[realcopacetic]

I've got a little animation that displays over an artist's or album's artwork in my music library when a song from that artist or album is playing. It works fine in most of my views. You can see it in the video below.

https://cl.ly/7b69c7df1948

As you can see at the end of the clip, it's not working for my panel view, the reason being that the visibility condition is based on a String.IsEqual boolean and those only work for focused items in panel views according to the Skinning Manual.

xml:
<visible>[Container.Content(artists) + String.IsEqual(ListItem($PARAM[position]).Artist,MusicPlayer.Artist)] | [Container.Content(albums) + String.IsEqual(ListItem($PARAM[position]).Album,MusicPlayer.Album)]</visible>

So the question I have is, does anyone know how I can identify in a panel view if a non-focused listitem matches what is currently playing in the music/video player?

[Hitcher]

Do you have the complete code it doesn't seem to be in GitHub?

[realcopacetic]

Do you have the complete code it doesn't seem to be in GitHub?

Hi, I'll push an update when I get to work. Thanks @Hitcher

[realcopacetic]

Do you have the complete code it doesn't seem to be in GitHub?

Hi, I'll push an update when I get to work. Thanks @Hitcher 

Edit: I've updated the code here: https://github.com/realcopacetic/skin.copacetic

[jurialmunkey]

ListItem.IsPlaying

[realcopacetic]

ListItem.IsPlaying

Thanks @jurialmunkey , for my panel view (Grid), it's more for a way of showing that the listitem that is playing belongs to that artist/album/tvshow/season that I'm struggling with.

[jurialmunkey]

Ah, you're right. I though it worked for currently playing album but it appears that it doesn't.

[jurialmunkey]

This works for me:

Code:

<visible>String.IsEqual(MusicPlayer.Album,ListItem.Album)</visible>

I think you just have to put the MusicPlayer label first for some reason.

Unfocused item "Hounds of Love" album is playing and has play indicator.

[realcopacetic]

This works for me:

Code:

<visible>String.IsEqual(MusicPlayer.Album,ListItem.Album)</visible>

I think you just have to put the MusicPlayer label first for some reason.

Unfocused item "Hounds of Love" album is playing and has play indicator.

Oh great thanks @jurialmunkey! It worked!! 

That's a strange one, who should I talk to about updating the manual? Might be worth adding a note that it can work for containers if you put the strings the other way around?

[jurialmunkey]

This works for me:

Code:

<visible>String.IsEqual(MusicPlayer.Album,ListItem.Album)</visible>

I think you just have to put the MusicPlayer label first for some reason.

Unfocused item "Hounds of Love" album is playing and has play indicator.

Oh great thanks @jurialmunkey! It worked!! 

That's a strange one, who should I talk to about updating the manual? Might be worth adding a note that it can work for containers if you put the strings the other way around?

I can update the manual. I'm just not quite sure why it works one way and not the other yet...

[nonJon]

I think you just have to put the MusicPlayer label first for some reason.

Never occurred to me to swap terms (why should it?) but your revelation has solved a problem that has confounded me from day one of v18. Thank you!!