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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: tcman41 on January 16, 2007, 11:31:44 am

Title: task bar app
Post by: tcman41 on January 16, 2007, 11:31:44 am

I truely love j.river media center but have never gotten around to getting some kind of task bar app so i can see the song title and track # without having to open up j.river all the way and then forward to the next song if id wish.

What is the best app to do this? i have seen things like this before but have always been kind of baffled by them.

Any help would be appreciated

TC  :)

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: johnnyboy on January 16, 2007, 06:42:18 pm

'Playing Now' - check it out, its a plugin!

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: marko on January 17, 2007, 05:08:34 am

Yup, playingnow is what you want. The opposite of 'taskbar', but I use playing now to give me this info at all times. It sits, always on top, nicely over the title bar of maximised windows, but not covering the window control buttons...

(http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/12/pnt.jpg) (http://www.theganghut.co.uk/pics/ia/12/pn.jpg)
(click to see full size)

I suggest d'loading from here (http://207.58.131.114/~mrblobby/forum/index.php?showtopic=4) as it supercedes the version available on the jriver 'skins and plugins' pages.

-marko.

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on January 17, 2007, 07:39:28 am

Hi Marko,

Where can I find that l-o-o-o-ng skinny Skin in your post? I did not see it on your skins page.

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: benn600 on January 17, 2007, 09:16:43 am

Remember to consider the mini view.  Media Center's default mini view is quite useful and simple.  That's what I always wanted a mini view to be.

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: craft on January 17, 2007, 09:27:23 am

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Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: marko on January 17, 2007, 02:36:44 pm

Quote from: AoXoMoXoA on January 17, 2007, 07:39:28 am

Hi Marko,

Where can I find that l-o-o-o-ng skinny Skin in your post? I did not see it on your skins page.

It's not there yet. too much stuff on my plate atm...
You can download it by clicking here (http://www.theganghut.co.uk/files/noire-tb.zip), but please note, it's designed for use on a widescreen monitor @ 1680 pixels wide, and you'll also need to create a custom, calculated data library field called nps using the following template:

if(isempty([number plays]),first time played,if(isequal([number plays],1,2),played once,if(isequal([number plays],2,2),played twice,played [number plays] times)) ~ last played formatdate([last played,0],elapsed) ago)  if(isempty([number plays]),,/(formatdate([last played,0],dd//MM//yy)/))

-marko.

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on January 21, 2007, 08:53:45 am

thank you Sir, you are kind and talented. ;)

I do not have a wide-screen monitor, but having dual monitors this does work (sort of).
Is there an easy way to modify it to 1280?

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: marko on January 21, 2007, 02:21:36 pm

less space means less info.
let me know which items you can do without starting with the least useful. Bear in mind we need to lose around 400 pixels.
I'll try and catch you 'hubside' tomorrow evening.

-marko.

Title: Re: task bar app
Post by: pank2002 on January 21, 2007, 03:02:43 pm

There is also a plugin somewhere, which writes the currently playing song instead of ‘Media Center 12’ in the taskbar.

You can also control MC via the command line and create short cuts in that way . . .