[G0mez]

Not sure if this is actually skin related thing but wonder if it could be possible to add option to show bitrate when playing music file? That would be neat

[Merwenus]

@Merwenus , I did not change the font size of the lists according to the "Small-Regular-Large" default font size in the settings, because it is a huge hassle to have to redo all of the positioning of the lists depending on the default font size.  What I do provide is a setting to show more items in list views, which in essence makes the font size smaller in the list views.  The setting is here:

And when enabled, it would take the list view from this:


To this:


Please let me know if this is close to what you were looking for.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

This is exactly what I was looking for (didnt notice the scroll down )
Thank you very much!

Found some bugs while setting up today, I guess you already know about it
1) Recommended Episodes is missing for TV Shows in
Home Layout - Customize Home Menu and Shelves - Series - Default Shelves -  Episodes

2) I have no idea why, but when try to force this in skin.amber.properties file to add Favourite addons in favourite shelf it WORKS, but as soon as enable "Show Two Shelves Together" it crashes and I get an error message. When I disable this, it works fine again.

xml:
 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetAutoScroll.2', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetType.2', 'favouriteaddons'],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetTarget.2', ''],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetPath.2', '$INCLUDE[skinshortcuts-template-FavouriteAddonsContent]'],

I will try to get log files tomorrow

@Merwenus , thanks for your feedback.

As for the bugs:

1) This is because the addon that Recommended Episodes is based on, service.skin.widgets, is not in the Kodi Matrix repo.  Please see here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2922250 about how to get a Matrix compatible version of service.skin.widgets.  I tested the version referenced in that post, and it works well under Matrix.  Thanks.

2) Thanks for reporting this.  I have not been able to reproduce this issue.  Here is a screenshot of what I just tested.  The Favourite Addons is Shelf 2, Recently Added Episodes is Shelf 1, and Show Two Shelves Together is enabled.



Perhaps you are missing something in your manual edit of the properties file? I configured this using Amber Settings through the Kodi GUI and had no issues.

The resulting section in the properties file is this:

xml:


['mainmenu', '24001', 'background', '$VAR[Addons.Art]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetArtwork', 'Landscape'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetLimit.2', '$NUMBER[100]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetSortBy.2', 'year'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetSortOrder.2', 'ascending'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widget', 'NewEpisodes'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetName', '$SKIN[31441|skin.amber|Recently Added Episodes]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetType', 'episodes'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTarget', 'video'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPath', '$VAR[RecentlyAddedEpisodesVar]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll.3', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll.2', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetArtwork.2', 'Poster'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTwoShelves', 'true'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPosterLabel.2', 'true'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widget.2', 'static'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetName.2', '$SKIN[31487|skin.amber|Favourite Addons]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetType.2', 'favouriteaddons'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTarget.2', ''],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPath.2', '$INCLUDE[skinshortcuts-template-FavouriteAddonsContent]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'icon', 'icons/mainmenu/addons.png'],

Regards,

Bart

You were right, something was missing deleted and started over now it works!
The link you provided end on page 404, can you check it please?

[Tiny Clanger]

Hi Bart

When I set a shelf of TV episodes to use the Thumb artwork type, it's difficult to know which show I'm looking at, as Amber only gives season and episode number. In the shot below, I know from the thumbs the second is MasterChef, the third is Only Connect, and the fourth is Family Guy, but I have no idea what the first one is.



The only way to get the episode title seems to be to use Square as the artwork type, but I'm not really keen on the look of that — plus you now get the season/episode twice — once overlaid on the image, and once immediately before the episode name.

I much prefer the Thumb artwork type, but there's no show name or episode title on that. Would it be possible to have the show name display at the top of the image, and the season/episode number + name at the bottom (in 1x12 rather than s12e01 format, to reduce scrolling?)

It's also useful to have the duration showing in library views, but it would be even more useful if it would show the time that playback would end if started now, like the Aura skin does. If I've got to do something at a specific time, it's really helpful to know if I've got time to watch something first without having to do mental arithmetic — the computer's much better at that than I am!


In this case, instead of "1 hour, 29 minutes", could it say "1 hour, 29 minutes (ends 14:51)"? As the seek bar already shows this, hopefully it's not too hard to add…

(Oh, and I just spotted a double-escape at the top — it's got "Bill & Ted" rather than "Bill & Ted" :)

Great skin, though — thanks for all your work on it!

