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JonnyRedHed

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Dark Skin Request
« on: March 13, 2016, 05:26:30 am »

I really like this UI skin and button styling effects on this 'Amarra For Tidal'.

Dark grey with very smooth edging and shadow effects.

https://www.prlog.org/12455951-amarra-for-tidal-the-definitive-tidal-delivery-platform.jpg

http://help.sonicstudio.com/tidal/index-web-resources/image/SP_EQ.png

http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/images/amarra_remote_eq.png


Gives a very smooth looking modern UI, with nicely styled transport controls section. Also the EQ and other sections with the large dial to select thing options and modes. Just nice to play with on the eye and with the mouse.





Could we have a skin like this please, inc the settings pages all looking very cool as well.  And you just gotta love that big beautiful dial :)

Apologies, I don't know who to ask about skins so posted here. I just love this skin for this Amarra.  If we could have something like this, with that smooth looking spacey feeling, and settings buttons etc, and the dial (love the dial).  Perfect for large screens in dimmed rooms.   

Mix that with a standard view right click context menu sideshow based on currently playing track/album folder (artwork, covers, images). And using the rotated reflection effect.  Well,  JR would then be beyond perfect in my opinion.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2016, 09:14:05 am »

You're not likely to see JRiver change the settings interface to add visually "cool" elements.  I don't think you can "skin" anything like that.  It would need to be a fundamental program change.

I know you've tried a lot of skins.  Do you have any you like?

You don't seem to like any skins I've seen you post about, but here's another one for you to try called Onyx:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94329.0

I've made some *very* minor tweaks to it for my own use, but it's pretty darned good as delivered.

Brian.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2016, 10:30:12 am »

You're not likely to see JRiver change the settings interface to add visually "cool" elements.  I don't think you can "skin" anything like that.  It would need to be a fundamental program change.

I know you've tried a lot of skins.  Do you have any you like?

You don't seem to like any skins I've seen you post about, but here's another one for you to try called Onyx:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=94329.0

I've made some *very* minor tweaks to it for my own use, but it's pretty darned good as delivered.

Brian.


It is a great looking UI though yes?  


I have liked a handful of skins don't get me wrong,  the dark ones.   I use Black on Black and have done for well over a year or two.  
My only wish is to help encourage forward thinking material design in UI's to better JR.  I know a lot of people don't see the need for well designed settings pages
or those big dials. I do though.   I am happy with the dark skins I have to choose from and only want to improve on them, pushing forward with UI design.

I don't mean to upset or annoy anyone over this, just express my ideas for the future.  JR is the best player and I love it.


I tried 'Black on Blue Too' the other day, which I found a nice change.  I've tried 'Air',  and 'Purity Dark' and 'Silent Night'.

Also another one called 'Audition' and '50 Shades Of...' are both very good.

But always find myself coming back to Black on Black for some reason.


Its a shame about the that Tidal 'Amarra' skin.  I wasn't aware it couldn't be replicated on JR.  It does look smooth and spacey.  
I'm a big fan of forward modern looking UI's, from the settings to the main windows.

I guess I'm just a very frustrated futurist.  I really like GUI material design.


I've haven't seen this Onyx before, thank you for suggesting it.
*edit, the Onyx skin seems a bit broke when I loaded it.  Back to Black on Black for now.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2016, 08:55:10 am »

OMG! the interface of amara is really similar to MC :/

The knob 'll surely not be implemented.

But it's possible to make a knob for volume bar  i think.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2016, 09:09:07 am »

I don't mean to upset or annoy anyone over this, just express my ideas for the future.  JR is the best player and I love it.

It's good to hear that you really like MC.  :)

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I've haven't seen this Onyx before, thank you for suggesting it.
*edit, the Onyx skin seems a bit broke when I loaded it.  Back to Black on Black for now.

Hmm, it works here under 21.0.55 for Mac.  I'm not sure if the author is active here any more.  Too bad you couldn't try it.

Audition looks nice.  I think I'll load it as a test on my system.

Brian.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2016, 11:31:15 am »

Do you try Modern Cards: Dark Edition by Dirhael?

OR  ModernCards Duo Windows 8 Black is Original ModernCards combine with Black on Black by me.

OR  ModernCards Duo Windows 10 Black is improve ModernCards Duo Windows 8 Black by Awesome Donkey.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2016, 01:03:22 pm »

Do you try Modern Cards: Dark Edition by Dirhael?

OR  ModernCards Duo Windows 8 Black is Original ModernCards combine with Black on Black by me.

OR  ModernCards Duo Windows 10 Black is improve ModernCards Duo Windows 8 Black by Awesome Donkey.

Interesting, thank you.

Not really me though,  dark yes.     I'm having love for the 'Amarra' look though.

