That's too new for going retro. Why not reel-to-reel?
Because my retro skin originates mainly from this period of time. And reel-to-reel would replace the Main Player and I am not sure I would like it now.
A brand new skin - just a reel-to-reel component - a high definition and high resolution drawing - nothing else - we could talk about it.
Adding such cassette feature is merely for our "visual amusement" regardless if the tape is ferric-, chrome-, or metal-type. We could discuss whether choosing a transparent version like this one would be a better idea. It looks slightly better and cooler but having transparent case seems not always to be the better choice. You might "lose" a lot of details while having a transparent cassette on your desktop. In order to prevent such loss we might add an opaque background. In the end we would have a transparent tape case with opaque background for better visual experience.
... A request: could you make it with less shadows?...
Like this?
P.S. Please remember that the desktop wallpaper plays an important part in your "visual experience". On some the shadow will be more subtle, on others more visible/darker. Pretty hard to hit the "golden mean" here.
Oh my! No blur at all. It is just that my browser enlarged the image to 550x351. When I click on the thumbnail and view the image in its original size, it is all right. Looks gorgeous!
There is a post in which a user requests the deletion of the time next to the artist and song title in the songticker. Ariszló pointed correctly that changing songticker to text would mean losing the scroll functionality.
But!
What about we hide the time while having Songticker Scrolling option off? (for those of us who do not activate modern nor classic scrolling)
@Ariszló: Do you know a skin which uses bitmap font file (like Winamp Modern and Quinto) but shows the artist and title in the form: Depeche Mode - Strange Love - instead of DEPECHE MODE - STRANGE LOVE?
No. Afaik, the whole range of characters that you can have in a Winamp bitmap font is what you have in font_songticker.png. In fact, it is even less because if the song info text contains any of the three accented letters from row three then the TrueType font specified in altfont is used instead or if none is specified then the default TrueType font.
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