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Xzener’s News

Over 582 icons and counting (as of 13APR10)… Sheesh! Thats not including 3D covers and backdrops. You guys sure keep me busy.

Xzener’s Pearl Theme Icons

In preparation of Soultakers “Open Alpha” Pearl Theme, I have redesigned ALL of my icons to display properly in Media Browser using his new theme.


Please Donate

I would like to personally thank all of you who have supported me and my fanart the past year and a half. I wish I could begin to tell you how many hours I've put in to my collection, but frankly, I lost count. Many of my icons have been requests from users just like yourself. Please show your support and appreciation by donating.

Most Recent Donations:

JoshFink, Tobias-Tobin, Ripper2860, Louis Holobradek, Micheal Miller, Don Balmer, Craig Sumner, Markus Stoll, David Rebnord, Claus Alexander Larsen, DemonSeed, amaru96, Alex Angelov, Ron, Hypnorm, Jay Wilson, Phantom Zone X2, Bret Bartness, Sinjen, Michael Hogan, The Workz, DitchDigger

Thanks guys, Xzener

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Xzener’s “Pearl Theme” Icons

In preparation of Soultakers “Open Alpha” Pearl Theme, I have redesigned ALL of my icons to display properly in Media Browser using his new theme. I had to resize the canvases to allow my icons to display properly using the Pearl theme. Here is a screenshot of what they will look like (my Pearl theme has been modified, the default background is white)…

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Keep in mind, these are for the “Pearl Theme”, they have not been tested yet using other themes. Please only use these with Pearl.

Also, I have noticed that the new icons dont refresh unless you manually refresh them inside Media Browser. Simply hover your mouse over the desired icon, and press “Control-R”. My icon should then display properly.

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The download includes “ALL” my icons, so the download is rather large. Hope you guys like them.


Xzener’s MediaBrowser Icons

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These are icons I have created over the last year to contribute to the community. Most of which were specifically requested by one of you. Using your submitted requests and ideas, I used Photoshop to create them.

Have a look, if you don’t see an icon you'd like to have created, please give me a request. Please tell me what the clapper should say, for example “TV Miniseries”. Maybe even a couple picture idea’s and I'll see what I can do.

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The download also includes a clapper template with the 28 Days Later font so you can try creating your own. Some of the members of the community have created a few nice looking icons themselves.


Xzener’s MediaBrowser Icons V2

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I've had multiple people asking for my genre icons to be converted to EHS icons. Well, here is my way of compromising with you. I'd like to introduce “Xzener’s MediaBrowser Icons V2”.

I'd like to thank Demonseed for teaching an old dog new tricks. He taught me a trick with Photoshop that will dramatically reduce labor time, on all my fanartwork.

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Xzener’s (Non 3D) EHS Icons

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My EHS icons were a big hit. I apologize for not being able to accommodate everyone with the 3D image. I hope you can understand, all of those are custom made by me. Some of the objects used are either from my digital camera, or found on the internet. So, to make everyone happy, I've decided to create the same look as my original EHS icons, but without the 3D custom image.

I took a different approach to creating these so I could get them to you guys sooner. I created most (some require a rebuild) of the genre and commonly used ones. Please have a look and download a set for yourself. I hope you enjoy them.

I will continue to rebuild and create ALL the other icons. Stay tuned.

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Xzener’s EHS Icons

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MediaBrowser has come a long way since I've started using it. At first, my 2D icons looked great. But with all the awesome themes coming out, my icons (to me) started to look rather dated. So I decided it was time for a new look. I'm using my icons, giving them a little perspective, some 3D art, and topped off with a nice reflective touch. They look amazing with all themes in MediaBrowser, and I'm hoping you guys feel the same. I have spent countless hours creating these for you guys, please let me know what you think. Some constructive criticism is always welcome.

If you don’t see one that is on your EHS, don’t hesitate to request it. Let me know what the clapper should say, for example “MKV Movies” and a couple image ideas and I'll see what I can do.

