Streamed MP Beta v0.8.448 [13 Apr 2009] (2 Viewers)

[tamvegas]

Thanks Ixian for the 1.0.1.0 references fix. I had the same startup message.

 

[Jeditrav]

Is there an option in this skin to have it display the artist/album name at the same time while in icon, large icon, filmstrip mode etc?

Not right now, but I will add it.

This would be great, the Music section of StreamedMP is the least 'polished', in my opinion, and having the artist/album name/title come up while browsing would be a great usability enhancement!!

 

[dir]

Is there an option in this skin to have it display the artist/album name at the same time while in icon, large icon, filmstrip mode etc?

Not right now, but I will add it.

Great! But don't try to fit it into the upcoming final release; I can live without it a bit more.

What I had planned to do was to ask other people for screenshots of how they have their music collection set up. I find it easier to point at someone else's and say, "I'll have that!" rather than try to make up my own and fiddle endlessly with settings I know nothing about.

Problem is, I don't think MP (or any alternative) does a good job of handling music collections. ITunes does it ok (the long list that you can sort easily by clicking on the column heading), and of course coverflow.

On that subject, hopefully someone will take the opensource coverflow code that was developed over at MeediOS and figure out how to implement it within MP. But I'm not holding my breath!

Again on the subject of music within StreamedMP, I find the interface v. confusing. The right-side pop-up window acts strangely depending on which kind of view is running, and sometimes I end up exiting and re-entering the Music section because I can't get the pop-up (slide-in) menu to slide back out again. Overall, the i/face is cumbersome but it's not the skin's fault, it's just how all htpc interfaces are when it comes to music. (apart from a coverflow look).

Just sayin'!

I suspect most people don't listen to their music this way anyway and use alternatives. Would be interesting to see what others use - I'll post a message in the right forum area.

dir

 

[Boiler]

not sure if this is skin related or not....

when i play an episode in tvseriesplugin (say s07e12) and then stop, it jumps back to the first episode of the respective season (in this case s07e01). it doesn't happen every time, but every so often. any ideas?

 

[ltfearme]

not sure if this is skin related or not....

when i play an episode in tvseriesplugin (say s07e12) and then stop, it jumps back to the first episode of the respective season (in this case s07e01). it doesn't happen every time, but every so often. any ideas?

TVSeries sets the first available unwatched item in focus when entering the view. An enhancement request would be required to the plugin to stop this behaviour.

 

[ltfearme]

What I had planned to do was to ask other people for screenshots of how they have their music collection set up. I find it easier to point at someone else's and say, "I'll have that!" rather than try to make up my own and fiddle endlessly with settings I know nothing about.

Here is what I personally prefer. I basically create a new view called 'Custom', I prefer to have just 2-steps to the view (Albums (Sorted by Artist) -> Tracks).

I can then enter DB view with-in MediaPortal using the newly defined 'Custom' view.

Typically I dont even see the Tracks, I usually select the album and click play which takes me directly to playlist view after.

 

[ltfearme]

Another re-release of v0.8 is out: v0.8.448. It includes the following updates:

* Updated skin version to support MediaPortal 1.0.1
* Updated TV EPG (8, 10 & 12 Rows)
* Updated 4TR to support v1.4, thx Trevor/vuego
* Updated TV-Series plugin to v2.2.3389 Stable

* Added selected item to My Music DB Thumbs / Filmstrip layouts
* Added support for MediaSlayer in BasicHome Editor (RIP YOUR - DISKS)
* Added TVSeries playlist to show episode logos

* Fixed Skin ID in MediaSlayer

Hopefully this is the last v0.8 release

 

[elvis56]

thanks for this great skin

I was wondering if anyone knows how to slow down the scrolling speed when you press info. When i am watching a tv episode and i press info the bottom screen pops up but the series episodes info is zipping by so quickly lol It's tough to read.

thanks !!

 

[rekenaar]

thanks for this great skin

I was wondering if anyone knows how to slow down the scrolling speed when you press info. When i am watching a tv episode and i press info the bottom screen pops up but the series episodes info is zipping by so quickly lol It's tough to read.

thanks !!

See question B12 here.

 

[Boiler]

not sure if this is skin related or not....

when i play an episode in tvseriesplugin (say s07e12) and then stop, it jumps back to the first episode of the respective season (in this case s07e01). it doesn't happen every time, but every so often. any ideas?

TVSeries sets the first available unwatched item in focus when entering the view. An enhancement request would be required to the plugin to stop this behaviour.

that's just it. the episode is watched and still gets focus