yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gruvngyrl:
Just a note:

I installed the QVGA Manila-Like skin by BDWN (which I LOVE, btw), and for some reason it's actually too long for my standard 240x320 QVGA screen - the bottom 1/3 of the wheel is cut of, along with everyone below that. I thought maybe I'd somehow chosen the wrong .zip, so I installed the VGA and needless to say, it was WAY too big for my screen, lol.

I also have to say, NITROGEN ROCKS!! I've been looking for a good, fast, intuitive, finger-friendly stand-alone player for a little while now, and this fits the bill PERFECTLY.

I'm actually quite in love with the default 0.3.1 skins, but the only piece of functionality I keep feeling is missing is the ability to fast forward through a song with any accuracy. I can drag the progress bar to hit some unknown part of the song, but I generally end up way too farther along than I wanted to fast forward to, which is why I was trying to download BDWN's skin (looks like there is a more finger-friendly way to drag through the song progress). Also, is it possible to get a skin that looks like the Nitrogen 0.2.1 default skin (or whatever the very first skin photo in microfi's 1st post - the one with Sweet Home Alabama in the titlebar) here is? While I do love the new defaults, the big picture of the musical note, which doesn't seem to serve any function as far as I've been able to tell, takes up way too much screen real estate, and might be better replaced with a longer song progress bar and volume bar. I know I'm getting all suggestion-y, but I have no skin skills, and can't even so much as figure out how to use the skin creator, so my best hope is to ask and cross my fingers! :o

Last thing, maciejst, if you ever decide to make a qvga skin like your takeiteasy vga version, please, please link it. It's just too cool looking.

Thanks for all of your hard work, everyone. Everything here is ahhhmazing!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
That's because the Manila-Like skins are WVGA and WQVGA. As the WVGA resolution is 80 pixels larger than QVGA (vertically), there are things you won't see on your screen. You'll have to wait until BDWN releases QVGA versions (which I'm also waiting for).

Many thanks! I'm glad you liked.

I'll surely work on that in a soon release. With the big performance improvement on 0.3.2, it will finally be possible!

If I have some free time, I'll design that skin for 0.3.2.

This picture is replaced by the song album art, if you have the JPEGs on your album folder. See the FAQ on the player's official thread to know how you can add them to your device.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BDWN:
iPodLike [All Resolutions] Project Files

Some people requested these, so here you go :) .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BDWN:
They're up now :D .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spaluch:
EDWN...love the iPodLilke look. Is there any way you can make a resolution 320 x 320? I don't think the ones listed there would fit to my screen size. Thanks for you help!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spaluch:
This is definately the best player I have used so far. I am still using 2.1 because I am waiting for someone with a lot more talent than me to make a 320x320 skin. Great product and I look forward to many great things to come. THANKS!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maciejst:
Questions...

Hey there!

Will make a QVGA version of takeiteasy as soon as I have a spare while. Just wanted it to have the functionality of the default 0.2.1 skin so it isn't anything too creative :]. When it comes to being able to ffwd thru a songs- will think of a 2-wheel skin... that could actually be quite doable. I suppose the 'seek time' option does that.

Also, Kevhal and Microfi - thanks for checking and looking into the equalizer problem. Sorry for not replying earlier as I just returned. I was wondering: since I made the skin in PPT, I checked MS licesne terms and they say you can share stuff made in PPT for non profit purposes. It seems that whenever someone makes a skin in PPT, they could actually share them along with other skin files for edition of colors, etc. What do you guys think abt that? Do you know anything abt MS license terms and sharing things in forums? I know PPT is a rough tool but the new one does allow making quite neat stuff (you can edit curved shapes fully just as in cdr and place things very accurately using settins). Lemme know whenever you manage to fix the eq button.

Thanks & take care!

Maciej

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HTC Touch Diamond... & Nitrogen!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kevlah:
I like that idea of PPT files. I was looking for something to create my skin with and thought about getting an old copy of PaintShopPro that I have somewhere but PowerPoint seems pretty flexible for this purpose and saves me the bother of hunting out my software :) I think as long as you aren't selling the PPT files you should be OK to share them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I also liked the idea of sharing the PPT files. Actually, I always thought that, if you made the document (PPT, DOC, etc..), you can do whatever you want with it, can't you?

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maciejst:
PPT files

Kevlah, I think it's even no crime if you use clipart in them in fact! The MSLT (MS license terms) for Home&Student Office 2007 says:

Quote: "b. Media Elements and Templates. You may copy and use images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, shapes, video clips and templates

provided with the software and identified for such use in documents and

projects that you create. You may distribute those documents and

projects non-commercially. If you wish to use these media elements or

templates for any other purpose, go to www.microsoft.com/permission to

learn whether that use is allowed."

