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Music Player Mockup 2by `ap-graphik

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I've got a hard time finding the perfect music player, so I try to gather all my ideas based on my experience and suggest something, here's the result.

Inspired by Beatbox, iTunes, and my experience with Foobar2000.

All feedbacks are always welcome, especially on this kind of project :)



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Critique by ~Devanche1 Apr 22, 2012, 9:58:13 AM
First off, like the other deviant stated, this does look a bit like iTunes, lacking originality. Also, the bar that shows how much time has elapsed is not uniform with the rest of the music player, you should probably fix that. This is a good step, however I would also try to make it less warm and more soft, as then this can match with your soft 7 themes, unless you plan on changing that with warm. I would suggest more uniform and originality from this music player. Simply think this, what makes my music player stand out from iTunes?
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~roobbayy Oct 13, 2012
What's the link for the wallpaper?
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~Preoccupation Oct 12, 2012
What font you've used for playlist? I am sure it is already in Windows 7, but I can't recall the name.
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~yayme Sep 18, 2012
It has potential that could actually be made into a foobar2000 skin.
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~ScreenDsk Sep 16, 2012  Student Interface Designer
oooh may gaaad
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~Arnie77 Aug 2, 2012
Like it!
maybe we can make a foobar2000 config...
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Mood: Wow! ~thekjub Jun 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
make it for mediaMonkey pls ;)
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~Calmdownnerd Apr 20, 2012
People already commented, but it looks like you ripped of Itunes. The gradients are nearly identical to itunes, layout, buttons,etc. You just made it smaller and changed some of the fonts.
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`ap-graphik Apr 21, 2012
Try to think about what you would like to see in a music player, from everything you know, what buttons would you like, where they should be in order to be usable, etc... think about all this, and you won't get far from all that already existed, or else I can tell you that it will be bad (only good for yourself is a bad design, no matter who you are).

This is not like iTunes if you look for the details, the gradient is not half way like the one on iTunes which is much deeper and darker (it all depends on your screen and your ability to see gradients of colors). The "play" buttons are much more close from Windows Media Player than iTunes actually, even if I didn't use a glassy effect, same for the trackbar. The music list is not the one from iTunes, it could come from any other player, I've just tried to make the best out of all (in my opinion of course). "Every" music player have "shuffle" and "loop" options, as well as "add files" and "options", they are needed. But I've put all these little options at the same place, and iTunes certainly does not do it, I don't like to say it but WMP does it better on this side.
The rest is a matter of proportions and usability, it would be silly for example to put the "small" buttons in the middle and the song titles on the left... If you look at my gallery, I've made another mockup that have this top panel on the bottom, and that's actually what WMP or the skin I use on Foobar have. It's very good for people like me who see their playlist as a top priority and who almost never use the buttons, but that's not the common use, and that's not something you want to see when you first start to use a music player : you want to play the song :)
Now there's the navigation pane, and for that yes it looks a lot like the one in iTunes, I've just tried to make the best looking navigation pane I could imagine (only my point of view once again), and that's not something I use, so yes it's not the most original...

But be certain that I would enjoy to discuss about how a music player should or could look like, especially if it comes to something original. I've made this mockup especially in order to think about the matter, and to put all my thoughts into something "real". It was also made in order for everyone to speak about it.

I'm glad someone finally posted a comment that is not just "hey, that's awesome." :)

What music player do you use, and why do you use it more than another ?
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