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Xzener’s Media Icons

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Here is my collection of Mediainfo icons. I created these a while back in hopes that one day, we could customize the look of our MediaBrowser UI. I think that day is close.

UPDATE: I am currently configuring my mediainfo icons to be compatible with Media Browsers new feature. Please be patient.

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Xzener’s MediaBrowser Icon

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You've all requested it, and here is is. “Xzener’s MediaBrowser Icon”. Well, icons, if you include the “ApplicationInactive” icon too. Included in the download is both icons to overwrite the originals. To install simply add images to the C:\Program Files\MediaBrowser\MediaBrowser\ folder.

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Xzener’s EHS Backdrops

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I'm always on the hunt for high resolution pictures that look amazing on MediaBrowser’s top menu screen. Here is a few that I use, and I must say, puts the icing on the cake.

Also included with the download is a “Trailer” backdrop. If you create a folder in your “General” IBN subfolder and throw this into it (named “folder.jpg”), the backdrop will appear with your trailers.

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Requests

Please be sure to leave important information concerning your fanart request, such as…

  • Type of icon (Genre, EHS, 3D Cover)
  • Special wants (favorite action hero, movie, etc.)

Any request given can be discussed by simply clicking the “add comment” under the original request. If I have question, that’s where it will be.

Thanks,

NOW LEAVE A REQUEST ALREADY!!

Don’t forget to donate, if you like the icons I've created for you.

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  • i would like to request a icon for MKV movies – pace508 10 months ago
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Your MediaBrowser icons are still my favorite set. Everytime, I think about switching up…I just can’t.

-Sinjen

 
  • Finally! A response… I was starting to wonder. Thanks for the kind words Sinjen. Dont hesitate to request an icon. That is, if your missing any. – xzener over 2 years ago
  • When I finally get around to fixing all my Genre tags, I'll definitely be looking for some new Genre images. You got a good pack started, but there are a few I wouldn’t mind having. -Sinjen – sinjen over 2 years ago
  • I love these – Viper almost 2 years ago
 
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I'm really looking forward to this. Thankfully, I looked again at this topic in the forums, because the “dog fights” category had me perplexed. I figured that Michael Vick donated to you, but then I saw it was for aerial dog fights. Oops!

 
  • HAHA!! Yeah, we got to talking about the military and stuff. – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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I have uploaded a new Backdrop I've been working on. The green trailers image can be changed to anything I want. If “Configurable Backdrop Transitions” ever gets implemented into MediaBrowser, I could fiddle with those further.

 
 
  • Created:about 2 years ago

Ok everyone, just to keep you posted. I'm slowly but surly converting my icons to my EHS style icon. Its a slow process because some of the icons need to be rebuilt to fit. I dont have a positive release date, but will keep you posted.

 
 
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I personally am sitting patiently waiting to see the new icons… loving your work… please keep going

 
  • Thank you for the patience. – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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Hope you don’t mind Xener, but I made a couple of changes to a few, to best suit my particular needs. I separate my shows into running and ended ones, and also my SD and HD material into indivual and boxsets. I just changed some of the artwork displayed and added some extra text… and used the setting sun style covers.

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  • Dont mind at all. Thats why I share the PSD so anyone can create their own. Thanks for sharing them with us. – xzener about 2 years ago
  • Very nice! – Hogues about 2 years ago
  • Hey, Heckler, you may have to change these icons to put flashfoeard and heros into the canceled icon! ;) – Hogues about 2 years ago
  • oops, flashfoward, I mean. – Hogues about 2 years ago
  • Ya kidding? they've been cancelled…. basties. – HecklerUK about 2 years ago
 
  • Created:about 2 years ago

Hi Xzener,

I have been a long time lurker and user of your icons. As has been said before, I haven’t seen any other icon set that comes close. I've had them for ages and am only considering changing them cos you have started on the 3d ones – which are so awesome, I had to donate. Keep it up man!!

