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TheaterMode / TM on a large projection screen

« on: July 10, 2022, 09:12:27 PM »

I help run a charity in Pittsburgh PA that has monthly ballroom dances. We use TM along with MusicBee in a unique way.

We use it with a rear projection 10' wide screen to let dancers know what dances are coming up next.

The graphics are not fancy but it gets the job done.

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TheaterMode / Re: Feature request: Photo slideshow in TM

« on: April 15, 2019, 06:27:12 PM »

I already added a +1 to that thread.

Can you send me some links to some fiddly work-arounds? Most of the hacks I saw required you to link pictures to songs which does not work efficiently in our case because our library is large and we have a custom playlist every month. Also, our DJ who puts the playlists together is somewhat curmudgeonly so we need to make it as simple as possible. Configure the TM theme XML once and drop some pictures into a folder somewhere.

We need the slide show to be truly independent of the song being played.

Is there a GitHub/other source code page for the TheaterMode plugin itself. I am very familiar with the XML configuration files but may be interested in working on a new feature for the plugin.

I am thinking that the work should not be to substantial. I could use the gallery picture code and background image code to show the picture but with rotation timing and picture folder identification elements.  Basically just change the source location of the pictures and add rotation from the background code. Does this sound about right?

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TheaterMode / Feature request: Photo slideshow in TM

« on: April 15, 2019, 02:29:24 AM »

We use TM as a DJ setup for a non-profit ballroom dance group. We use MB on a laptop and TM displays the upcoming playlist/dance step on a large projection screen.

I would like to add a rotating photo slideshow using photos of previous events (not related to the music) as an element within TM.

Is this feature on the development radar?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Support for local picture slideshow

« on: April 14, 2019, 03:00:51 PM »

+1 for me as well.