Topic: Slide Show 1.0.7 Beta Available... (Read 2774 times)

Matt · « **on:** May 21, 2002, 02:23:07 pm »

There's an updated Slide Show available here:

[JUST updated to 1.08 5:00PM, 5-22-02]

http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/plugins.pl?type=6

Make sure you're using the latest MJ 8, and let us know if you encounter any problems.

The plug-in will work for free for 30 days. It's $9.98 to purchase. It can be purchased by right clicking on the screen while slide show is running.

Some of the changes:

- Added a web spider (preliminary)
- Uses about 1/2 as much memory
- Hopefully improved internet cancelling
- Added an optional picture loading timeout
- A few other fixes and changes

Thanks.

-Matt

nila · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2002, 03:09:36 pm »

Hiya Matt, great work with the plugin.
A few quirks in it like I got a picture of some white dude with a guitar when playing 'Ja Rule'.
Last I knew he wasn't too white. More kinda black lookin Next Page

What exactly is the 'web spider'?
Also, would it be possible to instead of downloading all the images first then going through them (I know this helps with letting the images change fast and smoothly) to have an option to instead download 1, show it, then download 2, 3, 4, 5, etc after at least one had been downloaded.
Preferably moving onto 2 after the appropriate time period and then still downloading in the background but displaying each image after the time out instead of waiting till they were all downloaded.
Your probably on like oc3 so dont notice this but it's a bit of a pain having it say that it has 5 images already and still showing you a black screen.

Also - it'd be nice to be able to disable the status report that covers the image.
A status report is nice but to be honest, I'd rather see the face of whichever babe I'm listening to - on that note, maybe a extra feature would be to link it up to a porn site to get pictures of the artist (would only work with female artists) in the nude!!
Wahoo!! - I'd pay you $20 for it then Next Page

Oh yeah, and last thing.
I'd LOVE an option for it to be able to save the images it downloads in a directory with an option to then use the old ones it's downloaded to display or download another 30 and use just these or to add these to the dir and use them too.
If I'm listening to some cute artist and it's pulling up a great picture of her then I want it saved on my hard drive so I can turn it into a wallpaper or something Next Page

claudio · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:02:35 pm »

Hi Matt,

in this version the Internet pull is working great for me! No hangs on timeout or track switches whatsoever.. Great work!

I've played with the Web spider a bit and it's pretty cool.. I'll have to build up a list of sites where I can point it to..

Looks better and better.. Initially when I heard about it, I was not conviced I was going to buy it.. but now I think I will and that it deserves it's price.

Claudio

JimH · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:10:05 pm »

Claudio,
We honor you, our first customer.

Ciao,

Jim

KingSparta · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:11:09 pm »

looks like it is working...

could you move the comments "Loading Picture 1 of 16" etc...

that goes across the coverart, and maybe put on the status bar?

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is there a way to get the visuals to work but overlay the cover art over top of the visuals?

JimH · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:15:52 pm »

We can and will do a lot of things with it. Our biggest worry was stability. Looks like it might be improving.

sekim · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:19:36 pm »

I wish you guys had Machine Head - Supercharger on your computer to see the images this thing is getting. Found a machine head all right, some kind of blender with a nasty looking blade at the bottom. Pretty cool though.

This gets better by the picture...some kind of brake turning tool. Laughing my a.. off. Love it. May have to get this just for mishmash it gets. Next Page

JimH · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:22:13 pm »

Have you tried searching for zevele yet? (I have not.)

sekim · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:25:48 pm »

Now that could be real INTERESTING!!!

KingSparta · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2002, 04:55:41 pm »

so how do we buy this plugin again?

there is no "Buy Plugin" on that page.

sekim · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2002, 05:35:30 pm »

KingSparta,

Right click on the screen and look down the list. There is a purchase link there.

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2002, 05:38:22 pm »

In reference here to another thread and regarding Nila's above post, I amend my Off-Topic statement. Maybe there ARE topics too "off" for discussion here.
CViii

sekim · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2002, 05:40:18 pm »

CVIII,

Good eye.

