StreamedMP Music files using Fanart Handler (1 Viewer)

[trevor]

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.

This would work, well it requires #percentage as this is the way the stars should be done..Problem - imagelist does not scale, what looks good on 1280x720 screen will move about on a 1920x1080 or 1366x768 (might have that last res wrong).

For fullscreen we might away with going back to this control but I know this does not work on the non-fullscreen versions. I run my dev systems windowed at 1280x720 and then test my moving to my live HTPC on a fullHD (1920x1080) screen...in this case the tracklkist stars stay where they but personal rating stars go walkabout!

The idea for using mstar#Play.Current.Rating in an image tag is because this scales...but as you say there maybe is a bug in that as it is only set when you first start playing a track but is not set on track changes.

Stuck between and rock and hard place with this....will do some more investigation..suggestions welcome from all..

Cheers

 

[emphatic]

This would work, well it requires #percentage as this is the way the stars should be done..Problem - imagelist does not scale, what looks good on 1280x720 screen will move about on a 1920x1080 or 1366x768 (might have that last res wrong).

Why not include two .xmls in the release and label the folders 1080p and 720p? Most users using these packages will now that to do with them.

Emph

 

[kiwijunglist]

better to use define tags. 720p for default, then can change definte tag for 1080p?
can you not get a compromise that looks good on both 720P and 1080P
you can set the start coordinates, the only problem is they'll look slightly too small on 1080p

 

[ltfearme]

Trevor, we already have 1080p detection in the installer...so if you want to use a define we can install these files and I can modify the define in the main skin file during installation based on user resolution.

Maybe create defines for the position and size. This way we avoid multiple files.

 

[trevor]

Updated: StreamedMP Music files using Fanart Handler

All,

I have just updated the archive to V1.5.

• Changed the control used to display Personal Rating back to list control.
• Added additional define in the main files to control the scaling of the above control, see manual.
• Fixed some control visibility issues for Fanart Handler
• Updated progress bar code to support latest MP SVN
• Changed the fullscreen Menu layout
• Updated manual

The archive now also has MyLyrics and Full Screen Last.FM skin files.

Please see the first post.

Thanks

 

[kiwijunglist]

trevor - Did you know fanarthandler now has built in multi-image support for fanart not found, so the multiimage controls beneath the fanart layer are now redundant.

 

[trevor]

@TREVOR - Did you know fanarthandler now has built in multi-image support for fanart not found, so the multiimage controls beneath the fanart layer are now redundant.

Yep, I have been building/testing against RC2 - you have reported the issues I have seen plus some I had not. This release is against the publicly avaiable version so still has the controls, V1.6 is ready for when cul8er releases 1.1.

Cheers

 

[dihoff]

Re: Updated: StreamedMP Music files using Fanart Handler

The archive now also has MyLyrics...

awesome, i use MyLyrics already, so stoked that the GUI has been improved for this too!

however, i've just installed 1.5 (replacing existing 1.4 FullScreen files (twice)) and the background in MyLyrics still has the default... Even though the background images appear in Now Playing...

i'm running MP1.0.2 and MyLyrics 1.35.

any thoughts as to why this might be? the album cover is displaying.

dh.

 

[joz]

You do have the fanart handler plugin installed and it scraped your music db correct?

 

[dihoff]

You do have the fanart handler plugin installed and it scraped your music db correct?

yes - it's displaying correctly on the 'now playing' screen, but not on the 'my lyrics' screen...

cheers,

dh.