How to hide Song Pop-Up between songs?

Berz · 2010-07-31 21:13

I often use my xbmc when I have guests over to play music in the background to set the mood. A small annoyance in those occasions is the song pop-up window that shows between songs and pulls all eyes to my TV-set for a couple of seconds.

Does anyone know how I can disable this pop-up when playing music? Confused

**jmarshall** · 2010-08-01 01:14

See advancedsettings.xml - you can set it the duration to 0 to stop it popping up.

The alternative is to keep it on all the time.

Blackbolt · 2010-08-01 10:11

Cheers for your help jmarshall.

Berz · 2010-08-01 13:51

Hi again,

Prior to my post I ran throught the following link:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...ttings.xml

But the only option I could think of there was <songinfoduration> but as it states: "The valid range is "1" to "Indefinite (0)", in seconds"

So the value "0" will just leave the pop-up on at all time. I've also tried setting the value to -1 and others, but no value will disable the song information pop-up.

Are you hinting at some other parameter in the Advancedsettings.xml that I'm not aware of, jmarshall?

Blackbolt · 2010-08-01 18:23

Unless you're referring to a bug with our skin maybe where the song info doesn't hide. That will be fixed in 1.2.

Berz · 2010-08-01 19:00

Well, I don't see it as a bug since the Wiki of advancedsettings.xml clearly describes what the parameter I mentioned earlier does AND it does exactly that.

It just don't support hiding/disabling of the pop-up as I see it. That's what I'm asking here - if there is another way to disable the pop-up (like a setting somewhere)? Confused

Either in Elipsis or in XBMC itself.

**jmarshall** · 2010-08-01 23:05

Remove the info from the skin altogether is an easy way to do it.

Berz · 2010-08-02 12:05

Hmm.. okay.. Anyone that knows what skin-file(s) I should remove?

Waffa · 2010-08-02 14:14

Open.. Ellipsis/720p/MusicVisualisation.xml

Out comment line 16 to 118 

You can also make or request for a skin setting to toggle on/off musicinfo in visualisation. Wink

Berz · 2010-08-03 12:19

Thanks for the input Waffa. It worked as it should, but I see now that this method is a little to effective since it removes the pop-up from ever showing - even if you want to see what's playing. I've found that the best solution at the time is to set the timeout to a couple of seconds in Advancedsettings.xml. I'll look forward to the Ellipsis version 1.2 and test this then Smile

Berz Member Posts: 68 Joined: Sep 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Norway	2010-07-31 21:13 How to hide Song Pop-Up between songs? Post: #1 I often use my xbmc when I have guests over to play music in the background to set the mood. A small annoyance in those occasions is the song pop-up window that shows between songs and pulls all eyes to my TV-set for a couple of seconds. Does anyone know how I can disable this pop-up when playing music?
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Blackbolt Skilled Skinner Posts: 334 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 3 Location: Cheshire, England, UK	2010-08-01 10:11 Post: #3 Cheers for your help jmarshall. Currently working on Ellipsis 1.3 Updates. Update Requests Here. Ellipsis for XBMC 1.2.1 Click here to download & for SVN details. Twitter.com/TeamBlackbolt \| Facebook.com/TeamBlackbolt1 \| TeamBlackbolt.co.uk
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Blackbolt Skilled Skinner Posts: 334 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 3 Location: Cheshire, England, UK	2010-08-01 18:23 Post: #5 Unless you're referring to a bug with our skin maybe where the song info doesn't hide. That will be fixed in 1.2. Currently working on Ellipsis 1.3 Updates. Update Requests Here. Ellipsis for XBMC 1.2.1 Click here to download & for SVN details. Twitter.com/TeamBlackbolt \| Facebook.com/TeamBlackbolt1 \| TeamBlackbolt.co.uk
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Berz Member Posts: 68 Joined: Sep 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Norway	2010-08-01 19:00 Post: #6 Well, I don't see it as a bug since the Wiki of advancedsettings.xml clearly describes what the parameter I mentioned earlier does AND it does exactly that. It just don't support hiding/disabling of the pop-up as I see it. That's what I'm asking here - if there is another way to disable the pop-up (like a setting somewhere)? Either in Elipsis or in XBMC itself.
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jmarshall Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 24,523 Joined: Oct 2003 Reputation: 138	2010-08-01 23:05 Post: #7 Remove the info from the skin altogether is an easy way to do it. Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first.
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Berz Member Posts: 68 Joined: Sep 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Norway	2010-08-02 12:05 Post: #8 Hmm.. okay.. Anyone that knows what skin-file(s) I should remove?
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Waffa Posting Freak Posts: 1,163 Joined: May 2008 Reputation: 7 Location: Netherlands	2010-08-02 14:14 Post: #9 Open.. Ellipsis/720p/MusicVisualisation.xml Out comment line 16 to 118 <!-- ......--> You can also make or request for a skin setting to toggle on/off musicinfo in visualisation. (This post was last modified: 2010-08-02 14:19 by Waffa.)
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