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[Deivit]

A new update of PM Lyrics (Version 3) is available

NEW
1.- Top Tracks display the number of hits in last.fm to show how popular that artist's songs are, in total and in a relative sense (Thanks c1c9k72).
2.- Clicking on the small AMG icon beside the Artist Name opens the AMG page for that artist.
3.- Clicking on the small AMG icon beside the Album Name opens the AMG page for that album.
4.- Added Audioscrobbler icon on the bottom right hand side of the display.
5.- Added header to the Lyrics section.

CHANGED
1.- Small redesign of the center section that allows the Track Name to not get truncated into two lines for long names.

Click Here to Download PM Lyrics 3
Click here to download the PN Skin Companion for PM Track Info Template

This is how it looks:

Click here for a larger view

Please recall that this versions displays better with a resolution of 1366x768. It may work with other resolutions, though. If you have a lower resolution, changing the values of the cover art dimensions in the index.html file will probably do.

Thank you.

[c1c9k72]

A new update of PM Lyrics (Version 3) is available

NEW
1.- Top Tracks display the number of hits in last.fm to show how popular that artist's songs are, in total and in a relative sense (Thanks c1c9k72).
2.- Clicking on the small AMG icon beside the Artist Name opens the AMG page for that artist.
3.- Clicking on the small AMG icon beside the Album Name opens the AMG page for that album.
4.- Added Audioscrobbler icon on the bottom right hand side of the display.
5.- Added header to the Lyrics section.

Thank you.

Very nice build, Deivit, though I can hardly take credit for the hit count.  neFAST did it first, and even coded it.  I just didn't know how to activate it, so I cobbled together my own code.

I like the AMG access, but went in a different direction with my modified version, wiring the album and artist into Last.FM.  Mostly just to see if I could.  And I could.

One thing I'm having trouble with, though, is getting my browser to launch.  I use Firefox, but everytime I use anything in MC12 that launches a browser, IE7 comes up.  Does anybody know how to rectify that problem?

EDIT: I just finished reading the boards and have found that my Firefox problem is probably not fixable in the current state of MC12.  It's a shame, but something to be worked for in the future.

[GarF]

Very nice Template!!

Found a small error in the index.html file

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    <p class="lyrics" title="" TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS">Lyrics: TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS</p>
should be

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    <p class="lyrics" title="TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS">Lyrics: TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS</p>
Otherwise you get strange lyrics repeating themselves.

I'm currently making some small changes to this template mostly css changes. I also added a 3 box on the left with the complete album info. (cover, title, tracks)

I added

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setTimeout("process('contentL3','album');", 2000);and made a contentL3 box on the left side in the index.html

[melodika]

Great work! 

And about the artist bio section, I was just wondering if this could help: http://www.last.fm/forum/21604/_/339159

[GarF]

I don't think parsing the wiki/bio page is an option.

I couldn't find the bio info on http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/ so there is no standard xml feed to include in the template i guess.

[Deivit]

Very nice Template!!

Found a small error in the index.html file

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    <p class="lyrics" title="" TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS">Lyrics: TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS</p>
should be

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    <p class="lyrics" title="TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS">Lyrics: TRACKINFO_INSERT_LYRICS</p>
Otherwise you get strange lyrics repeating themselves.

Thanks for the tip, GarF. I'll correct that for version 4 if it ever happens. By the way, regarding your 3rd box on the left... would you mind posting all the changes required to get it? Thanks in advance.

I just want to thank again neFAST for this nice template. He's the only one to credit since he has coded everything... I've just merely changed a few things to better suit my taste.

Thanks.

[jmone]

PM Lyrics (Version 3) looks great but I don't get any Lyrics (that part of the screen has no info displayed - though the rest does - any ideas?_
Thanks
Nathan

[Deivit]

PM Lyrics (Version 3) looks great but I don't get any Lyrics (that part of the screen has no info displayed - though the rest does - any ideas?_
Thanks
Nathan

Do any of those files have any lyrics? It will only display the lyrics that you've previously inserted  I mean, it does not get the lyrics automatically.

There are, as far as I know, two good ways to get the lyrics for your songs in MC: both Mr. Chriz's EvylLyrics and KingSparta's DataMaster plug-ins will get them automatically for you. The later allows you to batch a group of songs whilst the former only gets them as they play.

Hope it helps.

[Magic_Randy]

Deivit,

V3 looks very nice.  Thanks for sharing it.

Randy

[Deivit]

Thanks, Randy Glad you like it but, again, neFAST is the only one to credit for this nice template. He has put a lot of work in coding it. 

[Magic_Randy]

Thanks neFAST.

[jmone]

Do any of those files have any lyrics? It will only display the lyrics that you've previously inserted  I mean, it does not get the lyrics automatically.

