by JerryGilmore » Mon May 17, 2010 9:50 pm
I wrote this for myself, with some help from others in the forum and I wanted to share this with you.
This now playing script was designed with home theatre TVs in mind. The window goes full screen, uses a black background, shows the currently playing album art with song details in a large font. It then slowly moves around in a random pattern to prevent burn in. I understand this may not be a problem with modern TVs, but I don't want to take any chances.
If you have DirectX, the album art has a reflection, giving the display a fresh modern look.
The display automatically updates when a song starts and disappears when the stop button is pressed. You can control the player with a remote (as normal) and use the standard keys.
You can download it here
http://www.jgilmore.com/MediaMonkey/NowPlaying.zip
The .zip file contains the .vbs script, some documentation, the necessary javascript file for the reflection effect and a "noArt.jpg" file.
I may enhance this in the future, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I would appreciate it if you make any changes, to send them my way so I can possibly post it up here as an enhancement.
Thanks,
Jerry
I wrote this for myself, with some help from others in the forum and I wanted to share this with you.
This now playing script was designed with home theatre TVs in mind. The window goes full screen, uses a black background, shows the currently playing album art with song details in a large font. It then slowly moves around in a random pattern to prevent burn in. I understand this may not be a problem with modern TVs, but I don't want to take any chances.
If you have DirectX, the album art has a reflection, giving the display a fresh modern look.
[img]http://www.jgilmore.com/MediaMonkey/screenshot.png[/img]
The display automatically updates when a song starts and disappears when the stop button is pressed. You can control the player with a remote (as normal) and use the standard keys.
You can download it here [url]http://www.jgilmore.com/MediaMonkey/NowPlaying.zip[/url]
The .zip file contains the .vbs script, some documentation, the necessary javascript file for the reflection effect and a "noArt.jpg" file.
I may enhance this in the future, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I would appreciate it if you make any changes, to send them my way so I can possibly post it up here as an enhancement.
Thanks,
Jerry