StreamedMP Music files using Fanart Handler (2 Viewers)

[trevor]

Got it all working a treat now, if shares dn't work will have to try to figure out why some of albums aren't showing in artist view and use that.

Only thing i just noticed is on the "playing next" if you have a long song title and/or artist name then it goes right across and underneath the EQ animation, not sure if it does on the playing now side since it has artist and song title on a separate line and I don't think I have anything long enough to try it with

How can I get the horizontal blue animation instead of the vertical white one?



Edit:

Just found one and it does on the playing now side as well

Hi,

Glad it is working, shares view is a pain but there is no way Fanart Handler know what you are looking at. I did notice I need to limit some of the fadelabel fields - will be sorted in the next update.

If you mean the double bluie Led animation you need to be running MP1.1beta to get that..what have you found btw, you have a link?

Thanks

 

[kiwijunglist]

Shares view is really for people who havn't set up their music tags properly. All other users should not be using shares view.

 

[trevor]

This screenshot from Maya skin suggests that maybe you can move the list controls to a popup screen

[Image removed]

Can see how that may work, would be good to see the code behind it

Actually you have redundant code.

The current code you have used is;

Bottom ImageLayer = Multiimage control pointing to fanart directory
Next Image Layer = Fanart Handler plugin

However in fanart handler plugin setup, you can tell it to use Music fanart directory as well, so it always displays an image, this makes the first layer redundant and also a waste of memory (as you know multiimage control loads all images it displays into the memory), So the first layer should only be a static image. Then if user wants random music fanart when no fanart is available all they do is tick the box in the fanart handler plugin setup.

Yep I have some tidy up to do on those screens still - losttown is looking at those as well so only did a quick fix.

 

[Shangostar]

Hi,

Glad it is working, shares view is a pain but there is no way Fanart Handler know what you are looking at. I did notice I need to limit some of the fadelabel fields - will be sorted in the next update.

If you mean the double bluie Led animation you need to be running MP1.1beta to get that..what have you found btw, you have a link?

Thanks

Ah ok, will settle for the white one for now then.

Just meant i found a song in my collection that had a title long enough to see if it over lapped the eq animation on the left hand side thats all.

Shares view is really for people who havn't set up their music tags properly. All other users should not be using shares view.

Yeah i prefer the album view really but some of my albums just wont appear, got 2 by same artist, both are ripped with same app, tagged with same app in same way yet 1 just wont appear in any other view than shares.

Got about 20 albums the same, its a bit odd, will really have to look a bit deeper to find out why.

Thanks to both of you for this though, should both share a Twix as a treat

 

[flintstone99]

AW: Re: StreamedMP Music files using Fanart Handler

Ah I see, I thought they already were.
Thank you!

@BalduinB

This should now be fixed, I have updated the main archive and added a smaller zip with just the 4 files required, please the first post.

Thanks

Hi Trevor,

thanks a lot, problem solved!

regards
Dietmar

 

[kiwijunglist]

TREVOR

See this thread - Issue 18 - fanart-handler - Music Playlist Fanart - Doesn't use MP Artist images - Project Hosting on Google Code

Possible error in your useage of fanart handler, as identified by cul8er.

 

[trevor]

TREVOR

See this thread - Issue 18 - fanart-handler - Music Playlist Fanart - Doesn't use MP Artist images - Project Hosting on Google Code

Possible error in your useage of fanart handler, as identified by cul8er.

Yep, missed out those visibility changes - updated and passed you a version to check prior to be doing the V1.5 release - still have some testing to do and some additions.

Thanks

 

[kiwijunglist]

Did you know that with the fanart plugin you can add an artist image, into the now playing box.
Not sure if it adds much, but when I saw it in the xfactor skin I thought it looked pretty good.

See attached... (Note the artist image is on top of the text bc it's just a crappy mockup)

You could either

1. Put the image in the centre, with partial transparency mask, and then have each edge faded out

2. Mask out the 10% off the right side of the image (effectively cropping it), then have a gradual fade on the left edge, and position the image on the far right side of the now playing window.

PS - You might actually be able to do the same with movie fanart using the plugin, but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[trevor]

Did you know that with the fanart plugin you can add an artist image, into the now playing box.
Not sure if it adds much, but when I saw it in the xfactor skin I thought it looked pretty good.

See attached... (Note the artist image is on top of the text bc it's just a crappy mockup)

You could either

1. Put the image in the centre, with partial transparency mask, and then have each edge faded out

2. Mask out the 10% off the right side of the image (effectively cropping it), then have a gradual fade on the left edge, and position the image on the far right side of the now playing window.

PS - You might actually be able to do the same with movie fanart using the plugin, but I'm not 100% sure.

Did see the overlay stuff...Fanart Handler opens a lot of possibilities - will look at overlay stuff when I have finished the work on the basichome editor to intergrate the plugin and get rid of the multiimage controls.

Trevor

 

[kiwijunglist]

I fixed the star rating problem, use this code for the fullscreen fanart version

    <control>
      <description>Current Track Star Rating</description>
      <type>imagelist</type>
      <id>1337</id>
      <posX>150</posX>
      <posY>687</posY>
      <textureWidth>35</textureWidth>
      <textureHeight>35</textureHeight>
      <subitems>
        <subitem>white-star-outline32.png</subitem>
        <subitem>white-star-filled32.png</subitem>
      </subitems>
      <orientation>horizontal</orientation>
      <align>left</align>
      <imagesToDraw>5</imagesToDraw>
      <percentage>#Play.Current.Rating</percentage>
      <visible>Player.HasMedia</visible>
    </control>

I think there must be a bug in mediaportal because if you don't use the percentage tags, the rating starts at (1,3,5,7,9,11) but then jumps down to 1, within 1 sec of playing the next track.