Theater Mode Plugin

[Steven]

here is an example file i created for testing with a left sidebar (although the name assigned is #RightSidebar)
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/zz.xml

if you still have problems send me your file

you cant create a topbar and i really want to be moving off this plugin now, so it would need to wait until i revisit this again

i have had no problems with the lyrics and it uses exactly the same function as the main player panel, so are the lyrics already embeded or are they being downloaded

[Greb]

Yeap, sidebars placed at the left side work OK. I was using a left sidebar for the list of songs and a right sidebar for the lyrics. The problem came with the sidebar placed at the right.

[Steven]

i made a shortcut in the code so it only fully supports one sidebar. I will have a look and see how much effort it is to support 2 sidebars

[Greb]

Damn! Hope it's not too much.

[Steven]

could you send me your file (with the 2nd sidebar)

[Greb]

http://www.mediafire.com/?ddi8z87w2j11vi2

[Steven]

sent you a PM

[Greb]

Thanks. It works OK. Just one thing: the moment the background changes the panels are opened of closed both of them, but no way to keep one opened and one closed.

[Steven]

if you are referring to the sidebars closing when pictures change from a rotation folder then this update should fix that (as opposed to downloaded pictures changing which should already work fine).
Also its a bit smarter about how it remembers pinned sidebars on restart where there are multiple sidebars
Also has a couple of other bug fixes

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/TheaterMode_Plugin.zip

[maiden_freak]

I cannot get this plugin to work at all. I have the latest version of MusicBee (2.0.4467) and I zipped the files into the correct folder as follows:

    c:\program files\musicbee\musicbee.exe
    c:\program files\musicbee\plugins\mb_TheaterModePlugin.dll
    c:\program files\musicbee\plugins\mb_TheaterModePlugin.dll.config
    c:\program files\musicbee\plugins\TheaterMode.List\
    c:\program files\musicbee\plugins\TheaterMode.List\Default.xml

I also "unblocked" all files in properties after being download (gotta love Windows security features) and when I open MusicBee I get the following error:

Exception Processing Message 0xc0000005 Parameters 0x75E95874 0x75E95874 0x75E95874 0x75E95874

The program crashes shortly after. Any ideas? I have done everything as indicated to install it and cannot determine why this is happening.

[Steven]

see the instructions on the first post. I doesnt look like you applied the patched version of musicbee

[maiden_freak]

In the end it always something stupid on my part. It works beautifully now. Thanks!

[Alexis]

In the end it always something stupid on my part. It works beautifully now. Thanks!

I can truly relate to that!

[Alexis]

I obviously  enjoy the theatermode view.  

Question:
Is it possible at all, without going through my windows  screen timeout option each time, to have this thing keep my monitor awake when it is in theatermode?  I really like having that view up when I am walking by.

 Thank you for the  check mark next to the currently selected theatermode.  Kept forgetting to ask for that.

[Greb]

if you are referring to the sidebars closing when pictures change from a rotation folder then this update should fix that (as opposed to downloaded pictures changing which should already work fine).
Also its a bit smarter about how it remembers pinned sidebars on restart where there are multiple sidebars
Also has a couple of other bug fixes

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2/TheaterMode_Plugin.zip

The new patch works perfect  

One suggestion (though I know you are just a bit 'ras le bol' about the theater mode!). There is a program, not really a very good one, but with wonderful interface: http://klarita.net/muso.html

This is a cap of the interface (though when I installed it could look much better. I uninstalled long ago). I think you should take a look to it.

Integrating last.fm, amazon reviews, more albums from the same artist, similar artist in the theater mode coul lead to something really nice.