Showing music fanart when in fullscreen mode

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TheEvilHammer Offline
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I would like the following behavior when playing music in fullscreen mode:
  • If fanart exists for the currently playing artist, show the fanart instead of the visualization.
  • Otherwise, show the current visualization.
Is this possible with either the skin options or by modifying the XML files?
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Meh, I don't really want to mess around with an entire mod. I just want this one small change. I've tried editing MusicVisualisation.xml myself but I can't get the fanart to show up. Even if I remove the entire <control> section for the visualization, it still appears in fullscreen mode. Any ideas?
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Open up MusicVisualisation.xml and below this
PHP Code:
        <control type="visualisation" id="2">
            <!-- 
FIX ME Music Visualization needs to have an id of 2 in this window to be able to lock or change preset -->
            <
description>visualisation</description>
            <
posx>0</posx>
            <
posy>0</posy>
            <
width>1280</width>
            <
height>720</height>
        </
control
add this
PHP Code:
        <control type="image">
            <
description>Fanart Image for Artist</description>
            <
posx>0</posx>
            <
posy>0</posy>
            <
width>1280</width>
            <
height>720</height>
            <
texture background="true">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image)]</texture>
            <
colordiffuse>AAFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
            <
visible>!IsEmpty(MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image))</visible>
            <
fadetime>600</fadetime>
        </
control
if you dont want the visualisation to show through as well then remove this line
PHP Code:
<colordiffuse>AAFFFFFF</colordiffuse

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(2012-05-23 23:30)TheEvilHammer Wrote:  Meh, I don't really want to mess around with an entire mod. I just want this one small change. I've tried editing MusicVisualisation.xml myself but I can't get the fanart to show up. Even if I remove the entire <control> section for the visualization, it still appears in fullscreen mode. Any ideas?

In that case take a look at the Artist Slideshow addon. Mad-max's mod includes support for that (along with other things), but the actual changes needed just for Artist Slideshow are pretty small (and explained on the wiki page for the addon).
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-24 03:06 by pkscuot.)
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