Post by: JimH on May 15, 2002, 01:00:00 pm
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/plugins.pl?type=6
there is a new "Slide Show" plug-in. It is only supported by Version 8.0 and will download and install automatically.
You can use it to display images from your hard drive or CD. It can also display images from the web for the artist you're currently playing.
More on features:
1. Lets you specify an image folder.
2. Switches manually, or at 2 second, 5 second, 10 second, etc. intervals.
3. Provides 6 or 8 different transitions between images.
4. Images can be in random order, aspect ratio can be maintained.
5. As with visualizations, it can be an internal or external window and can be full screen.
Once it is installed, start playing music, go to the "playing now" screen, use the display arrows in the lower left of the display to switch from visualizations/track info to "slide show". Then right click on the screen to get the configuration menu.
Post by: scub on May 15, 2002, 01:31:23 pm
Post by: dragyn on May 15, 2002, 01:35:03 pm
A problem I see is when you switch tracks while it's retrieving web images, MJ stops responding. The track is playing but nothing else is happening/responding.
The arrows on the control bar should show (X of 20) or something like that..same as the visualizations, track info, etc.
Post by: SBrandsborg aka Mouseman on May 15, 2002, 01:52:51 pm
Post by: Holden on May 15, 2002, 01:57:38 pm
Thanks
Holden
Post by: claudio on May 15, 2002, 02:36:26 pm
But it seems to crash/hang Mj very often on track change. Either by clicking on some tracks in playing now or by going Next Track on the MM keyboard. I then hear the classic Windows allert, and then MJ hangs with the last song still playing. Trying to exit brings up the "process not responding message"
Claudio
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Post by: JimH on May 15, 2002, 02:38:33 pm
Post by: Stebajo on May 15, 2002, 03:56:16 pm
Post by: JimH on May 15, 2002, 04:19:55 pm
Mouse scroll button works. Mouse drag works in zoomed mode.
These might work more flawlessly on a directory of images on your hard disk.
All of this is thanks to Matt.
Post by: Harry the Hipster on May 15, 2002, 05:41:11 pm
HTH
Post by: JimH on May 15, 2002, 06:04:00 pm
Post by: Doof on May 15, 2002, 07:06:00 pm
I was listening to Crash Test Dummies.
I got a picture of a sailboat.
Even though it said it was displaying 1 of 2, all I ever saw was the sailboat.
Remy Zero seemed to work well, though. Although it did say 20 images, but only showed me 2. I didn't see any indication of it maybe downloading a really large graphic, either... maybe something with my internet connection, though.
Post by: Doof on May 15, 2002, 07:09:21 pm
hehe
Post by: Jazzwolf on May 15, 2002, 07:11:05 pm
Post by: Callithumpian on May 15, 2002, 07:50:34 pm
But...
Now when I start MJ and play something, anything, MJ hangs before I can turn the slide plugin off.
So my MJ is ostensibly disabled.
Any suggestions other than reinstalling MJ, Windows etc on a new computer?
Post by: Holden on May 15, 2002, 07:58:58 pm
Got plenty of images of these with the odd unrelated photo. Each would run for several slides, then freeze. Sometimes would work OK as files changed to another artist. The freezes were usually when music going fine with no changes, etc.
On slides from my own folders everything worked OK.
Holden
Post by: Harry|PLS|The|PLS|Hipster on May 15, 2002, 11:57:48 pm
Other candidates: Navarro (Fats, Ramon); Costello (Elvis, Lou); Potter (Chris, Harry); Sutton (Tierney, Willie); Kent (Stacey, Clark).
Ought to run a contest, Jim.
HTH
Post by: nila on May 16, 2002, 12:45:23 am
It brings up the Menu but it doesn't let me then move up and down the menu (the mouse moves but the menu isn't highlighted).
Also, clicking on the bar to then choose Track Info pages instead of slideshow mode has the same problem.
Post by: KingSparta on May 16, 2002, 02:42:04 am
not bad...
but could it display more than one picture across maybe tobe set in config, and or depending on how wide you have the MJ window?
when new images coming into view maybe: scroll to left, scroll to the right, Scroll Down, Scroll Up, fade out, fade in, wipe left, wipe right, wipe up, wipe down.