There are, as far as I know, two good ways to get the lyrics for your songs in MC: both Mr. Chriz's EvylLyrics and KingSparta's DataMaster plug-ins will get them automatically for you. The later allows you to batch a group of songs whilst the former only gets them as they play.

Hope it helps.

That would be it!

[neFAST]

Other thinks I'd like to have:

1.- Bio of the artist. I would probably put it in the left hand side when "Top Albums" is now, reducing in a couple of lines (to 8-10) the visible part of both "Top Albums" and "Top Tracks" which would go immediately below it.

Thank you

Wait for next release :p

Other point: I'm back from holidays (Prague is wonderful) and it looks like a lots of things were fixed or modified. Is there any up-to-date version of my script?

[Deivit]

Hi neFAST, good to see you again.

I think tat PM Lyrics Version 3 (link at the top of the 2nd page) is the most up-to-date version so far. The only thing to modify is the error in the index file reported by GarF a few posts back.

Can't wait for the next release   

[neFAST]

bump

[Deivit]

Nice new version with the addition of the bio, neFast. Thanks very much.

I found out that the hyperlinks "inside" the bio do not open in a separate popup browser window as the other do, but instead they open in the main window. Could that be changed?

Thanks again.

[c1c9k72]

Is there a command we can use to open a new tab within the main window?  I know that Playing Now is now a tabbed interface, so is there some way we can force it to open a new one from within a track info template or plug-in?

[neFAST]

Nice new version with the addition of the bio, neFast. Thanks very much.

I found out that the hyperlinks "inside" the bio do not open in a separate popup browser window as the other do, but instead they open in the main window. Could that be changed?

Thanks again.

Yes, we shall use some Regexp on the bio variable in pm.js
Maybe google will give us some plug and play code...

Is there a command we can use to open a new tab within the main window?  I know that Playing Now is now a tabbed interface, so is there some way we can force it to open a new one from within a track info template or plug-in?

I'm sorry I don't get it ... What tab are you talking about ?

[c1c9k72]

I'm sorry I don't get it ... What tab are you talking about ?

At the upper-left of the Playing Now screen, there's the three "buttons" for back, forward and refresh. Then, the tab that tells you that it's the "Playing Now" window, or whichever window you're looking at.  Just to the right of that is a small light grey button.  Pressing it opens a new tab.



I was hoping we could find a way to trigger that command internally and open the websites there, instead of opening them in an external browser or over the trackinfo template.

[neFAST]

Nope, I have no access to those tabs. Sorry

[Deivit]

Yes, we shall use some Regexp on the bio variable in pm.js
Maybe google will give us some plug and play code...

neFAST,

Just playing a little bit with google and found this page
Would that help? Is that what you need?

Thanks in advance.

[neFAST]

Nope. I don't have control over the content of the bio.
I need something that will replace "<a " with <a target='popup' " in the html content.
There is a class named Regexp that can do that in javascript but I failed at making it work.

I think I will add tab like this to handle different bio sources (last.fm, wikipedia, google music search ...)

[Deivit]

Nope. I don't have control over the content of the bio.
I need something that will replace "<a " with <a target='popup' " in the html content.
There is a class named Regexp that can do that in javascript but I failed at making it work.

I think I will add tab like this to handle different bio sources (last.fm, wikipedia, google music search ...)

Hope you get it to work, eventually. I'm sorry I don't have any programming knowledge to help you with that.

The tabs for different bio sources would be nice. In my opinion, the best source for bios is AMG (www.allmusic.com), but I think they don't like plug-ins very much. 

[Deivit]

A new update of PM Lyrics (Version 4) is available

NEW
1.- Added biography as per new neFAST code. Thanks neFAST. Bio information populates itself from the source code written by neFAST and therefore, unlike with the lyrics, you don't need to have that info stored in your library to display.

CHANGED
1.- Minor cosmetic changes.

Click Here to Download PM Lyrics 4
Click here to download the PN Skin Companion for PM Track Info Template (no changes)

This is how it looks:

Click here for a larger view

Please recall that this version displays better with a resolution of 1366x768. It may work with other resolutions, though. If you have a lower resolution, changing the values of the cover art dimensions in the index.html file will probably do.

For using the PN Skin companion you need to have Rhinobanga's Playing Now Plug-In installed.

Thank you.

[Magic_Randy]

A new update of PM Lyrics (Version 4) is available

Thanks for the update

[mojolo]

hi, the plugin seems to be having problems with international characters. for example, for the following artist:

Trentemøller

i receive the error: "No xml found from Last.fm"

this should be an error with with the plugin because the artist does exist on the last.fm website and the last.fm plugin from RhinoBanga also works fine with the artist.

