Quinto Black CT - New Winamp Modern skin

[libero]

And yet, please tell me whether it is possible to realize the dependence of LED indicators on the settings of the analog indicator.

[Aminifu]

Hi. PeterK.
Skin very cool, but button Power not active in VUMeter and no buttons control in playlist. Good luck.

Those are not power buttons on the stand-alone analog and digital VU meters. They are power indicators. They are red when no file is playing and turn green when a file is playing.

Resize the Playlist Editor window (make it wider or wider and taller) until you can see 3 buttons on the right corner of it's title bar. Clicking on the left-most button in the group lets you cycle thru the 3 ways this window can be displayed. One of these views contain playback control buttons. The same can be done with the Media Library window.

[libero]

skyflyxxx
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Hi. PeterK.
Skin very cool, but button Power not active in VUMeter and no buttons control in playlist. Good luck.

Buttons are, I already figured out. Just need to double-click on the top of the playlist on one button (similar to 2 parallel lines). She changes the playlist in a circle. Very cool, gives even more information about the tracks than in the standard version.

[libero]

Another moment. I can not get by simply pressing the cursor switch in the main window from the spectrum analyzer mode to the oscilloscope mode. It is necessary to change the skin, there to switch and back to include this skin, which is inconvenient. Maybe I do not know any additional options, then I apologize. And yes, in the LED indicator I would like to have a constant illumination of the mode of inclusion (two additional LEDs) of the indicator instead of the button for switching the LED color - as it is implemented in the main window of the skin.

[Aminifu]

Another moment. I can not get by simply pressing the cursor switch in the main window from the spectrum analyzer mode to the oscilloscope mode. It is necessary to change the skin, there to switch and back to include this skin, which is inconvenient. ...

As far as I can tell, the main player window of this skin only has it's own fixed version of a spectrum analyzer. What skin are you switching to and back from to get it to display an oscilloscope visualization?

[libero]

On the cover of Quinto switch oscilloscope mode and again load Quinto black ct 5.

[libero]

In the original skin of Quinto Black, switching the visualization really is not possible, strange ...

[libero]

And please make a scale of indicators at least from -30db to + 6db. The indication should not disappear, and at a low signal level the LED LED indicator does not glow, since the signal level is less than -20dB. Maybe you need to make the LEDs themselves smaller in size, so that they are not placed on 10 per channel, but on 13-15. And, of course, it would be nice to make LED indicators depend on the analog indicator settings. Thank you.

[libero]

Here today I tried to reduce the scale of the LED indicator window 1.5 times (set the value of 75% in the settings) - the readability is excellent, that is, it is possible to reduce the size of the LEDs in such a way that their number is 14-15 and even more for each channel on the indicator scale . Then it will be possible to extend the indicator scale from -30dB to +6dB. But at the same time we need constantly burning LED activity indicators LED indicator. It is also possible to reduce the distance between the LEDs of each channel - this will give smooth and realistic transmission of the audio signal.

[libero]

And in the main window (if you follow the general concept), I would like to highlight the red zone on the indicator (the signal is greater than +/- 0db).

[PeterK.]

Hello skyflyxxx,

I am happy to hear that you like my skin.

"куда перечислять деньги за твою работу?"

Unfortunately, there is at this moment no way to make a donation. And I do not think that PayPal would be happy to see my account being a pure donation place because I would never use it for other purposes. In case you have a better idea please let me know.

Hello libero,

thank you for stopping by. I am going to answer all your questions:

1. Yes, the PEAK indicator is activated in the upcoming version 1.6 of my skin which means it will go on and off while a music file is played. I am planning on releasing the next version in the beginning of November so please be patient.

2. Those digits on both VU Meters (analog and digital) are not decibel but volume units and hence the name VU Meter. The range is always from -20 to +3. And this is going to stay like this. I could not find a ("scientific") template for the digital Meter though, so I would know exactly where to place which colors. The amount of green, yellow and red LEDs vary on many pictures I have seen and seems to depend on the amount of LEDs on a particular amplifier or other Hi-Fi component. In case someone found an (official) template for a digital Meter, please let me know. All I know for now is that the red zone starts after 0.

