2018-08-28, 15:26
PR created and merged into Confluence Master making the mod version obsolete as a version including it is now available from Repo (available from v4.5.0)
Confluence - Display of details of currently playing song - v18 Leia only
An often requested feature is being able to display the media info of the currently playing item while having the Current Playlist displayed as not everyone likes entering the Fullscreen music display as they prefer to see the list of what's coming up within the playlist. To full fill this request I've been playing around with Confluence to see what can be done and as a result I am happy to present a test mod of Confluence which I've called Confluence Music Mod. Note - as I've given this a new addon id it can be installed alongside the normal version of Confluence.
Confluence Music Mod - install zip file - https://github.com/jjd-uk/skin.confluenc...ic_mod.zip
Github - https://github.com/jjd-uk/skin.confluenc..._music_mod
The way this has been implemented is by introducing a new View to the skin called Now playing
It is based on the existing Media info view however I've modified the existing the Media info view to keep a matching look to the two views
If nothing is playing the it is a blank info pane, I've decided if it's best to keep it like that so the View is always there even when nothing is playing, or I could hide the View if nothing is currently playing.
In addition this view is not just restricted to the Current playlist view, it is available to see when browsing throughout the music nodes.
Another design decision was when in the Now playing view the info that would normally appear at the bottom has been hidden, as this view should make that redundant, however I've left it there for all the existing views.
Confluence - Display of details of currently playing song - v18 Leia only
An often requested feature is being able to display the media info of the currently playing item while having the Current Playlist displayed as not everyone likes entering the Fullscreen music display as they prefer to see the list of what's coming up within the playlist. To full fill this request I've been playing around with Confluence to see what can be done and as a result I am happy to present a test mod of Confluence which I've called Confluence Music Mod. Note - as I've given this a new addon id it can be installed alongside the normal version of Confluence.
Confluence Music Mod - install zip file - https://github.com/jjd-uk/skin.confluenc...ic_mod.zip
Github - https://github.com/jjd-uk/skin.confluenc..._music_mod
The way this has been implemented is by introducing a new View to the skin called Now playing
It is based on the existing Media info view however I've modified the existing the Media info view to keep a matching look to the two views
If nothing is playing the it is a blank info pane, I've decided if it's best to keep it like that so the View is always there even when nothing is playing, or I could hide the View if nothing is currently playing.
In addition this view is not just restricted to the Current playlist view, it is available to see when browsing throughout the music nodes.
Another design decision was when in the Now playing view the info that would normally appear at the bottom has been hidden, as this view should make that redundant, however I've left it there for all the existing views.
