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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: GingerTommy on October 14, 2003, 11:44:04 am

Title: Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: GingerTommy on October 14, 2003, 11:44:04 am

Is there a way to have the currently playing track highlighted on the Playing Now list in Hairstyle?
The default behaviour seems to be that the highlight does not move off the song you started playing on.

All help appreciated, Thomas.

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: lOth on October 14, 2003, 11:54:43 am

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Is there a way to have the currently playing track highlighted on the Playing Now list in Hairstyle?

Let's make it simple: answer is no.
The only way so far to see the currently playing track in hs is to have a pip with a visualization or track info that display the info.

If anyone is aware of some other way to do this, please let us know.

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: eruji on October 14, 2003, 11:58:22 am

Yup been, looking for this feature too.

Or is there a way to pass the current track info to girder so i can display it on an OSD plugin?

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: lOth on October 14, 2003, 07:16:47 pm

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Or is there a way to pass the current track info to girder so i can display it on an OSD plugin?

Hey that's an idea! Doable anyone?

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: Eiffel on October 14, 2003, 07:56:10 pm

Yes this is VERY doable... and works reliably.

It will require the DVDSpy plugin, and some OSD plugin of your choosing (or the default OSD command)

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: lOth on October 14, 2003, 08:31:20 pm

Eiffel,

could you please provide some rough guidelines on how we should go about it  ::)?

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: Tinnitus on October 14, 2003, 10:45:13 pm

Here's a link:

http://girderplugins.sourceforge.net/DVDSpy/ (http://girderplugins.sourceforge.net/DVDSpy/)

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: eruji on October 15, 2003, 03:08:21 pm

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Here's a link:

http://girderplugins.sourceforge.net/DVDSpy/

sweet sassy molassy, i had no idea these plugins were available!

thanks.  ;)

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: eruji on October 15, 2003, 05:51:26 pm

Alright, got it working using the dvdspy method.

(http://www.therujis.com/albums/album05/aac.jpg)

now, is there anyway to get the next track thats going to play?

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: sraymond on October 15, 2003, 11:24:16 pm

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now, is there anyway to get the next track thats going to play?

That's a great question...  but I think it'd be hard to do.  DVDSpy intercepts windows messages that MC uses to update its own displays.  If anyone knows the answer to this, I'd be very interested.

Question:  Any reason you don't use Rhino's PlayingNow plugin?  It's a lot less hassle to setup and the eye-candy is way better than OSD.  I've found that I don't use DVDSpy since PlayingNow hit the street.

Scott-

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: eruji on October 16, 2003, 12:05:02 am

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Any reason you don't use Rhino's PlayingNow plugin?

i didnt know it existed.

i checked the plugin web pages, dont see anything about it, tried a search in the past 500 days for "rhino playing now" found nothing.

point me in the right direction.

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: Hugo_Elbuho on October 16, 2003, 12:56:06 am

Here's the link, buddies. You can set up a new skin  at full screen or just use the default to show current file info (whichever info you want).

http://www.mrblobby.ukshells.co.uk/GetPlayingNow/gpn.exe

Take care

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: Hugo_Elbuho on October 16, 2003, 01:17:04 am

Actually it is

http://www.mrblobby.ukshells.co.uk/PlayingNow/pn.exe

Sorry...

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: sraymond on October 16, 2003, 02:01:43 am

Head to http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5) - and you'll see that these days there is always a Playing Now thread in one of the first five slots.

Give it a shot - I don't think you'll be disappointed!  Heck, I'd even be willing to bet a case of beer, if you're interested.  :-)

Scott-

Title: Re:Hairstyle and Playing Now
Post by: eruji on October 16, 2003, 10:26:12 am

Cool plugin, thanks for the info sraymond.