Thread: Sonique Evolution- My new flash skin

Thanks Sonic!

Ok here's the latest.

The art does NOT update automatically when changing the playlist, but it now WILL update when I press the album art.

Also, the strange characters seem to be gone, which is great.

The songs are now listing in REVERSE alphabetical order though. Not sure what's up there?

So now it seems I also have a bigger problem with Coverflow as well. I went back into Coverflow to check that Velvet Revolver album (to see about the funny characters since they were showing there too), and the back of the album art for it was showing the tracks of the previous album (Van Halen). So I figured I'd just go back and rebuild my XML files by re-running builder-artist.exe. Well, it won't finish rebuilding without erroring out with a serious error. I tried it 5 times and got the same result each time. Is there anything in your new code that would have affected coverflow?

my code does nothing in conflict with coverflow.. i cant help you with that. But when you say "change playlist" do you mean literally change the playlist via the audiobrowser or do you mean play the next track or press the nexttrack button? if you mean the first part of the question then we're on the same page.. mine does that as well or some reason. If the track art doesnt update when the next song is played thats a problem i dont have

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

my code does nothing in conflict with coverflow.. i cant help you with that. But when you say "change playlist" do you mean literally change the playlist via the audiobrowser or do you mean play the next track or press the nexttrack button? if you mean the first part of the question then we're on the same page.. mine does that as well or some reason. If the track art doesnt update when the next song is played thats a problem i dont have

I do mean the first part. However, the more I read some of what you're saying, the more I'm thinking I'm supposed to be seeing more than just the album art thumbnails next to the song titles in the playlist. When you say "track art doesn't update when the next song is played..." that makes me believe that maybe I should be seeing large album art somewhere? Like a Now Playing screen or something?

Originally Posted by Nola111

I do mean the first part. However, the more I read some of what you're saying, the more I'm thinking I'm supposed to be seeing more than just the album art thumbnails next to the song titles in the playlist. When you say "track art doesn't update when the next song is played..." that makes me believe that maybe I should be seeing large album art somewhere? Like a Now Playing screen or something?

Yellow circle is "track art" Blue circle is "album art". You see the track art but not any album art? Thats odd cause the album art is captured automatically from Road Runner. All you have to do is have ANY image file in the directory where the track is. The Track art i'm doing manually.. thus it requires the ArtName variable defined in skin.ini.

Bottom line is if the track art changes when you change to antoher song in the current playlist then the track art works the same as mine. Currently, if i change the playlist the art doesnt update until i press on the track art area. This will be fixed. But if u dont see the album art i really dont know what that could be. I'm assuming you can see album art in all other skins?

Three New Features added:

In hopes in turning the "Info" Bar under the track name on top into a real info bar i've added a few things to every skin.

-Larger notification of City and State Traveled thru. Now when you are driving into a new city the info bar chimes and notifies you which city you are now entering.
-Alarm clock/memo function. You can set times and dates to key events and have them ring in and displayed on the info bar. Each event is set right in the skin.. so there's no real need to enter an .ini or .txt file.
-Reminders function. The reminders function as discussed here is now tied into the infobar allowing you to see reminders data in each skin.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

Yellow circle is "track art" Blue circle is "album art". You see the track art but not any album art? Thats odd cause the album art is captured automatically from Road Runner. All you have to do is have ANY image file in the directory where the track is. The Track art i'm doing manually.. thus it requires the ArtName variable defined in skin.ini.

Bottom line is if the track art changes when you change to antoher song in the current playlist then the track art works the same as mine. Currently, if i change the playlist the art doesnt update until i press on the track art area. This will be fixed. But if u dont see the album art i really dont know what that could be. I'm assuming you can see album art in all other skins?

I should have asked you to post screenshots a long time ago... it definitely would have made sense!

Ok, no, I do not see that large album art. But fortunately, I figured out why. My folder.jpg files are hidden files (that's how WMP puts them in there when encoding and tagging an album). I have a couple random albums whose folder.jpg files are NOT hidden, and they show up fine. How hard would it be to write it into your code to allow hidden files?

Ok, I'm getting there. Seems a simple reboot fixed my browse-artist.exe crashing issue. Now I just need to find out why clicking on any song on the back of the coverflow art all plays the same song... off to the Coverflow thread for that one!

I'm really looking forward to XM by the way... that's what I use the most in the car. Hurry up Christmas!

unfortunately thats a road runner thing .. i cant enable hidden files in my skin.

Yikes, ok I better talk to Guino then. The only way to unhide files manually is through command line in DOS, and I can't see myself doing that for 350 files.