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Title: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Gurk on January 19, 2013, 05:59:46 PM

As a suggestion I received from this post: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=8563.0

I'm writing here to see the possibility of having access to the album cover of the next tracks that are going to be played in theater mode.
My intention is that the cover seen at the right panel to be actually of the next track. Don't know if this is possible right now as I'm not very familiar yet with the edit possibilities of the xml files.

(http://i.imgur.com/WrfL5k1l.jpg)

Thank you very much.

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Steven on January 20, 2013, 11:30:25 AM

i will look to do something with this over the week

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Steven on January 26, 2013, 11:20:45 AM

this is done for the next 2.1 update which i will post later today.
To implement just put which track the album cover is for in the id attribute

<element type="AlbumCover" id="Tracks[1]" x="0" y="53" width="80" height="80" brightness="1.0" ></element>
<element type="AlbumCover" id="Tracks[2]" x="0" y="143" width="80" height="80" brightness="1.0" ></element>

one thing to keep in mind is if you positioning elements relative to the main AlbumCover and using the default skin, you should name the main album cover element to avoid naming conflicts
<element name="#AlbumCover" type="AlbumCover" ...
and reference #AlbumCover for the fields that are positioned relative to the album cover
<element type="Field" id="Artist" xAnchor="#AlbumCover.Right" x="30" ...

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Steven on January 26, 2013, 05:13:55 PM

this has the change as described above:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_1/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Iasc on January 31, 2013, 11:11:08 AM

i have been trying to use this in a theater mode but it doesn't seem to work properly. it either displays the album cover of the currently playing track or occasionally an album cover  of a track that is not in the list of upcoming tracks (6 tracks in this particular theater mode). maybe im not using it correctly.

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Steven on February 01, 2013, 07:05:27 PM

if you are using shuffle mode then this should fix the bug in the theatremode plugin:
http://www.mediafire.com/?y32j8sj146t55eh

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Iasc on February 01, 2013, 11:08:11 PM

thanks steven. will try it out

Title: Re: Access to next track album cover in theater mode
Post by: Iasc on February 02, 2013, 10:06:06 AM

all good, works perfectly