Post by: JimH on May 16, 2002, 03:44:00 am
Try waiting for it. If the picture is slow to download that could cause problems. Set min and max sizes in the program.
Find slideshow.dll in the Media Jukebox folder and rename it or delete it if necessary.
Post by: bennyd on May 16, 2002, 06:36:30 am
Is it possible to have an ActiveX Plugin so that we can use it in Track Info templates like the visualisations ?
Post by: Doof on May 16, 2002, 06:53:30 am
Post by: Doof on May 16, 2002, 06:56:06 am
) just doesn't like our firewall/proxy server or what, but I find I quite often can't install plugins here at work. They download ok, but they just don't install.Actually they don't install even when I do the manual edit-the-mjp trick. So maybe this system is just messed up. I just did a recent uninstall®einstall of MJ, though.
Post by: Matt on May 16, 2002, 08:03:14 am
Also, you may need to set the load picture timeout to a higher or lower value depending on your connection.
Thanks.
-Matt
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/plugins.pl?type=6
Post by: KingSparta on May 16, 2002, 09:16:28 am
tried "beatles", it got to 3 of 24 before hourglass forever set in, music still played up to the last 25 seconds never got control back, had to shut down mj
Post by: Ilmar on May 16, 2002, 09:31:15 am
Installed the 1.06 plugin, and I cant play any music, as soon as you select a track, MJ is stopped by a VB Runtime error.
Removing Slideshow and everything is ok.
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Aspi32.sys: 4.60 (1021)
Ilmar
Post by: claudio on May 16, 2002, 09:31:51 am
1.0.6 is better that the first release, but it still hangs switching artist. I've increased the timeout to "never", but it still happens. I can't really tell what are the conditions to trigger the hang. I've seen it happening a few times when "building image list" message is displayed... but that's not the only condition.
So it is still happening, and this is what I do:
load a playlist in Playing Now
click on a different artist while the previous track is playing
Don't know if it make any difference but I have the fade in-out enable on track change
On the bright side, I've played a bit with typing in various keywords for the internet search and it's really entertaining what images you can pull out of the database... both sacred and profane. Only disappointment was that whan I typed in Toronto, I got a "no images availables" ...
... CORRECTION: it was actually just my typo. Properly spelled I got my images back as expectedClaudio
Post by: claudio on May 16, 2002, 09:50:48 am
Claudio
Post by: JimH on May 16, 2002, 10:13:53 am
Thanks.
Post by: Ilmar on May 16, 2002, 10:28:20 am
Ilmar
Post by: JimH on May 16, 2002, 10:32:30 am
You have to start music playing. Then go to playing now. Then switch from visualizations or track info by using the arrows at the lower left of the display screen.
You can then configure by doing a right click on the display screen.
Again, music has to be playing for this to work. And it sounds like you can't do that. I notice you have build 270. You might get 273 from the thread here.
Post by: claudio on May 16, 2002, 10:36:04 am
Claudio
Post by: KingSparta on May 16, 2002, 11:11:57 am
I agree with this comment it only shows up when getting coverart from the internet that i can tell at this point.
Post by: Ilmar on May 16, 2002, 11:49:07 am
Did not realise is was version specific!
Now mine freezes just like everybody else's
Quite cool... cant wait for the final version!
Post by: JimH on May 16, 2002, 11:59:15 am
Post by: bennyd on May 16, 2002, 12:16:31 pm
The reason why I use the Web feature is because it shows related pictures for the music that is playing (which would be even more interesting if
it can be incorporated into Track info templates).
My pictures from my Digital Cam have nothing to do with the music I'm playing. I'm using WinXP slideshow for my pictures.
If the Pictures can change per beat and show multiple pic's (like a visualisation), it would be much nicer, now it just acts
like a normal slideshow viewer what's already standard build into WinXP.
Just my 2 cents
Post by: claudio on May 16, 2002, 12:33:14 pm
Claudio
Post by: Ilmar on May 17, 2002, 10:23:27 am
Not wanting to worry you or aught...
