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Why does MC for Linux not support trackinfo templates
geier22:
Why does MC for Linux not support trackinfo templates?
Just showing the cover is poor.
Theater View is not always the method of choice. Especially with multiple virtual screens, all screens are blocked by the theater View.
Are there technical reasons or is it just not "hip" anymore?
Hendrik:
The Track Info page is a website, and MC for Linux still cannot show websites, unfortunately.
geier22:
OK. understand and regret.
There is no simple solution to the web page solution?
It does not seem that MC-Linux can ever render web pages.
In fact, I'm a bit frustrated. I use MC since V. 8
Porting to Linux was a great job from the MC team. And so I had the
Possibility to say goodbye to Windows.
But for some time I see in the development of MC no added value for me.
All the streaming and network stuff is not important for all users.
I only bought the last versions to support the development. Let's see when it's over.
Rizlaw:
--- Quote from: geier22 on April 20, 2018, 08:14:01 am ---Why does MC for Linux not support trackinfo templates?
Just showing the cover is poor.
Theater View is not always the method of choice. Especially with multiple virtual screens, all screens are blocked by the theater View.
Are there technical reasons or is it just not "hip" anymore?
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I, too, have requested (since my Media Center Windows days) what I term a movable and modifiable "nowplaying" desktop widget for MC. I also provided a working example in the Linux music player "gmusicbrower." A similar thing can also be accomplished using "Conky" with several other Linux music players: QuodLibet, Guayadeque, Audacious, MPD and one or two others (albeit without gmusicbrowser's killer active transport buttons).
Edit 04/24/18: Added a screenshot of combination of "Audacious" player output via a Conky script, plus Audacious' built-in dockable/undockable "album art" and "spectrum analyzer" (the analyzer is semi-worthless without db range and frequencies added). All of this appears in the lower left corner of all my desktops as needed. It's also controlled by my keyboard's media keys regardless of the desktop I am on. This is more or less what I wish for in MC24.
I agree that merely having a detachable Theater View album cover picture is totally insufficient.
geier22:
Kodi (XMBC) also comes with a full screen view as default. But it is - in contrast to MC - only a desktop for it. So I can switch to other desktops despite full screen. Why can not MC do that?
There was a discussion about the MPRIS interface to show what MC is playing via the notification function. There were approaches but was never integrated into MC.
I live today with the script given in this thread
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,99309.msg687489.html#msg687489
Also this project (MPRIS) was not realized
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,104357.msg725375.html#msg725375
Again to the templates:
I often sit in front of my big monitor listening to MC music and can only enjoy the nice graphic design when I switch to the theater view. But then the pc is for nothing else to use. So I'm forced to look at the meager cover or immediately switch to list view.
Somehow, MC in Linux leads a life of its own, without further integration into the system.
That's really a pity.
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