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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: January 26, 2025, 11:47:16 PM »

After update 1.8 the images below the album looked like this, and sometimes giving an error. I thought it would be a good idea to uninstall it, but I'll have to download all the covers again one by one. Anyway, the main covers were great, but who knows in the future.

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: January 23, 2025, 03:28:14 AM »

I think that when you think about any functionality, you think about what it's for and who it's for!
When I thought about this idea of ​​rounding the edges, it was usually to soften the edges, something I saw on Spotify that I thought gave it a clean look.

In the end, it's all about design, what you can and can't do, from the early days of Winamp with its visually striking Skins, and not to mention the Zune player that created a unique look for covers. Finally, iTunes with the spectacular Cover Flow that, with a black Skin that it supported at the time, was something extremely beautiful. Until finally displaying the cover below with the list of songs.

what makes a player stand out are its features, no matter how silly they may be, and the beauty of an interface counts for a lot, a fact that made Audivana a spectacularly beautiful player.

Time goes by and today I can't even think about Mp3 320 Kbps, everything bothers me, and everyone looks for what attracts them in a music player, whatever it may be. I've used so many and I don't even know why players fascinate me so much, but I can assure you that each one has a limitation when it comes to interface, and in a few months a dedicated group managed to create VU meter, Cool edit Nostalgia and Rounded covers.

The question is, does Musicbee need annoying people like me who charge for these things? Or should we just stop now and settle for Foobar or Aimp or Windows media player that in theory "Play Music"?

We can never give up on foolish things, otherwise we would never have seen the Itunes Coverflow. It is necessary because it challenges the creator, I wish I knew programming like you know, that's why I admire and value it.
Musicbee can be everything, I can have a clean look today, just as someone else can have a fuller look.

What matters in the end is keeping Musicplayers alive and what can be done next and later. I just have to thank those who create.

This plugin considerably increased the distance between the covers and it was great.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/42m8q6zdrqr0upjjixd1z/Rounded.png?rlkey=76iahei4mmv1vpujdawj9vk8r&st=ef9x6yd5&dl=0

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: January 15, 2025, 12:45:40 AM »

#1   Is it possible that the function is not applied to the album as shown in figure 1. or that these borders can use the skin color?
#2   Are these edges as shown in the figure part of the Plugin or the skin?

For number 2, those borders are displayed by MusicBee. See here on how to turn them off:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=42252.0

For number 1, I am aware of that one. It's due to the JPG format displayed in that view not supporting transparency (which I'm guessing is what you're using right now).
So if you go to your skin file and change the corners_bg element from r,g,b to a colour such as 255,0,0 (rgb format for red), that should override the black background.
If the override doesn't kick in, let me know - I have a feeling it might not in the last version released.

Also, as a general note to the transparency that is applied on the artwork:
Please note that certain views like the expanded panel here use a .jpg format which unlike .png does not support transparency (hence the enforced black border below):

Maybe one day you'll find a way to make the album cover look normal when displayed below.

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: January 11, 2025, 10:46:22 PM »

Is it possible that the function is not applied to the album as shown in figure 1. or that these borders can use the skin color?



Are these edges as shown in the figure part of the Plugin or the skin?




I would appreciate it if you could help, if you can't that's no problem.

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: December 09, 2024, 12:38:55 AM »

It worked perfectly.
I'll test how to reduce the radius of the edges.
I'm very happy that something I requested a long time ago was done, despite all the jokes I heard.
Thank you, even if it hadn't worked, just trying to do it would have been worth it.

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: November 30, 2024, 05:26:17 PM »

Thanks hiccup. I can't remember what I was looking for under the cache folder when I spotted those album covers and manually modified one as a test.
When it worked, I then remembered the wishlist request for the rounded corners. There seems to be quite a bit that plugins can help with.
I'm not able to round the artwork in the Track Info panel because that seems to be displayed at full resolution - directly from the tracks and not cached artwork.

Doesn't work. I have 3.6.9100 version.

There's an Activity.log file under ...MusicBee\AppData\mb_RoundedArtwork
Can you let me know what that says? (you too Artesoll)

It says ( Initializing plugin...
Skin loaded: Divine Light)

My version is 3.6.9083

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Plugins / Re: Rounded Artwork

« on: November 30, 2024, 04:55:42 PM »

It didn't work, but it was worth a try.
It's important to always be thinking about evolving while designing.
Who knows, maybe in the future it will be an option for the application itself.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: The ability to place plugin panels in 'Now Playing' and in Theater Modes.

