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Title: Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: Swanny on September 20, 2004, 02:00:38 pm
Is there a possible to have the trackinfo in the Artist/Album view ?
It would be nice that i can see the tracks and coverart in the Artist/albumview.

Thanks
Title: Re:Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: pank2002 on September 20, 2004, 02:10:50 pm
No but you'd probably be able to something similar with tiles (introduced in v11)

I use the following code (based on somebody's code but modified by me:

Quote

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Track</title>
</head>

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" style="background-color:#F0F8FF">

<table border="0" bordercolor=black width="100%" cellspacing="5" height="50">
  <tr>
    <td width="135">
      <font color="#000000">
      <img border="0" src="[Image File]" onError="this.onerror=null;this.src='C:\\Programmer\\J River\\Media Center\\Data\\Tile Templates\\Default\\logo.png';" width="122" height="122" align="center"></font></td>
    <td width="400"><font color="#000000"><font size="2">
                 ';[Name]'from '[Album]' ([Date])
            
track #: >[track #]             
                
By '[artist]'                          
                
Duration : [Duration]
            
[Genre]
                
      </font>
     
    </td>
    <!--<td>Text &nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="lyrics.html">Lyrics[/url]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&amp;keyword=[ARTIST]">Artist
      Info[/url]

      <textarea rows="5" name="S1" cols="37">[Text]</textarea> </td>-->
  </tr>
</table>

</body>

</html>

Which will show coverart on the very left and
Title from [Album (year)
track#
by artist
Duration: total time
genre

These are easy to modify and you should be able to make them pretty much how you'd like.

They are found in MC's folder under data\tile templates
Title: Re:Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: zeltak on September 20, 2004, 02:17:46 pm
hi pank2002 !

could you be a little more specific for people who are not that familiar with programing  :-[ :) . thanks alot in advance

Zeltak
Title: Re:Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: pank2002 on September 20, 2004, 02:40:28 pm
Yeah, sure I can try... Remember this is my second language though, so I may not be as clear as you'd like :)

So tiles were introduced in Media Center 11, and they're IMO great.

It's basically a html code so your able to have it showing almost anything. An example on what a html-code could look like was shown above. You can edit them for personal need quite easily and therefore they're quite easy to customize to a specific skin etc.

They (or currently it) are(/is) found in ..\Media Center 11\Data\Tile Templates\default\
  you can edit the index.html fx with the code I posted above. As of now, remember to take BACKUP of index and other html files as they will get overwrited when you install a newer version of MC! This will hopefully get fixed in the future as well as support for multiple tiles.

Specific enough  ::),
Rasmus
Title: Re:Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: Swanny on September 20, 2004, 02:50:18 pm
Thanks pank

i will try this.

Im still using version 10. Is it recommended to try v11 or should i wait for the final release ?

greetz.
Swanny
Title: Re:Trackinfo only in Playing now ?
Post by: LonWar on September 20, 2004, 03:06:31 pm
THerečs no harm on trying 11... It can run side by side with 10...