farrbot wrote:I had to do a complete reinstall of windows after the 8.1 upgrade borked my machine. Surprised to find the the Glided skin had been dropped on reinstalling a fresh copy of MM. No download location anywhere to be found on this site. Tried a few of the other skins on offer, call me conservative but...meh, was quite happy with Glided. Many of the newer themes seem to be designed with no concept of legibility or function particulary the light text on dark backgrounds.
COMPLETELY agree! What's with all the dark backgrounds and fluoro highlights? Another thing I've found from the 20+ skins I've tried are they are almost invariably use monochrome icons (i.e. in the tree, toolbars and menus) - my current "favourite" Songbird included. What happened to some colour???
And some are just a mess.
I also mostly liked Gilded as it has a nice large player bar with all the song info, and shuffle etc, options right there. And it had a nice long play-seek bar - can't stand all the stubby little seek bars on many of the new skins.
No offense to the current hard working skin authors, but Gilded is the only that came close to having everything I wanted.
And it's actually an embarrassment that MM, one of the top players in media software, can't do better than the default Metro skin. How can they expect to entice people away from iTunes with a skin that looks like it was made in 1995?
[quote="farrbot"]I had to do a complete reinstall of windows after the 8.1 upgrade borked my machine. Surprised to find the the Glided skin had been dropped on reinstalling a fresh copy of MM. No download location anywhere to be found on this site. Tried a few of the other skins on offer, call me conservative but...meh, was quite happy with Glided. Many of the newer themes seem to be designed with no concept of legibility or function particulary the light text on dark backgrounds.[/quote]
COMPLETELY agree! What's with all the dark backgrounds and fluoro highlights? Another thing I've found from the 20+ skins I've tried are they are almost invariably use monochrome icons (i.e. in the tree, toolbars and menus) - my current "favourite" Songbird included. What happened to some colour???
And some are just a mess.
I also mostly liked Gilded as it has a nice large player bar with all the song info, and shuffle etc, options right there. And it had a nice long play-seek bar - can't stand all the stubby little seek bars on many of the new skins.
No offense to the current hard working skin authors, but Gilded is the only that came close to having everything I wanted.
And it's actually an embarrassment that MM, one of the top players in media software, can't do better than the default Metro skin. How can they expect to entice people away from iTunes with a skin that looks like it was made in 1995?