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CD Art Display 
GROUP INFO
as a desktop application CD Art Display (aka CAD) was created to be a highly customizable and skinnable interface to show an album cover for the track that's currently playing in your media player (i.e. Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Foobar2000 etc.).
as a group #CD-Art-Display is meant to put a roof over an ever increasing amount of skinners, fans, contributors, addicts and all sorts of other supporters, which then would provide them with latest news & announcements, skins, tutorials & resources, help, contacts, contests, inspiration and many things more that are in any way related to the app CD Art Display.
we -the staff of #CD-Art-Display- have created a platform where a community could stay in touch with skinners and developers (.. and of course other friends and supporters) as well as the overall progress of a cool little app.
since the CD Art Display communitiy is already very large (while still growing) here on deviantART, it is our goal to encourage each and every one of our fans to join this group and hereby give them something they can easily identify with.
JOIN US
there are two different member classes for you to join, which both have different abilities & capabilities enabled that are explained as following:
Members
as a Member you will always be well informed about the things going on in here. you can submit your own or others' CAD skins to our "Faves" gallery. after a short voting procedure by our skinners & administrators, your deviation is likely to be applied in there. Members can also invite people to also join our group.
membership requests will automatically be accepted.
Skinners
the minimum requirement to join as a Skinner is that you have created at least one CAD skin. your joinrequests are subject to vote by our administrators & skinners. once accepted you'll be able to vote on new gallery submissions, join- and affiliation requests, too. besides, you'll have access to our "Back Room" and to our forum in there. Skinners can contribute their and others' work to our galleries and they can invite other deviants to join our group.
POLLS
Enter our Polls
Follow us on Twitter
RSS FEED
Feed your Reader
LINKS & BLOGS
- Skins on deviantART
- Development in CAD 3
- Feature suggestions for CAD
(at cdartdisplay.com)
- Feature suggestions for CAD
(in our "Back Room")
- Bug Reports
(at cdartdisplay.com)
- Bug Reports
(in our "Back Room")
- How to submit a Skin
- 1.0 Skins converted to 2.0
CAD CHAT
that's right, there's a CD Art Display chatroom here on deviantART. you're friendly invited to join that Chatroom and to connect with fellow CAD-lovers and skinners there.
we also plan on making certain announcements on a regular basis, where we'd inform anybody about our community-meetings in that chatroom.
Enter the CAD Chat
.....that you can simply save your skin as a .cskin file (CAD associated extension), by switching to the SkinEditor (Edit tab), and selecting "zip current skin"?
however, if you want to release the .cskin file here on deviantART, you have to put it in a zip or rar file, because deviantART doesn't accept the .cskin format for submissions......that CAD is capable of automatically installing required fonts?
click the thumbnail image to learn all about it.
.....that a .cskin file is nothing else than a .zip archive of your skin's folder?
7-Zip is able to open such files (WinRAR or WinZip aren't), so you'd be able to extract the skin. but that isn't recommended because of the following reasons...
after a doubleclick on a .cskin file, CAD does the following:
- unzip the skin folder and subfolders directly to CAD's "Skins" folder
- if it finds a font ("Fonts" folder), it prompts to install the fonts (Vista offers the contextmenu here, while you have to do it manually in XP)
- if all is done, CAD restarts and will automatically switch to the new skin
.. who provided most of the CSS coding this site's appearance is based on [link]
.. who kindly gave permission to use his RSS- and Twitter icons [link] as well as the Poll icon he made exclusively for our group.
