Ram2000 Wrote:Would I be right in saying that we can now have Fanart in the music folder So would no longer need to rebuild the folder Dir In the backdrops folder.
Only reason I ask is after reading this HERE

snowdrift Wrote:OK, I have another question of my own. The skin is working fine BTW, its about how my music is organised, but someone more skilled than me might know the answer!!

Regarding the spinning CD image and related to the "fanart in the same place as the music mod", I have a strange situation where (in order to maintain compatibility with iTunes) most of my albums live in the following structure:

/Volumes/Data/Music/<artist>/<album>, e.g. /Volumes/Data/Music/Moby/18

but compilations (albums by various artists) are organised differently:

/Volumes/Data/Music/Compilations/<album>, e.g. /Volumes/Data/Music/Compilations/The Annual 2009

How can I first try to load the cd image from the "normal" artist path, then the "compilations" path, then if nothing is found use the default.png overlay?

I've tried various combinations of the following, but nothing works properly, its almost as if i need a "if no cd art in "normal" path + no cd art in "compliations" path then use default.png" clause, any way to do this in the xml?

Code:

<control type="image">
            <description>Cd overlay</description>
            <animation effect="slide" start="-118" end="0" time="700" tween="cubic" easing="out" delay="1000">WindowOpen</animation>    
            <animation type="WindowClose">
            <effect type="slide" start="0" end="-114" time="700" tween="cubic" easing="in" delay="0"/>
            <effect type="fade" start="100" end="0" time="1300"/>
            <condition type="!Player.Playing"/>
            </animation>
           <animation effect="rotate" end="-360" center="auto" time="2000" loop="true" reversible="false" condition="!Player.Paused">Conditional</animation>
            <width>270</width>
            <height>228</height>
            <posx>175</posx><!-- 112 -->
            <posy>-143</posy><!-- -143 -->
            [color=red]<texture fallback="backdrops/artist_fanart/default/default.png">$INFO[Skin.String(cdartpath)]/Compilations/$INFO[MusicPlayer.Album]/cd.png</texture>[/color]
            <aspectratio align="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
        </control>
        
        <control type="image">
            <description>Cd overlay</description>
            <animation effect="slide" start="-118" end="0" time="700" tween="cubic" easing="out" delay="1000">WindowOpen</animation>
            <animation type="WindowClose">
            <effect type="slide" start="0" end="-114" time="700" tween="cubic" easing="in" delay="0"/>
            <effect type="fade" start="100" end="0" time="1300"/>
            <condition type="!Player.Playing"/>
            </animation>
           <animation effect="rotate" end="-360" center="auto" time="2000" loop="true" reversible="false" condition="!Player.Paused">Conditional</animation>
            <width>270</width>
            <height>228</height>
            <posx>175</posx><!-- 112 -->
            <posy>-143</posy><!-- -143 -->
            [color=red]<texture fallback="backdrops/artist_fanart/default/default.png">$INFO[Skin.String(cdartpath)]/$INFO[MusicPlayer.Artist]/$INFO[MusicPlayer.Album]/cd.png</texture>[/color]
            <aspectratio align="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
            <!--<visible>!Control.IsVisible(110)</visible>-->
        </control>

rlanfran Wrote:After an update to the last svn version, a rotating white square replaces the default cdart. I use Transparency skin.

Any idea for fixing it ?

rlanfran Wrote:After an update to the last svn version, a rotating white square replaces the default cdart. I use Transparency skin.

Any idea for fixing it ?

Quote: Originally Posted by spock84 View Post
My bet here is that these are all for some reason read in succession, after the scraper-generated picture is read, meaning that if there's no picture in the video folder, you eventually just get the white rectangle. This theory makes sense, since you/I initially see the correct thumb, which is then covered with the entirely white rectangle(s).

Quote:Deleted all my image posts here to try to shorten this thread some, as they are now uploaded to xbmcstuff.com. Would suggest that others do the same.

tsoek Wrote:Trying to think of an efficient way to handle various artist albums that are compiled by a single artist fanart. I have a lot of this situation since I mostly listen to trance music at the moment and with a lot of weekly podcasts that I listen to there are hundreds of artists. Is there a tag for albumartist rather than just album and just artist? This is a tag in ID3_v2 but it doesn't appear to be an available tag according to Tags_Available_for_Audio_Files. I'll have to hack around that by using Genre or something instead haha.

Quote:Tried the font.xml change from the first post but it's still showing small ah well