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new theme (kinda): retroTape

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Yotto:
Before downloading this, I was concerned that many, if not most of, the square album art images I had would look odd half-clipped like that.

I. Was. Wrong. Wow that looks good. I've seen maybe 2 or 3 out of dozens that I thought were clipped weird, but other than that they all looked great.

One thing I'd do is (and it's hard because you've already eaten up so much horizontal space) make a better divider. I think 1 or 2 vertical lines (of white or black, not sure what would look better) that are not in the menu viewscreen would add greatly to the look.

It does seem a bit nonresponsive on my iPod. When I hit Menu (while in the WPS) it takes over a second to switch. It made me think maybe the button didn't take. Likewise, if I'm in the menus/files and I hit Play to get back to the WPS after a song change, that can also take well over a second. I doubt there's much if anything you could do to fix it, it may just be that the theme is a bit too beefy for my poor little DAP.

I have no opinion on if you should make this "official" or "mark 2." I see good reasons for both. One reason to do two: There are already themes out there with multiple versions where the only difference is the color of the backdrop. If they're okay, 2 retroTapes should be fine too.

audio-i:
I uploaded the final 320x240 new version, that includes most of the mentioned changes (thanks again Yotto and Peaceful1 for the feedback and ideas). The best part is that when I changed the menus font from 14-Nimbus to 18-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold, the "unresponsiveness" was gone (I admit I have no idea why).

I wasn't able to include a radio screen, I had a few nice ideas for it, but the theme is too short in skin RAM left, so no way for now.

     

cereal_killer:
Hello audio-i,

big up for your theme, one of the most amazing I tried so far. I tried it on my iPod, but though it says works with release 3.7 I can't get the album art shown in the menus. So I assume I have to use a current build, right?

I personally like the black background more the the blue one in the "inlay", but I think I just use the backdrop from your beta release and change the colour of the bar manually.

Again thank you for your great work.

Greetings,

c_k

audio-i:

--- Quote from: cereal_killer on February 15, 2011, 02:47:10 PM ---I tried it on my iPod, but though it says works with release 3.7 I can't get the album art shown in the menus. So I assume I have to use a current build, right?
--- End quote ---

Well, it should work with the latest release, I tried it myself with 3.7.1 on my iPod and it works fine, the current build should not be different. What exactly is it that you see on the menus, instead of the album art? Have you tried after turning the device off, and on again (having selected retroTape before turning it off)?

Yotto:
And, just to make sure because you didn't mention it, does the album art show up in on the tape (in the WPS), or in other album-art enabled WPSes?

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