AMP v1.0 Worklog

**LightningMac** · 06-19-2006, 05:16 PM

Working great now, and I spent most of my day importing album art into itunes, just for the look of things and to have them show up on my video ipod. Speaking of Video, any way of making AMP (cool name btw) interpet music videos and movies as such in the itunes library and classifying them as either a movies or music videos? Can you have it read the itunes tag of type of media it is?

thanks! great work!

**aychamo** · 06-19-2006, 06:02 PM

Well, I was thinking of that. You mean like some kind of icon that displays if it's a video or audio file? Because right now it lists them both the same, and when it plays them it determines what type of file it is (audio/video) and treats it accordingly.

I have a nice looking blue bulb graphic that I ganked from FrontRow that I think I could use and it would look nice. But I would only like indiciate movie files with it. I hate the look when it's 10,000 of the same icon, you know what I mean?

Have you tried the photo slideshows? Does it work ok? (mouse click to exit)

**rdag** · 06-19-2006, 06:29 PM

sweet

how awsome

all working now.

just a quick question... say i imported my music now.. then i added a album to my iTunes library. will AMP auto Add this album? if not. and i have to import it back in, will it only import the added album, or will it go through and add all the songs over again?

maybe there is a way that AMP can read the iTunes library file and know all the info it needs?

EDIT: heh, found a bug

when AMP is done importing iTunes crashes? why!? :P

**LightningMac** · 06-19-2006, 07:07 PM

I couldn't try the slide show as all my pictures are on a secondary hard drive and I couldn't find a way to import them from that drive.

What I guess is a meant is a way to choose both where to find the movies in the itunes library an easier way to do that than what is presently used in the program, like a pop up menu that all the apple programs use to locate a file or files. This way it would be easier for the user to select the folder needed, rather than try to find out the path of that folder which is presently used.

Also the buttons I was talking about would replace the current play rewind and volume icons, to give them an aqua clear button look

**aychamo** · 06-20-2006, 12:21 AM

radg, do you get the bug everytime you import? Have you tried importing music more than once? (And did you delete the AMP.plist file?)

I'm curious to hear from someone who ran the slideshow, and what they think. And the visualization things?

**rdag** · 06-20-2006, 01:06 AM

yep every time i import. and yep i did delete that plist file.

the slideshow is pretty neat.. i like it, but the visualisation.. it would be awsome if it were the actual iTunes visuals.

not the quartz thing. because it just spins, no beating to the music .

**LightningMac** · 06-20-2006, 01:13 AM

I thought the visualization ROCKED!

**Sharkbite86** · 06-20-2006, 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by LightningMac

I thought the visualization ROCKED!

All depends on your liking i guess

... i personally thought it was a bit silly and prefer the itunes stuff.

**aychamo** · 06-20-2006, 10:27 AM

I'll see what I can do about iTunes visualizations. I liked the artistic look of the Quartz ones. Maybe make it a selectable option.

Is anyone else getting the crash after music import like rdag? I can't seem to duplicate it yet.

**Sharkbite86** · 06-20-2006, 01:42 PM

well nothing has crashed for me at all with the new update. However, i did notice this kind of odd thing when I import my music library. This thing will pop up and let you know what songs are being updated (a progress bar/window), but when it is all done it does not go away unless i click somehere on the screen... not a big deal but sometimes im not sure if its really done or anything...