So... looks like we're all good! Will share some files once I've done the new ones.

Filipe, I was wondering if it is possible to place one wheel within another, if you disable the center button for the larger wheel... I'll check it, so don't waste u'r time with a reply if u don't have a ready answer plz :].

Take care,

Maciej

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HTC Touch Diamond... & Nitrogen!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gruvngyrl:
I'm trying to figure this whole skin thing out so that I can maybe make something that's layed out just the way I need/want it to be, but I am SO lost with the skinbox. Is there someplace where the default icons are located, or some way to pull them out of the skins that currently exist? The skins I've seen so far look to have similiarities in at least some of the buttons, but I don't see any graphics files in the .zip with the skinbox itself. Or are you guys making them from scratch in Photoshop or something? :confused: Sorry for the noobness... I've never seen or tried anything like making a skin for something before, but I'm trying!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maciejst:
Gruvngyrl,

Do u mean icons for the settings menu or buttons in the player screen? If the 2nd, well the idea is that there are no icons for buttons, you only make 4 pictures and then place buttons over them using skinbox. Wherever u place a button, nitrogen will switch what's under the button to what's in the other picture (look at the manual Filipe made- it explains a lot on other functions).

For icons in the settings menu (which pops up when u press 'settings') on the other hand, you can load every one of them into the program: just need to have the icons (have to either make them yourself or find free ones on the web).

So... yes.. you have to use photoshop or ppt or some graphic tool to make the skin as it would look like. U also need to edit masks for buttons in skinbox wherever you place 1 button over the other (so that some part of it doesn't change to the other color/picture).

Hope that's what you meant. As an example, you can find the working file I used for making 'takeiteasy' skin in the skins section along with the qvga version of the skin. It's pptx so if u use old ms office/other office package u may need to download some compatibility pack to run it. It needs saving as bmp and then resizing to be then fitted into skinbox...

Take care,

Maciej
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gruvngyrl:
Thanks, Maciej! I'll go take a look at the file and see if I can figure out what all went into it. I'm sure I'll just sit there all befuddled, tear my hair out over it for an hour, and then decide that there's no way I'll ever pick it apart, lol, but if by some miracle I do figure it out, I'll be so excited.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi guys!

I have just updated the skin toolbox tutorial. Although it's still incomplete, I've provided information about masks and a few more tricks.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] quicksite:
Hello microfi,

I hope this is okay place to place comment.

About 3 months ago I discovered Nitrogen -- and based on all sorts of features I liked, I made it my primary player, replacing audio manager, wmp, but also s2p.

I am not sure if this is within your app, or skin implementations, but the circle dial to select songs is what did it for me. Just great, and fast.

PROBLEM: Sadly, the app chokes for me, on my Wing/Herald, whenever I open a new app, or perform something that takes cpu power. It skips for a half second and resumes. I am running TF2D on a 6.1 manila rom, and on any of the other mp3 players listed above, these skips/chokes do not happen. I really want to use your app, but I have not been able to get past this problem.

If this has been commented on and discussed, I am sorry for repetition. Am I the only one experiencing this?

thank you - and I look forward to a next version which will work better for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maciejst:
bugz

Filipe,

I noticed the above on my diamond too.

Moreover, whenever I turn nitrogen on and press shuffle, it always goes to the same songs. Surprisingly, if I manually come back to either of them, shuffle-sellects different songs this time. yet, when you exit and reenter the program, press shuffle (doesn't matter how many times), at first you get the same songs. Does nitrogen somehow remember last shuffle que? or may it be caused by the shuffling 'algorithm'? once in a while it changes to another set of songs... and then you always get this set of songs in shuffle.

I also noticed that u cannot move thru songs in shuffle: u can only scroll to the end of one song for nitrogen to choose another for u. using next/prev song buttons or wheels with this function will only move you to the next title from the playlist. I saw a different way of dealing with it in another player: the playlist section there allowed you to order songs according to titles or artists or arrange them randomly. so whenever you pressed shuffle, the playlist itself would mix songs. Maybe that's an easy way to do it. otherwise, it'd be really cool if, when u shuffle, for example the next/prev song buttons showed you the next song in shuffle.

