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NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« on: March 25, 2019, 12:25:12 pm »

When you are playing music with Media Center 25, you can right-click the display area if you have it set to "Cover Art" and pick "Artist Images...".

This will play a slideshow of artist images from online sources in the Playing Now area.

It should be a way to add a little interest to what's playing.

Please post any questions or comments here.  Thanks.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2019, 01:52:39 pm »

Is this the same as the images shown in TheaterView?
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2019, 01:54:37 pm »

The lookup routine is similar, but the images show where the cover art normally is in the display window, not Theater View.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2019, 04:25:50 pm »

Would it be possible to display a biography / discography rather than images
 - I for one would find that far more useful and interesting as I tend to listen to Radio Paradise and being able to pop that when I heard a track I like would be great rather than having to switch to laptop to get the info
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2019, 04:31:33 pm »

Try the "Wiki" link in the upper right corner.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2019, 04:41:35 pm »

Thanks :)
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2019, 03:56:46 am »

Hmm, quite weird, I get strange pictures with this nice option: Currently listening to Genesis - That's all and get some car pictures or ovens  ;D
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2019, 03:41:05 am »

try Rockgroup ASIA  ;D
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2019, 01:12:31 pm »

try Rockgroup ASIA  ;D

Fixed next build:
Fixed: Playing ASIA and Genesis would not show good artist images.

Thanks for the report.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2019, 06:29:22 am »

Artist images that come up for either "Boston" or "Yes" are probably not what is intended for this feature... ;D
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2019, 08:58:13 am »

The Band Lettuce had some great images too. :) Sort of an impromptu trivia game started.
Romaine!, Iceberg! etc

We play both Audio and Video clips on pool night.
If we set the display for Artist images, it works fine until a video is played, then the next audio is reset to cover view.
Very nice addition though. I asked for something like the Theater View artist images, and now here it is.
Great! Thanks!

Don
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2019, 12:07:46 pm »

The Band Lettuce had some great images too. :)
MUWAHAHA How about The String Cheese Incident?
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2019, 12:41:12 am »

I have folders with fanart in each Artist folder... any way to configure it to also show local fanart?
(similar to Artist Slideshow Kodi plugin)
Mainly interested for use in Theaterview.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2019, 07:15:19 pm »

I was listening to Toto this weekend and kept getting a Toto Toilet in the picture rotation.  :)
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2019, 07:24:32 pm »

Bet that made you flush :(
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2019, 07:29:24 pm »

Bet that made you flush :(
Bonus points for that.  ;)
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2019, 11:59:03 am »

How about an option to show a track's existing Cover Art (I carefully select mine), but if a track has no Art, show the new Artist Images?

And maybe a variation of this, an option to show both existing Cover Art and Artist Images as a slide show of sorts?

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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2019, 12:11:06 pm »

Where on-screen can Artist Images be used? In a Playing Now HTML/CSS page similar to Cover Art?

For more than a decade I've used a carefully designed Playing Now Info page, the left side showing all kinds of info about the current track, the right side showing Cover Art if it exists. Visitors to my home quickly learn to dash to the PC when an interesting song plays to learn all about it (I hope I've sold a few MCs to them as a result).

But, only a portion of my 80 thousand tracks have Cover Art (all assigned manually, the automatic methods don't provide enough valid results). I'll never get around to finding all the appropriate images. So... If Artist Images could automatically be shown when Cover Art doesn't exist, and/or along with Cover Art, that would make my Playing Now more interesting.

MC would need options to control this. MC would intercept the action that loads Cover Art from the playing file, and decide whether to show that image, or Artist Image if Cover Art doesn't exist, or intermix if both exist, as specified by the user.
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My career in media spans Radio, TV, Print, Photography, Music, Film, Online, Live, Advertising, as producer, director, writer, performer, editor, engineer, executive, owner. An exhausting but amazing ride.

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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2019, 01:14:57 am »

MusicHawk, by "Playing Now Info page" I assume you are referring to a custom Track Info plugin. It would be fantastic if this this new Artist Images feature could be called up in Track Info plugins! I use "Modern Cards - Even Blacker Edition", which would be even better with this added ability.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #19 on: June 06, 2019, 07:32:31 pm »

The French new-age group "Era" also throws up some interesting, but completely unrelated images !

Cheers,
Peter
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2019, 10:02:22 pm »

This has the potential to be a long thread full of weird band names.

The bands Sleep and Earth also pull up images that are unrelated to the bands.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2019, 12:24:58 pm »

The band Garbage shows some unfortunate images too.

How about a thread where people post images that JRiver has shown and we have to guess the band?
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2019, 09:53:09 pm »

The band Garbage shows some unfortunate images too.

I've run into a few artists that show unfortunate images when I'm in theater mode. There's a setting in Options (can't remember the spot at the moment)  that allows you to checkbox the sources of the images.  When I unchecked google images, the unfortunate images were no longer seen.  (note: I was not logged in to google, so I could not tell google what types of images I wanted)

But here is a suggestion that I have...  can there be an easy toggle between the image processing that I routinely see when I'm listening to tunes, and a mode where only the cover art that I've added is shown.

Here's my use case:  When I'm listening to tunes, I like the variety of images.  However, there are times when I'm using MC for background music for a, say, dinner party with kids present.  I want to be sure that the images on the TV screen are appropriate (something I do with the cover art I use).

This is not a high priority thing for me, as I now just turn off the screen during those dinner parties with kids.  But I do like to show off MC and leaving the TV screen on helps to that end.  :)







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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2019, 04:27:30 am »

I've run into a few artists that show unfortunate images when I'm in theater mode. There's a setting in Options (can't remember the spot at the moment)  that allows you to checkbox the sources of the images.  When I unchecked google images, the unfortunate images were no longer seen.  (note: I was not logged in to google, so I could not tell google what types of images I wanted)
The option you are referring to is Tools>Options>Theater View>Theme>Online Media Show, I already have Google unselected here but unfortunately this does not affect the Artist Images in Playing Now.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2019, 04:41:23 pm »

There is a problem that the artist image is too random.
I think it would be nice if you could be able to stream the images of the specified folder for each song.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2019, 07:56:03 am »

Shellac has always brought up lots of unrelated images.
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Re: NEW: Artist Images in Playing Now
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2019, 08:10:16 am »

Next build will have this tweak:
Changed: Made artist image lookup key into the fact that it's a music artist a little better (so playing bands with animal names, etc. will show better matches).
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