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This is the part of the xml that I think needs changing - could someone please tell me what to change here lol?
</control>
<control type="largeimage"><!-- Artist Fanart-->
<include>FullscreenDimensions</include>
<texture>$INFO[MusicPlayer.property(fanart_image)]</texture>
<fadetime>400</fadetime>
<include>Animation_VisibleChange400</include>
<visible>![Skin.HasSetting(blackvisbackground) + Visualisation.Enabled]</visible>
<include>Animation_OpenCloseZoom</include>
</control>
<control type="largeimage"><!-- musicpath/Artist/Album/fanart.jpg -->
<include>FullscreenDimensions</include>
<texture>$INFO[Skin.String(cdartpath)]/$INFO[MusicPlayer.Artist]/$INFO[MusicPlayer.Album]/fanart.jpg</texture>
<fadetime>400</fadetime>
<include>Animation_VisibleChange400</include>
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(visbackground2) + ![Skin.HasSetting(blackvisbackground)+Visualisation.Enabled]+ !IsEmpty(Skin.String(cdartpath))</visible>
<include>Animation_OpenCloseZoom</include>
</control>
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Hi i have one question to the displayed fanart during playback.
Is it possible to define some pictures that appear if you don't have a fanart for the actual artist?
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Argh! Please help I'm at my wits end here now...
I have tried reading this entire thread for the answer but I must be doing something wrong with my folder structure as the CD art and the fanart refuse to show. I get nothing but the default CD and a blank background.
I have created the following path (caps and all exactly as I created them):
Alaska/media/backdrops/artist_fanart/
Then under artist_fanart I have for example a folder called Tool.
Under Tool I have pasted several .png files with transparent backgrounds labeled as such (for example) Tool - Opiate.png
As far as I know that is exactly as it is supposed to be done. Yet I get nothing. I also paste the Tool fanart poster in this same folder and it won't show up either. I have several other artists under the artist_fanart folder and none of them are displaying either.
Am I missing something very basic here? I am using a modified version for Alaska but my understanding is that the core function is identical.
This may sound dumb but should the fanart folder be called (in this case) Tool_fanart or something?
Please help. It looks fantastic and would like it to present nicely!
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2010-05-19, 02:58
(This post was last modified: 2010-05-19, 03:01 by modern69messiah.)
A sweet, that makes so much more sense!
I take it the <cdart>.png should be the same name as the parent folder?
So for example if the album folder is called Tool - Opiate, the the .png should be Tool - Opiate.png or just Opiate.png?
I'm assuming fanart is exactly the same deal - Opiate.jpg under the Opiate album?
Obviously I will experiment myself once I am home from work.
Thanks for the information anyway - it was very much appreciated!
EDIT: Just read a few posts up that cdart is read from the source album folder and fanart is read from the source artist folder. So the fanart is to be kept under the Tool folder, at the same level as the album folders. Simple :-D
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Ok then...
So even though I downloaded and installed the mod less than 2 days ago will these new changes not be present in the version I obtained? If so (and hence I need to modify the xml code) what xml file is the code in?
I'll have a look myself naturally.
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Make sure you have a current version of xbmc or it won't work. I am not sure which revision allows the new way to work.
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Hmm I can't get the revision off the top of my head but I am using XBMC Live and it was downloaded less than 2 months ago. Is the change that recent that it may only be 2 or 3 weeks old?
I'm going to assume no going by the dates of some of these more recent posts.