Hey Rob, one thing you have to keep in mind, using your Windows XP Remix as an example, it has 5300 downloads, 4569 of those are by anonymous users, they are not able to comment on skins. Now with that said, I agree that it can be disheartening to put time into a skin and not receive any comments.

Rob, just be happy you're getting downloads. It takes a lot to convince me to leave a comment. I usually just rate them. I guess that's more than a lot of people. As long ase you are getting dl's then that says people like your stuff. For what it's worth, I like the sexy female voice and the soothing sounds SoundPackages.....those rock!

Most people I know dont want any sounds on there computer. They have me take them off. Dont know why. I myself like sounds to be minamal. Without hearing your sounds first I doubt I would download them. Ill give one a try and leave a comment.

I used this (Link) soundpackage for a while to annoy my wife.


Otherwise I always have the sounds muted.

I dont mind minimal sounds but I can live without them too. What I really cant stand is if you get one that when you min/max/close a window you get 15 seconds of a bell tolling or a 15 second song clip. Very annoying.

Exactly!

Ive been wondering about that lately as Ive gone through alot of the older stuff. And there were alot of good looking blinds back then that had the sounds included along with having extra buttons for things like window transparency, minimize to systray, links, media players.

Makes me wonder why you dont see those things in any of the newer blinds.

Yeah Po smed I agree! That would be cool, and I am willing to bet that allot forget. I forget everything.LOL.Cavan great point I never though of that?! makes me feel allot better when I think of It like that! I am so oblivious!


killajosh Thank you so much! I am glad you like them. I will keep that In mind. Most people seen to want the more soothing sounds rather than The robotic electronic sounds i have noticed. (well according to dls)


No prob Zakai 369. that is a good point. I have come across blinds like that and Never knew it was possible? I was amazed. It was just recently that I was useing a Blind that had those buttons and thought they where a decoration? Then I accidentally clicked one and the windows went transparent? I was so confused! LOL. And that same one had a button to open WMP.



And Everyone else... I know what you mean about Not likeing sounds. I personaly dont like sounds for every single event. I hate menu popup sounds, I hate Naviage sounds, Those events happen too much and the sound gets annoying. I always diable them for my use. But when I make a sound package I upload it with all of the sounds enabled so that the user can disable as they want and so that they can listen to all the sounds and pick through them. I just want sounds for start, exit, question, notify, mail, ect. But...


I try to make them as complete as possible for the users who like them all. I am hesitant sometimes to leave them all enabled when I upload because I think that some may HATE it becuase there are too many sounds (like navigate and menu pop)that you hear REAPEADEDLY! I know there are people who will get annoyed and not even use the package becuase they may not know how to disable the sounds.

Does anyone think I should Leave it Up to the user to Enable the sounds them selves? Or should I Keep them enabled so they can hear what they have to work with, without having to use the drop down menu? For me, I think It is easier to be able to scroll down and click the play button for each sound to hear it.... Rather than toggleing back and forth from the packaged sounds, tab to the main, in order to see what is used and unused? Geezie PEEEETs another long comment by the Infamouse LONG COMMENT LEAVER Robjk!LOL

LOL... one more thing... The open sound! AHHHHHH! It plays 1 MILLION TIMES when you start your computer becuase of all of your programs you have set to open at system startup. There should defenately be a way around that?

It;s the only one I've used more than an hour.  Awesome work.

darn... double post

I've edited out the bad parts for you. We can't have language like that.

And now back to your regular scheduled thread.

Do what I did...that didn't work....

I uploaded two screenshots with the names 'ignore' and 'ignore2' because...like wow....I wanted them IGNORED as they were uploads with a purpose, not 'pretty pics of my desktop at this specific inst - only to be updated by another at the specific inst immediately following'...and got comments...and ratings.

Maybe I can sell them to those who want them more....

Thanks Guys!