Rearrange Music "Now Playing" Screen (1 Viewer)

[Tesla]

I posted this in my Skin's forum, but I never got an answer. Maybe this is the correct area to post this instead?

When playing music, I select the first MP3 in the folder that contains all the tracks for an album or CD. It will continue playing the next tracks which is good. I then switch it to the "Now Playing" screen (to sit back, relax, and listen to some tunes).

On this screen, there seems to be a lot of wasted space. Would it be possible to move the Visualization animation to the largest screen area (where the picture of the woman in now). Then, make the CD/Album cover art appear where the Visualization was (therefore, making it larger).

Any help on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. If there is no plugin to help and this will require manually reprogramming a layout file, well ... I just need to know if that is the case or not.

 

[hwahrmann]

Which skin are you using?
On Now Playing there is no picture of a woman.
The largest space on this screen, talking about the default skin B3, is taken by the album Cover.
Seems that is what you want. Right?

But you have always the possibility to rearrange the elements and change them in size, by changing the xml file.
This is what skin authors do.

 

[Tesla]

I am running StreamedMP v1.2.1.1553.

There is definitely a woman/cheerleader pic on 3/4 of the screen (I think this might be a default FanArt image).
The Visualization takes the next largest piece, and the album cover art is the smallest of the three.

I'm not sure if it matters, but I just play the files from folders (there is no music database setup). Works really good.

Thanks for the tip on the XML file. I will try to find the right one and see if I can make a change.

 

[hwahrmann]

Well, then you asked in the wrong forum.
You need to discuss that with the author of StreamedMP.

 

[Cruzer]

If you want the visualization larger, you can press the "red button" or X on the keyboard to make it full screen. Now Playing in this skin is more about enjoying the fan art. If you are getting the stock default picture (girl) for most of your music, it means that you don't have any fan art for that artist. This is either that there is none available or that your ID3 tags don't agree with what htbackdrops.com calls the artist. HTH. Also, try a different view from folder view. I think that some features don't work in this view.