About the X-Factor Skin (R479) (13 Viewers)

[jinxy_tj]

Its a difficult choice, I have not given up yet tho, I may have something in the pipeline, we will see. Really the best option for now is to get the images in wide as like the last image above. It really does do it justice

I am going to continue with this skin, I have to say this is THE most promising skin I have ever found on MediaPortal.

 

[Ticiano]

jinxy_tj, how and when we'll be able to get this mod you're making? It's going to be integrated with the next version? Are you and Cul8er coworking?

 

[jinxy_tj]

I cant promise anything with the mod, but if I succeed or get close and get stuck I will be sure to post. I only downloaded this skin last night, so have not had any chat with cul8er, generally anything I do will be posted and whomever can use and abuse as they wish.

I will of course help where I can.

All for the good of MP

 

[Ticiano]

This mod is getting really nice. I'll wait to see your progress. Thanks.

 

[jinxy_tj]

I use Album Art Downloader for downloading covers. It works great and I think Album Art Exchange has the best quality.

Btw: I think posting links with different text in this forum is really hard. How can you use html-code for links?

The album art downloader will still only download album art. What we really need is soething that will download album FAN ART. For those who may want to use this mod and manually replace the artists images here is a good link:-



The location for the files that you will need to replace is

%ProgramData%\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\music\

I would not recommend changing any of the album art, as although this would display in the backgound image correctly, it then would not display correctly anywhere else in MP.

I hope to resolve this in time

for now enjoy

Just a quick note, Hugh thanks to YSMP for bringing this to my attention.

I understand that some users may have modified their skin in a way which will not allow my mod to work. The mod I believe tells the skin to look into the skin dir at music fanart. My mod actually points towards the Media Portal application data, which is where all thumbs and data is collected. I was not aware that a mod to point within the skin dir was available, but hope that if users have this information they can decide if they wish to have a look at my mod

 

[ixdvc]

I know, Album Art Downloader downloads just the album art. But from Album Art Exchange you can get very high quality covers (1500x1500 px). Some of your shown album arts were not that good.

By the way, nice work.

 

[jinxy_tj]

I know, Album Art Downloader downloads just the album art. But from Album Art Exchange you can get very high quality covers (1500x1500 px). Some of your shown album arts were not that good.

By the way, nice work.

Thanks very much, and my album art is exactly as you say not very good. The software most certainly will resolve that issue but what I really want is to download artwork in either 1024 x 768 or 1920 x 1080.

I will however be updating my album art soon using this software

 

[ysmp]

Hi people,

If anyone knows of a plugin or piece of software which would download cover art, maybe that could be used to specify more specific size artwork and allow a much nicer image at full screen.

Let me know if anyone has any ideas

hi jinxy ! try this the name is : Music Art link :Music for MediaBrowser. it was maid for media browser but i use it for my music
collaction to get backdrops (artist fanart) from Home Theatre Backdrops */*Home
just point to your music folder ....
also work with win xp...

 

[crackmaniac]

how can i change to this list-view?:

 

[emphatic]

how can i change to this list-view?:

Go to your plugins and select the Skin Editor (or what it's called). There you'll find a choice between the different views.

Emph