Finished and 'as good as it gets', after animating an overhead shot of my vintage Pioneer turntable with a custom 45 rpm label (CHOSEN SONG by D.W. Jukebox....).
If anyone wants a copy of the complete new skin that looks so much like the existing PhotoSkin but has an animated turntable, PM me with your real e-mail address and I'll send it to you. I named this new skin 'PSanima' for 'PhotoSkin Animated'. This version only allows a single user-added image that shows up when a song is not playing, but I think the tradeoff was worth it. Plus, I've learned now how to make a skin that cycles through as many pictures as a user wants, just by adding a timer and icon for each picture rather than just flipping between two.
Also, anyone is most welcome to try to correct the few image 'glitches' that occur, mainly at the start of the song playing. I documented the timers and icons to the best of my ability in the PSanima.skn file. pic1.jpg bleeds through in spots at the start of every needle drop at the start of the song. There has to be a way to minimize that even further or eliminate it entirely. One way is to make pic1.jpg one of the turntable images, but then you lose the customization that I think is unique....easy addition of a user image as pic1.jpg to the directory.
Brian