How ?

[ariszlo]

Is there a way to modify the way the song ticker works, rather than it bouncing back and forth from left to right, I'd like it to scroll in one direction then re enter from the other side.

Yes, there is. The Big Bento skin has an option of classic songticker scrolling. Find it in Options > Songticker. Winamp Modern also has that option. Find it in Options > Winamp Modern > Songticker.

To see how they do it, get the Winamp Skin Development Pack and you will have the maki sources for Big Bento and Winamp Modern.

Another skin that has an option of one-direction scrolling is Winamp Single GUI. It has it in Options > Winamp 5 Single GUI > Songticker.

is there a way to 'house' parts of the player, like playlist/media library/vilualisation, inside the main window ?

Yes. Check out iron2000's Ashen Player and Classix Player in his Winamp Modern gallery.

Something like implemented in this skin https://winaero.com/downloads/winamp/222250.zip

It says,

403 Forbidden

[parisienne17]

Well, I've found my answers in the azenis skin.

My 1st project is on the way, I've to find the issue for the anim volume seeker not showing on the left then with final resizing and polishing it should be time to swith to the next one after azenis code reading.

Thank you for your help.
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[ariszlo]

Looks very good.

If I were you, I would make the buttons bigger because they look very small on a screen with a 1920x1080 resolution.

[parisienne17]

The 403 forbidden is new, I went to the page not long ago.

It's a page for MFD skin https://winaero.com/mfd_update_v1_1-winamp-skin/

[ariszlo]

The 403 forbidden is new, I went to the page not long ago.

You can download it if you go to Winaero but not by clicking on the link in your post here.

[parisienne17]

unfortunately for the link you gave me to a tutorial from frisbeemonkey, white on light green is REALLY ergonomic for someone with an eyesight condition...

[ariszlo]

If you are using Firefox then you can override the colors of a web page with system colors. Go to Preferences, Colors, check "Use system colors" and select Always.

[parisienne17]

unfortunately I'm using chrome and even in dark mode (with or without dark reader) it's displayed light green with light font color. Too bad for me!

Do you happen to know the tag for album name ? I've tried AlbumTitle but it shows the whole info (album, artist, number and song info)and the same with AlbumName.

And I couldn't find any 'database' covering the whole avaiiable tags

[parisienne17]

I've tried your suggestion with firefox (I had to tweak dark reader & dark night mode), it went well. Time to read ! ;.)

[ariszlo]

unfortunately for the link you gave me to a tutorial from frisbeemonkey, white on light green is REALLY ergonomic for someone with an eyesight condition...

unfortunately I'm using chrome and even in dark mode (with or without dark reader) it's displayed light green with light font color. Too bad for me!

Dark Reader does not change the color of the background image, only the text color. Color Changer does. It takes some time to configure it but then you will be able to access many more web pages than you can now with Dark Reader.

Do you happen to know the tag for album name ? I've tried AlbumTitle but it shows the whole info (album, artist, number and song info)and the same with AlbumName.

You can do it with MAKI.

1. Copy this into your xml file:

<text
  id="AlbumTitle"
  x="65" y="10" w="200" h="18" align="center"
  fontsize="18" color="255,255,255"
/>
<script id="albumtitle" file="scripts/albumtitle.maki"/> 

2. Change the values of x, y, etc. in the text tag but do not change its id. It will not work if you change it.

3. Extract albumtitle.maki from albumtitle.zip and copy it into your skin's scripts folder.

[parisienne17]

thank you for that script : it did exactly what I needed.

Unfortunately, there is always new issues... I'm using Play2Pause script. With the buttons (png) that was in the skin where I took the script, all is OK but as soon as I change the png the scripts doesn't work anymore.

IS there some picture size related coding in this one ?

[parisienne17]

sorry fot the previous post, I might have been too long on the skin today, I began to mess things up as I found my error. So it's working fine (but couldn't find how to edit a post...)

Time to go to sleep now ;.)

[ariszlo]

SC Text Objects

Is there a way to modify the way the song ticker works, rather than it bouncing back and forth from left to right, I'd like it to scroll in one direction then re enter from the other side.

Do you happen to know the tag for album name ? I've tried AlbumTitle but it shows the whole info (album, artist, number and song info)and the same with AlbumName.

Just for clarity, album name is not a tag but a string. An xml tag begins with < and ends with >.

What you need is Skin Consortium's Text Objects.

1. Extract Xui.zip into your skin's folder so that you have a Xui folder in it.
2. Add this line before the first include tag in skin.xml:

<include file="Xui/SC Text Objects/SC Text Objects.xml"/> 

3. Open the xml file which has the SongTitle and ArtistName tags.
4. Remove the SongTitle and ArtistName tags. If you have added an AlbumTitle tag, remove it too.
5. Remove these tags, too:

<script id="songticker.script" file="scripts/songticker.maki"/>
<script id="albumtitle" file="scripts/albumtitle.maki"/> 

6. Add these three tags:

<SC:OneDirectionText mytext="%artist%" x="87" y="18" w="200" h="20"
  font="Arial" fontsize="18" align="center" valign="top"
  rightclickaction="trackmenu" dblclickaction="trackinfo"
/>
<SC:OneDirectionText mytext="%title%" x="87" y="31" w="200" h="20"
  font="Arial" fontsize="18" align="center" valign="top"
  rightclickaction="trackmenu" dblclickaction="trackinfo"
/>
<SC:OneDirectionText mytext="%album%" x="87" y="44" w="200" h="20"
  font="Arial" fontsize="18" align="center" valign="top"
/> 

Do not change SC:OneDirectionText or the mytext parameters. You can change all other parameters (x, y, w, etc.)

[parisienne17]

Hi,

When I was working on my skin, time consuming (and failing) show/hide covert art import from ichange skin https://www.deviantart.com/takanory/...-x240-30153738
[IMG][/IMG]

put me on another approach : cannibalize the skin. Not a nice behavior ;.) ... Anyway... I was in the trimming process (ugly colors, unusefull objects, graphics and so on).

Then... Booomm.. Another puzzling thing (and this is the 2nd time it happened with this skin) : the covert art button didn't worked anymore... It did yesterday, this morning and suddendly it doesn't. I removed it, deleted it from skins folder, put a fesh unzipped one and it still doesn't work...

So, i think I"m done with this $§@#µ*& whole winamp mess as it is soooo stupid way of creating a software with so much limitations for the fanbase to work thru it.

I'll keep my half way skin as it is or use whatever handy I'll find.


Thank you again for your time and help.


I'm sorry to bother you with lame requests

[parisienne17]

unbelievable : ichange skin with it's showhide cover button (code) that didn't work for nearly 2 days is working this morning!

Also, the playlist not reflecting changes immediatly after media library updates, even upon closing and reopening works today...

I might have some tricky spirits leaving in my appartment.

Besides uninstall, do you happen to know if there's a reset config command for winamp ?