Hypnorm

 
  • I'm glad to hear about fans just like yourself. Longtime lurkers need to join this wonderful community. Thanks for the support, kind words, and your donation. Welcome to the CT hypnorm! – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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In order to move things along quicker for the “Non-3D EHS” icon release, I decided to create the main genre icons. Then will continue creating the rest of them. This should make some of you happy.

I should be able to push the genre icons out in a couple of days. Stay tuned.

 
 
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Hi xzener, I have been using your icons for a while and just like even one else, I love them. Looking forward to the new EHS non-3d ones. I am glad that your donation button had a pre-determined amount ;–). It is hard to know what are good amounts.

now to my question, do you have or know somebody that has: Icons for kids shows split up in different types? example: I use one of your kids Tv icons and then have sub folders of action show (spider-man, x-men, transformers, ben-10) little kids shows (dora, strawberry shortcake, little princess) big kids shows like (Hannah Montana, iCarly, & other non cartoons)

You might guess in all of this I have a son, a little daughter, and a big daughter ;–) plus I mix a lot of USA and German shows..

Either way, keep up the awesome work!!! Have a great day, Ron (WetRon)

 
  • Go ahead and request icons you would like to have created. New icons will come in all varieties of types. Welcome to the CT WetRon. And thank you very much for your generous donation. You caught me at the perfect time, I was just about to “PreRelease” my non-3D icons. Hope you enjoy them. – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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I have come out with a prerelease of my “Non-EHS” icons. Go have a look and download a set for your self. I'd like to thank all of you for supporting me and my icons. Please, let me know what you think of the new icons. Hope you guys like them.

What are you waiting for, go have a look!!

 
 
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Made a couple of icons just to make sure I didn’t have any empty genres in my collection… feel free to use – they were rush jobs, so nothing fancy! Just filling in the gaps!

Eastern and Erotic

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0598e6f58ca681200f83d91f6dff7c383cf7e6ea1d6f8a7a9b20786b9a6e1ed0

 
 
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I dropped support for 3D covers, I just dont have time for those anymore. Luckily we have a couple threads out there supporting those.

Blu-ray / HD DVD Cover Art Based on Xzener’s 3D Covers

Emery Bluray 3d Covers

Added “Xzener’s Media Icons” to my collection! I think were getting close to having the ability to customize our MediaBrowser even more. My media icons look great in any theme. Hope you like them.

 
  • Hey, xzener, you may want to change this post to include Merton’s covers. I would have, but I'm really unsure about the whole “improve” etiquette. Thanks. – Hogues about 2 years ago
 
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Can I ask a stupid question???

I love the look of these icons. How do you use them in Mediabrowser.

Do you just rename the one you like to folder.jpg and place it in the root folder of the directory that the icon represents?

Sorry if this is a really dumb question.

Robert

 
  • Yes that’s correct. Or if it’s a png file it would be. Folder.png. If your wanting to use one of the icons on the MediaBrowser Startup Screen, you open the Config Tool> Highlight your Media on the left> Then Press Add Image. That will set that image to that media Collection. – DemonSeed about 2 years ago
 
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Nothing stupid about that question Robert. If you have specific questions, just post a new topic as a type Question and we'll be happy to help.

Have a look Here, here and here :)

-Sinjen

 
  • Thanks. I did see and have gone over those links you gave, but I still can get any of the icons to show. I am using the Harmony theme. I will have a bit more time today to go over everything. Thanks again, Robert – Robert about 2 years ago
  • Ahh, ok. I'm still not exactly sure where you're running into trouble, but the latest version of Harmony does not show icons on the EHS(the MB start screen). – sinjen about 2 years ago
  • Yeah, I think I just worked that out (saw another post). I have played around and got them to work where I need them to. Thanks… – Robert about 2 years ago
 
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Added my new MediaBrowser icon to my collection. Hope you guys like it.

