GeekShadow

This feather is very cool, I like the buttons !
Some issues :
Left Bottom white sparkle are over links
The sparkle between volume and faceplate is not needed..

ACMiller

I like it, the buttons are great! Nice and creative, good work.
Maybe consider greying or slightly blurring the sparkles.
Thanks for the good work

johny

Hello!
Would be nicer if a support for 0.7 was included
The feather seems cool to check..
Thank you for your work anyway

TheOneRing

Hi great feather but pleas add widescreen support, because at the moment it looks this way
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/3945/newbitm… .

TheOneRing

its 1440×900 with a huge taskbar

TheOneRing

nice, big thanks :D

misterpotato

I love it, really cool, 5 stars for you. My only two suggestions are:

-New close/minimize/etc buttons are two small, in my opinion (and maybe too mac-a-like for windows users).
-The white design behind the play and pause buttons (on the upper left corner) make it difficult to distinguish from the buttons and the menu (maybe a bit of transparency?)

Just by chance, I used the background change add on when I had this also working, and I think you could try with more colors, like dark blue or green, as a background. It loos great that way, too.

Brendy

this is easily one of (if not THE) best feather i've seen for songbird. i really like the play button etc. a bug i've found with your latest update is that it makes songbird the top window. every other window is behind it. i've switched feathers and everything is back to normal. other than that its a fantastic skin. a few things i'd love to see in it though:

maybe the play, fast forward etc buttons highlight when you hover over them (like WMP 11)

i really can't think of much else. its a wonderful skin.

loulou

Hello,c'est tout simplement superbe , vous devriez le proposer à Ubuntu.fr .Hello, c' is all simply superb one, you should propose it to Ubuntu.fr.
cordialement.louis.

Erdhase

Oh Man...thats a perfect work! Thanks a lot!

DenimRojas

I nearly cannot see the Icon if the music is been played if it isn't highlighted... Pls fix this!

MCCXV

Hello Schwadegan, (@Brendy)
I discovered while mucking about, if you right click (WinXP) on the nameplate (where the playing song is displayed) you'll get a menu that says "always on top". Un check it and you've got your desktop back with your Sparkle, [easily one of (if not THE) best feather I've seen for songbird].
PS, Songbird 0.6.1. I always keep a stable version profile.

Brendy

@MCCXV
thanks alot. i was wondering why i couldn't see anything else. that helps alot!
by the way i'm really glad to see this skin make it to 0.7 and that its in the gonzo layout. i've really grown attached to it :) still the best skin i've seen so far ;)

Brendy

other than changing the colour of a few elements (the sidebar, content pane etc, scroll bars, tabs, the part of the seek bar that has already been played) i think its a wonderful skin. i'm guessing the highlight over the play button etc when the pointer hovers over it is in the next release?

yew

thats the best 0.7 skin so far :D im sure it will get better, keep up the good work! i just have one idea, that the rating stars on the playing song display panel are a bit hard to see. ^^

Brendy

yay interactive play/pause buttons! awesome work with the latest release! just noticed though that the song notifier is now totally unreadable because the text is black and your feather has applied the black and squiggly lines on it :( which looks cool btw but its hard to read :)
also the number of items in the library is also completely invisible.
Other than that, you have my support!!

yew

thumbs up!

Arlo

Sorry to be critical, but this feather has a lot of clashing aspects. I like the swirly images in the background and the general black/white/grey theme. However, the list view blue colors clash with this pretty badly. Also, the borders around many ui elements are sharp and awkward. The pane-hiding buttons also need to be replaced to fit with the feather. Other things, like the album cover display look harsh against the background.

corto_lu

hi
your theme is magnificent. i like it so much that i use songbird now as my internet browser. i just have one question. it is impossible to read the lyrics of the songs because everything is black. is it possible to change this
best

Jaydub2000

I just want to say that I think sparkle is a stunning feather--one of my top favorites.
I would, however, suggest a couple minor tweaks, if I may.

First, when downloading add on updates, it's nearly impossible to see the highlighted update http://www.flickr.com/photos/24650875@N05/3096802038/

Second, there is a thin line of background that looks quite out of place between the album art pane and the library view, as well as another to the left of the album art. The very bottom section of the feather (where it displays library size, new playlist button, pane buttons, etc.) also has the elaborate background; I think it would probably look better with just plain black. As it is now, I feel like the bottom pane clashes with basically everything around it.

Thanks for listening!

ekimusc

Just a couple things, first off great skin it's a beauty and keep up the good work! Second when using the lyric plugin thing (lyricmaster i believe) anyways its the pane on the right that displays the lyrics of a song. Using the default skin (you can change skins but the skins dont really match too well with your feather) text in that box is black, which of course doesn't work too well with the black background (lyrics are unreadable). While this is another plugin seperate from your feather it would be nice to somehoe have some integration (there is a option when choosing a skin for lyricsmaster that is "[Current Feather]" so I think there is a possibility of meshing the two.

Aside from some more color options which others have touched on, that's about it. Great job so far.

