2012-05-17, 22:59
Hi,
I am completely new to the whole HTPC side of computing, last night I installed XBMC and downloaded the Aeon skin. I am liking the skin a lot thanks for all your awesome work.
I just have a few questions which are frustrating the hell out of me cause I have no idea what I am doing:
1) I have set up a source for my music in Aeon. The problem is that I dont get the cool looking view that I see around here on the forum with all the skins.
Its there but no fan art or album art or any info comes up. I'm trying to get it to look similar to this:
(Just a random image I found on the net)
But all I get is ugly boxes with names, no pictures nothing.
I thought XBMC scan's all this information from the net right? Like it does with Movies, TV shows etc?
If I'm wrong is there some program that I can use to do this for me? I have like 10,000 mp3 so its an epic mission?
2) In the main homescreen of Aeon, there is all the menu's (like movies, music etc). I want to remove videos and in its place have "Music Videos" or something similar? How do I do this, I spent an age last night playing around trying to do this but it never worked. I even tried using the "Concerts" menu but I couldn't manage to get my Music Videos to show in that menu, it just said I needed to add sources when I clicked on it?
I tried going into Settings > Skin > Shortcuts and Backgrounds (I think its called) where you can activate/deactivate the menus etc. I tried making a Playlist called Music Vids (so it would fit on the home screen bar) in which I selected a smart playlist (which I had sourced to my music videos) but it still wouldnt work?
What am I doing wrong as nothing is working for me??
3) I don't know if I can actually do this one. But I like the "showcase" view setting, but right now if I click on Movies, it goes to a showcase view of all my movies, which looks great. However is it possible to set it up so that when I click "Movies" it goes to a showcase view of the different genes? With the different genes having a picture of a random movie reflecting that gene?
Like this for example:
Home screen > Movies > Shows all genes in showcase view > Action > Shows all Action movies in showcase view
Is something like this possible? I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this idea as it seems like many would like something like this?
Anyway that's all for now. Your skin is awesome, I'm just new and confused haha.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I am completely new to the whole HTPC side of computing, last night I installed XBMC and downloaded the Aeon skin. I am liking the skin a lot thanks for all your awesome work.
I just have a few questions which are frustrating the hell out of me cause I have no idea what I am doing:
1) I have set up a source for my music in Aeon. The problem is that I dont get the cool looking view that I see around here on the forum with all the skins.
Its there but no fan art or album art or any info comes up. I'm trying to get it to look similar to this:
(Just a random image I found on the net)
But all I get is ugly boxes with names, no pictures nothing.
I thought XBMC scan's all this information from the net right? Like it does with Movies, TV shows etc?
If I'm wrong is there some program that I can use to do this for me? I have like 10,000 mp3 so its an epic mission?
2) In the main homescreen of Aeon, there is all the menu's (like movies, music etc). I want to remove videos and in its place have "Music Videos" or something similar? How do I do this, I spent an age last night playing around trying to do this but it never worked. I even tried using the "Concerts" menu but I couldn't manage to get my Music Videos to show in that menu, it just said I needed to add sources when I clicked on it?
I tried going into Settings > Skin > Shortcuts and Backgrounds (I think its called) where you can activate/deactivate the menus etc. I tried making a Playlist called Music Vids (so it would fit on the home screen bar) in which I selected a smart playlist (which I had sourced to my music videos) but it still wouldnt work?
What am I doing wrong as nothing is working for me??
3) I don't know if I can actually do this one. But I like the "showcase" view setting, but right now if I click on Movies, it goes to a showcase view of all my movies, which looks great. However is it possible to set it up so that when I click "Movies" it goes to a showcase view of the different genes? With the different genes having a picture of a random movie reflecting that gene?
Like this for example:
Home screen > Movies > Shows all genes in showcase view > Action > Shows all Action movies in showcase view
Is something like this possible? I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this idea as it seems like many would like something like this?
Anyway that's all for now. Your skin is awesome, I'm just new and confused haha.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks