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PS4 Themes / Menu Music

I miss how the background colors used to cycle month to month :(

Hopefully, Sony brings that feature back
 
You know what was really cool? How anyone could freely create and distribute themes for the PS3 without being limited to what makes it onto PSN. Yeah, that was cool.

Cynicism aside, I really do hope that we see an influx of good themes in the coming months. I'm using the white rectangles one currently.
 
I love the White Rectangular Theme. It is my favorite of all the Themes you can download. The others just appear to busy in my opinion.

I like that one too, but it's WAY too bright. I can't really read white-on-almost-white text very well.

It also has better ambient music and sounds than the default. I wish it was darker (or adjustable).

That said, it sort of bugs me when you see it 'drop' in and out from the central theme, on boot and in menus, so I am just using the red waves theme for now, it provides a lovely contrast with the blue tiles.

That Destiny theme is super lazy IMO. They should have done a long shot of the Tower with ships coming and going, and the Traveller in the distance. In 3d.
 
I love the White Rectangular Theme. It is my favorite of all the Themes you can download. The others just appear to busy in my opinion.

I really liked that one too, especially with how little blocks fly over your menu items. Very cool that themes can do this, it gives them great depth.

But I found the music non-relaxing... so I recently switched to the Boat theme which is more pleasant to the ears.
 
I wish you could mix and match the wallpaper and menu music. I'd just like to have the dark grey flow background with the paper boat music. Or as someone else said, reduce the brightness of the rectangle theme. it's far too bright.
 
I was using the Cube theme, but once I saw that the friends list, messages, and notifications screens change to the default background, I had to change it. The colored Flow themes are present everywhere, so I changed mine to black for now....

To me it's a minor, but major flaw in themes that breaks the "flow" of them.
 
I'm sure the rectangular theme is a throwback to the PS2 start up towers thing. Probably why Im using it. Another neat thing is some lil cubes that fly around go in front of the UI sometimes.
I love that theme, but a mostly white screen makes my plasma buzz really badly. I wish I could use that theme with the dark blue.
 
Asked in the firmware thread,I guess I will place it here also...

How do you get the Evil Within free theme through Share Factory...? or its not a theme for the dashboard but something else...?
 
I miss how the background colors used to cycle month to month :(

Hopefully, Sony brings that feature back
Best theme ever. I just love going there in the morning and seeing it brown and then go back there in the evening and you still see some reminiscence of the brown and almost fading to black.

The colors changing with the season and time of day is just beautiful. Bring it back Sony, please :(


EDIT: And the sparkles? OMG those sparkles....
 
I wish we could change the background and the music separately. I like the music from the cube theme but the background is too bright for my liking. It's hard to see anything in the top left corner, white text on an almost white background never works.
 
Just make one up & set up a account on my PS4? it won't mess my system/settings up will it?

Yeah just make another user on the ps4 and then create a U.S. account. I have a eu, us and jp account since PS3 launch have never had any issues with the console.
 
I love the White Rectangular Theme. It is my favorite of all the Themes you can download. The others just appear to busy in my opinion.

Agree with you. Reminds me of the PS2 main menu, the sound effects are nice and the music is just absolutely peaceful. I could fall asleep to that..
 
Is there anyway to view the themes before downloading them? I looked when I grabbed the paper boat one, but couldn't find anything (I could be blind).
 
My favorite is the paper boat. It's cute. I'd pick the Destiny one if it weren't for that wallpaper. The music and sound effects for it are great.
 
I honestly hadn't thought to turn the menu music off until I was installing themes and it became apparent there was menu music. Turned it off and haven't looked back, regardless of theme.
 
I would love a PS2 UI Theme+waves background music to go with it.
 
I didn't even know this was a thing. The default music on the PS4's menu is dreadful, I've had it turned on since LAUNCH DAY! Where do I find these settings?
 
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