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Skin: PhotoSkin

Chris La Mantia — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:21:40 +0000

A classic jukebox acts as a frame around a pair of alternating photos. The center photo display is designed to be replaced by your own favorite two photos, which will alternate once a minute; just copy your photos into the skin folder as pic1 and pic2. The sign at the top and the “dwjukebox” ad to the right of “Now Playing” can also be easily customized. With very little work you can have a fully customized jukebox, perfect for a wall-mounted unit.

Some sounds in this skin originated in the Hound Dog Sound Pack, although it is not necessary to download that package as the sounds are included in the skin.

NOTE: The 800×600 standard size that I use for screenshots does not do this skin justice. It is designed for (and looks great at) 1024×768 and above, but there is room on the titlestrips and displays to adjust the font sizes up a bit for lower resolutions.

Skin: SBM100

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:50:54 +0000

This classic skin is based off of the design of the Seeburg M-100 C; it includes a full set of touchscreen buttons. It requires the Hound Dog Sound Pack. You can see this excellent skin in action on a beautiful handmade jukebox cabinet in the forum.

Skin: WoodCab Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:47:31 +0000

This skin, originally based on Eric Bateman’s Neon Box layout, was modified by Bob of Pinball Nirvana. It has some additional buttons added, including an on-screen Exit button which is a rarity among DWJukebox skins.

Skin: Neon Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:26:35 +0000

With 64 selections available at once, this high-density skin really works best at resolutions of 1024×768 and above, so my standard 800×600 screenshot really doesn’t do it justice.

Skin: Metal Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:17:02 +0000

A lost entry in Eric Bateman’s “Box” series. I had attempted to upload this ages ago but the original file was corrupted. I’ve located a good copy of it, so here it is, only a few years late! The almost post-modern monochrome design really allows the album covers to “pop”.

Skin: Astral

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:54:07 +0000

Another skin I have been sitting on for far too long. LHUPA designed this skin to use Futura Bold as the font, but unfortunately I do not have a redistributable version of that font. If you have Futura I strongly recommend editing the Fonts section of the skin to use the designer’s planned font. Astral’s background is a PNG file so it requires at least version 3.41 of DWJukebox.

Skin: LHUPATECH Schenectady

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:23:27 +0000

I’ve been sitting on this beautiful skin for some time now. LHUPATECH specializes in high-resolution backgrounds with textures that really require a lossless presentation, and when this skin was first submitted to me it weighed in at 20 megabytes. With DWJ 3.41′s ability to use PNG files I can finally present this skin to you.

This is actually a set of eight skins: four different lighting/color schemes, each with an English and French version. They use some common image and sound files. Add all four for your preferred language to you jukebox.ini and use the BTN_SKIN_PREV and BTN_SKIN_NEXT buttons to switch between them on the fly!

How do I create a skin?

Chris La Mantia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:14 +0000

Ever wonder how the skins in the Skin Gallery get created? Unfortunately, there is no “skin designer” tool, as I have put all my programming time into the jukebox itself, but that doesn’t mean creating a skin is difficult! I’ve posted a complete Skin Creation Tutorial in the Support Forum that describes the process from start to finish.

Skin: LCARS

Chris La Mantia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:09:05 +0000

An unusual departure, this skin replicates the LCARS interface used on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Designed by Ben Johnson, I have taken the liberty of modifying the skin to add indicators for modes such as Radio, Loop, etc., plus used the new User Timers function to implement some “blinkies”. This skin requires version 3.4.1 or higher. NOTE: This skin uses graphics, sounds and a font from the LCARS Standards Development Board.

Skin: Wurly Numeric

Chris La Mantia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:21:59 +0000

This is a modification of Hound Dog’s wonderful Wurly skin, set up to use numeric input rather than alphanumeric. This makes it ideal for use with a media center PC attached to a 1080p HDTV (use aspect ratio 16:10 for best results) and controlled via a remote control. This wide-screen skin based on a Wurlitzer Classic 2100 jukebox. This skin requires sounds from the Hound Dog Sound Pack. Note that the filenames in this skin are not 8.3-safe and will need to be modified for DOS users.