What I Do In My Spare Time #2: Shady Skin (Windows Media)

[Darius Wey]

You saw Part 1 of the "What I Do In My Spare Time" series. Now welcome to Part 2! :-) So what do I have for you today?

A somewhat "shady" friend of mine asked me if I could create a dark skin. Now being clueless and too lazy to ask, I had to leave it up to myself to work out the meaning of "dark". Did he want a dark, horror-style skin, or a dark, media-style skin? I decided he wanted the latter (and thankfully I was right). So here you have my latest Windows Media skin release - "Shady". It is available from Handango or PocketGear and costs you absolutely nothing. Same details apply as last time - that is, landscape and VGA support is lacking, and while it may work in Media Player 10, exclusive features such as album art support will not be present. But back on topic, "Shady" is vastly different to the "Bubble" skin you saw earlier so chances are if you liked the first one, this one may not suit you too well. Although I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one. So start posting! :-)

[Darius Wey]

You saw Part 1 of the "What I Do In My Spare Time" series. Now welcome to Part 2! :-) So what do I have for you today?

A somewhat "shady" friend of mine asked me if I could create a dark skin. Now being clueless and too lazy to ask, I had to leave it up to myself to work out the meaning of "dark". Did he want a dark, horror-style skin, or a dark, media-style skin? I decided he wanted the latter (and thankfully I was right). So here you have my latest Windows Media skin release - "Shady". It is available from Handango or PocketGear and costs you absolutely nothing. Same details apply as last time - that is, landscape and VGA support is lacking, and while it may work in Media Player 10, exclusive features such as album art support will not be present. But back on topic, "Shady" is vastly different to the "Bubble" skin you saw earlier so chances are if you liked the first one, this one may not suit you too well. Although I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one. So start posting! :-)

[cab124]

Once again, a very clean skin. I think I like the first one a little better though simply because there doesnt appear to be enough contrast between the controls and the background on this skin.

Nice job!!

[PDANEWBIE]

This one does display video too right? So many of them look cool but can't show video so really don't work for me.

I love these skins. Too bad they don't have a skin selector program, so each time you opened windows media you would get one of the X number of skins you loaded. Oh well a guy can dream can't he

[Vincent M Ferrari]

I like this one even better than the last one!

For me, though, this wouldn't do well... Black items on a screen don't show up very well in a well-lit area.

Either way, you have a great eye for this stuff. Are you taking requests now? :-)

[jickbahtech]

Another excellent skin! I realy like how clean it is.

Keep up the great work!

[marcm]

Nice skin!
Again, I'd use it if it could do landscape...

[ctmagnus]

This looks especially cool with Juni's Black&White themes

[rmasinag]

simple and clean, thanks

[dean_shan]

Reminds me of the computer interface in Star Trek.

[humayunl]

Nice clean skin D!

While we are discussing skins, I was trying out MS Voice Command last month and it automatically installed a really nice skin on my Windows Media Player.

After my trial was over. the program expired and sadly so did the skin. I thought the skin would be available free but I cant find it anywhere online.

Does anyone know which one I am talking about and whether it is be available somewhere?