Are you sure that you can pull images off the internet without their associated credits or bylines to incorporate in a commercial product? Wouldn't want MJ to fold after getting sued by the Professional Photographers
International Association of America...
When you use Google Image Search, it is careful to include the original URL of every picture displayed, and I am sure they get away with it because the searcher is ivited to view the images in their orignal context at their original URL.
The image I got (b4 it froze) didnt have a URL.
Can I recommend you check this out b4 you release it...?
Ilmar
Post by: JimH on May 17, 2002, 11:19:17 am
Post by: Marra on May 17, 2002, 02:44:04 pm
Agree with Claudio re song specific images via custom field. If bored with current images, simply change content in custom field and sit back and see what happens.
Some of my own - at start of each song show album art already stored on computer. This will display while internet images are being found. If nothing found, atleast screen not blank. Also option to show track details within image (also remove "loading/retrieving" etc messages)
Still hanging occasionally with internet images v8.275 & 1.06.
Post by: noborg on May 17, 2002, 03:19:53 pm
What are the constraints on local images? (Format, size)
js
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Post by: Skinnyfatz on May 17, 2002, 03:59:46 pm
Noticed on the dl page, that the new slide-show plugin, is demoware. Does the same 30 day trial as in MJ, apply to the new plug-in?
Post by: Callithumpian on May 17, 2002, 04:04:57 pm
But I found myself quite seduced by the idea and so I re-installed.
The crash seems to result as much from the slowness of the dial-up download.
You have to understand that cable is not nearly so accessible outside the US.
If the song finishes mid-download the plug-in seems to get muddled up and takes MJ out.
Purest lay person speculation.
By the way, where do the downloaded images get stored. I had little look around and couldn't find 'em.
Post by: JimH on May 17, 2002, 04:41:43 pm
I don't think we store them. Not sure.
We know the problem is in our networking code, because it works fine for viewing images from your hard drive, but we can't find it. Should take a couple of days.
Jim
Post by: sekim on May 17, 2002, 05:03:32 pm
Post by: Luigi1943 on May 17, 2002, 10:26:19 pm
Color depth : Sometimes there is a loss of color definition with respect to the original images and/or to the desktop or to the "Full screen" depths (apparently sometimes it uses only 256 or 4096 colors???). I've not been able to assess what are the conditions.
Slide transitions: If you right-click in the slide (internal) area the resulting menu is canceled on image transitions unless you pause the slide show. You must be very quick (!!!) to pause the show if the interval is set to 2 seconds!
Performance: I've closed the visualization window (with the small arrow) without interrupting or pausing the (internal) slide show. I've noticed that the right-click menu in the content window was canceled after a few seconds. The reason seems to be that when you close the visualization window the slide show doesn't freeze itself. This is confirmed by the system monitor: the cpu load doesn't lower when you close the visualization windows with an active slide show while it lowers if other visualizations were active.
Go on with your great job
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Post by: Marra on May 18, 2002, 05:10:13 am
Post by: Skinnyfatz on May 18, 2002, 07:55:58 am
Post by: JimH on May 18, 2002, 08:00:42 am
> Noticed on the dl page, that the new slide-show plugin, is demoware. Does the same 30 day trial as in MJ, apply to the new plug-in?
Yes. Full version works for 30 days from the day the plug-in is installed. After that, it goes dark.
We're continuing to work on the plug-in, so new versions will also work with the same license. Bugs will be fixed. Features will be added.
Post by: Skinnyfatz on May 18, 2002, 09:42:15 am
Hate to sound so stupid, but have to ask, once we install it, how do we buy it? the same as we bought MJ? or will it work with our existing MJ license?(Iknow, Iknow, but have to ask).
Post by: JimH on May 18, 2002, 10:04:41 am
Post by: Callithumpian on May 19, 2002, 12:39:10 am
A nice enhancement would be the option to choose the directory, then select a particular image to associate with certain files a la cover art, but for cuts, bits and pieces.
Just a rough estimate, but only about 25% of the images downloaded have anything whatever to do with the artist to which they purport to relate.