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March 12, 2006
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iPod Clear Windows Media Player Skin (2.3Mb)
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Copyright ©2006 Tim Hines. All rights reserved.

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OPERATION:

Click wheel:
Menu: Shows/hides playlist.
|<< : Previous song/item.
>>| : Next song/item.
>|| : Play/pause toggle.
Centre of click wheel: Cycles through different screens - information pane, visualisation screen, information overlaid on visualisation, large cover art, large cover art overlaid on visualisation (not all screens available when playing video).

"Hidden" buttons (will show icons when hovering over them):
Up and down arrows to right of screen: Cycle through different background colours/designs.
Lower left of device: Closes Media Player.
Lower right of device: Returns to full mode of Media Player.
Upper left of device: Changes device (different set of backgrounds).
Upper right of device: Minimises player.

Screen hotspots:
Play/pause icon at top left: Play/pause toggle.
"Now Playing" title bar and much of the information pane: Toggles between volume and progress bars (click and drag on volume/progress bar to alter volume/progress).
Battery icon at top right: Toggles rating option (click on dots/stars to set a rating, click to left of first dot/star to clear it back to unrated).
Visualisation pane: Single click to go to next visualisation, double click to go to previous one.

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DESIGN:

The design of this clear skin takes its inspiration from the original translucent iMac - the clear colours are (in order), the original iMac colours, Grape, Lime, Tangerine, Blueberry, Strawberry, and Bondi Blue, followed by my own additions of Banana, Graphite and Diamond.

You can also use the Change Device icon at the top left of the device to select classic Black or White, plus my impression of a U2 style video iPod.

Credit to Juan Hernandez (juanchis) for his iPod Media Player skins. They inspired me to try skinning myself and I needed an excuse to learn a bit of XML and JScript! Thanks Juan :-)

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TOOLS:

I use Xara Xtreme (www.xara.com), to build up the graphics for the skins, which are defined as vector images (apart from the video iPod circuit board in these clear versions), with named colours so that I can create different colourways quickly.

I use TextPad (www.textpad.com) for creating the XML and JScript files.

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~ziocong Feb 23, 2012
enlarge the screen dimension of the ipod-mediaplayer?????
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~Rallyz Feb 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks for the comment. This was made when screen resolutions were worse. There isn't a way to increase the size of the player without redoing the graphics.
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~GeekyJoshy Jul 31, 2011
how o change between skins,sorry,Im new
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~Rallyz Aug 12, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
There are "hidden" buttons which will show the icons when hovering over them, they are:
Up and down arrows to right of screen: Cycle through different background colours/designs.
Lower left of device: Closes Media Player.
Lower right of device: Returns to full mode of Media Player.
Upper left of device: Changes device (different set of backgrounds).
Upper right of device: Minimises player.
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~GeekyJoshy Aug 14, 2011
ohh,cool,thanxx for letting me know
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~yoya4ever May 30, 2011
hello,
how can u install this skins for wmp?

txs.
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~Rallyz Jun 8, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Click on the "Download file" link at the top right of this page and choose "Open" and it will install it and open WMP with the new skin.

At least it does under Firefox. I notice that Internet Explorer 9 renames the .wmz file with a .zip extension when it saves it, so you may need to change that back to .wmz and then double-click on it.
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~De4thPen Feb 7, 2011
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! This is the best skin I have! I don't think I'll ever change it! X) And I learned all the controls by myself! XP I'm such a computer nerd.

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Love is love no matter who it's with.. :heart:
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Mood: Glad ~Rallyz Feb 11, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank YOU :D
It's great it's still being downloaded and enjoyed.
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~De4thPen Feb 13, 2011
You're welcome! :) I even try to get my brother to use it. :D

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Love is love no matter who it's with.. :heart:
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