[GarF]

I changed in the index.html the function stripVowelAccent

Change the var rExps line in the following:

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var rExps=[ /[\xC0-\xC5]/g, /[\xE0-\xE5]/g,
/[\xC8-\xCB]/g, /[\xE8-\xEB]/g,
/[\xCC-\xCF]/g, /[\xEC-\xEF]/g,
/[\xD2-\xD6]/g, /[\xF2-\xF8]/g,
/[\xD9-\xDB]/g, /[\xF9-\xFC]/g ];
It solves the ø but also ï ë etc.

[neFAST]

Could you add "ç", regular expressions seems to obey you "au doigt et à l'oeil" :p

[Marra]

Thanks for this great plugin.
Small problem with version 4. Under biography "factbox ( )" appears before the body of text. Any ideas.

[Deivit]

Thanks for this great plugin.
Small problem with version 4. Under biography "factbox ( )" appears before the body of text. Any ideas.

Yes, I've noticed that too. This is something that started to happen a few days ago and it's probably caused by a change in last.fm site. The "factbox" is a new concept of information about the artist that last.fm introduced recently. An example of a FASTBOX can be found here

As of today, there seems to be no information entered and thus the factbox of most artists is empty. In the future, it's something that maybe interesting to have. For a test, just change the artist name of any of your tracks and put there "RJ Test Artist 1" (without the quotes). You'll get the idea of the info that could be displayed. Well edited, that info has all the chances to be another "block" of our template.

Now, if neFAST could take a look at that, he probably would come up with a nice solution to modify his script to accomodate the new factbox. I'm sorry I don't know how to do that, since I'm no programmer.

[neFAST]

Thanks for this great plugin.
Small problem with version 4. Under biography "factbox ( )" appears before the body of text. Any ideas.

Factbox is already handled. Looked at pm.js with notepad and change

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var factbox = content.substring(0, content.indexOf('<div class="f"></div>'));
var bio = content.substring(content.indexOf('<div class="f"></div>'), content.length-1);to

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var factbox = content.substring(0, content.indexOf('<div class="f">'));
var bio = content.substring(content.indexOf('<div class="f">'), content.length-1);
and everything should work just like before.

[Deivit]

Thank you, neFAST 

[Marra]

All fixed here. Another thanks to NeFast.

[mojolo]

I changed in the index.html the function stripVowelAccent

Change the var rExps line in the following:

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var rExps=[ /[\xC0-\xC5]/g, /[\xE0-\xE5]/g,
/[\xC8-\xCB]/g, /[\xE8-\xEB]/g,
/[\xCC-\xCF]/g, /[\xEC-\xEF]/g,
/[\xD2-\xD6]/g, /[\xF2-\xF8]/g,
/[\xD9-\xDB]/g, /[\xF9-\xFC]/g ];
It solves the ø but also ï ë etc.

thanks! it seems to work for the most part for the artist Trentemøller.

top albums, top tracks, similar artists, etc. are all populated with data now.

unfortunately, the Biography data isn't correct. The message I receive is "This is an incorrect tag for Trentemøller."

If you look up Trentemøller on last.fm, there is indeed a bio available. However, if you look up Trentemoller on last.fm, there is no bio, but only the message "This is an incorrect tag for Trentemøller."

I'm not sure what's happening, but it seems that the plugin is still trying to pull data for Trentemoller for the biography field.

[neFAST]

I'm not sure what's happening, but it seems that the plugin is still trying to pull data for Trentemoller for the biography field.

Could you try to edit index.html to change:

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  else if( type == "wiki_bio" )
     html =  "http://www.last.fm/music/"+artist+"/+wiki?setlang=en";to

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  else if( type == "wiki_bio" )
     html =  "http://www.last.fm/music/TRACKINFO_INSERT_ARTIST/+wiki?setlang=en";but I'm not sure it will work...
EDIT: it won't

[Deivit]

A new update of PM Lyrics (Version 5) is available

FIXED
1.- Bug with some international characters. Thanks GarF.
2.- Bug with the word "Factbox ()" appearing on top of the biography display. Thanks neFAST.

CHANGED
1.- Reworked center section layout, giving more space for the tittle, artist and album names; moving cover art to its own section; moving lyrics to the right beside the cover art and creating a new header for tags below lyrics.
2.- Only the 10 first tags will display to avoid cluttering.

Click Here to Download PM Lyrics 5
Click here to download the PN Skin Companion for PM Track Info Template (no changes)

This is how it looks:

Click here for a larger view

Please recall that this version displays better with a resolution of 1366x768 at full display. It may work with other resolutions, though. If you have a lower resolution, changing the values of the cover art dimensions in the index.html file will probably do.

For using the PN Skin companion you need to have Rhinobanga's Playing Now Plug-In installed.

Thank you.

[phoenix91]

Thanks a lot to everyone who worked on this great TrackInfo!!!

