My Music - need your thoughts on how to improve and enhance (2 Viewers)

[LordMessi]

LordMessi,
Do you know if the fix for the visualistation fullscreen has gone into the CVS , as i would love to test it out to see how it goes, thanks

Hi,

Who did it, and when?

 

[Nightmare77]

NightmareRambo77 wrote:
is it possible to fix up the visualisation fullscreen?, i have my vis which is goom in wmp 10 running at 1024 however in MP it looks like the resolution is not running anywhere near that and everything is graining and ugly. Seems like it just stretches the thumbnail view to fullscreen or something instead of running in fullscreen


I've submitted a patch that addresses this - allows true fullscreen.
"1411517 WMP Audio Visualisations : Enable true fullscreen"


It was done by BigJ , posted on Page 6 of the thread - 10 January .

Thanks

 

[LordMessi]

The author have submitted a .patch file - and we can't use that. We need the full file.

I've posted a comment at sourceforge to get the full file - perhaps this will help it make it into cvs.


So the answer to the question are: No - not in cvs

 

[Nightmare77]

Okay sounds good thanks LordMessi

 

[SteveV]

I rejected the patch, not because a patch file was submitted, but because a fullscreen visualization might cause an unexpected display resolution change. Since a fairly large percentage of MP users use MP with a TV type of display, there is a likelihood that a resolution change might use a scan rate that could at worst; cause damage to the display and at best; place the tv in a mode where it is incapable of displaying an image.

Steve

 

[LordMessi]

I rejected the patch, not because a patch file was submitted, but because a fullscreen visualization might cause an unexpected display resolution change. Since a fairly large percentage of MP users use MP with a TV type of display, there is a likelihood that a resolution change might use a scan rate that could at worst; cause damage to the display and at best; place the tv in a mode where it is incapable of displaying an image.

Steve

Okay - didn't know that.

 

[SteveV]

CHli,

The image links you posted earlier are broken.

Steve

 

[jawbroken]

With these albums, have you tried unchecking the "Skip albums with existing coverart" option? Also, the coverart grabber should report errors in the log file. It would be helpful if you could post relevent portions of the mediaportal.log file. All entries should begin with "coverart grabber:" (or similar--I'm at work and don't have access to mp).

I have tried unchecking the "Skip albums with existing coverart option, no dice. Here is the relevant section of the mediaportal.log from the example above:

16/02/2006 2:04:22 PM window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUICoverArtGrabberProgress init
16/02/2006 2:04:24 PM Cover art grabber:getting folder count for C:\Music\The One AM Radio...
16/02/2006 2:04:24 PM Cover art grabber:2 folders found
16/02/2006 2:04:24 PM Cover art grabber:getting pending cover count...
16/02/2006 2:04:24 PM Cover art grabber:2 covers queued for update
16/02/2006 2:04:24 PM window:MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogOK init
16/02/2006 2:04:28 PM key:27 0x1B (2)
16/02/2006 2:04:28 PM window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUICoverArtGrabberProgress deinit

Seems like it is picking them up fine but is not doing anything with them after that? No errors seem to be reported, it just does nothing and then says it is done.

 

[SteveV]

jawbroken,

Very odd. The log entries should look similar to the following:

2/15/2006 10:25:46 PM Cover art grabber:getting folder count for \\Media-server\Music\Donald Fagen...
2/15/2006 10:25:46 PM Cover art grabber:2 folders found
2/15/2006 10:25:46 PM Cover art grabber:getting pending cover count...
2/15/2006 10:25:46 PM Cover art grabber:2 covers queued for update
2/15/2006 10:25:47 PM Cover art grabber:getting cover art for [Donald Fagen-Kamakiriad]...
2/15/2006 10:25:51 PM Cover art grabber:AWS Response Returned 1 total pages with 2 total results.
2/15/2006 10:25:51 PM Cover art grabber:2 records retrieved in 00:00:04.171 (2.086 seconds per image)
2/15/2006 10:25:51 PM window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUICoverArtGrabberResults init
2/15/2006 10:25:52 PM Texturemanager loaded temporay:\\Media-server\Music\Donald Fagen\Kamakiriad\folder.jpg 200x236 format:X8R8G8B8
2/15/2006 10:25:52 PM   texturemanager:added:\\Media-server\Music\Donald Fagen\Kamakiriad\folder.jpg total:1 mem left:157286400
2/15/2006 10:25:52 PM Texturemanager loaded temporay:thumbs\MPTemp0.jpg 301x300 format:X8R8G8B8
2/15/2006 10:25:52 PM   texturemanager:added:thumbs\MPTemp0.jpg total:2 mem left:157286400
2/15/2006 10:25:58 PM window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUICoverArtGrabberResults deinit
2/15/2006 10:25:58 PM texturemanager:dispose:\\Media-server\Music\Donald Fagen\Kamakiriad\folder.jpg frames:1 total:3 mem left:155189248
2/15/2006 10:25:58 PM texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()
2/15/2006 10:25:58 PM texturemanager:dispose:thumbs\MPTemp0.jpg total:2 mem left:155189248
2/15/2006 10:25:59 PM Cover art grabber:getting cover art for [Donald Fagen-The Nightfly]...
2/15/2006 10:25:59 PM Cover art grabber:AWS Response Returned 1 total pages with 4 total results.
2/15/2006 10:25:59 PM Cover art grabber:4 records retrieved in 00:00:00.625 (0.156 seconds per image)

Looks like it may be failing silently after "Cover art grabber:2 covers queued for update". Is there anything odd with the album title for either one of these albums?

I'll have a look at the code and let you know what I come up with.

Steve

 

[jawbroken]

The album titles are just alphabetic, so I doubt there is something odd about them. They are as mentioned above:
Music/The One AM Radio/A Name Writ In Water
and
Music/The One AM Radio/The Hum Of The Electric Air


Thanks for your help.

EDIT: These are by no means the only ones that fail, just an example. Maybe 20 or so albums in my music folder also silently fail, all set up as above.