Take care,

Maciej

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HTC Touch Diamond... & Nitrogen!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kevlah:
There is a problem with the Diamond Audio lag that affects all 3rd party audio players on a number of HTC devices (mainly new ones so I'm not sure if this is the same with Wing/Herald) and is discussed here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=492312 and there has been research from some others where you can find some more comments here: http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=3605

This comment should really be in the Nitrogen thread so I'll post this there (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=455750&page=48)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zorza:
Hi guys.

Is it possible to make a skin for this resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) ?

And I mean 320 horizontally and 240 vertically.

It's for this device:

I'd be very grateful.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fikurillo:
Hi!

How do I go back from the browser or the playlist to the player? When I start the song in the playlist, I cannot quit back to the player, I have to restart the program which is quite annoying. Otherwise I just love this program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kpow:
Is it possible to make a vertical volume controller? Instead of horizontal
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kpow:
Hit your back button on the phone
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fana7ic:
I just finished this MOCKUP and since I dont have a windows pc right here and never before made a skin for nitrogen, I just wanted to aks if it is possible to make a real skin out of this.

Im asking because of the transparency, position of items/buttons et cetera.

When I get home today Ill give the real skinning a try, till then have a look at the mockup.

(of course it almost looks like the iPod touch / iPhone, as this was the intention ;))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 12gage:
I would love one like this for VGA, I love the S2P look but I like this program better
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Hi, congratulations on the new version. :)

Would you consider these requests:

- Transparent PNG support on skins.

- possibility to add dinamic images, so that instead of:

background = "bg.png"

...could be:

background = "\Windows\bg.png"

So that we can use the current wallpaper of our today screen.

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atown305:
320x320 skin please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] simbadogg:
question...i just downloaded a great skin that someone made for QVGA called white nitrogen. the thing is, the person that ported it originally only made it for portrait mode, then another fellow came along and made a landscape only skin. Is there anyway to combine the 2 skins together so when my phone switches from portrait to landscape it automatically uses the appropriate skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmelyo:
I had the same question on automatic switch between portrait & landscape.

At the end I have made the skin posted here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3956752&postcount=183

It works well !!

(problem with setting windows is not a big deal at all).

What's your feeling on this idea?

Why not doing all skins like that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rayraven:
@microfi,

I'm wokring on a skin for my QVGA device, and I have a few wishes for the skin development :)

1. Ability to hide the bottom bar in the player [ the one which shows the 'Options' & 'Media' soft keys]

2. Ability to map the 'Options' soft-key to a button, to allow for an alternative when the bottom-bar is hidden.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dreamdx:
Because some people might want to develop skins without the need to pay attention to the cut in the landscape view. Skins may use extra buttons etc and it would be ALOT easier to design the 2 versions and then create one skin file that icludes them both.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bstylz911:
can someone help me out

wen i press the blank screen button all it does is dim the light to 0%

it doesnt really make ablank screen

any one else?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lomonos:
Library Issue

I tried Nitrogen on my SPA and it seems I can't try to read a mp3 if it's placed in a folder having numerous mp3 (some have about 50 mp3).

Does anybody have this issue?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmelyo:
I agree except for alot: a version with duplicated buttons at bottom and left is not that difficult.

The issue is as the auto switch is not managed by nitrogen (but it is by my i900), having 2 skins is uselss.

Nevermind, i keep it for me...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tubular Tos:
:) Hello there ! Since it is said in the topic title we can do requests ,so here is mine !

I'm a new Samsung Player Addict user and i've installed this great program Nitrogen ! Thanks for this nice program ! I only use one skin for the moment , it's the glossy green from Cmelyo ..i guess ! For me this is the best skin and the nicer one for the moment !

I've tried to use the skintool but it seems i'm really a noob an idiot or such a cretin ! :p I simply and really can't do anything because i don't understand the program even after seeing the tutorial !

Please guys ! I'm a great fan of guitarist Mike Oldfield ! Could you please do something with his Tubular Bells sign ?

If unfortunately you don't know what i'm talking about here is the Google images search about Tubular Bells sign !

http://images.google.fr/images?q=tu...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=fr&tab=wi

Thanks !;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grumbly_bum:
Just wanted to say thanks for all your great work microfi. I'll definitely have to remember to donate next pay day! I'm really impressed by the fact you've released such a simple and easy to use skin editor as well. Just one question from me though. I've been trying to implement a round playback tracker on the slider, but I'm unfamiliar with how to get transparency on a bitmap. I know it's possible as I chose the wrong bitmap with an icon I downloaded, which had an embedded alpha channel. But no matter what I tried in photoshop I always end with a white square around my circle. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RickJames:
WHAt the heck

what si WVGA and all the other VGA mess? i don't know what that is is that for the fuze or what please I'm a total noob and need answer please!!:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] trueblue4:
Some great skins folks, but is there any one which work both landscape and portrait for WQVGA that contain albuum artwork....most seem to be either portrait or landscape but not both...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmelyo:
I understand. But the point is that Nitro does not manage the auto change portrait/landscape of my i900. I would have to switch skin manualy each time I move my phone :eek:

That's why the solution i propose is quite good for me...:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fana7ic:
Oh hai there, Im just a teaser.