.. who created an easy-to-follow tutorial on how to make and integrate buttons [link]
.. who is signing himself responsible for the overlapping thumbs code [link]
.. who taught an easy yet amazing way to show mini-thumbs [link]
.. who showed a way to easily implement scrollboxes. [link]
.. who made the code our great looking gallery folders are based on [link]
.. who was a great and exceptional help by providing a plethora of useful tips, explanations and code snippets to even more finetune our group's overall appearance
.. who provided the php script for our randomly displayed gallery folder thumbs
OUR FAVOURITES COLLECTIONS CD Art Display 3.0 Beta 1 Build 1459 (30Jul2010) WHAT'S NEW:Skin Editor Submit (tab) skin feature: now you can submit your skin directly from Skin Editor (once approved the skin will be added to the Skin Browser online gallery)
BUGS FIXED IN THIS BETA:Screensaver bug fixed (Windows 7)
PREVIOUSLY:
CD Art Display 3.0 Beta 1 Build 1212
CD Art Display 3.0 Beta 1 Build 717
CD Art Display 3.0 Beta 1 Build 553
JUST MAKE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR CAD FOLDER ALONG WITH YOUR SKINS. NOTE THAT THE NEW CAD WILL NOT DELETE ANYTHING.
FOR WINDOWS 7/VISTA USERS CAD WILL ONLY COPY YOUR CURRENT SKINS AND SETTINGS TO THE NEW FOLDER .
this is a public beta release so if you’re not familiar with what a beta is all about, then wait for the final version.
in order to further improve CAD we'd like to kindly encourage you to report every possible bug here or in the comments to this blog entry.
thank you.
OUR GALLERY FOLDERS
newly submitted skins to our gallery can be found in here as well as skins that deserve your attention for a closer look and examination and which sometimes are picked by the group-admins.
Browse Folder
a basic album cover and some trackinfos, perhaps slightly spiced up with a frame, glossy coveroverlay or some simple functional elements is a good example for a minimalistic skin.
minimalistic can be a lot things.
nothing too fancy tho ... well, you know it.
Browse Folder
these are skins that span the entire desktop like a regular wallpaper and make CD Art Display a fullscreen experience.
Browse Folder
Ports are skins that were originally created for other apps such as AveTunes, Bowtie, Xion etc. and then were ported over to be used with CD Art Display.
Ports are often created by using the graphics of another (original) artist.
credits to each and everyone of them.
Browse Folder
every skin in the VS-related gallery has got a matching Visual Style (VS), LiteStep or WindowBlinds theme available for download somewhere here on deviantART or elsewhere in the www.
Browse Folder
the name says it all:
.. Player-like skins combine many skin elements (i.e. tool-, progress-, volumebar, ratings etc.) in one single interface which resembles of course a regular media player.
Browse Folder
a "Freshman" is what we'd usually call someone who is new to something ..
.. someone who is making his/her first steps in designing and/or creating graphics or who is new to CD Art Display in general.
so, "Freshman" Work can be considered a very first skin of a skinner or skins that still reside in some sort of a beginner-state in terms of their overall look and feel.
Browse Folder
extraordinary is what we'd usually call a skin which doesn't really fit any other category except for being something far from the average.
extraordinary skins are unique in style and concept and are unlikely to be seen anywhere else before.
Browse Folder
hmm, .. what's a Notifier?
.. basically that's a skin that shows basic trackinfos and a cover on a banner-like background.
winamp's "toaster" is a good example for a Notifier.
Browse Folder
by no means misc. can be compared to average, mediocre or even boring.
miscellaneous skins simply wouldn't fit in any of our other skin categories and are listed in here as long as we don't have a better matching category.
Browse Folder
in here you can find anything CAD related that's not actually a skin.
Browse Folder
here you can find all the skins that have been featured as "Skin of the week" on our main page.
Browse Folder
NOW this is quality
Congrats!
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anyways.. thanks a lot.
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FOUNDER OF THE CD-ART-DISPLAY GROUP [LINK]
ADMIN OF THE CDARTDISPLAY.COM FORUM [LINK]
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thanks again.
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FOUNDER OF THE CD-ART-DISPLAY GROUP [LINK]
ADMIN OF THE CDARTDISPLAY.COM FORUM [LINK]
Great you like our presentation and work.
I want to make hotspots for the panel.
But the problem is that when I click "Draw guidelines" nothing happens.
I have the panel already configured and the hotspot files are there as well.
Don't know what's wrong.
Hope somebody can help me.
If you need it I can send it to you.
Plus I wanted to know if you can make the cover rounded in the panel not in the normal case because in panel there is no radius setting.
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