Minor thing here, Artist AC/DC brings up no Information from last.fm
It's more difficult now to adjust index.html for a monitor resolution of 1280x1024. Before, changing the coverart size to 400px was all it needed. Now 'Coverart', 'Lyrics' and 'Tags' use the same space. Can you give me a hint please, how to place 'Lyrics' and 'Tags' south of the 'Coverart'.

U.

[Deivit]

It's more difficult now to adjust index.html for a monitor resolution of 1280x1024. Before, changing the coverart size to 400px was all it needed. Now 'Coverart', 'Lyrics' and 'Tags' use the same space. Can you give me a hint please, how to place 'Lyrics' and 'Tags' south of the 'Coverart'.

U.

Try this:

Edit the style.css file

- Locate #centercontent1 in the "Columns" section. Change the width value to 400 (or less if that's not enough).
- If a line under the Album name goes too far to the right, just change the width value of #centercontent in the same "Columns" section to anything around 600 or less.

Let me know if that helps.

Thank you.

[phoenix91]

Thank you Deivit
Tried it, but didn't get the expected result. I will have a deeper look into it this evening. Have a nice day.

U.

[Deivit]

Hi Phoenix91,

Sorry about that. Did you make sure that you were modifying the #centercontent1 ? There are a couple of very similar named items.

If version 4 worked well for you, you may want to keep using it... Actually, version 5 only fixes two small bugs that can easily be fixed by you in your Version 4 files following the instructions that you can find 2 or 3 messages before this one. The other changes are layout changes that may not please everyone.

Thanks for your interest.

[phoenix91]

Hi Deivit
Got it now. I changed the following statements:

style.css
#centercontent1 {
  top:150px;   from 200px

#centercontent2 {
  top:620px;   from 200px

index.html
under <div id="centercontent1">
  coverart-size=420 from 500

It's not perfect, but o.k. for me now. Thank you again for your help.

U.

[Deivit]

Glad you worked it out, phoenix91 

[Media Freak]

Huge THANKS! to neFast and Deivit.
I finally can get to make MC my default player now.

For now I have 1 question and 1 suddestion:
* Question:

This is how it looks. The "Now Playing (...)" of the top is a "Playing Now plug-in" companion that allows to rate the song (the green "play" button also acts ad toggle pause/play).

Is it something I'm doing wrong? but I don't have the "Playing Now plug-in" on top in my screen... Is it something extra I have to download beside the PM Lyrics 5 and PN Skin files? I extracted both folders in the Track Info folder...right or wrong?

* Suggestion:
The only thing that throw me off right now is when I click a link and it opens up IE... that mess the whole experience. So, any of you with the power to code and program ever thought of makin' a "Lightbox" type of pop-up browser that would just come up in front of the Track Info without having to leave MC at all? if that's possible then it would seal the experience.

Something like this?

[gummbah]

Here is probably a very dumb question, but how do I install all this?
I don't know what to do with the files I have downloaded. 

[neFAST]

Is it something I'm doing wrong? but I don't have the "Playing Now plug-in" on top in my screen... Is it something extra I have to download beside the PM Lyrics 5 and PN Skin files?

Yes and it's not a free plugin.

Here is probably a very dumb question, but how do I install all this?
I don't know what to do with the files I have downloaded. 

PS: Extract the folder in "C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\Visualizations\Track Info"

[gummbah]

Thanks neFAST. But I am still a bit confused.
I have extracted the files into the folder, but I still don't see how I get that screenpic you have.
Which additional plugin do I need?
I have the playing now plugin installed from James Dickson, is that the one you are referring to?

[phoenix91]

@gummbah
1. Extract the .zip file to a folder i.e. PM_Lyrics_5.zip to ..\PM Lyrics
2. Move this folder to the MC12 directory tree.
    Position depends on your installation, maybe \Programs\J River\Media Center 12\Visualizations\Track Info\PM Lyrics
3. Restart MC12
4. Play a piece of music and select the Playing Now User Interface in MC12. Look can be different depending on your previously selected options.
   

5. Right click in the upper part (of the Playing Now UI) and select
    | Set Display | Track Info | PM Lyrics |

Hope this solves the problem. Otherwise please post again.
   

[gummbah]

Thanks that really helped!!
Any suggestions on what to do with the files in the PM_1366 folder?
Cheers

[Deivit]

Thanks that really helped!!
Any suggestions on what to do with the files in the PM_1366 folder?
Cheers

Place the unzipped folder in the skins folder of your James Dickson PlayingNow plug-in folder. Then, just right-click in your current skin and select skins-> PM 1366.

[Deivit]

I'm currently using a new version of PM Lyrics (Version 9). This one may not please everyone... bigger fonts for title, artist and album; different layout, which may be more difficult to adjust to lower resolutions (optimized for 1366x768 as usual).

Anyway, this is how it looks

Click here for a larger view

I'm having some problems with uppit.com right now. Just let me know if anybody is interested and will try to arrange a way to download it.

Thank you.