Now I know I promised an iPhone skin before and never deliverd, but you can be sure that I´ll finish this one. The images are all finished but I wont be able to do the coding till Im home, because I dont have acess to a windows machine atm.

Dont expect any other resolutions than wvga, though Ill include the SKPROJ file plus every photoshop file that was created during the developement, so the people who want the skin in other resolutions will be able to port it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Radio538goeroe:
When does the tutorial get's finished?

Hi, I'm a fanatic photoshopper, and i would love to make skin's for nitrogen, but i can't finish my skins because the tutorial isn't finished! I have no idea what to do after the end of the tutorial as it is so far. Can you guys please finish the tutorial??

So i can make some nice skins! And of course if i have some skins i'll post them here!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Vostradamus:
Hi there :)

Is there a way to make the central button of the wheel do NOTHING?

I'm trying to draw a skin with the album art inside the wheel, but whenever I use the wheel that part is redrawn with the original background image and the album art is gone 'til you change song.

In another skin I already managed to "override" the central button drawing a circular section above it with 4 different buttons, but this does not work with the album art (most probably because it can't have a hotspot and a toggle state)

If, as I presume, this is not possible... just consider this post as a suggestion and/or a feature request :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jfrm:
Is it possible to include Album Title or Album Name object in the skin Tool box.

I don't find option for that one...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jfrm:
The tutorial is enough clear to conclude any skin. It cover all the basics and only left unexplained the menu and equalizer screens that are very easy to understand without help.

Once you have concluded the backgrounds, button and so, move from "Player" option to "browser" option and try to do it by yoursel. It is self explanatory, you will see directly what you do and it is not necesary to make any graphics.

Then, move to "icons" option and load the examples included in the toollbox, which are pretty good.

The work of our master here is incredible and the tollbox amazing easy. I have concluded a complete and very professional 800x480 landscape skin in just some hours (will post it once realize how to include in it the album title).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TonyNo:
Any tips for troubleshooting strange white lines on a new skin? Almost the dimensions of the hot spot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TonyNo:
Bump. No one?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] miko84:
Landscape skin...

Hi, I feel a little stupid... How do one make landscape skins? Is it possible to make the landscape "part" in Skin toolbox? :confused:

Thanks:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joyride76:
How to increase fonts?

Hi all,

I'm quite new in skinning...

honestly my idea is to add a very little change in the original skin.

I'm using nitrogen to play music in my car system... sometimes when I browse folders to select album I have some difficulties to read text when driving.

Any suggestion to increase fonts size?

My screen i QVGA

Thanks in advance

Stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] czarcorp:
First of all, great tool!

Easy and very fast to use.

I just finished my first skin and it works fine.

But some of my ideas I couldn't get to work probably!

1. I placed two textearea with diffrent font-size and -color

in front of each other. When the player is started both textareas

are correctly drawn, but if the next song starts the one in

the back disappears.

I also tried it with the playback time, but as soon as the time

changes the time in the back disappears.

2. Is it possible to place the album-art-area partly outside the

screen. For example at x=-15 px?

3. Is a vertical playback-bar or volume-bar possible?

4. I tried to use the album-art as button to go to the playlisteditor

but it only works if no cover is shown.

Thx so far

cz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newuser09:
Hi,first of all,thanks for the work in releasing this application & tutorials...

I have 'played' with a skin in order to change few things around and i was looking at a way of inserting,maybe in the centre of the screen,of the vumeter spectrum analyser,kind of the LEDs bargraph in Winamp .

Is that part of skin OR part of an add-on for the main exe file !?

Thanks in advance...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JorgeMontano:
Treo 750 240 * 240 Default Skin

Thanks microfi for posting such a great tool, I modified the sample skin in order to be able to use nitrogen in my treo 750 (240*240), the tool and the sample resolutions you posted are very helpful, for those who cannot view correctly nitrogen with the default resolution (240*320) let me tell you that the skin I uploaded (SK2 file) fix the problem you can give it a try if you want, maybe in a couple days I'll deploy my own skin and upload to the forum ;).

Regards,

Jorge