Music Infolabels

Hi,
in the myspace plugin, I have a line that sets the artist and title infolabels:
Anyway, in the visualisation and the "now playing"-display, it shows the cryptic_filename.mp3 , Is this normal? Is there any way to change this behaviour? Is it a bug or a feature?

we were just discussing this, not currently. We need a new function similar to listitem.setInfo() but for the Player() object.


are you up for it?

Nuka1195 Wrote:we were just discussing this, not currently. We need a new function similar to listitem.setInfo() but for the Player() object.

Code:

player = xbmc.Player( xbmc.PLAYER_CORE_MPLAYER )
player.setInfo("music",{"artist":song["artist"],"title":song["title"]})
player.play( url )

are you up for it?

Naah, I don't really like this one. If I implement it as isFolder=True and use the play command in the plugin, it would not be possible any more to add the elements to a playlist. Why doesn't the player use the infolabels?

An alternative method would be to allow Player.play() to take a listitem object (like I'm 99% sure it does internally).

Cheers,
Jonathan

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Naah, I don't really like this one. If I implement it as isFolder=True and use the play command in the plugin, it would not be possible any more to add the elements to a playlist. Why doesn't the player use the infolabels?

the currently playing file has different infolabels, what happens if you minize a video and scroll thru the list, the infolabels change, what would you have the player do. I didn't say anything about isFolder=True?

JMarshall, That would be nicer, I'll see if I can find anything.

Not sure if I expressed that correctly... When I browse a folder or a plugin folder, XBMC knows about the infolabels. In a plugin, if I set artist and title, it displays this information while browsing. So it would be nice if this information could be passed to the player. I thought this would happen as the player knows about video library information - covers, etc. for example. So I thought this info would be passed to the player on playback start... This is just cosmetic, however I wondered how the information would flow...
And I wonder why this works for Apple Movie trailers. The player displays all the information set in the infolabels. Things are different here for music playback.

hmm, i don't know, but I'm adding listitem support to the player as we speak.

Edit: when you say AMT works, are you downloading the videos first? It would be the real name then as I save the file with the title of the trailer.

There'll be a difference depending on whether XBMC plays the file directly (i.e. from the listing you give it) or whether the plugin is called to play the file.

If XBMC plays the file directly then the info should already be in the listitem, and thus available to the player.

I'll grab the myspace plugin and have a play.

Cheers,
Jonathan

jmarshall Wrote:If XBMC plays the file directly then the info should already be in the listitem, and thus available to the player.

This is not the case. Thanks for your help, jmarshall. Maybe I did something wrong with the plugin, but I can't figure it out. And it doesn't work i the other music plugins.

Please use this version as it contains the infolabels:
http://max-server.informatik.uni-bremen....ySpace.rar