Topic: "All I Need" Track Info in 12 color styles (Read 17650 times)

mesue · « **on:** October 14, 2005, 03:13:35 pm »

"All I Need" by Sue Chastain
Track Info Page for JRiver Media Center 11 (http://www.jrmediacenter.com/)

Features:

• Switch between a dozen color styles, many of which were designed to coordinate with existing Mega-Me skins.
• Color style selection is persistent.
• Click on cover image to open full size.
• Shows stars for song rating.
• Shows song title, position in playlist, artist album, year.
• Shows track number, length, play statistics, and format info.
• Shows lyrics, genre, comments, keywords, notes, playlists, songs, and review.
• Separate page shows artist info — bio, born/formed, died/disbanded, artist's albums.
• Search links to help you find missing lyrics, artist info, cover images, and shop for music. (All links launch in a new browser window.)

Download it here:
http://www.inkcredibleimages.com/mc11/All_I_Need.zip

Screen shots showing different colors and skins:
http://www.inkcredibleimages.com/mc11/AllINeed-storm.png
http://www.inkcredibleimages.com/mc11/AllINeed-bblue.png
http://www.inkcredibleimages.com/mc11/AllINeed-khaki.png

Installation:
To install, unzip and move the whole 'All I Need' folder into:
Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\Visualizations\Track Info\

I only know enough CSS and JavaScript to be dangerous, but I have been using and tweaking this for a couple of weeks and I think it's ready for prime-time. Let me know what you think and if you find any bugs. Also, if you have suggestions for additional search links, I don't mind adding a few more. Especially if you know any GOOD, large lyric sites without a ton of popups. It just has to be one where I can extract the search string from the URL.

dcwebman · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2005, 04:07:02 pm »

I like it!! That's what I like seeing when I view a track info, the cover and lyrics. I will probably take your tips and reduce the cover size a bit and the font for the lyrics so not so much scrolling needs to take place. But I like the scrolling which seems to be missing in a lot of track infos. I didn't see it in the list but you will probably want to add King's lyrics: http://www.spartalyrics.com
Great job!!

mesue · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2005, 04:27:04 pm »

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I will probably take your tips and reduce the cover size a bit and the font for the lyrics

If you want to change the font size for the lyrics, you'll have to change it across all the CSS files (or at least those you think you'll use). You'll need to look for these lines (around line 76):

Code: [Select]

.lyrics {
  font-size: 15px;
   line-height: 22px

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I didn't see it in the list but you will probably want to add King's lyrics: http://www.spartalyrics.com

I didn't add it because the URLs won't work (as far as I know) and there was no search utility that I could find on the site. I can't use Google as a middle-man either because only the home page is indexed. Plus, I figured most MC users would use the LyricsFinder plugin to automatically populate lyrics from the site because it's a heck of a lot easier than c/p, c/p, c/p over and over. The search links are mainly there for filling in those missing items that the plugins can't find, or when you just want to look something up on the fly.

Glad you like it!

mesue · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2005, 10:46:25 am »

I made some changes. The download link is the same.

Version 1.1 Changes:

Added JavaScript to prevent small cover images from being distorted/scaled up.

Left column will collapse to a smaller width if images are small. (minimum 250 pixels)

Moved most text styling from external CSS files to HTML files so they could be user-edited more easily. Changing font sizes only requires editing of index.html and bio.html instead of every CSS file.

Fixed a typo that was preventing "Artist's Albums" from displaying.

Layout tweaks.

dcwebman · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2005, 07:12:46 pm »

Thanks for making it easier for us to make changes. Good thing I waited until today to try.

Unfortunately I seem to have lost the vertical scroll bar on the right.

mesue · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2005, 08:52:01 pm »

The scroll bars are not controlled by the track info pages. It's an option in MC. Right click in the track info/now playing area, and go to Display Options. There you can set whether control bars are always shown or auto-hidden. Mine is set to always show them.

dcwebman · « **Reply #6 on:** October 16, 2005, 09:53:21 am »

I believe that option is only for the bottom bar of Playing Now. But I did see the "Enable Scrollbars" option while doing that and even when checked it didn't display the vertical scroll bar on the right. The first version had the scroll bar at work so I'll have to see what the difference is tomorrow.

mesue · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2005, 10:29:38 am »

Sorry… You're right about the control bars, and apparently I am blind!

Right above "Display Options" in that right click menu is "Enable Scrollbars."

mesue · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2005, 04:28:56 pm »

Version 1.2 Changes:

Added "Launch" link to open page in new browser window. This is helpful if you want to work in another part of MC, but still have the playing song info on the screen. Refreshing the page in your browser will always show what is in the MC Playing Now window. Bookmark the page for quick access to the playing song info from your browser.

Adjusted Google searches.

Added Lyrics007 and GetLyrics search.

dcwebman · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2005, 08:51:07 am »

Funny, version 1.2 got the vertical scroll bar back again.

LonWar · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2005, 12:36:36 pm »

Does anybody have a problem with the scroll bars in MC11.1?

I enabled the scroll bars, but they don't appear.

dcwebman · « **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2005, 01:29:20 pm »

They are working fine for me in 11.1.72.

