2013-03-26, 16:35
Hello everyone, after years of using xbmc and xbox, i finally did an upgrade to a decent PC in combination with openelec. It simply rocks!
Now I am in the phase of configuring everything to my needs.
I have a rather large collection of "audiobooks" which i want to seperate from the music collection. So i made this smartplaylist:
works great. However, when i tried to have that playlist as live cd background, it just shows empty cases.
I did some experiments, read some threads here, and assumed it might be a problem with lastandrandomitem.script. So I made a second playlist, type albums this time. Not working either.
Long story short:
CD and DVD live cases are working when it is movie or tv-show related. If I select the music smartplaylist as background, it displays artist art.
Widgets seem to work as well, if the smartplaylist is album based.
Now, as I had some openelec related problems with char encoding ( and i indeed have umlauts within the path) I thought i try xbmc on windows.
Unfortunately it shows the same symptoms.
What I did notice, Info line shows wrong values actually:
Alben 1 - Titel 10 - Interpreten 10
while it should be Alben 10, Titel 10 Interpreten 1
I made some "debug" modifications to the randomandlastitemscript as suggested to display what is actually whithin the vars
beside the encoding problem (which seems unrelated to me, as the behaviour is the same on windows, plus i even did some tests building a new path and new mp3tags without umlauts)
everything seems to be fine.
So my conclusion is, somewhere whithin the aeon-nox parsing structure must be something wrong. Especially if you take into account, that info line gives also wrong results.
If so, is there an easy way to fix it myself? Or probably I did something terrible wrong? ;-)
Please help me, I really really want Aeon Nox showing cover art based on my smart playlist. I like this skin very much.
Now I am in the phase of configuring everything to my needs.
I have a rather large collection of "audiobooks" which i want to seperate from the music collection. So i made this smartplaylist:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="artists">
<name>Hörspiele</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="genre" operator="is">
<value>Hörspiel</value>
</rule>
<order direction="ascending">artist</order>
</smartplaylist>
works great. However, when i tried to have that playlist as live cd background, it just shows empty cases.
I did some experiments, read some threads here, and assumed it might be a problem with lastandrandomitem.script. So I made a second playlist, type albums this time. Not working either.
Long story short:
CD and DVD live cases are working when it is movie or tv-show related. If I select the music smartplaylist as background, it displays artist art.
Widgets seem to work as well, if the smartplaylist is album based.
Now, as I had some openelec related problems with char encoding ( and i indeed have umlauts within the path) I thought i try xbmc on windows.
Unfortunately it shows the same symptoms.
What I did notice, Info line shows wrong values actually:
Alben 1 - Titel 10 - Interpreten 10
while it should be Alben 10, Titel 10 Interpreten 1
I made some "debug" modifications to the randomandlastitemscript as suggested to display what is actually whithin the vars
Code:
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Title', u'Folge 133 Fels der D\xe4monen')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Artist', u'Die drei ???')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Genre', u'H\xf6rspiel')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Theme', u'')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Mood', u'crime')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Style', u'')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Type', u'')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Year', '2009')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.RecordLabel', u'Europa')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Description', u'Ein toller Sandstrand in einer einsamen Bucht, perfektes Surf-Wetter, ein schattiges Pl\xe4tzchen f\xfcr das Zelt: Die drei ??? freuen sich auf ein paar stressfreie Ferientage am Meer. Doch dann taucht ein v\xf6llig ver\xe4ngstigter Junge auf und berichtet von einem gruseligen schwarzen Zwerg, der ihn verfolgt. Als der Zweite Detektiv kurze Zeit darauf beim Wellenreiten eine mehr als unheimliche Begegnung im Wasser hat, ist klar: hier bahnt sich ein neuer Fall f\xfcr die drei Detektive an! Wer oder was treibt sein Unwesen in der abgelegenen Bucht? Werden Justus, Peter und Bob das Geheimnis um den "Fels der D\xe4monen" l\xfcften?')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Rating', '0')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Art(thumb)', u'image://%2fstorage%2faudiobook%2fH%c3%b6rspiele%2fDie%20drei%20Fragezeichen%2f133%20Fels%20der%20D%c3%a4monen%2ffolder.jpg/')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Art(fanart)', u'image://%2fstorage%2faudiobook%2fH%c3%b6rspiele%2fDie%20drei%20Fragezeichen%2ffanart.jpg/')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.Play', 'XBMC.RunScript(script.randomandlastitems,albumid=None)')
00:32:03 T:2707422016 NOTICE: ('##### Property ', 'SmartPlaylist4.7.LibraryPath', 'musicdb://3/None/')
everything seems to be fine.
So my conclusion is, somewhere whithin the aeon-nox parsing structure must be something wrong. Especially if you take into account, that info line gives also wrong results.
If so, is there an easy way to fix it myself? Or probably I did something terrible wrong? ;-)
Please help me, I really really want Aeon Nox showing cover art based on my smart playlist. I like this skin very much.