[revned]

Why does everything have to have an iPhone look these days?

I agree, but it's very difficult to find a good backdrop for music. I'm using this one at the moment:


Perhaps a photoshop expert could make it a bit more 'music style'

[User 55003]

Another music background, not finished yet, just a test

[RustyCage]

[quote=Steveb]Another music background, not finished yet, just a test


A jukebox, ofcourse! Why didn't i think of that
Looks really nice

[adsoto]

The camera background from SteveB looks good

For me most of the backgrounds in T! are fine, I'd only change:

- The TV bg in the Home Screen
- The default bg while browsing Music (the colourful psychedelic one)
- Maybe the Settings bg

But of course I always am surprised by your creativity, the jukebox looks tasty. I'd emphasize more the covers and the machine front instead of the big tubes though.

[ronie]

The camera background from SteveB looks good

For me most of the backgrounds in T! are fine, I'd only change:

- The TV bg in the Home Screen

this one's been mentioned quite a lot, so if anyone has a better backdrop, feel free to post it in the backgrounds thread
(it's an old post, but you can still use it to contribute your favourite backdrops.)

[smush420]

I can't seem to get this working. I've loaded the movie.png which works fine, but Im not clear on how to get the fanart to cycle with the image.

[ronie]

I can't seem to get this working. I've loaded the movie.png which works fine, but Im not clear on how to get the fanart to cycle with the image.

this is all work in progress, it's not yet included in Transparency!
the only thing available is this MOD: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=409...stcount=30

[igotdvds]

I agree, but it's very difficult to find a good backdrop for music. I'm using this one at the moment:


Perhaps a photoshop expert could make it a bit more 'music style'

Could you link this in full quality? PLEASE!

[smush420]

o ok my bad, new to this skin but I'm absolutely loving it, keep up the good work

[revned]

Could you link this in full quality? PLEASE!

Ofcourse, here you go:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7575/musictest2.png

[igotdvds]

Ofcourse, here you go:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7575/musictest2.png

Thanks, Im going to lower the image so that the icons from Rapier will show in that white area.

[ronie]

in another thread kurtwarwick came up with the idea of having a cd wall with random cd covers during playback:



at first i was a bit scared if a thing like this wouldn't eat all your cpu resources, but it turns out it almost runs as smooth as a breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfjJX_5B88

[kizer]

I'm so glad I'm going to be updating the old Xbox to a little HTPC soon.

This thread just blows me away with how cool this skin really could be.

[User 55003]

in another thread kurtwarwick came up with the idea of having a cd wall with random cd covers during playback:



at first i was a bit scared if a thing like this wouldn't eat all your cpu resources, but it turns out it almost runs as smooth as a breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCfjJX_5B88

That looks cool !!!
I prefer that to visualisations

[adsoto]

That looks cool !!!
I prefer that to visualisations

I'd like to have this kind of background during music playing also. Visualisations are Ok to have but I don't particularly fancy them. It would be nice to have this as an option or maybe have some key that swaps between visualisations and wall but definitely interesting.

I understand that this creates a changing wall using your own cd covers and not some preset stock images. In fact I believe that Windows 7 Media Center does just that whey you play music.