Although it’s still very rough and buggy (my first bug-report to the new skin: mouse-scrolling in track-info-pane changes the volume too.), we can see, that you’re moving in the right direction.

A few suggestions, what I missed in the old skin:
- an “always on top”-function in not only in the mini media player, but in all player modes. “always on top” is no problem in linux, but the windows desktop environment still doesn’t know it.
- Buttons to show the hidden panes again, after I’ve closed them (f.e. make the hide-button to a hide/show button and don’t let it disappear), so that I don’t have to go always to the menu to open the pane again.
- I liked the option the fold the player section even smaller in the old skin (hey! more room for the service pane! :-))

But I’m sure, you’ve thought about these details by yourself already!
Can’t wait to see the next changes

And to the people who don’t like the player at the bottom:
On windows I’ve used always winamp: their old standard-skin had the player on the right top corner.
For one year the new standard-skin has the player on the left top corner.
On linux I use amarok: the player is on the right bottom corner.
It never occured to me, that this (sometimes daily) change could be in any way annoying.
It’s just a matter of habit.
(Since you make it costumizeble, I will leave it in right bottom corner: that’s a first for me ;-))

@Slate8
We gathered that different people are going to have different preferences for where they want their media controls so we are planning on making it customizable.