iPod dA

iPod dA (deviantART) Windows Media Player Skin
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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:

This is a basic multi-device version, with iPod Video, Nano and Shuffle devices (use the "hidden" button at the top-left to change device). In addition to the deviantART styled backgrounds, there are classic black and white (including a black Shuffle), along with my impression of U2 style iPods in all three versions.

Credit (again!) 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

See also my iPod Clear skin.

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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 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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Enjoy!