Browse By Art 4.9 [MM2]

MoDementia · Post by **MoDementia** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:34 pm

It might be just me but I get 2 x 10sec pauses during caching.

One at around 300 and the second around 1500 of 1600

Just a coincidence that nearly all the timers are 10secs long?

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:03 am

Working well for me so far. Thumbs up!

I thought of an idea to think about...

It would be super awesome if for albums with missing album art (when you have them visible) to have a link to open a google art finder window and add the art without leaving the browse by art display.

While it may be trivial to click an album with missing art, it means a lot of navigating back and forth between browse by art and the albums, it does get a little tedious after a while.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:53 am

I hope this hasn't been asked before but how can I sort they cover view so that artists albums are displayed in order of year ?

Do I need to change the script or is it a config thing ?

Cheers,
Brian.

MoDementia · Post by **MoDementia** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:06 pm

Just a little personalisation

Around line 1700

Code: Select all

    If Not (SDB.Player.CurrentSong Is Nothing) Then
      If SDB.Player.CurrentSong.ID = itm.ID Then
        If SDB.Player.isPlaying Then
          If SDB.Player.isPaused Then
            img = "<img src='pause.png'> "
          Else
            img = "<img src='play.png'> "
          End If
        Else
          img = "<img src='stop.png'> "
        End If
        gettrack = gettrack&"<a href=http://www.last.fm/user/MoDementia/?chartstyle=Wow>"
        gettrack = gettrack&"<img src=http://imagegen.last.fm/Wow/recenttracks/6/MoDementia.gif border=0 align='right'/></a>"
      Else
        img = "<img src='rem.png' onclick=remove("&pos&")> "
      End If
    Else
      img = "<img src='rem.png' onclick=remove("&pos&")> "
    End If
  End If
  gettrack = img&gettrack
End Function

or

Code: Select all

gettrack = gettrack&"<a href=http://www.last.fm/user/MoDementia/?chartstyle=Wow target="&""""&"_blank"&""""&">"
gettrack = gettrack&"<img src=http://imagegen.last.fm/Wow/recenttracks/6/MoDementia.gif border=0 align='right'/></a>"

[Edit]This works better.[/Edit]

Code: Select all

  If SDB.Player.CurrentSong.Album.ID = itm.Album.ID Then
   If (Right(track,2)+0) = Int(((ImageSize-35)/13)+0.5) Then
     gettrack = gettrack&"<a href=http://www.last.fm/user/MoDementia/?chartstyle=Wow>"
     gettrack = gettrack&"<img src=http://imagegen.last.fm/Wow/recenttracks/6/MoDementia.gif border=0 align='right'/></a>"
   End If
  End If
  gettrack = img&gettrack
End Function

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:34 am

@Peke - This is a good idea and will be in the next version!

@MoDementia - I will investigate these pauses and let you know.

@Teknojnky - This might mean a new version of GoogleArtFinder as well to make this a seamless link, but I like the idea so watch this space!

@Guest - I think you mean sort by year in the album node. If so, this is a second level of sort order which has not been implemented yet. It is on the to do list, but I need to decide how best to do it.

@MoDementia - That's a nice modification, very clever. I might do similar to my version of the script too, but I think it's too specific to include in the official release!

gtbuzz · Post by **gtbuzz** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:39 pm

I'll preface this with what my goal is: I'd like to browse by cover art, even for some discs that I have burned (mainly like old soundtracks and holiday albums).

I skimmed the script and it appears that the old cache gets whipped out before the new cache is built. It would be very cool if the old cover is only replaced if a new one is put in the place. This would solve my problem, though it could take awhile, because I could rescan for each disc and they would stay in place. Currently, if I do one disc the cache will be deleted when I do the next.

This may be more difficult, but the capability to cache by location would be nice for this same issue. I could then cache each disc individually.

Thanks again for an incredible script.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:28 am

Removing the old cache is important, especially if you rebuild your library. Otherwise you might get cached images which are no longer the correct album id.

I'm not sure exactly what you're doing to find this a problem. Any images which are in the cache folder, not created by the cache process, will never be used. The cache process creates all the images it needs and never uses any others.

Also, what do you mean by "cache by location"?

MoDementia · Post by **MoDementia** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:37 am

They have offline tracks = no art

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11287

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:42 am

I see. I'll try to make the cleanup more intelligent than just deleting everything in the next version then.

In the meantime you can remove lines 435-438 (not 434!)...

Code: Select all

  Dim fso : Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Call fso.CopyFile(path&"none.jpg",path&"none.jpg.bak",True)
  Call fso.DeleteFile(path&"*.jpg",True)
  Call fso.CopyFile(path&"none.jpg.bak",path&"none.jpg",True)

MoDementia · Post by **MoDementia** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:13 am

Some just in case code

Code: Select all

      If id = playing [b]and SDB.Player.CurrentSongIndex = i[/b] Then
        out.WriteLine "<a name='here'></a>"
      End If

Five songs later another song from the same album came up but it stopped at the first song

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:10 am

Thanks - I noticed this whilst I was testing the last version and thought I'd fixed it - but obviously I just worked out how to and then never wrote the code!

EDIT: Sorry, I slightly misunderstood you. I did fix the other problem, but I hadn't considered this one. It'll be sorted in the next version!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:02 pm

How do I rescan for new art? Refresh doesn't re fresh my art with browse by art.

If you could do artist/albums this would help find things better.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:20 am

In the "Browse By Art Settings" (Tools, Options, Library) hit the "Cache Now" button. Then when you click "Ok" to save the settings, the cache process will begin.

BrowseByArtFan · Post by **BrowseByArtFan** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:02 am

trixmoto Awesome job with the script. This is what i wanted from a long time.

Some minor look and feel changes.
- Spacing between images
- Center alignment of texts
- Album in bold

Thanks for the script

BrowseByArtFan · Post by **BrowseByArtFan** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:09 am

I have been looking at EAR plugin for winamp from Helium. they use a template based XML to display details. I gave it a shot with trixmoto script for "Now plyaing" node.

trixmoto, i would love to send the code over to you, if enogh ppl are intrested this is something you can add in your next release.

I am working on getting more info about album tracks , similar albums, artists etc into these pages

[/img][/b]