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Title: 3d Album View on Mac OSX Lion?
Post by: Joubert on March 01, 2014, 03:01:59 pm

Hi - I just installed and started the trial of Mac MC 19.0.119 and am learning my way around .  Sorry if this question has already been covered..

When I attempt to switch to the 3D Album view using   View>customize view>View As>3D,  I get the following error message:  "Error starting Direct3d engine (unknown DirectX or hardware failure)."  Sometimes, the program also crashes and closes at this point.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature not working/available on OSX yet?

Thanks.

Title: Re: 3d Album View on Mac OSX Lion?
Post by: MrC on March 01, 2014, 04:02:48 pm

Answer: don't do that.

DirectX is a Windows-only API, and MC for the Mac still has some Window's references.  So, no 3D views yet.

Title: Re: 3d Album View on Mac OSX Lion?
Post by: Joubert on March 02, 2014, 02:22:34 pm

Thanks.  Is it possible to use the 'theater view' option on the mac version?  I'd like to display albums as shown in the attached picture from the MC website.

The closest I can find on the mac version is the 'display view' which puts up an album cover, but no song tracks.  In display view, can the song titles appear?

Thanks.

Title: Re: 3d Album View on Mac OSX Lion?
Post by: MrC on March 02, 2014, 02:26:15 pm

If you can find Theater View in the View menu, you can use it. :-)

All of the visualizations and Theater View depend currently on Windows-only APIs, and these have not been converted to Mac OS equivalents.  I'd guess these features won't be available for a while.

Title: Re: 3d Album View on Mac OSX Lion?
Post by: mwheelerk on March 02, 2014, 05:38:11 pm

I sure wish we had this view on the Mac side. In fact I wish we had as complete a product as on the Window side.