:27 pm
Black on Black :)

maggies and parasound.... sweet. how do you like it? Great combo, albeit a diametric relationship to my preference.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Listener on October 04, 2013, 03:18:29 pm: I use a old 3rd party skin (iTunes) modifed to provide a stop button. It has much lower contrast that the default Noire skin. That's important for my old eyes.

(http://naturelover.smugmug.com/Other/misc/i-vm8BcGL/0/L/CD%20ripping%20Tab-L.jpg)

I'd be happy if JRiver offered a fully functional skin with low contrast.

Bill
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: AUser on October 04, 2013, 03:38:45 pm: PixOS
Of the stock skins it's the only one that doesn't stand out like a sore thumb on the desktop and has readable text everywhere
Ideally I'd like a native OS look and forget the 'look at me' stuff
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: 6233638 on October 04, 2013, 04:11:55 pm: Quote from: AUser on October 04, 2013, 03:38:45 pm
Ideally I'd like a native OS look and forget the 'look at me' stuff
If nothing else, I'd like a way for third-party skins to use the current OS color when running on Windows 8. (it adjusts based on your wallpaper)
Title: Re: AW: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Al ex on October 04, 2013, 05:15:39 pm: Metro X - my new favorite!!
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: bunglemebaby on October 04, 2013, 08:35:58 pm: Another MetroX here. Nothing else will do now.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: drmimosa on October 04, 2013, 08:41:36 pm: I loaded up MC 18 by mistake the other day...the Noire skin has really improved in MC 19, I hadn't realized how much the color and borders had sharpened up. Nice work!
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: William-NM on October 05, 2013, 11:16:18 am: I've been loving MetroX, too. At the moment, I'm running ModernSkin with added color, kind of a slate/blue/green. Love it!!
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Claude Lapalme on October 05, 2013, 12:15:45 pm: I use PixOs. Very readable and has mouse access to Audio Path when in Theater View
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: contium on October 05, 2013, 12:47:56 pm: Other. Been using my own skin for years. Just Noire with some color changes to my liking.

(http://contium.com/temp/MC17.JPG)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: locust on October 05, 2013, 12:55:18 pm: FusionX4 most of the time just wish it had a stop button.

I'm interested what all you J River Folks use day to day.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: JustinM on October 05, 2013, 01:31:47 pm: I've been using black on black and purity... but I like the look of Contiums :)

Quote from: contium on October 05, 2013, 12:47:56 pm
Other. Been using my own skin for years. Just Noire with some color changes to my liking.

Willing to share ? :)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: 6233638 on October 05, 2013, 01:34:53 pm: All this discussion of skins lately had me reinstall my Fusion X3 Mod (http://www.abload.de/img/fusion-x3-modvglkh.png), and I have to say, it's so much nicer to be using a skin with less contrast, and OS-native buttons. (it's nowhere near ready for release, and I seem to have misplaced the version I had with iTunes 11 style playback controls) And now we have retina assets to deal with.

While I appreciate the improvements made to the noire skin, I do wonder if the default MC skin could do with a modern refresh.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: contium on October 05, 2013, 04:44:57 pm: Quote from: JustinM on October 05, 2013, 01:31:47 pm
I've been using black on black and purity... but I like the look of Contiums :)

Willing to share ? :)

Sure but no guarantees ;) Not a clue as to how to make a mjp.

Contium (http://contium.com/temp/Contium.zip)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Listener on October 05, 2013, 05:12:19 pm: Quote from: contium on October 05, 2013, 04:44:57 pm
Sure but no guarantees ;) Not a clue as to how to make a mjp.

Contium (http://contium.com/temp/Contium.zip)

Here is an .mjp file I used to install the iTunes skin:

---
[Package]

Name=iTunes
Action=INSTALLSKIN
Url=http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/mc_data/plugins/765.zip
----

Just a text file.

Bill
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: charmerci on October 05, 2013, 10:37:54 pm: Noire. The others don't have enough contrast. Noire is very readable.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: vairulez on October 06, 2013, 12:52:04 am: metro X
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Arindelle on October 06, 2013, 08:23:06 am: I use Purity Dark on my client (desktop PC monitor) and LP on my HTPC (TV)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Magic_Randy on October 06, 2013, 08:49:07 am: I use Black on Black :)
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: dean70 on October 06, 2013, 04:22:38 pm: Quote from: contium on October 05, 2013, 04:44:57 pm
Sure but no guarantees ;) Not a clue as to how to make a mjp.

Contium (http://contium.com/temp/Contium.zip)

Thanks for sharing. The color scheme is awesome :thumbsup

To install - backup the current contents of c:\Program Files (x86)\JRiver\Media Center 19\Skins\Noire folder and unzip contents of Contium.zip to this folder overwriting existing files. Restart MC and new scheme should appear.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: nwboater on October 06, 2013, 04:59:27 pm: We use ThunderStorm. Have tried them all and keep coming back to it. Just feels right. ~~Looks like we are the first to post about using it.~~ (I missed the post by Mark_H.) Oh well, I never did follow the herd!

Cheer,
Rod
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Random on October 06, 2013, 08:00:48 pm: version 18 with The Fly using the invert (negative) skin effect. Been my main skin for several years.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Fabith on October 07, 2013, 12:52:47 am: Black on Black and Purity are the best to me :D

Noire is good, but i don't like the White background
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: jgreen on October 07, 2013, 11:28:39 am: I just tried Purity and I would call it my second favorite to Aruba/Inverted, and above Noire and Thunderstorm. I think if I fiddle with the color palette I might just upgrade it to my main skin.

As said, Noire's got an awful lot of blanc on it, considering it goes around calling itself "noire".
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: avenger107 on October 08, 2013, 02:20:29 pm: I am using No.4, but seeing the comments above I have switched to Blue Steel. However, if the reason you are asking it to see the pain you will go through if you are planing a rewrite of the main module please go ahead. If it leaves us with just one useable interference for awhile then so be it. I can get used to Noire if need be.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: zxsix on October 12, 2013, 11:18:59 pm: purity
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: Johnny B on October 13, 2013, 10:47:14 am: Quote from: nwboater on October 06, 2013, 04:59:27 pm
We use ThunderStorm. Have tried them all and keep coming back to it. Just feels right.

Exactly - I've been using ThunderStorm for many many years now since the very first day I installed MC, from time to time I try the others but always come back to this.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: mutato on October 13, 2013, 05:05:05 pm: PixOS with colors inverted. Check it out. Been using this for the last couple of years.
Title: Re: What standard view skin do you use [POLL]
Post by: coyi1895 on October 13, 2013, 05:35:12 pm: I'm using Noire too. It's easier for me to see where everything is.