Last.FM Data veiwing Music Script [Beta]

azido Wrote:so they stay onscreen after stop? are they refreshed on the next track's start though?

yes & yes.

it's not a real issue in the visualisation screen as it will automatically exit when playback stops,
but if you're using those labels in 'now playing' (MyMusicPlaylist) they will stay on screen after the last song ends.
as a workaround you can add <visible>Player.HasAudio</visible> to those labels.

ronie Wrote:but if you're using those labels in 'now playing' (MyMusicPlaylist) they will stay on screen after the last song ends.
as a workaround you can add <visible>Player.HasAudio</visible> to those labels.

exactly the idea i would go for next.

first one i'll remedy (overlook thanks for the nudge), r24295. second one is sorta by design. it would be a bit involved to do so i think i'll just dump the burden on you skinners ;P

The beta is now available for download. IT is beta, it might crash XBMC, but for me on Windows 7 with my music, it works pretty good.

Get it HERE

Thanks

Gudy

nice work. for a jukebox use case it is a much better idea than psychedelic visualizations, 1080p fanart, and animated cds...

it does seem like it is now feasible to re-implement most of the functionality using MusicVisualisation.Xml and native xbmc calls, but the amount of information you pull from last.fm (and multiple artist images) is what really makes the script.

smoother integration with existing skin ui and xbmc workflow is all that is really missing. might even overcome my hatred of python and white space sensitivity and drop it at some point.

(working perfectly on ubuntu 8.11, though the image scaling and font scaling is a little odd on 40" 1080p display)

schmoko Wrote:nice work. for a jukebox use case it is a much better idea than psychedelic visualizations, 1080p fanart, and animated cds...

it does seem like it is now feasible to re-implement most of the functionality using MusicVisualisation.Xml and native xbmc calls, but the amount of information you pull from last.fm (and multiple artist images) is what really makes the script.

smoother integration with existing skin ui and xbmc workflow is all that is really missing. might even overcome my hatred of python and white space sensitivity and drop it at some point.

(working perfectly on ubuntu 8.11, though the image scaling and font scaling is a little odd on 40" 1080p display)

Interesting, I have a 42in 1080p and it looks good. But like I said, the code is pretty rough. Personally, python and its tabs can kiss my .... But, it is cool that you can do things like this in XBMC, and it makes since for it to use python. Thanks for the feedback! I hope someone better with python than myself can improve on the design, or someone can integrate it with a skin to make it more fluid!

Gudy

Is there an InfoLabel to display the artist thumb during music visualization (not the album)? I'm an xml novice, and nothing from the InfoLabels Wiki was helpful. I took a stab @ <info>MusicPlayer.Artist</info> but that didn't work.

how do you implement this into XBMC? thanks

download, put it in your scripts folder

thanks for the help Joebrady,
i downloaded and placed in the script file like you said. Yet when i go to script it doesn't list, can't seem to get it to function. Is there something that needs to be registerd?