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<blockquote data-quote="Ganton" data-source="post: 402882" data-attributes="member: 90369"><p>Thank you for your reply!</p><p></p><p>I´ve been using Mediaportal for a while and right now I think it is the best HTPC software. IMHO better than MeediOS (very, very difficult to configure), Mytheatre, ProgDVB and ALTDVB, not to mention Windows Mediacenter.</p><p></p><p>My idea was a bit different. I´m using Black and White 1080p skin, and I have fan art for my music and movies (I´m using My Films Plug-in because my movies DDBB is in ANT movie Catalog).</p><p></p><p>The fan art system works pretty good (i.e. if I select a movie, the background shows the fan art for this particular movie. If I play a song for an artist with fan art the background shows the picture name after the artist or the song).</p><p></p><p>But (there is always a "but") , what I want is that the background changes showing different pictures for that artist / album / movie. As far as I know when you name the fan art file after the artist / album / film there is only 1 background and it doesn´t change. If you have 5 pictures for the group "queen" you can only show 1 of them (I tried to name the pictures "queen1.jpg", "queen2.jpg".. but the only way it works is that the name is exactly the same than the artist)</p><p></p><p>If you have</p><p><texture>\FanArt\Music\#Play.Current.Artist.png</texture></p><p></p><p>and the fan-art is named "queen.png" when you play a file with the artist field ="queen" the picture queen.png will be shown as background.</p><p></p><p>If you have 5 pictures of the queen and you want these pictures to be shown when you play a file from the artist (and change every 10-20 sec). I have tried the following:</p><p></p><p>You have:</p><p></p><p><description>Backdrop</description></p><p><type>multiimage</type></p><p><id>0</id></p><p><posx>0</posx></p><p><posy>0</posy></p><p><width>1920</width></p><p><height>1080</height></p><p><imagepath>backdrops_music</imagepath></p><p><timeperimage>120000</timeperimage></p><p><fadetime>1000</fadetime></p><p><loop>yes</loop></p><p><randomize>true</randomize></p><p></p><p>My first idea was to change this, creating a directory for every artist pictures</p><p></p><p><description>Backdrop</description></p><p><type>multiimage</type></p><p><id>0</id></p><p><posx>0</posx></p><p><posy>0</posy></p><p><width>1920</width></p><p><height>1080</height></p><p><imagepath>backdrops_music/#Play.Current.Artist</imagepath></p><p><timeperimage>120000</timeperimage></p><p><fadetime>1000</fadetime></p><p><loop>yes</loop></p><p><randomize>true</randomize></p><p></p><p>I created the following directory: backdrops_music/queen/</p><p></p><p>And put it 5 pictures of queen (1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg and 5.jpg)</p><p></p><p>No surprise it didn´t work. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>For the record, my XML abillities are very limited. I hope my idea is clear now, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ganton, post: 402882, member: 90369"] Thank you for your reply! I´ve been using Mediaportal for a while and right now I think it is the best HTPC software. IMHO better than MeediOS (very, very difficult to configure), Mytheatre, ProgDVB and ALTDVB, not to mention Windows Mediacenter. My idea was a bit different. I´m using Black and White 1080p skin, and I have fan art for my music and movies (I´m using My Films Plug-in because my movies DDBB is in ANT movie Catalog). The fan art system works pretty good (i.e. if I select a movie, the background shows the fan art for this particular movie. If I play a song for an artist with fan art the background shows the picture name after the artist or the song). But (there is always a "but") , what I want is that the background changes showing different pictures for that artist / album / movie. As far as I know when you name the fan art file after the artist / album / film there is only 1 background and it doesn´t change. If you have 5 pictures for the group "queen" you can only show 1 of them (I tried to name the pictures "queen1.jpg", "queen2.jpg".. but the only way it works is that the name is exactly the same than the artist) If you have <texture>\FanArt\Music\#Play.Current.Artist.png</texture> and the fan-art is named "queen.png" when you play a file with the artist field ="queen" the picture queen.png will be shown as background. If you have 5 pictures of the queen and you want these pictures to be shown when you play a file from the artist (and change every 10-20 sec). I have tried the following: You have: <description>Backdrop</description> <type>multiimage</type> <id>0</id> <posx>0</posx> <posy>0</posy> <width>1920</width> <height>1080</height> <imagepath>backdrops_music</imagepath> <timeperimage>120000</timeperimage> <fadetime>1000</fadetime> <loop>yes</loop> <randomize>true</randomize> My first idea was to change this, creating a directory for every artist pictures <description>Backdrop</description> <type>multiimage</type> <id>0</id> <posx>0</posx> <posy>0</posy> <width>1920</width> <height>1080</height> <imagepath>backdrops_music/#Play.Current.Artist</imagepath> <timeperimage>120000</timeperimage> <fadetime>1000</fadetime> <loop>yes</loop> <randomize>true</randomize> I created the following directory: backdrops_music/queen/ And put it 5 pictures of queen (1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg and 5.jpg) No surprise it didn´t work. :) For the record, my XML abillities are very limited. I hope my idea is clear now, though. [/QUOTE]
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