Blue Devil Skin RELEASED

**SteveC** · 11-20-2006, 12:14 PM

Yes, I believe RRconfig is correct and this is what I see. I have specified mpg and avi in RRconfig and there is 1 avi and 1 mpg in the folder

**SangreDeThor** · 11-20-2006, 12:24 PM

okay that is just weird... did you see what john said about SD. that is the only thing we were able to come up with. What are your files named? as in do they have "." or "-" or something like that.. and any chance that they both contain a "01"?

**SteveC** · 11-20-2006, 01:00 PM

OK, that's it - they are called

Glory_Road-01.avi
The Simpsons 10.9.06-01.mpg

I guess it can't handle those types of filenames which is not a problem with vids but will be with audio files

It's the - it can't handle and it also doesn't capitalize the first letter of the second word so

Glory_Road.avi is shown as Glory road

There is no SD line in exectbl.ini - how does that work (is it in the docs?) and would that help in this instance?

**JohnWPB** · 11-20-2006, 01:06 PM

Hmmm let me look into this a bit, and see if I cant make a custom directory listing or something with the SD command. I will post back my findings.

**JohnWPB** · 11-20-2006, 01:15 PM

Ok, by just snooping around a bit, I found the culprit! I am not sure exactly what it is for, but in the RRConfig, go to the "Music" section. Look for:
Titles After (Character/Text): and remove the - (Hyphen) from the dialog box, and save.

I just did this and the video's now show up with the full & correct name.

I also loaded the music browser, and this does not seem to affect that in any way. I am not really sure what setting is for, but removing the - from in there seems to have solved the problem.

**SteveC** · 11-20-2006, 01:22 PM

OK, that works. However it now shows the _ in the filename whereas before it replaced the _ with a space LOL Also the capitalization needs to be addresses at some point.

Another quick question - the MasterMute feature works by muting but there is no indication in the skin that it is muted. I remember the old frodoplayer that changed the icon when muted - is this possible in this skin?

**SangreDeThor** · 11-20-2006, 04:22 PM

Freaking movie! if i was here i would have known that was the answer because i unchecked that same thing. i just got back from Casino Royale. Good work John

**JohnWPB** · 11-20-2006, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by SteveC

OK, that works. However it now shows the _ in the filename whereas before it replaced the _ with a space LOL Also the capitalization needs to be addresses at some point.

Another quick question - the MasterMute feature works by muting but there is no indication in the skin that it is muted. I remember the old frodoplayer that changed the icon when muted - is this possible in this skin?

Ok, as for the underscores, I can't help you there... I have manually removed ALL underscores from all my music videos ect. I HATE file names with underscores in them

As for the mute problem, as we discussed on MSN, somehow that is an issue on your machine, and I don't know what could be causing it. If this was a problem with the skin, I am sure there would be flood of posts about it

**SangreDeThor** · 11-20-2006, 05:43 PM

Intresting new top secret version. i like the new plugin

the rest of you will find out soon

**kbreeden** · 11-21-2006, 07:24 AM

A couple of observations on the latest version:

1. The genre doesn't show up in the player screen even though my songs are properly tagged.

2. Something funny is going on with the browser load. The current playlist appears while the browser is loading and then, in my case, the browser doesn't properly embed until I futz around with the buttons a bit.

3. Getting back to music from XM seems awkward. Ideally, when going to music from XM one would hit the menu button, then the music button and the loaded music playlist would immediately begin playing in the music player screen. Instead, when we hit the menu button and the music button the XM player screen comes up. It's then necessary to hit playlist again for the music playlist to begin playing. I like the idea of having the player skin for XM, especially because it gives those using the line-in plugin the ability to use visualizations with XM; however, it seems that a better approach would be to place a button on the XM skin that brings up the XM player skin. Then there would be no reason to have the XM player skin come up when going back to music from XM. Going from XM to music would require only two button presses - menu then music - which would immediately begin playing the loaded music playlist in the music player screen. As a non-coder I have no idea how much additional complication that creates, but I thought it worth mentioning.