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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: gpvillamil on January 13, 2006, 10:03:37 pm

Title: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 13, 2006, 10:03:37 pm

I seem to recall that you could "Customize Current View", and edit the thumbnail text to show more than one line of text, eg:

[Album]
[Album Artist]

then the thumbnail views would show both lines.

Doesn't seem to work now. Regardless of what's in the thumbnail text field, if I am showing album thumbnails, I only get the album name.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: JaredH on January 14, 2006, 09:01:41 pm

You should be able to adjust whats in the text by adding or deleting different [] commands. i.e. [Artist], [Name], [Album], etc.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 14, 2006, 10:56:12 pm

Yep, I know, and it used to work.

Doesn't with build 11.1.99. The Thumbnail Text field contains [Name] and yet when view is set to Album Thumbnails, it shows the Album Name. Changing the Thumbnail Text field has no effect at all on the displayed view.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: Matt on January 14, 2006, 11:36:36 pm

Thumbnail text can only be edited for standard thumbnail style lists.  Album thumbnails are not editable.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 14, 2006, 11:50:39 pm

That's what I'm trying to do.

Look at this: http://villamil.org/mc11thumb.jpg (which is panes, album thumbnails)

and this: http://villamil.org/mc11thumb2.jpg (which is panes, regular thumbnails)

It seemed to work fine as recently as build 11.1.92, IIRC.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: tcman41 on January 15, 2006, 07:44:19 am

two line text works for me, running verison 11.1.97

like this :

http://home.xnet.com/~tclark/mc11pics/twotextlines.jpg

TC

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 15, 2006, 08:36:02 am

Quote from: tcman41 on January 15, 2006, 07:44:19 am

two line text works for me, running verison 11.1.97

like this :

http://home.xnet.com/~tclark/mc11pics/twotextlines.jpg

TC

Yep, that's exactly what I'm after. Doesn't seem to work.

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: marko on January 15, 2006, 08:46:52 am

I wonder....

looking at your screenshot, you have [album artist] as your second line... have you actually populated the [album artist] field for all your albums?

if not, what happens if you change that to [album artist (auto)] ?

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: tcman41 on January 15, 2006, 09:14:32 am

ya, i think your two fields you have listed return the same thing, lol

here is what i am running, the year is probably overkill but i like it:

[Album Artist (auto)]- [Date (year)]
[Album]

TC  :)

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: marko on January 15, 2006, 09:30:01 am

Quote from: tcman41 on January 15, 2006, 09:14:32 am

ya, i think your two fields you have listed return the same thing, lol

[album] and [album artist] are two very different things indeed, lol

(unless your library is full of self-titled albums, of course ;))

Title: Re: How to have more than one line of text under thumbnails?
Post by: gpvillamil on January 15, 2006, 04:49:07 pm

Quote from: marko on January 15, 2006, 08:46:52 am

I wonder....

looking at your screenshot, you have [album artist] as your second line... have you actually populated the [album artist] field for all your albums?

if not, what happens if you change that to [album artist (auto)] ?

Yep, that did the trick!