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2002, 05:48:10 pm »

I am thinking maybe there should be some sort of link or something to make it easy to find.

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2002, 05:54:43 pm »

Downloaded it and started it. I am very impressed. More ultimate coolness fom JRiver.
Listening to and looking at Diana Krall. Hehehehehehehehehe!

JimH · « **Reply #15 on:** May 21, 2002, 06:02:13 pm »

ditto.

Nila,
Concerning porn, I suppose imitation is a form of flattery, but love is .... well ... love .... and lovely.

No porn here on Planet MJ, please.

Jim

Harry The Hipster · « **Reply #16 on:** May 21, 2002, 06:17:00 pm »

Love Slide Show. Playing Jackie & Roy - Mountain Greenery. S/S turns up a photo of Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella with PeeWee Reese and Carl Furillo.

HTH

JimH · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2002, 06:19:44 pm »

Jackie and Roy (Campanella) -- and no extra charge!

Scronch · « **Reply #18 on:** May 21, 2002, 07:42:46 pm »

JimH> Have you tried searching for zevele yet?

First "zev" hit from Google Image (no kidding):

zev.gif

urlybird · « **Reply #19 on:** May 21, 2002, 08:12:54 pm »

Screen saver working great ....

Would be nice if there was someway of setting the background color (curently black only),
or to use a gif file or other image file for the background so it would match better with skin in use.

urlybird · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2002, 09:00:04 pm »

Listening to: 'Sail on' by 'Commodores' on Media Jukebox
Viewing with Slideshow: "all these elderly guys with model boats" .....what a riot !!!

I have tried all of the jukeboxes out there before settling on Media JukeBox - I love it ...
Best software I have purchased. Keep up the great work guys ...

nila · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2002, 10:57:36 pm »

Hey Jim,

As for the porn, I wasn't at all serious.
I was just being sarcastic, I'm a v. sarcastic person but I guess sarcasm doesn't carry too well over the internet where U cant see cheesy grins on people's faces when they say things.

JimH · « **Reply #22 on:** May 22, 2002, 01:52:34 pm »

1.08 is on the downloads page now. It solves the login problem Kingsparta reported. It also solved yet another hanging problem.

http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/plugins.pl?type=6

claudio · « **Reply #23 on:** May 22, 2002, 02:17:48 pm »

Jim, Matt

One suggestion: I think the plugin should have an option to pull a new batch of images when the specified max has been reached. So if you specify max 20 images, once the 20 have been displayed a new batch will be pulled if this checkbox is selected in the settings. This does not really matter when you use tags like Artist etc since new images get pulled for every song, but it would make a big difference for custom keywords that may be played over a long playlist. This would avoid the long wait associated with a very high max images

Claudio

zevele1 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 22, 2002, 02:26:17 pm »

Zevele is not a proper word
Part of 2 words with a - at the begining i used it,and one word without - after a while
was zev-ele
I do not think you will get anything with search
Do means something in hebrew,but not with the english phonetic

nila · « **Reply #25 on:** May 22, 2002, 02:29:31 pm »

Not sure if it's possible,
but what I'd REALLY like to do with this plugin,
is use it in the track info page itself and have it display images in the space in the track info page in the place where the normal image goes.
I like having all the track info displayed for a song and to be honest find that more important than the images but I'd also love to get both.
Greedy I know and not sure if it's possible but it'd be a nice idea if it is.

Maybe by just having the images downloaded saved into a specific location then I could modify the track info page to just display a fixed address for the image and the plugin would then replace this image according to it's settings and the track info page would show the new image each time it was refreshed or something.

Nice plugin though.

claudio · « **Reply #26 on:** May 22, 2002, 02:58:21 pm »

Hi Zevele,

Another curious hit on Zev

Did not know they also had a horse version of the cough medicine. Yuk!

Claudio

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