[MOD] Rapier Qualar Mod

Panduran Wrote:Hi.
First of all, I love your mod!
But I have some questions left: How do I activate the music info fullscreen info view? And is there a way to replace the screensaver with this info view when music is playing?

Thanks!

Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean by activate music info fullscreen.

The display button on your remote, or the TAB on the keyboard will enable it.

the Use Visualization if Playing Audio needs to be selected under your screensaver settings

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appearance_Settings

I thought TAB just switch between fullscreen(visualisation) and Music List View.

qualar Wrote:

Is that not what this screen is?

That is the visualisation screen, To remove the dialog press "i".

joebrady Wrote:Is that not what this screen is?

He was asking about the music information screen...

Is that the display that appears on top of the visualization when you press the start button in the xbox controler or the white one?

Feanor Wrote:He was asking about the music information screen...

Is that the display that appears on top of the visualization when you press the start button in the xbox controler or the white one?

I am afraid someone else will have to jump in and help. I don't know what the question is.

Feanor Wrote:He was asking about the music information screen...

Is that the display that appears on top of the visualization when you press the start button in the xbox controler or the white one?

Yes

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Visualizations

qualar Wrote:Azido thanks for your input

I did not actually add that part of the code. The only part of that info box that I modded was the rotating CD part. However, I am thinking of replacing this with a less obtrusive display. Maybe just the Rotating CD art in the bottom top left of screen with a few key bits of info. Could anybody supply comments on what they would prefer?

For now I have upload version 2.1.1 that changes Mhz to Khz and hides previous/next track entry if it is empty.

you're welcome. actually i never tried the rapier skin, so that was my first impression of the music info.

i wouldn't remove too much there.. i mean, music library lacks enough information naturally, so why don't use the available ones to the max? it's just some cosmetics plus the verification what kind of info is useful in the different sections/screens.

or, of course, use a minimalistic one to gain more presence of the visualisation, and add a seperate info window to the lib view that shows more info on the current playing track. we did that on showmix, and i really like to see as much info as there can be.

My thinking is that all the information about the music is available in the list view. If you have enabled the visualiser it makes sense that you would want to see the visualiser.

I have been working on a replacement with this in mind that keeps thing looking nice with the most useful info but does not take the whole screen.