Enlance

Happy to hear you are addressing the color issue with Lyrics Master. One more thing, the buttons for moving panes in and out are very hard to find. Would be great if they had more of a contrast color.

Otherwise the best looking skin Ive seen so far!

boosh

How did make the background for the media-control-pane 1) be left aligned 2) Be so big and overlap into the playlist and everywhere else?

LIB53

Can i just base a skin off of this? I really like how you laid everything out, and I'm too lazy to solve how you did some of it. I promise I'll credit you. This skin is #1 right now btw. lol.

LIB53

Wait, sorry, you're #2. I'm still jealous. lol. (Sorry to double post)

Jaydub2000

FYI: Your skin made it into Lifehacker's best of 2008 free Mac downloads list, as well as their original Songbird entry!

http://lifehacker.com/5111727/most-popular-free-mac-downloads-of-2008

http://lifehacker.com/5100579/songbird-10-release-official-fixes-bugs-plays-itunes-purchases

shahadat

looks good but I can't read my lyrics in this feather. hope it will be fixed.

lacyel

Hello! Loved your theme but getting resolution problem on 1440 x 900 could you please fix it for me? The images are repeating like what someone else said for his resolution:

  TheOneRing TheOneRing

Hi great feather but pleas add widescreen support, because at the moment it looks this way
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/3945/newbitm… .

Tyvm very awesome work on this, love the art style and colors!!

LIB53

You should work on the album art/drag and drop images. It really burns out your eyes when the rest of the theme is dark, and those images are still the gonzo grey. The volume icons also seem invisible at the moment. There's also an issue due to the fact that you use an image as a background for a highlighted song (i ran into this problem too,lol. I guess i did the same thing as you), along with other issues in the options box. See it here: http://www.divshare.com/download/6181668-50a

lintacious

In the mini player, the text is black and the background is black. This is completely unusable.

LIB53

The year ended, and no new feather.lol. Can you at least let me see a peak? You can always email me at akilram+sb_community@gmail.com :P

P.S: It's not a 3 star anymore.

blix

awesome feathers! love it!!!

jameskb101

Hi there - noticed a potential problem with sparkle compatibility - not sure if it is your feather or songbird's but thought I'd flag it - when I run sb with sparkle on a secondary monitor - my preferred way of viewing it - and I go to maximise sb it seems to overflow by about 100px to the right of the screen meaning everything on the righthand side of sb can't be accessed operated (i.e. minimize (_), expand, close (X)) disappear. It's not an issue on my main monitor only on the second. I run xp. Someone else has had this problem - find it at the sb forum and search for sparkle.

Otherwise, I'm loving the feather - thanks!

Mizi.Endo

OK...

haggard

some contrasts arent easy to read like on the lyric master unless i highlight the lyrics i cant view them! background and text match! awesome feathers though only one i use.

billyvnilly

Hello.... two things
1. the text in the search box (for internet) is very hard to see
2. I don't know if you're supposed to cover this, but install adblock plus, and you'll see the firsttime start for adblock is red.

chip

Love this feather, but I'm a noob and don't know how to get the album art flip through like the pictures above, can anyone help out?

Thanks!

microwavedboy

Overall I like the look of the feather, but the Stars and Last Love/Ban buttons are nearly impossible to see against the playback box (Nearly white on white)

Thanks for the hard work!
MWboy

t4paN

Hey, this is a great looking feather, but I have one grievance: I can't use it, because due to my desktop being black, I can't see the player's borders and it really makes using songbird hard.

Is there a chance that you add some borders to the feather so it can be easy to see where the player ends and the desktop begins for us black/dark desktop using types?

Thanks for taking the time to create a great skin for songbird anyway!

starke

I really really like this feather. It's my favorite one out there, but it's not the one I use. There are a few color issues that I think need to be worked out. Menus are sometimes impossible to see. The play bar is a little too bright compared to the rest of the feather. The lyrics add-on (as many others have said) is problematic. Though I would call that more the lyric add-on's fault for not allowing more customizable font color. I'd change the background, but I don't want t lose the cool sparkle design on the right. That's all I can think of at the moment. Oh, and I wish the bottom left pane didn't cover up the design there either. Maybe it could be moved up? =)

Mattocaster

It's great, but I can't see anything in the menus

Juvavumwarrior

sweet man creat style

LIB53

Update your description picture. You have over 100,000 downloads now. :)

LIB53

Yeah, congrats. I think this is the oldest feather out there for Songbird. Maybe it's about time you hurry up and get to 1.0 :P

LIB53

Sorry to double post, but there are some things that are kinda bugging me in this feather.

1) The volume buttons at the ends of the volume meter are really hard to see.
2) I'm missing alot of album art (my metadata is all messed up), and i really wish you had a fancy default album art. Something with all those awesome curls you have going on in the background. The current one doesn't look too great in mediaflow.
3) Lists (such as the downloads and add-ons in the options window) have a repeated background. I understand that maybe editing this could make the library playlist highlight look bad, so if you think that you can't, I'll completely understand.

