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How to hide Song Pop-Up between songs? - Berz - 2010-07-31 21:13
I often use my xbmc when I have guests over to play music in the background to set the mood. A small annoyance in those occasions is the song pop-up window that shows between songs and pulls all eyes to my TV-set for a couple of seconds.
Does anyone know how I can disable this pop-up when playing music?
- jmarshall - 2010-08-01 01:14
See advancedsettings.xml - you can set it the duration to 0 to stop it popping up.
The alternative is to keep it on all the time.
- Blackbolt - 2010-08-01 10:11
Cheers for your help jmarshall.
- Berz - 2010-08-01 13:51
Hi again,
Prior to my post I ran throught the following link:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Advancedsettings.xml
But the only option I could think of there was <songinfoduration> but as it states: "The valid range is "1" to "Indefinite (0)", in seconds"
So the value "0" will just leave the pop-up on at all time. I've also tried setting the value to -1 and others, but no value will disable the song information pop-up.
Are you hinting at some other parameter in the Advancedsettings.xml that I'm not aware of, jmarshall?
- Blackbolt - 2010-08-01 18:23
Unless you're referring to a bug with our skin maybe where the song info doesn't hide. That will be fixed in 1.2.
- Berz - 2010-08-01 19:00
Well, I don't see it as a bug since the Wiki of advancedsettings.xml clearly describes what the parameter I mentioned earlier does AND it does exactly that.
It just don't support hiding/disabling of the pop-up as I see it. That's what I'm asking here - if there is another way to disable the pop-up (like a setting somewhere)?
Either in Elipsis or in XBMC itself.
- jmarshall - 2010-08-01 23:05
Remove the info from the skin altogether is an easy way to do it.
- Berz - 2010-08-02 12:05
Hmm.. okay.. Anyone that knows what skin-file(s) I should remove?
- Waffa - 2010-08-02 14:14
Open.. Ellipsis/720p/MusicVisualisation.xml
Out comment line 16 to 118 <!-- ......-->
You can also make or request for a skin setting to toggle on/off musicinfo in visualisation.
- Berz - 2010-08-03 12:19
Thanks for the input Waffa. It worked as it should, but I see now that this method is a little to effective since it removes the pop-up from ever showing - even if you want to see what's playing. I've found that the best solution at the time is to set the timeout to a couple of seconds in Advancedsettings.xml. I'll look forward to the Ellipsis version 1.2 and test this then
