Topic: My newest Info Template for THUNDERSTORM!!!! (Read 6146 times)

geekbeats2 · « **on:** March 31, 2004, 12:24:03 pm »

Heres my second info template. I seemed to have lost my other (MinimalBlue) when my Geocities website was cancelled. Anyways this new one carries the ThunderStorm skin theme. It includes 2 matching Spectrum Analyzer Visualizations (stereo) and keeps the info displayed to a minimum. Feel free to download and use and possibly customize if youd like. If you have any suggestions feel free to speak but im too lazy to add anything to this one:)

Heres the link to a screenshot and the .zip file:

http://www.geocities.com/imajikon/ThunderstormTEMPLATE.html

enjoy! ill be making some new ones soon

LonWar · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2004, 12:51:41 pm »

Very Nice... However when I put the files in the Track Info folder, and go back to MC and pick that track info I get a Unabel to display selected Track Info Template??

Any idea's

geekbeats2 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:00:06 pm »

U know I have no idea what that might be. I had the problem initially after building it so i simply removed the contents of one of the stock info template folders and replaced them with the contents of my ThunderStorm Template and it worked fine. I assumed this problem had something to do with my setup?? anyhow if any of the mods can tell me why it does this it would be appreciated. But the template works perfectly if you simply replace the contents of one of the stock info templates, haha if u dont mind doing that!

geekbeats2 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:12:25 pm »

OK PROBLEM WAS FIXED!!
IT SEEMS A PESKY WINXP 'THUMBS.DB' FILE GOT IN THE FOLDER. IF U DOWNLOAD IT AGAIN IT WORKS FINE NOW

LonWar · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2004, 01:36:10 pm »

It really matches well...

Thanks a lot!!

cascius · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2004, 06:36:14 pm »

WOW, it looks really nice! I like it!

alias · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2004, 07:03:43 am »

Looks great, thanks.

KingDodo · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2004, 01:40:57 pm »

Maybe im stupid, but how you install all this to have what you see on the screenshot (i talk about the spectrum, cover art and all others infos when you play a file)

Thanks

LonWar · « **Reply #8 on:** April 01, 2004, 05:00:03 pm »

Unzip to your desktop
Now you will have 1 folder, Open it and copy the other folder and the 2 sperate files to the Track Info Folder

C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Visualizations\Track Info

KingDodo · « **Reply #9 on:** April 01, 2004, 10:59:53 pm »

Haaa many thanks

But is there a way to reduce the size of all this? Cause im in 800 x 600 and i can see just some infos..

Thanks

lalittle · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:07:38 am »

Quote from: KingDodo on April 01, 2004, 10:59:53 pm

Haaa many thanks But is there a way to reduce the size of all this? Cause im in 800 x 600 and i can see just some infos..

Thanks

I ran into this as well -- it looks great on my 1280 x 1024 system, but on the system using the little monitor at 800 x 600, it's way too big. Unfortunately, any resolution larger than this is just too small to read comfortably. Is there any way to get this info template to "scale" with the current resolution? I use it on my "good" system, but it just doesn't work on the other one.

Larry

MartinH · « **Reply #11 on:** April 16, 2004, 01:33:09 pm »

Thanks, this looks nice

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Rizlaw · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2004, 09:02:22 am »

Very nice work, but I have an alignment problem with the plug-in on my third 1280x1024 LCD display (1c).

I am running a Matrox Parhelia video card with three 1280x1024 displays @75Hz configured as one very large desktop. The desktop is comprised of Displays 1a, 1b, and 1c (left to right). I don't think this is the reason for the display problem of this plug-in, but I could be wrong.

There are two display issues:

(1) The cover art is about 1/4" below the "Cover Art" header which leaves a 1/4" gray space between the header the the top of the cover art.

(2) The "Tag Info" section has the vertical column of fixed tag field names (i.e. Name, Artist, Album, Genre, Track#, Duration and Date) vertically offset downward by almost a full line from the variable tag info fields to the right.

I'm using WinXP Pro with all of the latest updates and patches and the latest video driver from Matrox for this card (4/15/04). Running MC 10.0.120.

Is there any way to correct this display issue?

Havana · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2004, 11:24:09 pm »

Maybe I'm a moron, but do the mjv files go into the track info folder as well?

Rizlaw · « **Reply #14 on:** April 24, 2004, 07:58:02 am »

Havanna,

Yes, they do. I had a little trouble with this myself.

As Imjustagamer noted, when you unzip the download you simply copy the the extracted subfolder "Thunderstorm" AND the two "mjv" files contained in that subfolder to the following path:

C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Visualizations\Track Info\

Havana · « **Reply #15 on:** April 24, 2004, 08:02:35 am »

Thanks Rizlaw!

Rizlaw · « **Reply #16 on:** April 24, 2004, 08:08:38 am »

No problem. I believe the confusion lies in the fact that when you expand the download file you get a folder called "ThunderstormTEMPLATE" which has 2 mjv files and a subfolder called "Thunderstorm" which has several jpg and two html files.

It seems, at least in my experience, that just copying the "Thunderstorm" subfolder doesn't get the plug-in to work.

Perhaps the author could clarify this for both of us.

geekbeats2 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 24, 2004, 03:26:51 pm »

Rizlaw, youre right just copying the thunderstorm folder will not get the .MJV files to work. the .MJV files must be placed into this folder:

C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\Visualizations\Vis Studio\Spectrum Analyzer

Hope this helps

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2004, 12:39:10 pm »

Bump

Sauzee · « **Reply #19 on:** May 29, 2004, 08:16:20 am »

AoXoMoXoA

Why the bump? Is there something new or issue outstandig here?

221bBS · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2004, 11:13:54 am »

Think someone was looking for it

CASELOGIC · « **Reply #21 on:** May 30, 2004, 07:24:19 pm »

very nice skin, thank you !

lalittle · « **Reply #22 on:** June 29, 2004, 08:59:57 pm »

Is there any way to make this skin sizeable (or is there a smaller version of it) so that it will fit on an 800x600 display?

Thanks,

Larry

johnfriend · « **Reply #23 on:** July 09, 2004, 09:09:07 pm »

I have the same problem with 800x600. I have a HTPC I run MC10 on and I run it 800x600... you don't want the fonts any smaller when you're across the room.

I love thunderstorm but the template is WAY too big at my res.

Could we get a 800x600 version?

geekbeats2 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 18, 2004, 02:43:00 am »

here ya go:

http://www.geocities.com/imajikon/MEDIACENTERtemplates.html

made some new templates including a 800x600 one.

haha dont ask me to make any improvements or additions to any of these. I made them to my specifications and only share hoping somebody else might find them useful. Thanks

lalittle · « **Reply #25 on:** July 20, 2004, 02:19:27 am »

Thanks for sharing this -- I'll give them a try as soon as I'm in front of that system.

Larry

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