Rather than plug up dribblers thread with my situation specific mods, he asked that I place them here in a new thread. Want to thank dribbler once again for this nice colorful scheme, and now that I’ve messed around with it just a little, I can only begin to apprecieate the hours it takes to get it right.
If you have mods for the Titan Live 1.2.17 theme, and would care to share them, this would be the place to put them or ask for help on getting them right.
Now to me. Working at home often, the focus of my setup is for music. The goal of was to have a “personalized radio station” during the day, and a video player with WAF in the evenings. After a lot of trial and failure, there was just too much for the SMP to digest.
I still use the media library, but only for the Video and Photo folders, and only because it allows me to bypass folders I don’t want to see. For Music I now use “media server” share, and my NAS does the work for me.
Sadly, by doing this I lost a lot of cover art, which used to show up when browsing albums, files etc… but the upside was that I could finally play music the way I wanted to. All day, random play, and if I don’t like a song hit FF. I turn the big-screen off, and instead use a small dedicated monitor with RCA jacks for this. That was when I started to want to tweak this theme.
In both the Now Playing Home screen and the list view, the displayed cover art which was too small for “Old squinty”, and I had to walk right up to the screen to find out who was playing that tune I didn’t recognize but liked. It happened often enough.
My first two mods are for these screens.
Kudos for all those who helped along the way. Without this community…
Just learning or wanting to try (as I was just a few days ago)?
If you don’t already have them, some tools you’ll need. Get them when you’re ready.
WinZip → http://www.oldversion.com/windows/winzip/ You’ll need this to extract/repack zips without compression. Pick you’re version.
Windows Grep → http://www.wingrep.com/download.htm Great for searching for specific text withing xml files to locate the one you need to change. Lots of other things too, but I haven’t got there yet.
Gimp → http://www.gimp.org/ Freeware image editor.
And some references:
Tinwarbles .xml database → http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Themes/XML-DATABASE-formerly-Request-for-all-Themers/m-p/125086/highlight/true#M45 Wish I had found this earlier, but there it is.
Tinwarbles “Some tips on theming” → http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Themes/Some-tips-on-theming/td-p/144024 Great explanations on xmls and just how they work.
Colors → http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm A simple guide for text color codes.
