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mattsnuts

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Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« on: August 05, 2004, 08:18:12 pm »
A minor issue...

I recently upgraded to MC 10, and I like to view my Cover Art of the current track in the Display Pane while in Playing Now.

However, in MC 10 my cover art is much smaller than the Display Pane. In MC 9.1 my cover art would fill the height of the Display Pane, since version 10 it's much smaller, with a lot of space above and below the cover art.

Anyone know how to fix? Or is it a version 10 bug/oversight?

-Matt
Listening to: 'Clean' from 'Make Yourself' by 'Incubus' on Media Center 10
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Re:Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2004, 08:41:40 pm »
The display area won't autosize (AFAIK) in the Standard view if that's what your after. You have to drag the divider up...which leaves about a 1/4" gap of black (top & bottom) on my tube (before image shrinks). I don't have enuff cover arted files to test whether display of the art is fixed to a constant size (regardless of source size).

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edit: OK...too small...if display of CA is fixed to some default size, maybe there's a registry edit you can do. It can shrink CA for sure...but blow up? .. don't know.
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Re:Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2004, 10:42:01 pm »
Yeah, I don't think it enlarges, because if you drag the divider down the CA only goes so big.

But the problem is this 1/4" gap top & bottom. It wasn't there in MC 9.

I like to have the display area about 1" on my screen, the rest of the screen is for the list of tracks in Playing now. So 1/4" top and bottom means a tiny CA image is displayed :-(

Hopefully someone at J River knows of a registry hack, or it's a minor bug to be put on the todo list.

-Matt
Listening to: 'An Open Letter to NYC' from 'To The 5 Boroughs' by 'Beastie Boys' on Media Center 10
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Re:Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2004, 08:55:46 pm »
OK, I figured out a hack. I created my own track info template, by copying the Dirt Simple one. Now my cover art of the playing track is displayed in the Display Pane without the gap...

In case you care, which I'm sure you don't: create a folder in this directory, called 'Simple':
C:\Program Files\Media Center\Visualizations\Track Info\

In this dir, create a file called index.html. Paste the following code:
<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<div align="center">
  <center>
  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" align="center"><font face="Arial">
      <img border="0" src="TRACKINFO_INSERT_IMAGE" width="120" height="120">
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </center>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Now in the Display Pane, choose Track Info and then Simple.
The html code is easy to tweak for different Display Pane sizes, if you want to make the Cover Art bigger (change height= and width= in the img tag). I always have mine the same, quite small, so I can see 40 or so entries in the Playing Now queue.

-Matt
Listening to: 'Pensando en mi Vida' from 'Street Signs' by 'Ozomatli' on Media Center 10
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Re:Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2004, 02:25:06 pm »
If you want the cover-art to scale up & down to always be the same size regardless of origin size you could use something like this:
(still using the example above:
create a folder in this directory, called 'Some Name':
C:\Program Files\Media Center\Visualizations\Track Info\
then saving the code below to a file called index.html in that directory)

<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 1</title>
<SCRIPT language="javascript">
<!--   function fixPic() {
      if(document.images.cover.width>300)
      {document.images.cover.width=300;}
      if(document.images.cover.width<300)
      {document.images.cover.width=300;}
   }    //--> </SCRIPT>

</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" onLoad="fixPic()">
<div align="center">
  <center>
  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" align="center"><font face="Arial">
      <img border="0" src="TRACKINFO_INSERT_IMAGE">
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
   <td width="100% align="center">
<font face="Arial">TRACKINFO_INSERT_TITLE</font></td></tr>
  </table>
  </center>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Re:Viewing Cover Art of currently playing song in MC 10
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2004, 02:57:28 pm »
I got Matts to work, but not Clerasile_free

I get a script error..
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