Your personal WPS preferences

[peter122]

The no album art feature piqued my interest. Everyone abuses that feature.

1) no Next Song info. I wanna be surprised.
2) Style over substance. Devote 60% of your time to making it look good, 40% to the info. If it doesn't look good I don't care.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.

My preference would be function over style.  My current theme is Car v1.  BIG easy to read letters and all essential info is there.  Not very pretty but boy, is it functional!  This could be a function of my age (67) but I have trouble reading the small letters on most themes and until I learned to change themes I almost gave up on Rockbox due to the small font size of the default theme.

[ThaCrip]

See, personally, I bought an MP3 player to listen to, not to look at. If I look at the screen, it's for information. I prefer my WPS as clean as possible. I'd like it to look nice, but I consider "nice" as "presents the information about the currently playing song, and the current position within it, as clearly as possible, with a minimum of visual distraction." Volume should be easy to spot, and numerical. Playlist position is also important. And next track info is okay, as long as it's in a position on the screen that it's clearly not related to the current track info.

what he said is the way i look at stuff to when it comes to rockbox!

cause even though im sure there's fancy looking stuff out there i already think the default skin (the one with black and yellow) is already quite good and at the most it might get a minor tweak here and there, but the core function of that skin is already pretty good and professional looking and the text is easy to see and you can fit alot of it on screen.

[crumbut]

Maybe I'm just getting old or something but enough with the little teensey weensey fonts. I think many of the themes would look so much better with readable text.

I like a clean simple yet informative gui.

[Zardoz]

I now have ( ) a black ipod video and i think my favourite theme is Cabbie v.3. It's clean and simple and classy i figure. I'm down with Llorean on this generally - i bought my player to play music on and listen to, not to ogle at or play games on. Although i like its prettiness. A simple and discreet volume display is good enough for me - again i can hear volume and don't really need to see it (but i guess it might be useful for establishing baseline and estimating 'gain across recordings and whatnot.) I might change 'artist' font to a slightly bolder, more bulbous one although same-ish and i might reduce the 'next' font size vis-à-vis the 'now-playing' and maybe add the artist in this one too (smaller, same, bulbous). Otherwise this is perfect for my needs!! (actually one thing i would love is a keypad shortcut on the WPS to display the time in big ole numbers)

[Serenity]

I like a nice large font.  'Car' is a bit of overkill, and kind of ugly, so I guess I like a clean, somewhat pretty WPS.

Large, clear font.
Clock & battery displayed somewhere.
Song/Artist/Album displayed in that order.
Countdown & Total track length are nice
Next track is also nice when I'm in the car with my fiancee...she doesn't like all my music so it's nice to know when I'll have to skip a track.
Play/pause icons (no forward/reverse icons...obviously I know if I'm speeding through something).
Play mode indicators (random/repeat/shuffle).
Dark colors.

Right now I'm using a tweaked version of Cabbie 3 with a larger font size, and I like it quite a bit.  I've also enjoyed Ultima and Clean Dark.