2006-09-25, 15:40
Heres just a suggestion, i don't know how to do it myself or where to start. So any help on how to do so i'd worship you for it.
But here goes. I like playing my music through XMBC, i use the xbmc360 skin (great peice of work there) One thing I do wish tho is that when I play an album it would show a larger picture of the album art. Theres a program on tivo called audio faucet ( http://www.digitaldroplet.net/ ) which had a nice music playing UI, which had half your screen taken up with your album art. I think its really nice but i detest playing much through my tivo. Tho i don't want to copy this UI (wanted to make sure of that so noone thinks im going to try and breach any copyright thingies), I would like to see if there is some way i could change the UI while music is playing so i can get a larger picture of my album art, say half the screen with song and album infomation also a BIT like audio faucet.
Maybe change the size of, well you know when your playing music, you press X to goto full screen viz, then press the white button you get the album thumbnail and the name of the song/album? Maybe change this so the thumbnail is larger and remove the whitewash? Or would something like this be easier with a python script? Because it would need a higher resolution picture and with a python script you could er check a website and download the art directly?
Heh Remember im a coding idiot so if these ideas are plain stupid, don't beat me for it. But if someone could give me a 'well this idea is possible and you would need to change so and so file which is written in python' I'll happily go off and try :p
Any help with this idea and i'd be really thankful.
Thank you for reading! I hope this is the right section for this request
Ow Also if anyone does actually know of a python script or a mod out there that already does something like this please say!
But here goes. I like playing my music through XMBC, i use the xbmc360 skin (great peice of work there) One thing I do wish tho is that when I play an album it would show a larger picture of the album art. Theres a program on tivo called audio faucet ( http://www.digitaldroplet.net/ ) which had a nice music playing UI, which had half your screen taken up with your album art. I think its really nice but i detest playing much through my tivo. Tho i don't want to copy this UI (wanted to make sure of that so noone thinks im going to try and breach any copyright thingies), I would like to see if there is some way i could change the UI while music is playing so i can get a larger picture of my album art, say half the screen with song and album infomation also a BIT like audio faucet.
Maybe change the size of, well you know when your playing music, you press X to goto full screen viz, then press the white button you get the album thumbnail and the name of the song/album? Maybe change this so the thumbnail is larger and remove the whitewash? Or would something like this be easier with a python script? Because it would need a higher resolution picture and with a python script you could er check a website and download the art directly?
Heh Remember im a coding idiot so if these ideas are plain stupid, don't beat me for it. But if someone could give me a 'well this idea is possible and you would need to change so and so file which is written in python' I'll happily go off and try :p
Any help with this idea and i'd be really thankful.
Thank you for reading! I hope this is the right section for this request
Ow Also if anyone does actually know of a python script or a mod out there that already does something like this please say!