[MOD] Now Playing Tab Mod

Ahh.. Didn't realize Pete made changes to that file.. I'll fix it up when I get in from work..

The 3 files there were changes to for this mod were :

- CommonContent.XML
- Includes.XML
- MusicVisualisation.XML

Restoring the CommonContent.XML file basically proved that this is where the artwork display problem occurs, but since I'm no programmer, it could potentially be something in the other 2 files interacting with the changes made in CommonContent.XML that's creating this problem.

VegasPete, assuming this mod is fixed at some point, how can you manually set things so that each album gets a review to appear? Queen's "A Night At The Opera" works fine, but almost all of my other albums don't have reviews popping up even if they're basically named properly (i.e. The Beatles' "Abbey Road").

Tension, that's why I was asking what you changed to fix CommonContext.xml I tried to find your change for a while last night, but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Stratmangler, if I get time my plan is to make that review box not pop up if there is no review of an album. If you have an album that you want a review but the scraper doesn't find one, the only option I know of is to make an album.nfo in the album's dir. It's tedious work, but I have made about 200 album.nfo's for my favorite bands. I get mood and styles info from allmusic.com and Wiki has good info to cut and paste for a lot of singles. I keep hoping for music support in media companion.

Here's the stuff I put in my Album.nfo's just cut this out and use it for a template for your own:

<album>
<artist> band</artist>
<genre>genre</genre>
<year>year</year>
<rating>rating</rating>
<label>record label</label>
<review>reviw (here's the important one)</review>
<mood>mood1</mood>
<mood>mood2</mood>
<mood>mood etc</mood>
<style>style1</style>
<style>style2</style>
<style>style etc</style>
<theme>theme1</theme>
<theme>theme2</theme>
<theme>theme etc</theme>
</album>


Pete.

This might sound like an out-there idea, but why not add Amazon.com as a scraper? They have reviews for everything!

Do you think it would be possible to ZIP all your NFOs so I could add them in case we have similar music tastes?

Sorry about that.. I looked at Strats post this morning and was like.. What popup??

Here's what I did, applied to your file..

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymjm2vimyj1


The first listitem.thumb in the focusedlayout only had song container.. I added artist and album to it and that did the trick.. Which I would think it shouldn't have worked to begin with, but whatever.. it works now..

I'll check it out and report back about whether this fixed it or not.

Thanks for the effort regardless of whether it works, Tension113. Very appreciated.

Works like a charm. Many thanks Tension.

Pete.