 
  • As usual, it’s a peach xzener. – sinjen about 2 years ago
  • Thanks sinjen!! – xzener about 2 years ago
  • Great work, xzener. – Hogues about 2 years ago
  • Thanks Hogues! – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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Hey Xzener i like your setup

Custom SilverStone LC-17 HTPC Intel Core2Duo 3ghz 4gig RAM Nvidia 8600GTS 1gig Asus HDAV Sound card 3TB HDD space (300+ DVDs & Blurays) Windows 7 Professional HDHomerun

Better intel vs amd ? intel=quiet ??

 
  • I was an AMD die hard until dual core CPU’s came out, I just liked the spec’s at the time. Depending on which CPU cooler you use. There are passive cooled (no fan), and different fan types. Some are very quiet, anything close to 20db IMO is quiet enough for a theater/living room. Thanks for the praise, it is an older build… I hate how PC’s are outdated as soon as you build it. – xzener about 2 years ago
  • I hate how PC’s are outdated as soon as you build it. – xzener 2 days ago ——— yep true! – MaXCore about 2 years ago
 
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Ok guys,

I vented in another users thread, and I feel bad… I just couldn’t take it any longer. I know many of you are new to the CT and maybe are not quite sure how things work. So here’s the lowdown…

  • If you like someones Fanart, give them a vote. (The thumbs up icon at the top right of a thread)
  • If you like or agree or +1 someones post in a particular thread, give their post a thumbs up. (upper right of posts)
  • If you request a piece of Fanart, keep an eye on the thread. Eventually it will be created. If you like it, please say so. I as well as other Fanartists like to delete completed request to keep the thread clean.

I can see many of you are new (and maybe I'm just talking to myself because I'm sure a couple have joined the CT, made a request and don’t ever come back). Please use the this to your advantage. More reputation means more wishes, which means more awesome feature requests, which means a more polished MediaBrowser.

Thanks for reading this,

Xzener

 
  • Hear Hear! – Hogues about 2 years ago
  • Well said sir. – sinjen about 2 years ago
 
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How does one use the media icons? Do you create a folder within the ImagesByName folder? Excuse the possibly stupid question that probably has a KB

 
  • I believe Xzener created the media icons in hopes that Media Browser would soon allow their usage. At the moment however, I don’t believe it’s possible to use them. – sinjen about 2 years ago
  • Well sinjen, your half right. I do hope that someday (hopefully in the near future) we'll be able to use media icons of our choice. But you can use them by using my tutorial. Keep in mind, some of the themes aren’t media icon friendly. http://www.mediabrowser.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4107 Good luck ezyb123. – xzener about 2 years ago
  • Hey xzener… in your first post on the above linked thread… what theme are you using? – woody777 about 2 years ago
  • That was the original Vanilla theme, known as Harmony now. – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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Created an “Offline Movies” icon in all types. Hope you guys like it.

 
  • Granted, you'll have to use your head to utilize this. MediaBrowser doesn’t support offline movies… But their are ways around that. I've been thinking about dropping ISO (blurays) usage on my system. Adding a short clip “Please Insert Disk” will allow me to show a movie description, and free up gigs and gigs of HDD space. I know many of you will not use this, but I'd hate to let an icon go to waste. :) – xzener about 2 years ago
  • xzener – if you're interested, I've put some clips and batch files here: http://db.tt/KRY5VW one for offline movies, and one for offline TV series (that was the harder one to figure out), which will create folders and clips from a list. Also, if you've no objections, I've created some banners and icons based on yours, which I've put here: http://db.tt/Jo78Ww I just like the idea of matching icons and banners. Thanks for all the great work you're doing, and for the inspiration – daspannerman – daspannerman about 2 years ago
  • Those are AWESOME dude!! – xzener about 2 years ago
 
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Xzener, I have access to 9covers.com, and have a perfect process to convert Blu-ray covers to the 3D look you use. I do not have to crop any of the background, and the images look excellent. Feel free to contact me offline if you want, and I can email you what I have to contribute to your collection.

