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I've had a bit of a play with things.

I must say it looks good. You mind sending it to me so I can put it in the download section?

* Script background image and stop/pause etc. icons appear stretched on my 16x9 screen. (script is loading 4x3 background by default?)

Currently it defaults to 4:3. Haven't implemented 16:9 yet.

* Tab order: If you are moving up one by one from the bottom (in the area where the play buttons are), the tab order skips past 'Settings' (goes straight from STOP/PAUSE icon to 'Popular'.

Heh, thought I had corrected that.

* As it stands, the SKIP,STOP,PAUSE functions only work for songs currently in the playlist. It might be nice if you can: Search, the results appear. Play a track, then FWD/BK skip changes to the next/prev track in the search result pane. Maybe I could have explained that better?! - what I mean is, if you wanted to listen to Muse tracks only for example, it would be nice and easy to use, to just search Muse, click song results, click play and then use FWD/BK skip buttons to get to the next muse track from the search results.

It's on my todo.

* The highlighted/focused song in the playlist.. could the focus be shifted to highlight the song currently playing? (we can see which song is currently playing by the ticker, but I think it would be friendly for the focus bar to also move to reflect that).

- I say that because there's no current artwork being displayed for music playing (usually an obvious indicator of what's playing).

I'm currently working on adding cover art and I think I found a way of highlighting what is currently playing.

Changes I made:
* Changed background image (and logo area)
(I'm a little dissapointed by the aliasing around the Grooveshark logo), I was using Pixlr (an online image editor) as I can't get on with Gimp and I don't have Photoshop on my laptop. - Pixlr dosen't seem to scale the images very well.
* Changed the focus/highlight colour in the songlist area.
- I've left room under the Grooveshark icon for a potential future album artwork image?

Good call. The plan was to have cover art where the GS logo is and at the same move the player controls the reside just beneath the cover

Some general things I think would improve the look of it:
The font is fine enough, but maybe it could be larger? (current search results show 20 items on screen in the list). If you are considering adding the album art images to the left of the results (like in Moovida) you'd probably fit maybe 10 results on the screen as a result. I think the font in the lost needs to be bigger even if art was added to the left. -would be a bit easier to read from far back.

I completely agree. I currently have 7 items in the list with album to the left of the song title. And the font has gotten a little bigger

Perhaps the design idea was to make as much use of screenspace as possible? I can understand that.

That was the idea but I realized, as you did, that less is more ;-)

ps- what's needed to turn this from a script into a plugin?

Currently I'm not sure. But at some point I'm gonna do it so that I can use GrooveShark from the remote for the iPhone.

I added the script to my favourites list, however running it from the favs list makes my xbmc hang. (common with scripts? or is my build a bit cack?)

Honestly, I have no idea.