rdag

sorry to be picky is there a way to browse the itunes library by playlist? or select a certain playlist? that would be awsome. and if it were possible... what about if the way the songs were sorted stayed the same? because i know where the songs are placed in my playlists. so it makes it alot easier.

aychamo

hey there!

I definitely am adding playlist support, and they *should* stay in the same order

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aychamo

Quick note guys, if you do the diagnosis I suggested above (on pg2), if that's the cause of your problem, then I found the bug, i just have to fix it now. I swear I'm going to fail out of school because of you guys ;-) jk

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LightningMac

I confirmed it, I only have one song with album art since most of the way I imported my songs didn't include them, and that ONE song plays without crashing, so I'd say you found that bug!

Just a thought, I enjoy the simplicity of the look of the program, so for the buttons and menus, I'd just change the color of them and make the buttons translucent, *aqua effect* to add a bit of a classy look to some of the buttons and other pages you may make for it. In the Radio Shark Page I'd change the over all color to purple or blue or something... Just my 2 cents and thanks for all the great work!

aychamo

Heya!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've gotten rid of the bug. For those interested, originally when I did the "music import" it also saved the album art in the database. The resulted in like an 80meg database (for ~5000 songs). It took forever (like over a minute) for the program to load.

I realized what a stupid design decision that was, so I only store the path to the album art now. What was happening, in the bug, is that my method that extracts album art from songs was returning blank data for those without album art (which was fine for the first method, but not for this). Now I have a 1px blank picture that it loads, and everything seems to be fine now.

I'm going to work most of this day on the features I talked about up above. I'll upload that version hopefully tonight, and I hope you will all be pleased with it so far.

LightningMac, I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the buttons. Do you like the ones now? Or not? If so, which ones are you recommending to change? I've got a new little background a kinda cooler new look for the radio menu (thanks to raceer).

I'm open to all suggestions (except making the screen bigger, lol, it's designed for the 800x480 screen! -- which I haven't been able to test yet,still waiting on the xenarc)

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Sharkbite86

holy cow it would seem you are right! It crashes on every song i play that does not have an album artwork image!! Hope you can fix that! GREAT CATCH!

Edit: oops well nevermind i guess yo just fixed it

LightningMac

for the most part I think the buttons look a little too simplistic, how about using the program to create a nice looking "Aqua glass" looking buttons

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...onbuilder.html

aychamo

Ok, I've just updated the 1st page 1st post with the new DL link, and a list of what I changed/added:

Major Changes:
* You *need* to delete ~/Library/Application Support/AMP/AMP.plist !!
* Repeat: Delete the above file! ~ is a shortcut for /users/YourUserName
* Did you delete it yet?
* Ok, now once you start it, you *need* to reimport your *music* !! [iTunes]

- VIDEO_TS folders are now playable; A folder with a VIDEO_TS folder should be in your top level hierarchy of ~/Movies. For instance, the following are valid VIDEO_TS movie format:
~/Movies/Wedding Crashers/VIDEO_TS
~/Movies/Kill Bill/VIDEO_TS
(VIDEO_TS should be capitalized)
- iTMS Protected Video Files should be playable, ONLY IF they are imported via your iTunes music database!
- iPhoto style slideshows
- No more crashing while playing audio without album art (oops, sorry guys)
- Scan Up/Down, Seek Up/Down for radioSHARK
- AMP will remember which volume it was set at on the last shutdown
- Visualizations! These are quartz composer files I got from: http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.cgi?quartz .. I think they look pretty nice!

- For the protected video files, the *only* option is to use QuickTime Player as an external app. Yes, this sucks (thanks Apple.) I tried to make it look as nice as I could. It's not so bad. To exit a movie, just click on the screen, and "drag" the file position to the end. It's actually really easy and quick once you do it.

- There should be 12 visualizations, they play at random, so.. Just keep clicking. If everbody hates one particular one or something I can remove them, but they are all pleasing (to me) in their own way.

You really need to delete the AMP.plist, and then start AMP and reimport your music! This will eliminate the crashing bug!

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aychamo

LightingMac, those blue buttons look nice. I checked out that program but you gotta register it to make anything. Anyone up for photoshopping some? There are a lot of good tutorials if you google "aqua buttons"

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Please let me know of any bugs or any issues in the latest version!

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aychamo

Hey!

When it uses the built-in video player, it makes it the same size as the screen ultimately will be 800x480; but when it plays a DVD, or has to shell out to QuickTime (ugh), or does the iPhoto style slideshow, it uses the fullscreen, regardless of the resolution. Ultimately, on 800x480, everything will be fullscreen and look pretty smooth! (relatively speaking)

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LightningMac

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

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)

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rdag

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

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

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?

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