[bsoriano]

This is exactly what I was looking for (didnt notice the scroll down )
Thank you very much!

Found some bugs while setting up today, I guess you already know about it
1) Recommended Episodes is missing for TV Shows in
Home Layout - Customize Home Menu and Shelves - Series - Default Shelves -  Episodes

2) I have no idea why, but when try to force this in skin.amber.properties file to add Favourite addons in favourite shelf it WORKS, but as soon as enable "Show Two Shelves Together" it crashes and I get an error message. When I disable this, it works fine again.

xml:
 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetAutoScroll.2', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetType.2', 'favouriteaddons'],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetTarget.2', ''],

 ['mainmenu', '1036', 'widgetPath.2', '$INCLUDE[skinshortcuts-template-FavouriteAddonsContent]'],

I will try to get log files tomorrow

@Merwenus , thanks for your feedback.

As for the bugs:

1) This is because the addon that Recommended Episodes is based on, service.skin.widgets, is not in the Kodi Matrix repo.  Please see here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2922250 about how to get a Matrix compatible version of service.skin.widgets.  I tested the version referenced in that post, and it works well under Matrix.  Thanks.

2) Thanks for reporting this.  I have not been able to reproduce this issue.  Here is a screenshot of what I just tested.  The Favourite Addons is Shelf 2, Recently Added Episodes is Shelf 1, and Show Two Shelves Together is enabled.



Perhaps you are missing something in your manual edit of the properties file? I configured this using Amber Settings through the Kodi GUI and had no issues.

The resulting section in the properties file is this:

xml:


['mainmenu', '24001', 'background', '$VAR[Addons.Art]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetArtwork', 'Landscape'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetLimit.2', '$NUMBER[100]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetSortBy.2', 'year'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetSortOrder.2', 'ascending'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widget', 'NewEpisodes'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetName', '$SKIN[31441|skin.amber|Recently Added Episodes]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetType', 'episodes'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTarget', 'video'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPath', '$VAR[RecentlyAddedEpisodesVar]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll.3', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetAutoScroll.2', 'none'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetArtwork.2', 'Poster'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTwoShelves', 'true'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPosterLabel.2', 'true'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widget.2', 'static'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetName.2', '$SKIN[31487|skin.amber|Favourite Addons]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetType.2', 'favouriteaddons'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetTarget.2', ''],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'widgetPath.2', '$INCLUDE[skinshortcuts-template-FavouriteAddonsContent]'],

 ['mainmenu', '24001', 'icon', 'icons/mainmenu/addons.png'],

Regards,

Bart

You were right, something was missing deleted and started over now it works!
The link you provided end on page 404, can you check it please?

@Merwenus , I am glad it is working now.  The link to the forum thread for skin widgets is: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2922250

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

Hi Bart

When I set a shelf of TV episodes to use the Thumb artwork type, it's difficult to know which show I'm looking at, as Amber only gives season and episode number. In the shot below, I know from the thumbs the second is MasterChef, the third is Only Connect, and the fourth is Family Guy, but I have no idea what the first one is.



The only way to get the episode title seems to be to use Square as the artwork type, but I'm not really keen on the look of that — plus you now get the season/episode twice — once overlaid on the image, and once immediately before the episode name.

I much prefer the Thumb artwork type, but there's no show name or episode title on that. Would it be possible to have the show name display at the top of the image, and the season/episode number + name at the bottom (in 1x12 rather than s12e01 format, to reduce scrolling?)

It's also useful to have the duration showing in library views, but it would be even more useful if it would show the time that playback would end if started now, like the Aura skin does. If I've got to do something at a specific time, it's really helpful to know if I've got time to watch something first without having to do mental arithmetic — the computer's much better at that than I am!


In this case, instead of "1 hour, 29 minutes", could it say "1 hour, 29 minutes (ends 14:51)"? As the seek bar already shows this, hopefully it's not too hard to add…

(Oh, and I just spotted a double-escape at the top — it's got "Bill & Ted" rather than "Bill & Ted"

Great skin, though — thanks for all your work on it!

@Tiny Clanger , thanks for your kind words and your feedback.

In terms of your first request, I can add the tv show title next to the episode number on the thumb label, but I will not be adding the episode name, or add the tv show title at the top.  the reason is that if you select any item in the shelf, you already get a label at the top that has the tv show name, episode name, air date, etc.  I do agree with you that having the tv show name visible even if you are not positioned on the shelf would be very useful (by the way, the first show in your screenshot is Snowpiercer).



