Embbeded Mp3 Art Plugin

**guino** · 12-02-2008, 01:14 PM

The changes are in the first post:

-ONARTCLICKED event added.
-NoCover.JPG support and improvements made by El Camino and Sal R.

You don't have to re-register the if it's in the same location, but you can, and you can unregister the old one first if you want to.

I'd say anyone who uses the old version and it does the job, then there's no need to upgrade it... as an old KY saying: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!"

**rijk** · 12-02-2008, 01:41 PM

i hoped it solved the update of the albumart in the differnt pages, but it doesn't

, i'll keep the reloading of the skin between those pages for now.

**Sal R.** · 12-02-2008, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by rijk

i hoped it solved the update of the albumart in the differnt pages, but it doesn't

, i'll keep the reloading of the skin between those pages for now.

If you use "MENU" instead of "LOAD" for the skins that have the albumart code, I believe it "redraws" the skin and might update your album art image.

I have a deriviative of the MP3Art plugin that displays art based on the highlighted track of a playlist (again, courtesy of EL CAMINO) and the only way for the art to update when switching screens is if the skin file was called via "MENU" vs. "LOAD."

**guino** · 12-06-2008, 06:18 AM

Updated the files on first post with fix made by Sal R.

**uptpilot** · 12-23-2008, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by guino

Updated the files on first post with fix made by Sal R.

Guino, marvelous job as usual. Glad to see that all my embedded album art can be put to use finally.

Small problem...
I've successfully gotten it to work in the MENU.skin and AUDIO_BROWSER.skin, but not EXTERNAL_GPS.skin.

If I switch to the audio browser then back to external_GPS, my indicator box shows the album art for a fraction of a second before it fades away. I added the X,mp3art reference to each .skin. Is there some reason why it will not display in EXTERNAL_GPS.skin for more than a 1/2 second?

Also, if I subsequently go from EXTERNAL_GPS.skin to MENU.skin, the album art also fades away and disappears, although it doesn't display the art... I just see part of the screen draw fading away.

Update 1:
It appears that on MP3's with multiple embedded art, it loads the first pic, then the second. Is there a parameter that can be used to make it only use the first cover art instead of loading the first then second?

**guino** · 12-23-2008, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by uptpilot

Guino, marvelous job as usual. Glad to see that all my embedded album art can be put to use finally.

Small problem...
I've successfully gotten it to work in the MENU.skin and AUDIO_BROWSER.skin, but not EXTERNAL_GPS.skin.

If I switch to the audio browser then back to external_GPS, my indicator box shows the album art for a fraction of a second before it fades away. I added the X,mp3art reference to each .skin. Is there some reason why it will not display in EXTERNAL_GPS.skin for more than a 1/2 second?

Also, if I subsequently go from EXTERNAL_GPS.skin to MENU.skin, the album art also fades away and disappears, although it doesn't display the art... I just see part of the screen draw fading away.

Update 1:
It appears that on MP3's with multiple embedded art, it loads the first pic, then the second. Is there a parameter that can be used to make it only use the first cover art instead of loading the first then second?

First, you should only have X,mp3art in MENU.SKIN of each skin -- that's enough for each entire skin. It's possible this is related to your issue.

I honestly have never done any testing with multiple art inside the songs.. chances are that it will process all of them and save/display the last one -- regardless of it being good (displayable) -- I can probably enforce it to show only the first one, but I can't guarantee that the first image will be the "best" -- this a simple matter of how the art got saved into the file.

**uptpilot** · 12-23-2008, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by guino

First, you should only have X,mp3art in MENU.SKIN of each skin -- that's enough for each entire skin. It's possible this is related to your issue.

I honestly have never done any testing with multiple art inside the songs.. chances are that it will process all of them and save/display the last one -- regardless of it being good (displayable) -- I can probably enforce it to show only the first one, but I can't guarantee that the first image will be the "best" -- this a simple matter of how the art got saved into the file.

Extra album art aside, I still have the problem that the album art disappears altogether. It works fine in AudioBrowser (and then the main menu if I go to it from the Audio Browser). However, in the I03,741,90,60,59,"Albumart" object inside EXTERNAL_GPS.skin, it appears for a fraction of a second while the GPS skin loads, then it fades away. Why would it work in the Audio Browser skin all the time, on the main menu only if I come from the Audio Browser, and never in the External GPS skin?

Update 2

Ok, I just noticed something. The album art DOES work in the EXTERNAL_GPS.skin *if* it has 2 embedded images. In other words, if the mp3 only has one embedded image, it appears to be fading away to nothingness. However, in the Audio_Browser.skin, it always works fine.

**uhohrobbo** · 01-19-2009, 02:36 PM

Hiya,

Sorry I am a bit of a newbie. I am making some changes to a skin, so that I can pause / play a song when I press the album art, and was wondering how you actualy implement the ONARTCLICKED event?

Thanks!

**treetop777** · 01-19-2009, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by uhohrobbo

Hiya,

Sorry I am a bit of a newbie. I am making some changes to a skin, so that I can pause / play a song when I press the album art, and was wondering how you actualy implement the ONARTCLICKED event?

Thanks!

Not sure but try this in ExecTBL.ini

"ONARTCLICKED","PLAY",audio_player.skin