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Here it is, you one-stop guide to make Big Bento look awesome in 4K. Big Bento was made for 1080p and technically, Big Bento Modern was made for 4K (sorta) but it has some issues so I prefer Big Bento.
Here's what we're going to do:
- resize Big Bento to 150% under "Scaling"
- Set up the Skin Font Mapper under Preferences -> Skins -> Modern Skins
- Change Antialiasing from "0" to "1" in *3* separate xml files.
When we're finished, we will have changed and resized the Songticker and File Info fonts, rendered them with anti-aliasing, and rendered the tabs buttons in anti-aliasing as well.
Ready?
1. Go to Preferences -> Skins -> Modern Skins and under the Font Rendering tab, click the box for "Use skin font mapper." Now click on the "Configure skin font mapping..." button.
Choose "Arial" under the Map Font drop down.
Choose (for now) "Arial Bold" under the "Into" drop down. Change from 100% to 108%. Watch the songticker. Click the "New" and then the "Set" buttons. Voila. Nothing much to see here yet but we've changed the Songticker and File Info fonts. Close out of Preferences.
Now were going to turn on antialiasing for the new mapped font as well as turn on antialiasing for the tabs buttons. Go to C:\ -> Program Files (x86) -> Winamp -> Skins -> Big Bento -> xml
In this directory choose the following files and copy and paste them into the same directory in order to back them up in case something goes wrong. In Windows 10 & 11 the copied file should look like "player-normal-mcv - Copy.xml."
You will likely need to change the permissions on the following files:
player-normal-mcv.xml
player-normal-sui.xml
player-normal-group.xml
For each file, Right-click and choose "Properties" and then the "Security" tab. For each file I chose the Group "users" under Group name. Choose "Edit", click the "Full Control" box, then "Apply" for each file. You're done here.
Open each of these files, right-click and choose "open with" -> Notepad. In Notepad, choose Edit -> Find and in the search box, type "antialias" without the quotes. Use the down-arrow next to the box and in each instance of "antialias" change "0' to "1." Do this in all 3 files and save them.
Now either hit F5 or Exit Winamp and restart. You should already notice a huge improvement in how this skin looks with a better choice in Songticker and File Info font plus antialiasing implemented on the new font and on the tabs buttons. It will look even better once you rescale the Big Bento Window but we'll save that as the last step.
Open Winamp Preferences again and under "General Preferences" in the left-hand pane, choose "Playlist." On the right under "Playlist Editor Appearance" change the Playlist font size to "14." Under the "Use Font" dropdown, choose Segoe UI Semibold. The change to your Media Library playlist windows will be immediate. It is a shame you can't choose this font as a font mapper substitute in the "Use font mapper" step above.
Ok - Last step. Right-Click the main window and choose Window Settings -> Scaling -> 150%. Use the attached screenshot to adjust Big Bento's Media Library and Main Player window sizes to taste.
You're done! Feel free to play with alternate fonts under the "Configure skin font mapping..." step above. You won't get the same choices as you did for changing the Playlist font directly.
ENJOY the new look!
Here it is, you one-stop guide to make Big Bento look awesome in 4K. Big Bento was made for 1080p and technically, Big Bento Modern was made for 4K (sorta) but it has some issues so I prefer Big Bento.
Here's what we're going to do:
- resize Big Bento to 150% under "Scaling"
- Set up the Skin Font Mapper under Preferences -> Skins -> Modern Skins
- Change Antialiasing from "0" to "1" in *3* separate xml files.
When we're finished, we will have changed and resized the Songticker and File Info fonts, rendered them with anti-aliasing, and rendered the tabs buttons in anti-aliasing as well.
Ready?
1. Go to Preferences -> Skins -> Modern Skins and under the Font Rendering tab, click the box for "Use skin font mapper." Now click on the "Configure skin font mapping..." button.
Choose "Arial" under the Map Font drop down.
Choose (for now) "Arial Bold" under the "Into" drop down. Change from 100% to 108%. Watch the songticker. Click the "New" and then the "Set" buttons. Voila. Nothing much to see here yet but we've changed the Songticker and File Info fonts. Close out of Preferences.
Now were going to turn on antialiasing for the new mapped font as well as turn on antialiasing for the tabs buttons. Go to C:\ -> Program Files (x86) -> Winamp -> Skins -> Big Bento -> xml
In this directory choose the following files and copy and paste them into the same directory in order to back them up in case something goes wrong. In Windows 10 & 11 the copied file should look like "player-normal-mcv - Copy.xml."
You will likely need to change the permissions on the following files:
player-normal-mcv.xml
player-normal-sui.xml
player-normal-group.xml
For each file, Right-click and choose "Properties" and then the "Security" tab. For each file I chose the Group "users" under Group name. Choose "Edit", click the "Full Control" box, then "Apply" for each file. You're done here.
Open each of these files, right-click and choose "open with" -> Notepad. In Notepad, choose Edit -> Find and in the search box, type "antialias" without the quotes. Use the down-arrow next to the box and in each instance of "antialias" change "0' to "1." Do this in all 3 files and save them.
Now either hit F5 or Exit Winamp and restart. You should already notice a huge improvement in how this skin looks with a better choice in Songticker and File Info font plus antialiasing implemented on the new font and on the tabs buttons. It will look even better once you rescale the Big Bento Window but we'll save that as the last step.
Open Winamp Preferences again and under "General Preferences" in the left-hand pane, choose "Playlist." On the right under "Playlist Editor Appearance" change the Playlist font size to "14." Under the "Use Font" dropdown, choose Segoe UI Semibold. The change to your Media Library playlist windows will be immediate. It is a shame you can't choose this font as a font mapper substitute in the "Use font mapper" step above.
Ok - Last step. Right-Click the main window and choose Window Settings -> Scaling -> 150%. Use the attached screenshot to adjust Big Bento's Media Library and Main Player window sizes to taste.
You're done! Feel free to play with alternate fonts under the "Configure skin font mapping..." step above. You won't get the same choices as you did for changing the Playlist font directly.
ENJOY the new look!
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