LonWar · « **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2005, 01:38:46 pm »

I am also using .72 but I can't see the scroll bars.... I've tried with 2 computers....

Strange... ?

dcwebman · « **Reply #13 on:** December 07, 2005, 08:18:43 am »

73 works fine too.

LonWar · « **Reply #14 on:** December 07, 2005, 10:10:24 am »

Well I got her workin,

After I enabled the scrollbars, I shut MC down
When I opened MC I had the scroll bars.

Odd, but it works

Thanks,

iCamp · « **Reply #15 on:** December 07, 2005, 10:36:50 am »

This is really great. Thanks for making this.

One (probably dumb) question:
I play my music with a set-up like the one in your first "example" picture above (this image: http://www.inkcredibleimages.com/mc11/AllINeed-storm.png). However, in mine I don't have the vertical scroll bars visible in your example screen shot. How do I set MC to put the scroll bars back in? Without them the only way I can see everything in this track info plug-in is to go full screen or view it in a browser.

LonWar · « **Reply #16 on:** December 07, 2005, 11:42:32 am »

Right click on playing now portion, and enable scroll bars.
Close MC, Open MC

Should be there,

iCamp · « **Reply #17 on:** December 07, 2005, 06:01:54 pm »

Thanks. I knew it was something simple.

lOth · « **Reply #18 on:** December 08, 2005, 12:08:27 pm »

great job, I love it.

Could you add last.fm to the search list? That be quite handy if one could jump directly to a song on their website. That would allow, for instance, a quick access to writing a journal entry about a song you're listening to.

Wildcat · « **Reply #19 on:** December 08, 2005, 08:20:36 pm »

Finally a track info layout dat makes sense. Dis one deserved my first post. Wicked job! Just one question. What taggin field does "Review" use?
Boyakasha!

LonWar · « **Reply #20 on:** December 08, 2005, 08:31:58 pm »

Create a custom tag in MC called Review:

Tools
Options
Library
Add

Wildcat · « **Reply #21 on:** December 08, 2005, 08:46:08 pm »

Do Custom tag fields become a permanent part of the ID3? More or less will they show up in other applications? I normally put my album reviews in the "Comment" field. I would hate to change things and then switch programs only to find deep space emptiness when I look for an album "Review"!

LonWar · « **Reply #22 on:** December 09, 2005, 05:52:16 pm »

Quote from: Wildcat on December 08, 2005, 08:46:08 pm

Do Custom tag fields become a permanent part of the ID3? More or less will they show up in other applications? I normally put my album reviews in the "Comment" field. I would hate to change things and then switch programs only to find deep space emptiness when I look for an album "Review"!

No, Custom fields I believe goto the comment field of the id3.

mesue · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2005, 09:13:37 pm »

Quote from: lOth on December 08, 2005, 12:08:27 pm

great job, I love it.

Could you add last.fm to the search list?

Glad you like it! I'll look into last.fm the next time I find some time to update it. I've been away for a few days and need to catch up from that first, then there's the Holidays, so it might be a few weeks.

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2007, 12:13:12 am »

mesue,

I love your skin All I Need. I've been using it for a long time.

I have a request for your consideration. There is a new skin that was developed by Mr ChriZ. It's called Intention. He spent the last year making it and it is very nice. It would be really nice if All I Need could have an option that would match this skin.

If you would consider that, it would be great. In any case, I suggest you look at Intention. You may really like it yourself.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=38011.msg258677#msg258677

Thanks...

Randy

iCamp · « **Reply #25 on:** March 20, 2007, 12:11:43 am »

I find the "midnight" setting in "All I Need" works very nicely with Mr ChriZ's Intention skin.

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 20, 2007, 12:33:12 am »

Quote from: iCamp on March 20, 2007, 12:11:43 am

I find the "midnight" setting in "All I Need" works very nicely with Mr ChriZ's Intention skin.

Good suggestion. I did not try that combination.

mesue · « **Reply #27 on:** April 17, 2007, 03:32:18 pm »

Hi Randy... sorry I never saw this message before. I came here because I accidentally wiped out my own copy of All I Need and had to redownload it. D'oh! That Intention skin looks nice, but it doesn't seem to to be available anymore. Anyone care to upload a copy of it? Mr ChriZ, if you are reading, I don't mind hosting it for you.

Magic_Randy · « **Reply #28 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:54:04 pm »

Quote from: mesue on April 17, 2007, 03:32:18 pm

Hi Randy... sorry I never saw this message before. I came here because I accidentally wiped out my own copy of All I Need and had to redownload it. D'oh! That Intention skin looks nice, but it doesn't seem to to be available anymore. Anyone care to upload a copy of it? Mr ChriZ, if you are reading, I don't mind hosting it for you.

Hi Sue,

Intention is back on line. I think you will like it.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=38011.msg273523#msg273523

Randy

mesue · « **Reply #29 on:** April 19, 2007, 12:45:20 am »

Thanks! It's a little too dark for my taste. In general, I dislike skinned applications. I prefer all my windows to match. But since I have to use one, my choice for MC right now is BlueNoire.

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