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TmrGast — Minimalistic Player for Rainmeter (v1.3)
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Published: 2016-04-13 20:52:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 134297; Favourites: 112; Downloads: 12332
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Hi everyone!Here is a dark minimalistic player skin Ive been working on for some time, to get to know the basics of Rainmeter. The whole skin is easily resizable due to the Scale and Width parameters added at the start of the skin file.
Standard music player actions are available through the cover art picture (a play button will pop up): Left click to Play/Pause, Right click to play the next track and middle mouse click to play the previous track. Scroll on the album cover to change the volume.
Rainmeter is required to run this skin: www.rainmeter.net/ . This skin is aplicable to many music players. Visit the Rainmeter manual to see the full list of supported players: docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plug… .
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Changelog version 1.3:
- Skin disappears when musicplayer is closed, suggested by chematia.deviantart.com/
- New, cleaner cover substitute (for when the albumart is missing/ nothing it playing)
- More customization options!
- Scroll controls for the progressbar
Changelog version 1.2:
- Color customization
- Album colors, using Chameleon plugin by Socks the Fox
- A better quality play/pause button
- Scroll controls for volume on the album art
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Hey, I would like to run this skin but idk whats wrong with rainmeter, it does not show up, some other skins do..
Greetings
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same problem its not appearing when i load it
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I tried to read through it but I can't find it... How do I make it not disappear even when the player is closed, please? I want it ever-present on the desktop; even if it just says "stopped".
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Hey there M-Jae , I'm a tad late, I know... I hope you found the fix and didn't uninstall the skin 'coz of your issue. If you still haven't, well here I are.
/*--I feel like I should be the one to answer this, seeing as it was my suggestion that led to the feature being implemented, despite the (creator | OP)'s misgiving's, 'coz your exact issue. [see comments below]--*/
Anyway, simply:
1. Open the skin file ==> [Minplayer v1.3.ini] in a text editor,
2. Scroll to LINE 120 ==> [the "mStatus" measure(s)],
3. Comment-out the last 3 lines, these are the "if" statements ==> [LINE 125, 126, 127] by adding a semicolon [";"] to the beginning of each i.e. i.imgur.com/F0lH1Qa.gif
4. Save the file and lastly refresh the skin.
That's all, it should now be permanently visible.
Cheers mate..
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Thanks, Chematia . I know it's been over a year since your response, but thanks still
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hmm nothing appears when i load the skin. is it outdated?
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It only appears if you have your player (set in the "Player" variable) running
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Can someone pls help. I have a glitch using WMP where if i close it, the player glitches and keeps going on and off... pls i would appreciate a fix for this :s
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Can you please update to support spotify? Beautiful player btw.
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i use music bee 2.5 with it and it shows only the cover art and rating it doesnt show the name of the song or the album or any other info some one help me !
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Hey TmrGast , A++ on this! Awesome skin.
Using MusicBee v3 and it works seamlessly, even changing the track ratings works!!
Query though, is there a way to make it automatically disappear when my Player is closed?
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You could implement an if condition where the skin turns invisible when the track information is empty.
I could do that, but some people might complain about a skin suddenly appearing on their screens, Ill probably add it in a variation.
Thanks for the comment!
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Yoo!!! Sorry for the late reply, had End of Year Portfolio Submissions, so DeviantArt was the enemy that past week. hehe
Glad to see my suggestion featured and implemented, cheers for this.
Just got v1.3 and YESS!! The variation you added works neatly. Enjoying the new one even more, loving the cleaner look and size.
I stand by my earlier post, A++!!
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For some reason the album art isnt showing up. I'll try restarting my computer to see if that does the trick, but is there any solutions?
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Does the track information show up? title, artist and album?
If that's the case, check if the song your playing actually has an album art, It won't display anything if there's no value for it.
otherwise, if you're simply not getting any information, than you might need to change the playername and/or setup your media player properly.
Can I ask what musicplayer you are using?
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I am using iTunes and yes all of the information shows up except for the album art. I'll try updating iTunes and see if that works.
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I am trying to play it with musicbee but all I get in the player is Stopped
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Make sure to set the playername to "CAD" in the skin file (nowplaying_1.ini)
Also, if this is your first skin with MusicBee, you will have to enable this feature in MB itself: i.imgur.com/MX1zuxZ.png
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Thanks I already put enabled that setting on MB but I can't seem to get it to display it and I also have it like in this is in the .ini file
[Variables]
Player=CAD
;Change your musicplayer here
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Just realized I forgot to write this earlier 
Btw your skin requires 4.0 but works fine on 3.3.1.
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You probably still have to enter/change your musicplayer´s playername in the skin.
open up the rainmeter manager, find the skin file "nowplaying_1" in the "minimalistic player" folder and choose "Edit" in the right click menu.
As shown here: i.imgur.com/iaevuxW.png
A text application will pop up containing the skin file.
On the top of this file, there is a section "Variables" which contains a value for "Player", the default for this skin is set to "CAD".
Change this value according to whatever music player you are using, here is the page that contains the playernames for every supported music player: docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plug…
Enjoy!
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Works well with Winamp, unlike Spotify (same story with other player's so it's not your fault), thanks a lot!
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Spotify only works with skins that support the Spotify plugin.
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I made a working Spotify skin. Spotify changed its way of playing audio files, unfortunately, so NowPlaying plugin wont work with it. Nevertheless, this is a great skin which works fine with iTunes!
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