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gpvillamil

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How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« on: January 13, 2006, 10:03:37 pm »

I seem to recall that you could "Customize Current View", and edit the thumbnail text to show more than one line of text, eg:

[Album]
[Album Artist]

then the thumbnail views would show both lines.

Doesn't seem to work now. Regardless of what's in the thumbnail text field, if I am showing album thumbnails, I only get the album name.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2006, 09:01:41 pm »

You should be able to adjust whats in the text by adding or deleting different [] commands. i.e. [Artist], [Name], [Album], etc.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2006, 10:56:12 pm »

Yep, I know, and it used to work.

Doesn't with build 11.1.99. The Thumbnail Text field contains [Name] and yet when view is set to Album Thumbnails, it shows the Album Name. Changing the Thumbnail Text field has no effect at all on the displayed view.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2006, 11:36:36 pm »

Thumbnail text can only be edited for standard thumbnail style lists.  Album thumbnails are not editable.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2006, 11:50:39 pm »

That's what I'm trying to do.

Look at this: http://villamil.org/mc11thumb.jpg (which is panes, album thumbnails)

and this: http://villamil.org/mc11thumb2.jpg (which is panes, regular thumbnails)

It seemed to work fine as recently as build 11.1.92, IIRC.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2006, 07:44:19 am »

two line text works for me, running verison 11.1.97

like this :

http://home.xnet.com/~tclark/mc11pics/twotextlines.jpg

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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2006, 08:36:02 am »

two line text works for me, running verison 11.1.97

like this :

http://home.xnet.com/~tclark/mc11pics/twotextlines.jpg

TC
Yep, that's exactly what I'm after. Doesn't seem to work.
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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2006, 08:46:52 am »

I wonder....

looking at your screenshot, you have [album artist] as your second line... have you actually populated the [album artist] field for all your albums?

if not, what happens if you change that to [album artist (auto)] ?

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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2006, 09:14:32 am »

ya, i think your two fields you have listed return the same thing, lol

here is what i am running, the year is probably overkill but i like it:

[Album Artist (auto)]- [Date (year)]
[Album]

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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2006, 09:30:01 am »

ya, i think your two fields you have listed return the same thing, lol
[album] and [album artist] are two very different things indeed, lol

(unless your library is full of self-titled albums, of course ;))

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Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2006, 04:49:07 pm »

I wonder....

looking at your screenshot, you have [album artist] as your second line... have you actually populated the [album artist] field for all your albums?

if not, what happens if you change that to [album artist (auto)] ?


Yep, that did the trick!
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