As for the second request, I will add this to my To-Do.  It should not be too difficult to add.

In terms of the double escape, that must be something on your end, since I see that fine under Windows:



Regards,

Bart

[Tiny Clanger]

Hi Bart

When I set a shelf of TV episodes to use the Thumb artwork type, it's difficult to know which show I'm looking at, as Amber only gives season and episode number. In the shot below, I know from the thumbs the second is MasterChef, the third is Only Connect, and the fourth is Family Guy, but I have no idea what the first one is.



The only way to get the episode title seems to be to use Square as the artwork type, but I'm not really keen on the look of that — plus you now get the season/episode twice — once overlaid on the image, and once immediately before the episode name.

I much prefer the Thumb artwork type, but there's no show name or episode title on that. Would it be possible to have the show name display at the top of the image, and the season/episode number + name at the bottom (in 1x12 rather than s12e01 format, to reduce scrolling?)

It's also useful to have the duration showing in library views, but it would be even more useful if it would show the time that playback would end if started now, like the Aura skin does. If I've got to do something at a specific time, it's really helpful to know if I've got time to watch something first without having to do mental arithmetic — the computer's much better at that than I am!


In this case, instead of "1 hour, 29 minutes", could it say "1 hour, 29 minutes (ends 14:51)"? As the seek bar already shows this, hopefully it's not too hard to add…

(Oh, and I just spotted a double-escape at the top — it's got "Bill & Ted" rather than "Bill & Ted" :)

Great skin, though — thanks for all your work on it!

@Tiny Clanger , thanks for your kind words and your feedback.

I will add to my To-Do both of your requests.  However, I cannot commit to an ETA at this moment.

In terms of the double escape, that must be something on your end, since I see that fine under Windows:



Regards,

Bart

Ah, found it — it's Jellyfin's collection scraper that seems to be messing that up, not Amber. Sorry for the false alarm :)

[bsoriano]

@Tiny Clanger , I forgot to ask before, are on Matrix or Leia? If on Leia, then, unfortunately, I will not be fulfilling your requests, as I am only adding new features in Matrix.  If you are on Matrix, then could you please test the latest from GitHub (https://github.com/bartolomesoriano/skin.amber)? 

First, for dynamic episode shelves in which the art type is not Poster, I have added the tv show name to the label on the shelf item.  It looks like this:



Second, I have added the end time to all of the media views.  For Big Panel, which I think was the view type from your screenshot, it looks like this:



Please let me know if this is what you were looking for.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[juleke147]

hello i'm using Kodi Matrix with the amber skin from kodi. i have a problem with the shelves. i can't choose recomended episodes. i thought i needed to select service skin widgets but i can't select it in manage dependencies.
plz help

@juleke147 , Please see here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2922250 about how to get a Matrix compatible version of service.skin.widgets.  This is not installable from the Amber "Manage Dependencies", as a Matrix compatible version of this addon is not in the Kodi repo.  Thanks.

I tested the version referenced in that post, and it works well under Matrix.

Regards,

Bart

it works perfect. thank for helping me.

[timmins]

Not all my movie images show up in Kodi 19 Matrix. With Kodi 18, I had script.artwork.beef do it for me, is there a way to have them download in Kodi 19 Matrix. Thanks

Under Managed Dependences I don't get the following:
script.artwork.beef
script.skin.helpers.widgets
service.skin.widgets

Nothing happens when I try to enable them. What I'm I missing?

[bsoriano]

Not all my movie images show up in Kodi 19 Matrix. With Kodi 18, I had script.artwork.beef do it for me, is there a way to have them download in Kodi 19 Matrix. Thanks

Under Managed Dependences I don't get the following:
script.artwork.beef
script.skin.helpers.widgets
service.skin.widgets

Nothing happens when I try to enable them. What I'm I missing?

@timmins, there is no equivalent to Artwork Beef in Matrix. As for the addons you mention, they are no longer available in Matrix, so I need to remove them from that settings screen.

In Matrix, what I have found to work best for me is to download all of the artwork outside of Kodi, and then have Kodi pick it all up when scanning a movie/TV show/episode into the library.

I use tinyMediaManager to get all the online info and artwork for all of my files, and it writes an NFO for each item. Then, in Kodi I only use the local scraper for all of my video sources. The video artwork setting I have set at Maximum in the Kodi settings.

