Embbeded Mp3 Art Plugin - Page 6

guino · 12-23-2008, 06:20 AM

Quote: 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

Quote: 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

Quote: 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

MGD · 01-19-2009, 03:32 PM

You need the updated version from the first post and regsvr32 it. Works fine.

uhohrobbo · 01-19-2009, 03:38 PM

Yeh I have the updated version and have registered it. Just wasnt sure where i put events in. Does the ExecTBL.ini need to be inside your skin or point to it (ie. /Skins/<skinname>)?

MGD · 01-19-2009, 04:44 PM

Either the main EXECTBL.ini in RR Root or EXECTBL.ini in your Skin Folder.

uhohrobbo · 01-20-2009, 12:40 PM

I have registered the file and added
"ONARTCLICKED","PLAY",menu.skin
to the EXECTBL.ini file in the root dir. Nothing seems to happen :-(. I have the album art set as an indicator in the skin file:
I02,383,99,180,180,"ALBUMART"

Any ideas?

Thanks.

MGD · 01-20-2009, 04:35 PM

I just tryed it in the menu.skin file and it is working just fine. Try to put it in the exectbl.ini in the skin folder.

uhohrobbo · 01-20-2009, 04:52 PM

Hey, turn out i was being stupid. I added the X,Mp3Art line (using notepad) to the skin file, but still had the skin editor open. So when I saved the skin it saved the .skin file without X,Mp3Art. Ooops!

Thanks for your help!

titanicmusic14 · 01-30-2009, 11:31 AM

I did everything according to what this forum said and adding the J,0,0,0,0 all of that stuff and I cant get it to show at all
I have digital fx 3 and 4 . Neither of them work . Im so frustrated ..

guino · 01-30-2009, 01:22 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by titanicmusic14

I did everything according to what this forum said and adding the J,0,0,0,0 all of that stuff and I cant get it to show at all
I have digital fx 3 and 4 . Neither of them work . Im so frustrated ..

Did you try a different tag writer software ? your tag may have an unsupported art image format.

titanicmusic14 · 01-30-2009, 03:06 PM

Thanks for replying guino
The thing is. The software used to work thats why I'm so frustrated. One day it just stopped working. I am trying to use the riderunner and digitalfx 4.0. But now I am having a problem with the library. I try to browse my files and the whole thing crashes and doesnt want to control winamp anymore. but besides that I have done everything . so I am going to re-install everything and see what happens.
boa tarde

titanicmusic14 · 02-02-2009, 03:17 PM

Does it matter where you place x,mp3art. is there a preferable area?

EL CAMINO · 02-02-2009, 03:54 PM

that line MUST go in Menu.skin, or in Plugins.txt, some skins like DFX use this txt file to enable/disable plugins. about RideRunner crashing you better post that in the RideRunner thread.

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