The Tidal 'Amarra' skin. Gutted we cannot replicate something like at least the top control section.  The colour, the button's and how they fit into the top section creating a spacey feeling.    I know its on a AppleMac so has the softer font look which does add to the smooth look.  I read it might come to PC.  But I don't want to subscribe to Tidal or stream my music over the web, local storage for me so JRiver is perfect.     Now if this Amarra/Tidel allowed local storage on PC... I can't say I wouldn't at least give it a 30 day demo.  I so like that smooth top control section and font smoothing and button art.   Its like looking at some very cool VST plugin GUI.

I don't have the skills to attempt an 'Amarra' type skin, or as close as JR can come to it.

For now I'm using 'Audition'.  And Black on Black.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2016, 03:13:54 pm »

ModernCards Duo Windows 10 Black is improve ModernCards Duo Windows 8 Black by Awesome Donkey.

I've made improvements in my own fork of ModernCards (the pre-scaling, non-dark edition of ModernCards). I'm not sure if I should release any of the skin mods I've made though.
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2018, 11:06:38 am »

Anyone have any new dark skin suggestions for 2018. 

I've been using the  Adobe Audition skin but its showing some odd errors now in MC23.xx so I've sent a message to the author asking for a fresh 2018 update if possible.

But am keen to check out other new dark skins.

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Re: Skin request
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2018, 11:41:53 pm »

im using arctic winter, love it
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Re: Skin request
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2018, 06:04:05 am »

You're welcome :)

JonnyRedHed

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Re: Skin request
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2018, 11:38:23 pm »

Any other new dark/grey/black skins?

Am still using the now old Adobe Audition skin but it needs updating.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2018, 08:03:05 am »

Anyone have any new for 2018> dark skins they can recommend.  On here and across the web.  Thanks.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2018, 09:11:38 am »

Modern Cards: Dark Edition is one. It's not exactly 'new', but there has been updates this year to it.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2018, 11:51:11 am »

Modern Cards: Dark Edition is one. It's not exactly 'new', but there has been updates this year to it.

I'll take another look at that. Ta.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2019, 03:50:34 pm »

Anyone have any new dark themes not mentioned above in this thread.

This old and still my favourite Adobe Audition like theme:
 https://www.deviantart.com/vcferreira/art/Adobe-Audition-Theme-for-JRiver-Media-Center-535163050

Can anyone take the above adobe audition theme and give it a 2019 make over and update. That would be a real kindness :) 
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2019, 03:37:54 am »

I quite liked "Silent Night" by Alexander234

I smoothed out some of what I considered to be rough edges....

Toned down scroll bars
Skinned tag window
Created quick find toolbar
Tweaked list selection to better convey what has focus and what does not
Changed rating stars

This is an old school skin from at least eight years ago, which means there are no OS specific considerations, no scaling and so on, but, it does mean that the skin comes in at around 300kb, which is nice.

I've attached my mods to this post for anyone interested. Respect to Alexander234 for the original work.

Alexander234 also has an "Air" skin available, which is not bad either, but needs at least a tag window skin added to make it a viable option for today's MC.

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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2019, 09:36:09 am »

Yes your modded Silent Night makes a good dark skin.

Any chance you can fix up the Adobe Audition with a 2019 make over.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2019, 09:15:16 am »

Just checking in,  anyone come across any new 2019 dark skins.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2019, 09:58:33 am »

You can invert the colors on any light skin.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2019, 05:08:04 pm »

I have a modern cards deviation that I made that is very black.

Here is a screenshot:



It can be found here.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2019, 07:37:47 am »

You can invert the colors on any light skin.

I have tried this with light skins with the right look, but gave up for now as it never really looks right to me.  I'll take another look though, so thanks for reminding me.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2019, 07:50:11 am »

I have a modern cards deviation that I made that is very black.

Here is a screenshot:

It can be found here.

I'll take a look thank you.
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Re: Dark Skin Request
« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2019, 07:52:22 am »

I wish I had the skills to create a JRiver skin akin to the UI styling one sees here with 'Amarra For Tidal'.  I really like this UI skin and button styling effects.

Dark grey with very smooth edging and shadow effects. Very smooth on the eye. Add in smoothly designed and animated button pushes and dials turning and larger settings section buttons that light up when active.  Right thought the UI from front end to back end settings pages.


See attachment images or these image links.

https://www.prlog.org/12455951-amarra-for-tidal-the-definitive-tidal-delivery-platform.jpg

http://help.sonicstudio.com/tidal/index-web-resources/image/SP_EQ.png

http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/images/amarra_remote_eq.png


Gives a very smooth looking UI, with nicely styled transport controls section. Also the EQ and other sections with the large dial to select options and modes. Just nice to play with on the eye and with the mouse.   In some ways a little like some of the best designs we see with VST filter and tool plugins where one can see an almost photo realistic front panel to interact with.   But with just a little of this so the user doesn't get tired of using dials and large buttons.


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