Shinu Wrote:any word on the viewtype i made Noid? :o

Kode Wrote:hey big_noid, I just installed Aeon Nox SVN from the passion repository to give it a whirl, really like it, especially the music clearlogo on the home page when something is playing, that looks really good!

Got a couple of questions about whether you have any plans to add the following (not that it matters either way, the skin still looks awesome, and you might not like the suggestions).

An artist view with the ClearLOGO (currently they only show at album level?)

extrafanart cycling on the homepage when an artist is playing (instead of the single static image)

When you bring up the music visualisation screen (is that the right term? I just know its "E" on my harmony one) do you have any plans to add cdart and extrafanart to this view?

Anyway, keep up the great work

Big_Noid Wrote:Just added extrafanart to home screen and music viz.

Big_Noid Wrote:Well, I had actually already coded it up. But I felt it missed that wow factor. Mainly because the osd_back image is stretched out to much and I don't feel the posters work when floating in mid air. So I'm currently rethinking that view.

Just added extrafanart to home screen and music viz.

fional Wrote:I'm a bit confused at how cdArt Manager does more than just the art of the cd spinning. Like, where is the artist clearart stored and how does it grab that? For example, I have an album with the artist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - and there is a clearart available for that, but it isn't listed as a recognised artist.

(I've 657 Local Artist, 1006 local albums, but only 70 local cdarts - not sure how many of these artists are "green" of the 657, but not many.)

I know this isn't directly related to Nox, but how does Nox parse the artist name and such, because I don't mind manually grabbing the stuff and putting it in the appropriate directory? Or is it just the nightly that has the artist clearart?

Thanks!

Machine-Sanctum Wrote:For Aeon nox you have to set the folder where your albums are located. (settings->skin->viewtype->set path to music librarÿ)

for cdart manager you also have to set the main folder of where your albums are located.
Your album layout should be like this.

Code:

Albums
--Artist
----Album name (or artist - album name, that doesn't mather)
------CD1
------CD2
----Album name
----Album name
--Artist
----Album name
----Album name
----Album name

Clearart is stored inside the artist folder. The spinning cdart should be located in the album folder or in case of multiple cds in each cd% folder. If i can remember correctly you already mentioned that did your albums with musicbrainz so if there's something available is should download it.

fional Wrote:Yes, finished my monster of a music collection I just looked and for some reason I had an old version of cdart manager. It wasn't updating and the repo was insisting it was the most updated. Maybe it's a dev version that they have posted on the first page:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=77031&highlight=cdart+manager

SO I manually grabbed it and I'm giving it a go and it seems to be doing a lot of beeping with tons of notifications coming up, so we shall see!

For the artist name, what would you name it? artist.png or would it be the actual artist name?

Machine-Sanctum Wrote:I use the pre-eden one so i don't know but i think that the latest one for dharma hasn't been uploaded to the xbmc repo.

Fanart.jpg (the large background)
Folder.jpg (artist picture)
logo.png (is the cleart)

fional Wrote:I'm a bit confused at how cdArt Manager does more than just the art of the cd spinning. Like, where is the artist clearart stored and how does it grab that? For example, I have an album with the artist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - and there is a clearart available for that, but it isn't listed as a recognised artist.

(I've 657 Local Artist, 1006 local albums, but only 70 local cdarts - not sure how many of these artists are "green" of the 657, but not many.)

I know this isn't directly related to Nox, but how does Nox parse the artist name and such, because I don't mind manually grabbing the stuff and putting it in the appropriate directory? Or is it just the nightly that has the artist clearart?

Thanks!

Machine-Sanctum Wrote:Big Noid,
How does the infopanel trigger work in stripview? In other views it's one time UP however in stripview i instantly get the sidemenu.

Small thing in panelview. Long text goes over the thumb. At least for the writers.
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9044/screenshot086j.png

EDIT:
Same in carousel as stripshow. Showcase works just fine

Big_Noid Wrote:@fional: You have to set the path to music library in cdart manager and in nox. Both have to be the same. I found it worked best to choose a different location instead of my actual music library, since cdart script just creates all needed folders. But that is in no means mandatory.

Big_Noid Wrote:Just added extrafanart to home screen and music viz.

fional Wrote:How does this work? Does that mean it replaces the visualisation part or that last.fm yoke that comes up if you have visualisations off and that artist addon installed?

Big_Noid Wrote:It plays on top of regular fanart. So disable all other fanart options to see it.
In home screen you have to do nothing, except enable option to show music fanart in home now playing.