Artist View Album Count

[Tommy]

....... does anybody know how to change the font or font-color for Album Count underneath the Artist name ...?...

[boroda]

i don't know, but suggest that its possible only by creating own mb skin.

[phred]

....... does anybody know how to change the font or font-color for Album Count underneath the Artist name ...?...

You can't change the color, except perhaps as boroda74 says, with a skin, but you can change the font.

Click on 'Albums' in the header bar of the main panel > Customize Panel... > At the top of the Artwork Layout window is where you can tick 'set custom font' and then set as desired for the various elements.

[Tommy]

...... thanks for your replies.

@ phred

I've tried that before, but couldn't get it to work.

In fact I only need to adjust the contrast or opacity, but what to choose from the drop-down menu ?

The only entries available for album are:

Album - Album [Year] - Album Artist - Album Complete ? - Album Duration - Album Gain - Album Played ? - Album Rating - Album Track Count

None of these seem to do the trick, or am I missing something ?

@ boroda74

What <element> would that be in the skin xml ...?...

[phred]

The only entries available for album are:
Album - Album [Year] - Album Artist - Album Complete ? - Album Duration - Album Gain - Album Played ? - Album Rating - Album Track Count
None of these seem to do the trick, or am I missing something ?

Yes, it seems that you're missing something as there are at least 50 entries in that down-down. you need to scroll down to the bottom of the drop-down and select 'Year' or 'Year (yyyy)'. I'm not sure what the difference is between the two, but when I just tried them, they both returned the four-digit year.

[boroda]

'year' may be year or full date (including month and day), 'year (yyyy)' is in fact some kind of virtual tag and is always just year.

[Tommy]

....... now I'm really confused.

What got the Year, Year (YYYY) or Album [Year] to do with album count.

Album count is only displayed if albums grouped by Artist as far as I understand:





This is Artist View I'm talking about and I can' find anything in the drop-down menu that applies to the "show album count" sub-header for the displayed artwork .......

[Bee-liever]

@ Tommy,
When using that "show album count" option, MB disables all but the top option of the panel posted by phred.
The album count is then automatically dispalyed by MB with a preset contrast setting.
This can't be adjusted.
You might consider posting a wishlist item for this as Steven is currently still working on 3.1 changes.

[Tommy]

....... I kinda figured that's the case.

It's not that important to me to put it on a wishlist, I think I uncheck the option and get rid of it, maybe I put enable scroll by mouse-wheel through all the albums in extended view that would be nice I guess.

I reckon if it is a MusicBee build-in preset it can't be changed in the skin xml as well, or can it ... ? ...

[phred]

....... now I'm really confused.
What got the Year, Year (YYYY) or Album [Year] to do with album count.

Yeah, well I apologize for that. You said 'album count' and my brain said 'year.' Didn't mean to confuse you.

[Tommy]

Yeah, well I apologize for that. You said 'album count' and my brain said 'year.' Didn't mean to confuse you.

....... never mind, thanks for your reply anyway.