 
  • I dropped support for the 3D covers. You can hit up Merton25, or david3663. They are the ones who have taken the bull by the horns. Thanks for the thought. – xzener about 2 years ago
  • Or, start your own fanart thread… The more help with those the better. I'm gonna see if Fatal can add those to the cover fetcher of his upcoming MetaBrowser 2.0 release. – xzener about 2 years ago
  • yeah lynch, i urge you to start your own thread meself. would love some new designs. comeon chris. – reddevil10 about 2 years ago
  • @Chris Lynch- I could use your support on this, please have a look here… MetaBrowser 3D Cover Projectxzener about 2 years ago
 
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Hi Xzener

I know you have been very busy elsewhere but was wondering if you were going to continue creating clapper icon’s?

By the way the 3D cover project is looking very good. I have applied some 3d covers to my browser and am looking forward to subscribing to metabrowser 2 to convert all my poster images.Well not so much the job but to the final result!

 
 
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Greetings Xzender

First i wanna say that you are doing a GREAT job! Love your work….

Then to my request if you have some time over some day.. You have a UFC Mediabrowser icon and wonder if u can make a Strikeforce icon to… Should be awsome if u have time over and make one :) im kinda lack of skills if im gona try to make one… :)

Take care

//Xiero

 
 
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Can you advise how we use the media info icons? (cronos?

 
  • We're in beta testing with Cronos right now. As far as I know, user configurable mediainfo icons are still not up to par IMO. At least my ISO are displaying a bluray icon now. Still no support for “new” audio codecs… as in DTS HD and True HD. I'll keep you posted. – xzener almost 2 years ago
 
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no worries – thanks for the update – they look super good :–)

 
 
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Any chance of a Lord of the Rings collection icon? :)

That would be awesome! Loving the icons btw… Using purely Xzener icons on MediaBrowser ;–)

 
  • I'll get to the requests after Cronos launches. Been beta testing this badboy. – xzener almost 2 years ago
 
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Great Art Work..Just found a new home…. Now can someone turn on the lights. hehe!

 
 
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Hey, could we get a right-side “Music Concerts” icon? I've only got a left-facing one atm so it’s kinda out of place as all my others are right-facing.

 
  • im assuming u can copy that icon in photo shop or paint and flip the pic. – mkindl almost 2 years ago
  • except, unless I'm being dim (not an impossibility), wouldn’t the text then be flipped too? – MongooseMan almost 2 years ago
 
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Hi guys, my first post :) I'm a great fan of Mediabrowser, its totaly changed the way I watch my films and series especialy when used in sync with Media Center Master. Anyway my first post and I am asking for something, would it be possible to create a Gardening icon for the EHS, I have the Music, Tv Series, Medical and they look great :). Thats the last thing I need to complete my set up.

Thanks Xzener for the finishing touchs, the rest of you making such a good program/experience and the everyone else for beating me to the forum with questions before I can get there! ;)

P.s its for she who must be obeyed! not me honest

 
 
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Thanks xzener for your incredible icons and art! I'm exclusively using your icons and backdrops they tighten up the MediaBrowser and really allow me to enjoy browsing through my catalog of cinema.

I had a few (maybe a little more) requests for the some oddball genres. I like collecting b-movies, obscurities, and genre 60-70’s films. Within those umbrella genres fall the genre icons I'd love to see:

Nunsploitation, Nazisploitation, Blaxsploitation, WIP (women in prison), Zombies, Lycans, Vampires, Art house, Coming of Age, Slasher, Occult, EuroSpy, Pinku, Post-Apocalyptic, VHSRip, BetaRip, LDRip, Giallo, Godzilla, and finally Bigfoot.

 
 
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Great job, Xzener, these are hands down my favorites. Not sue if you are still taking requests, if you are, I'd like to request “Batman” and “History”

 
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