Larger album art
#1
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 Big Grin

Ow Also if anyone does actually know of a python script or a mod out there that already does something like this please say!
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#2
See MusicVisualisation.xml in the PAL (or PAL16x9) folder of the PM3 skin or Mc360 skin. Basically, just change the <posx>, <posy>, <width>, and <height> tags.

There's heaps of info on skinning in the online manual - see the Skinning section under XBMC Inner Workings.

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Jonathan
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#3
Thanks for the helpful pointers! I browsed for a bit and looked over it, then played around changing a few numbers, then finally i came up with this,

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Not bad for my first time! maybe its a bit too big as the album art looks a bit dodgy, maybe i just need a better pic. This was downloaded through XBMC, regardless i'm happy with the results! Ill have to keep fiddling and see if i can improve it somehow.

I just wanted to follow up and say thanks tho! Big Grin
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#4
here is what i did with mine...
glad i found this post...been wanting to do this for a while.
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#5
where did you get that font?? and how did you get the rounded edges?
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#6
he is using mc360 and its what it uses
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#7
and further, I don't see any rounded edges in that screeny, what you talking about?
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#8
Around the side of the black bar that the text is on is my guess
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