« on: November 16, 2024, 12:35:17 AM »

in fact this is already a big step and it was exactly what I thought, maybe in the future it will expand to the main panel on nowplay.

I know we always want more, maybe in the future we will reach heaven.

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Skins / Re: Fusion one Musicbee dark Skin

« on: October 31, 2024, 06:32:25 AM »

The link for the skin goes to a jpg file.

It is fixed
Ok now

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Skins / Fusion one Musicbee dark Skin

« on: October 31, 2024, 02:06:19 AM »

Fusion Skin 1 - 10/24
Hello again, it's been a while. Hope you like. Fusion its the ultimate dark collor








*You need to show album cover
* last image its a concept of nowplaying panel - maybe in the future.
Image 5 The code line for virtual tags created a Top most player artist in thumbnail browser you can find here: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=42016.0

Link Fusion Download 1.0:  
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l5uai9bc9z9mr634lgjum/Fusion-Skin.xmlc?rlkey=cbbi9ucsx77j4ekbpwmim26na&st=bs0ibrp9&dl=1

Link Vu Meter Adapted Fusion collor: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mmzsgl40bdz6gs3fujt80/DejaVU-Compact-Fusion.zip?rlkey=gl2ornsc2cbhxmyc4r7k5y7gy&st=fi8rd6ia&dl=1



Original VU meter link by hiccup
DejaVU Compact Elemental Topic: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=41696.msg227213#post_VUmeter_AL-65



Spectro vizualizer: COOLEDIT NOSTALGIA VISUALIZER
link plugin: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39765.0
Vizualizer spectro MILKDROP 3.0 :  Link Plugin: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39084.0

Other skins: Light
* https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=41502.0

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: The ability to place plugin panels in 'Now Playing' and in Theater Modes.

« on: October 25, 2024, 02:29:44 PM »

+1
In a post I had already requested, thought something about adding this.  in a specific post about this specific plugin
in fact I think ( Nowplaying and Musicexplorer ) should somehow converge as one. and there is also the possibility of manipulating panels and plugins.
In my case, of the functions I have, I prefer to leave it clean, but I would like to put the VU meter or Cooledit nostalgia, fixed, it would be really cool
But this.
That's just my opinion.

concept

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Questions / Re: It is possible to create a Top Artist using virtual Tags

« on: October 18, 2024, 05:14:26 PM »

Hi Artesoll,

As long as you have the Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools plugin installed, you could try this virtual tag:

Code

$CharN(200b,$Sum(<Play Count>,<Artist>))<Artist>

No numbers, just the artist name but should sort in order of 'most number of plays', highest first. (You will still see the 'All' group at the top of the Thumbnail Browser.)

Thanks everyone - t worked perfectly.
This responds to an old wishlist request which was: Thambnail browser load autoplaylist, to precisely place the most played ones.

Now on the main page, we can display the most played artists in the library. Making things more dynamic.

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Plugins / Re: VUMeter Plugin

« on: October 16, 2024, 06:07:16 PM »

Fair enough, not judging.

even though I want it to look how I want, I start music playing and then leave it.

No lyrics, or anything animated, don't see the point.

I think it's something old, since the first Media Player Classic, with the arrival of Winamp, which took visuals and movements into account. For those who really like organizing music, this is the point, I think.  Then comes the design and interactivity, which is what attracts attention, for example Spotfy, Itunes or Audivana.
I spend hours on Musicbee as a pleasure, a hobby. organize and update data from everything you listen to.

In the living room I listen through a common sound system, the kitchen, the bedroom, the car each have a different system, But the data that goes to these systems comes from musicBee statistics. But on the PC, I like to see Musicbee in action.


I wrote this text using Google Translate, no word is actually meant to sound offensive

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Questions / Re: It is possible to create a Top Artist using virtual Tags

« on: October 15, 2024, 11:01:48 PM »

Hello, Thanks for the reply.

When I say random, as you can see in the image, In the Library statistics, the most played artist is Sabrina carpeter and Schiller, The function does not follow an order, and these numbers are in different orders, even if I Sort by count or name.

And I believe there is no way to remove these numbers next to the artist's name or at least put them in an order

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Questions / Re: It is possible to create a Top Artist using virtual Tags

« on: October 15, 2024, 05:44:17 PM »

It didn't work as I imagined, but I understand the concept, it's complex. the numbers become strange and random. For me, it would be easier if the program itself loaded the number of executions or the auto playlist in the thumbnail browser itself.


Thank you very much, now I know that I know almost nothing about this software. that I live on the surface. For me there are several limitations, be it language or age.  But I'll keep trying, because there are people like you willing to help.