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ofacuseh

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Keeping Playing Now Visible
« on: May 28, 2005, 05:28:37 pm »

Hello.
Hi, is there away to make the playing now window top part to stay visible, so even if you click on another artist the songs will appear on the bottom part of the playing now screen, so you can still see the effects you’re using at the moment, like cover art etc…

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Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2005, 08:39:50 pm »

Not really sure I understand.,... YOu want to display Playing Now and view your library.... If this is the case, View and Split panes.

Play around and you should be able to config it the way you want.
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2005, 08:51:57 am »

*if it can still be done perhaps someone can point out why I can't find it.

Action Window > Build Playlist > Edit Playing Now

(You cannot access it from Action Window > File Properties > Edit Playlists.)
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2005, 09:08:08 am »

Another option is split view under View > Split View.
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2005, 09:45:43 am »

Split View is a way to do it. Another way is to use the display in windowed mode like here:



Click to see the full size image.


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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2005, 05:42:55 pm »

Split View is a way to do it. Another way is to use the display in windowed mode like here:



Click to see the full size image.




Alex, how did you accomplish that picture?  When I go to windowed view, there is only one window.  How do you create a second window?

Thanks
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2005, 07:00:46 pm »

Alex, how did you accomplish that picture? When I go to windowed view, there is only one window. How do you create a second window?

Thanks

I am sorry to disappoint you, but there's only one display window. More is not possible. I am using geekbeats2's "Thunderstrom" track info template. As the name implies it goes well with the Thunderstorm skin.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=20274.0


The downloads are here:

http://www.geocities.com/imajikon/MEDIACENTERtemplates.html
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2005, 10:39:20 pm »

I am sorry to disappoint you, but there's only one display window. More is not possible. I am using geekbeats2's "Thunderstrom" track info template. As the name implies it goes well with the Thunderstorm skin.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=20274.0


The downloads are here:

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

 ?  Was that picture photoshoped then?

Is it possible to actually do what you are showing in that picture?
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2005, 02:52:47 am »

? Was that picture photoshoped then?

Is it possible to actually do what you are showing in that picture?

No, it's not a Photoshop trick. I am not sure what you are asking. The top window is just the normal MC display in the floating Windowed view. The bottom one is MC itself. I have adjusted the window sizes and posititions.
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Wile E. One

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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2005, 06:12:28 am »

Perhaps datdude is experiencing something that I too thought odd. In previous versions of MC (10, 9, etc.) I was able to put MC in windowed mode (like you show in your picture), but with MC 11 I can only display the the windowed part of the display. When I click on the button to go into windowed mode, the window detaches from the main MC UI, and the main UI minimizes to the task bar. In previous versions of MC, if I clicked on the minimized MC, it would reappear and I would be able to have both parts on screen at the same time. The only way I can have both parts on screen now is if I "close" the detached window and MC reappears with the window back in its home location.

This has been happening for the entire time I've been using MC11 (100 builds or so now), so I thought it was an unfortunate feature of the new MC. But it appears it may be more of a bug if not everyone is experiencing this.

System info:

Media Center Registered 11.0.279 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1409 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 733 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2627 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050309-1648) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2620 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050225-1820) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive E:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive E: LITE-ON  LTR-24102B         Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2005, 07:50:55 am »

Hey Alex,

unless you give us detailed explanation on how you get the display shown, I must assume that this is a version 10 display. You could do that in version 10 and early versions of 11, but at some point this feature disappeared or has changed in a way never to be found again on how to do it. I liked that way to display too, especially on a big screen.

Maybe J River can give further explanation!
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2005, 09:22:54 am »

It is MC11. I have had no problems with it, but I think I found the reason. Lisa's reply gave me a hint.

I have the same as Wile E. One . . . cannot have both open as was previously possible . . . .
While in windowed mode if I click on the tray icon and select 'Show MC', nothing happens.

I have not used the Minimize to System Tray option. I can reproduce the problem if the option is enabled.
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2005, 09:32:02 am »

Woaah, that tiny option was the culprit! I missed that soo much!

Hey J River! Is this a bug or by design?
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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2005, 11:58:59 am »

It is MC11. I have had no problems with it, but I think I found the reason. Lisa's reply gave me a hint.

I have not used the Minimize to System Tray option. I can reproduce the problem if the option is enabled.

Wow you guys are infinitely better at extracting data out of Aex then I am.  I think we need to hook up a bus system to his brain so us MC users can bypass the human element in Alex and ask away.  We would need some sort of interface for that.  Hey JRiver, can you help us out with this? ;D
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Wile E. One

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Re: Keeping Playing Now Visible
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2005, 05:39:19 pm »

It is MC11. I have had no problems with it, but I think I found the reason. Lisa's reply gave me a hint.

I have not used the Minimize to System Tray option. I can reproduce the problem if the option is enabled.

BINGO!

Please JRiver... could this be fixed/changed back to the way it was?  Thanks.
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