3. "And yet, please tell me whether it is possible to realize the dependence of LED indicators on the settings of the analog indicator. "

I am sorry but I do not understand your question.

4. No, there is no oscilloscope mode in my skin. Having the visualization off never made sense to me and the oscilloscope was just a "nervous flat line". Thus I disabled those two modes in the very first edition of my skin (back in 2010) and kept the spectrum analyzer only. Nobody never complained. You are the first one.

5. "And yes, in the LED indicator I would like to have a constant illumination of the mode of inclusion (two additional LEDs) of the indicator instead of the button for switching the LED color - as it is implemented in the main window of the skin. "

I am sorry, I do not understand your request.

6. "And it would be great to finish the playlist window, making it like in the stock version of VINAMP. Then it would be a masterpiece skin."

I never realized the PlaylistEditor window was unfinished. What is missing in here?

7. "The cover itself is just SUPER."

I think you mean the word skin, not cover, right?

"Perhaps this is even the best cover for WIMAMPA."

Thank you!

OK guys and gals, let us get some work done here. :-)

1. I have been experimenting with some (virtual) external light sources which "throw" rays of light onto the MainPlayer and both VU Meters. Many of you might know the "trick" from the Classic Skin. How do you like it? Too much, too little or just fine?



2. I synchronized both digital VU Meters. From now on they both work according to the same algorithm. And as you can clearly see on the screenshot I also decreased the amount of segments (=LED lights) on the MainPlayer (now 10) and used yellow and red color for the same segments in both Meters.
However, as we all know, we can change the color of the "bottom LEDs" in the external digital VU Meter. But this action, no surprise here, has no influence on the "bottom LEDs" in the VU Meter on the MainPlayer, which are always kind of grayish.
Unless! ... unless we change the color to green and keep it that way? What do you think?



3. In the left bottom corner of each analog scale there was an empty spot, which I did not like. So I placed the text "ver. 5.666" in there stating the current version of Winamp. But! There are definitely some people who might still use an older version, or, more importantly, there might be a new version one day (fingers crossed). And thus this additional text line would not make much sense, would it? So I am asking you to share some ideas, what we should use this spot for.

[Aminifu]

On the cover of Quinto switch oscilloscope mode and again load Quinto black ct 5.

You are correct. The original Quinto skin does have the ability to turn off the visualization in the main player window or switch it between the spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope modes. The Quinto Black and Quinto Black CT skins do not have this ability, but it is possible to switch to Quinto and select the desired mode which is maintained when switching back to Quinto Black or Quinto Black CT.

I had not noticed this because I normally use the spectrum analyzer mode. I assume PeterK. left this out of his updates on purpose (developer's choice) or it is an oversight. I agree that this is inconvenient, but how often do you change this visualization? However, I do miss the ability to adjust how the spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope modes work, which is present in the default Winamp skins but not in the original Quinto skin.

I'm willing to accept how the Quinto Black CT main player visualization currently works because Quinto Black CT improves on the original Quinto so much in other areas.

[libero]

Tell me, there is an opportunity to correct this so that the visualization can be switched.

[libero]

And my wishes on the indicators. Can you finish them a little?

[libero]

Thanks for answers. Once again I want to thank for the excellent skin. And version 1.6 looks impressive. I want to clarify a bit about what I asked.
1. The LED indicator scale should begin with the illumination of the 2 lower LEDs on the L and R channels, which means its activity. In most audio systems, this is the version of visualization. In the main cover window, the indicator also does not disappear at all. And can you increase the number of LEDs per channel? In my opinion 10 LEDs, and in most tracks only 7-8 (0, +1 marks) are lit - this is not enough.
2. If it is not possible to switch the spectrum analyzer to an oscilloscope, then fix it so that the visualization setting does not remain from the previous skin. Otherwise, you need to skip from skin to skin and switch modes.
3. I spoke about the dependence of speed settings and sensitivity of LED indicators LED from the corresponding settings of the analog indicator, in which it is done above all praise! Analog indicator can be set to a smooth work, and the LED at the same time quickly jumps up and down.