XrossMediaBar Desktop Environment?
XrossMediaBar - Wikipedia
I built a home theater PC and now I'm obsessed with getting an xmb ui on there. I know retro arch has a nice implementation, but I couldn't find any support for jellyfin or spotify menu items. Should I forge ahead and create custom ones? Does anyone know a better way? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
There used to be a Kodi/XMBC skin for that but development on that seems to have been abandoned years ago.
Depending on your use case Kodi might be a better fit for your HTPC as it tightly integrates with Jellyfin and also has a Spotify plugin. And some skins work generally the way the xmb used to work - they just look very different
Zross?
X-Cross?
X-ross?
Oh, it's just pronounced Cross. Always unsure how people who make decisions like these get the jobs they do.
It's like, they're rewarded for being stupid.
Aside from playstation and walkman, Sony has never been good at naming literally anything they've made. It's usually just a jumble of letters and numbers on any of their products.
It really was the best, then Sony just abandoned it.
Funny enough, at the time this was new, I was not a fan. But as time has gone on, I have had a very “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” relationship with it.
For a media UI, it was remarkably confident in itself. "Hey, I know I'm not showing you immediately what you want to see right now, but just hang tight and look at the beautiful background while you navigate. Look at these elegant Frutiger metro icons. Listen to the hearty clicks the bar makes as you flip through the categories. Don't worry, the joystick maps right onto the bar movement. You already know what you're doing."
Now it seems like UI's are embarressed to be on the screen at all. "oh, uh, I bet you wanted to see a picture of your game right? Or... netflix? Or... The store or something? Umm. Let me just give you all of your options in an order I think will be your 'favorite'"
Perhaps just have it there and then have spotify & jellyfin outside of that? Can the xmb ui have custom menu or something?
Yeah. Adding new menu items looks complex, might require recompiling a custom retroarch build
So of all these links, only the second one is barely relevant. You're Welcome