Other than that, this feather is pretty cool. Good luck with bringing back Kakadue as well.

NK4551

Schwadegan... Hello, I was wondering if you'd be willing to give me permission to make my own feather using some aspects from Sparkle. (Just not the trademark background graphics, those are yours). I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive and though I've been using Sparkle, on and off, for a while, I'd like a few bits of it merged with another feather or two. If you say no then I won't bug you anymore, I'd just like to build a feather suited to me. You and any other feathers I use to make mine will receive most of the credit! I just don't want to do this on my own without your permission first.

Mai

Feather is great ♥
But I've got some notes:
- it's not possible to mark more than one title (Ctrl + A functions)
- if you mark a title, the background of it is usually too dark and the script is difficult to read ( lighting up the script would also help, I think)
- the script of the LyrikMaster is ugly .. ok that's not necessary .. but ugly :D
Otherwise this feather is one of the best I've seen so far. :]

Taartstaart

Hey Schwadegan,

Thank you for this beautiful feather. The design is just what I looked for and is very appealing. I stopped using it though, because I have to change lots of tracknames now and the contrast in the info-menu of the tracks isn't really easy to read. (But I intend to return asap ;))
I hope you can fix this soon, because I think this is also a problem for other people.

Anyway, your Kakadue feather is also gorgeous! +5!
Cheers!

amyers1

i have the mashtape addon, and the font in mashtape is too dark to read. can this be fixed?

THE-E

Is it Impossible to View this or any other Add-on in fullscreen ? I have been searching for a Add-On which is like Harmony but more custumizable.

Here a video of Harmony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPwJhKgkGrU

Advantages(of Harmony):

-Fullscreen
-Albumtitles viewable on the back by clicking on the Albumcover
(Which would be a good feature)

Disadvantages(of Harmony):

-too many to list

THE-E

@Schwadegan
True, True, but I thought this fits here too ;-D

Saebekassebil

Hey! It would be awesome if you could take some time to skin my add-on: BirdTabs.
It got most of the functionality, but I'll open declare that I suck at designing and layout.
All you have to do is to make a file called birdtabs.css in the root of your feather.

XBU_Philippe

I like the feather. Gave it 5 stars.
Though there still are some issues as some people already mentioned. The red border for example around the Cover Art is absolutely HIDEOUS. :-D

Another tip for the design: The showing of the song playing in that half transparent white case is nice, but I think it is still TOO white. Since the design of the feather is so dark. Another tip from my side: I like the curly things on the bottom of the player, but they shouldn't go over the total bright of the player. As the curly swirls on the top of the player, they should stop at some point. It's good, that they are bigger than on the top, but not the whole length of the player would be better, I guess.

Excuse my moderate English, I'm from Luxembourg.

asdf

hey guys

Tell me please how i can get that albums like iTunes

i hope we know what i mean

TY!

lisam

Hi there! New user and I'm really loving this one except that the lyrics from lyricmaster don't show up at all. Am I doing something wrong?

korsbecker

All so gave this skin 5*

Is it possible to change the font colour using using the option [None] in lyric master? either by options or by changing a value in a css or something?

henrik :-)

Excuse my moderate English, I'm from Denmark.

korsbecker

Great Just updated to latest and lyrics works perfectly

Sparkle remains the best feather for SB....

thnx

henrik :-)

PsychoNix

Nice Work Man

iTonyVuko

I have a problem with my songbird... I click install & it fully installs & I click restart songbird, and then go into my feathers folder but it isn't there :( Help?

abifshaka

i can't install in the songbird versión 1.5.0a somebody can help me with this problem

abifshaka

ok i see, my version is 1.5.0a but i'll be waiting for the official version, man thank's for your support

horusofoz

My new favourite feather but only fault is it doesn't mesh well with the Equalizer Preset Addon :(

Thanks for developing it :)

rmarshasatx

still trying to figure songbird out ...

touringlonewulf

Problem:
side and bottom bar are only white, nothing is shown there, no matter what i choose (now playing, lyricmaster, mash tape, folder sync, last fm, directory browser)
wth default skin all shows up and mostly works correct.

Question:
where is the repeat and mix button?

really sad, sparkle was my favourite skin!
(until I updated from 1.2 to 1.4)

Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438

touringlonewulf

i will continue to use it!
sure as hell!!!
as i said: my favourite feather!!!

RnB_001

Waiting for the update version ;-)
Take ur time, no worries

catamari

seconded :3

Vytas

Hello!!

I'm sitting here for about 2 hours and cant find a way to enable LyricsMaster on Sparkle (the same with tagger).

In default feather (purple rain) there is some kind of 'sidebar' and a small triangle button. You click on it, and you can choose what add-on to use: http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1473/nuotrauka1.jpg

When i enable Sparkle, i cant find anything similar: http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9225/nuotrauka2.jpg

I can drag the right side of playlist, but all i get is: http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7333/nuotrauka3.jpg

Any advices..?

Thanks in advance