Regards,

Bart

[DarrenHill]

There is Artwork Dump, which is partially the successor to Artwork Beef, and will assist with such downloads.

As already noted, the artwork inclusion part is already now part of Matrix, which made aspects of A.B. somewhat redundant.

[Tiny Clanger]

@Tiny Clanger , I forgot to ask before, are on Matrix or Leia? If on Leia, then, unfortunately, I will not be fulfilling your requests, as I am only adding new features in Matrix.  If you are on Matrix, then could you please test the latest from GitHub (https://github.com/bartolomesoriano/skin.amber)? 

First, for dynamic episode shelves in which the art type is not Poster, I have added the tv show name to the label on the shelf item.  It looks like this:



Second, I have added the end time to all of the media views.  For Big Panel, which I think was the view type from your screenshot, it looks like this:



Please let me know if this is what you were looking for.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thanks, Bart — that's exactly what I wanted! (I am on Matrix, fortunately…)

Would it be possible to have end times on the shelves, as well?


Also, I just noticed the labels in Square view for music have the artist name cropped out, and long album titles wrap onto the second line and cause the artist name to vanish completely, like with the selected album.

It would also be nice if the top info bar could extend all the way to the right rather than being truncated 50% of the way across the screen, but I don't know if that's possible in the skinning engine — in this example, the artist name is truncated, and the year and run time are lost.

[timmins]

Not all my movie images show up in Kodi 19 Matrix. With Kodi 18, I had script.artwork.beef do it for me, is there a way to have them download in Kodi 19 Matrix. Thanks

Under Managed Dependences I don't get the following:
script.artwork.beef
script.skin.helpers.widgets
service.skin.widgets

Nothing happens when I try to enable them. What I'm I missing?

@timmins, there is no equivalent to Artwork Beef in Matrix. As for the addons you mention, they are no longer available in Matrix, so I need to remove them from that settings screen.

In Matrix, what I have found to work best for me is to download all of the artwork outside of Kodi, and then have Kodi pick it all up when scanning a movie/TV show/episode into the library.

I use tinyMediaManager to get all the online info and artwork for all of my files, and it writes an NFO for each item. Then, in Kodi I only use the local scraper for all of my video sources. The video artwork setting I have set at Maximum in the Kodi settings.

Regards,

Bart

Thanks for quick replies. Thanks guys

[bsoriano]

@Tiny Clanger , I forgot to ask before, are on Matrix or Leia? If on Leia, then, unfortunately, I will not be fulfilling your requests, as I am only adding new features in Matrix.  If you are on Matrix, then could you please test the latest from GitHub (https://github.com/bartolomesoriano/skin.amber)? 

First, for dynamic episode shelves in which the art type is not Poster, I have added the tv show name to the label on the shelf item.  It looks like this:



Second, I have added the end time to all of the media views.  For Big Panel, which I think was the view type from your screenshot, it looks like this:



Please let me know if this is what you were looking for.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thanks, Bart — that's exactly what I wanted! (I am on Matrix, fortunately…)

Would it be possible to have end times on the shelves, as well?


Also, I just noticed the labels in Square view for music have the artist name cropped out, and long album titles wrap onto the second line and cause the artist name to vanish completely, like with the selected album.

It would also be nice if the top info bar could extend all the way to the right rather than being truncated 50% of the way across the screen, but I don't know if that's possible in the skinning engine — in this example, the artist name is truncated, and the year and run time are lost.

@Tiny Clanger , thanks for your feedback.

In terms of these new requests:

1. I have added on GitHub the end time to the shelves.  It looks like this:




2. I will not be able to do anything in regards to long album names flowing over to the next line when using square for albums.  Unfortunately, I do not know ahead of time what the length of the label is going to be.  I could use an even smaller font, but I think it would be very difficult to see from a distance.

3.  I have widened the left item shelf label as much as I can, taking into account that there needs to be room for the shelf label itself, which is shown at the far right.  With a very long album name from my collection it looks like this:



Or like this with a slightly shorter one:



@Tiny Clanger , these changes are on GitHub already.

Please let me know if this is what you were looking for.  Thanks.


Regards,

Bart

[derrgoo123]

Hi Bart,

I have never seen this before but have been wondering is it possible to show how many episodes left in a trakt next up widget? This would be similar to what you already show for widget showing tv shows. Thank you