Topic: Version 0.0.1 alpha of the "Album View" plugin for MJ v8 now available (Read 3670 times)

RhinoBanga · « **on:** April 14, 2002, 03:29:15 am »

You can pick it up from here:

http://www.jda-ltd.com/freeware/mjav.exe

Note that this is alpha software interfacing to beta software and as such there are some issues with it:

! Exiting MJ does not kill the process (I am awaiting J River's help on this but use task manager to kill it)
- Double-clicking on an album does not play it (I am awaiting J River's help on this but the tracks are moved to the current playlist)
- Some albums are not shown in the thumbnails view (should be fixed in the next day or so)
- Clicking on an album in the treeview does not scroll the associated thumbnail into view

But it should give you an idea of how it works.

Rhino.

sekim · « **Reply #1 on:** April 14, 2002, 03:50:07 am »

Rhino

>>>> Exiting MJ does not kill the process <<<<

Does this keep the page active on desktop ?

Rhinobanga · « **Reply #2 on:** April 14, 2002, 03:58:36 am »

Nope ... it's running in the background.

Rhino.

dragyn · « **Reply #3 on:** April 14, 2002, 04:53:36 am »

When I run it I get: "Interface Plug-in'Album View' must implement IUnknown Interface."

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2002, 05:46:48 am »

That means is crashed somewhere Next Page

Let me finish putting in this real-time tracing so I can see where it's going wrong.

Rhino.

dragyn · « **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2002, 06:02:42 am »

>>An album is considered "complete" when all it's tracks have the *same*
external image name.

This may be a problem since most of my mp3s/apls have internal images. I made one album linked to an external image but still does the same thing.

Does it scan a particular tree view node to get the albums? Could most likely be something on my end screwing it up if it works for others.

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Some info on mine, maybe it will help track it down:

Installed both MJ & Album View to default directories.

Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.239

Dual Monitors:
Monitor 1 (Secondary; 1152,0): 800X600
Monitor 2 (Primary; 0,0): 1152X864

CPU: AMD Athlon 805 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 196 MB, Free - 52 MB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 (Build 2600)

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000
ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
wnaspi32.dll: 4.70 , ASPI for Win32 DLL, Copyright © 1989-2001 Adaptec, Inc.
Aspi32.sys: 4.7

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2002, 06:12:40 am »

I have duplicated the problem on a fresh W2K machine ... I have removed the setup until I can see what's going on.

Rhino.

Dave · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2002, 06:30:25 am »

The link gives a 404......

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2002, 06:37:45 am »

See message posted 09:12

Dave · « **Reply #9 on:** April 14, 2002, 06:39:34 am »

Oh yeah...sorry.

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #10 on:** April 14, 2002, 08:25:12 am »

Version 0.0.2a is available:

http://www.jda-ltd.com/freeware/mjav.exe

This version fixes the crash problem (it was a missing component) and now supports double-clicking on an album to play it.

Rhino.

Mike · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2002, 03:42:19 am »

Do you plan to let us see a window with all available albums for all artists at the same time?

When do think you will get the next version out?

I have been DYING for this functionality....THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.

Mike

Mike · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2002, 03:49:20 am »

Rhino,

I use my MJ through my TV...thing is that due to the crapy quality of TV I need to increase the size of the font that is displayed.

When I do it in MJ your plugin does not expand to a larger font....making it impossible to read.

Something to think about,

Mike

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2002, 04:10:56 am »

RhinoBanga

Just wondering if this plugin will allow MJ to scan all aval TV stations and comeup with a Picture of what is currently playing on each channel, then allow the user to select the picture to go to that channel.

If not I am wondering if J river could maybe build support for this option.

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2002, 05:02:28 am »

Mike:

Yes I will be showing all albums ... that should be there in some shape or form by the weekend (bugs/family/etc permitting).
Be aware though that it may take some time to generate them.

I was thinking of still splitting the albums by artist though and on a change of artist the thumbnails would start on a new line (showing the appropriate title of course so you know which artist your dealing with). I may even implement this as a "full screen" ... I haven't decided yet.

Does this sound ok?

Also can you send me a screenshot showing what the plugin looks like with your large fonts so I can work out what functionality I need to implement.
I think I know what you need (I assume your running 800x600 with large fonts as I do on my TV/Computer downstairs) but I just want to confirm what I think I have to do.

KingSparta:

There is no automation control for the TV plugin but in theory it should be very simple for me to kick off a timer and scan the channels and create thumbnails on the fly. If you get MJ to put it in I'll create a plugin for you.

I am hoping I will have 0.0.3a available for downloading this evening (if not then I will definately update the screenshots).

I think this version looks way cooler than the last Next Page

Rhino.

Doof · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2002, 08:00:25 am »

Are you accepting bug reports?

It's not listing the artists in any particular order that I can see. And some of the Artists\Albums, when I click on them, I get a listing of the wrong tracks.

This is very cool. I can't wait until it's more complete. Next Page

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2002, 08:07:09 am »

Doof,

I'd hold off until you get 0.0.3a before posting bugs.

I have re-written the data fetch/association routine.

Rhino.

Mike · « **Reply #17 on:** April 15, 2002, 08:19:32 am »

Rhino,

I do not know how to add a screenshot to this text....sorry

but....I use 1024*768 on my TV.

MJ has a feature that allows you to increase the size of the font for the menus etc.....that's how I do it.

The thing is that when I change those properties....it does not change the ones inside of your plugin.

Also...is there a way to get the thumbnails even bigger?

-Mike

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #18 on:** April 15, 2002, 08:50:25 am »

Mike,

In the options screen (the toolbar button with the tick) there is an option to change the thumbnail size ... I think.
It's definately in there now but I can't remember 100% if it was in the last release.
If they are still too small let me know and I'll add some more sizes.

Re the font issue there is nothing I can do about that *at the moment* as MJ's font properties are not exposed *yet*.

Please email me a screenshot to jamie@jda-ltd.com so I can see how you run and how it looks with the different fonts.

Rhino.

Doof · « **Reply #19 on:** April 15, 2002, 09:16:31 am »

The thumbnail size is there in this build.

Is the lower-right hand corner intended to be a full size view of the image? If so, could I voice a request for an option to either scale the image to fit that box, or allow scrolling? I just personally hate scrolling to see an image.

This is really great work, and it shows a lot of promise, not only for just this plugin, but for what's possible with other plugins. Next Page

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2002, 09:22:07 am »

Way ahead of you Doof Next Page

There is already code in there to intelligently size the bottom right image ... it's just disabled for now as there were a couple of bugs I needed to iron out.

Rhino.

Doof · « **Reply #21 on:** April 15, 2002, 09:24:55 am »

Nice!

JimH · « **Reply #22 on:** April 15, 2002, 09:29:07 am »

Rhino,
Just wanted to say thanks for your work on this. You created some excitement here at JRiver!

Jim

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #23 on:** April 15, 2002, 09:32:14 am »

Thanks Jim Next Page

Rhino.

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