Topic: New Track Info for Display View (plugged into Last.fm) (Read 4785 times)

principal_X · « **on:** April 09, 2012, 03:38:06 pm »

Attached is a new display view info plugin I created. It's a clean design and self contained and plugs into last.fm for more info about the artist playing.

I have a version for resolutions from 1280x720 down and one for more than 1280x720.

There a couple of remaining to dos involving encoding characters in the artist's name for lookup with last.fm. Any artists with an apostrophe will probably not come back with anything until properly encoded. I will get a fix for that soon.

I will attach the other hi-res in the next post.

Enjoy!

principal_X · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2012, 03:38:51 pm »

Here is the Hi-Res version. Good for desktops.

principal_X · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2012, 03:45:38 pm »

see sample screenshot

cinjin · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2012, 12:14:18 am »

Just tried ur plugin... Looks and works great! Thanks

Seerohr · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2012, 10:03:19 am »

looks good .. can i change the language of the scrolling text?

AoXoMoXoA · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2012, 10:20:03 am »

very nice, thank you

principal_X · « **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2012, 04:40:22 pm »

Here's an update. Fixed some encoding issues and improved better last.fm lookup.

As far as the language option. Last.fm has the language option as a parameter in the XML request API. But I was getting an error when switching languages. Maybe I will have time to figure out that one sometime soon.

Enjoy.

Seerohr · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2012, 05:50:12 pm »

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As far as the language option. Last.fm has the language option as a parameter in the XML request API. But I was getting an error when switching languages. Maybe I will have time to figure out that one sometime soon.

Enjoy.

ok thx

principal_X · « **Reply #8 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:38:52 pm »

New update... Now shows next track coming up, plus some minor tweaks here and there.

principal_X · « **Reply #9 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:39:34 pm »

I will post the HiRes version soon.

principal_X · « **Reply #10 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:46:27 pm »

here's a new screenshot

Scolex · « **Reply #11 on:** May 17, 2012, 05:58:25 pm »

Looks nice well done!

"Next up >>" isn't working for me or I am missing something.

principal_X · « **Reply #12 on:** May 17, 2012, 11:12:22 pm »

Sorry. I forgot to disclose that the Next Track feature only works in the latest MC 17 release. 17.0.147

Scolex · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2012, 11:17:44 pm »

I am using 17.0.155 would you mind updating to it and see if it still works for you.
Also should the similar artist header at the top be clickable links?

Edit: The lack of Next Up is related to using Chromium as the MC browser. I forgot that I switched to IE and after noticing it was working
I went back to Chromium and it is not working again.
Could you switch to Chromium in Options/Tree & View and check for similar behavior?

principal_X · « **Reply #14 on:** May 18, 2012, 12:16:05 am »

I updated to .155. Next Track was not working. Went in to Options/Media Network. Enable DLNA was not checked. Re-checked it and Next Track started working again.

Give that a try.

principal_X · « **Reply #15 on:** May 18, 2012, 12:18:04 am »

As far as the Similar Artist up top. Was not intended to be interactive other than what you see in the view. I do believe there are some embedded links some of the biographies that will possibly take you somewhere.

Scolex · « **Reply #16 on:** May 18, 2012, 12:28:27 am »

It was already checked I am quite sure it has something to do with using Chromium as the MC browser.
Not a big deal, one other thing I noticed is I have a scroll bar and you screen cap does not. It is there in both versions of MC browser.
I am assuming you are using jquery to get screen size if you are you might want to use something like
$(window).height() -5
$(window).width() -5
I recently had to add the -5 to prevent the scroll bars from appearing when modifying the play_flash.html page for WebGizmo.

Scolex · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2012, 01:08:24 am »

There is definitely an issue when using Chromium not only does the Next up not work but I noticed that my cpu load widget was consistently showing a higher load than normal.
I investigated and found that JRWeb.exe was running at 27-33% so I checked it's activity when using IE and it dropped to 2-5%
Is your jquery script a canned script or one you built yourself?

principal_X · « **Reply #18 on:** May 18, 2012, 08:44:07 am »

Interesting. I never new you could change the underlying browser engine for Display View. It was definitely setup for the default setting which I am assuming IE.

Scolex · « **Reply #19 on:** May 18, 2012, 11:27:21 am »

Accidental discovery I often use alt keys for navigation and found that if the Track Info screen has focus and I press the alt key the scroll stops.
I like this since the scroll speed is faster than my reading speed, just wish it would stick when the focus moves so I could have it stopped and access the menu bar.
Is there a setting anywhere in your code for marquee scroll speed?

struct · « **Reply #20 on:** November 22, 2012, 06:51:23 pm »

Hi,

Just found your track info. Very nice, impressive.

I know very little about html etc, but was wondering if it were an easy thing for you to add the like/dislike last.fm buttons that the Gooroomp++ (http://accessories.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php) track info has??

This should be a reasonably unobtrusive addition??

Thanks
Craig

struct · « **Reply #21 on:** November 23, 2012, 04:06:02 am »

never mind, spent the afternoon learning and managed to hack it in. Making a few other changes to suit some of my tags and may post back when complete. Thanks for such a great trackinfo.

zxsix · « **Reply #22 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:00:59 pm »

Is this plugin dead? Downloaded the latest zip and it's pulling in the tour dates but not displaying the artist bio.

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