Display AlbumArtist in Album Art View (&Extra Large Icon)?

[pworm]

Hi,

after years using Winamp as a player only I finally moved my library to Winamp. I really like the way it allows me to browse my collection. But I have 1 question:

Is it possible to display in 'Album Art View' with 'Extra Large Icon' activated both the 'Album Title' AND the 'AlbumArtist' beneath each cover? Especially for albums with missing cover it would be perfect to have the artist name displayed as well!

Thanks in advance,
pw

[MrSinatra]

i don't think so but they might add it since they recently worked on that stuff. ask DrO and egg.

[DrO]

Originally Posted by pworm

Is it possible to display in 'Album Art View' with 'Extra Large Icon' activated both the 'Album Title' AND the 'AlbumArtist' beneath each cover? Especially for albums with missing cover it would be perfect to have the artist name displayed as well!

it doesn't work like that currently and i can see the benefit but it then doesn't quite match with how the view is internally created / collated at least based on what i remember of the code (so i'm probably completely wrong).

Originally Posted by MrSinatra

but they might add it since they recently worked on that stuff. ask DrO and egg.

the only reason the new stuff was added was from me sitting on a patch for ~9months and then finally having a chance to finish it off and commit it.

-daz

[MrSinatra]

Originally Posted by DrO

it doesn't work like that currently and i can see the benefit but it then doesn't quite match with how the view is internally created / collated at least based on what i remember of the code (so i'm probably completely wrong).

this is an issue over at squeezebox too, but they have pretty good config options for it. you can do album title only:

http://www.revalia.co.uk/squeeze/images/SS-webGUI.jpg

or "album title by album artist"

http://www.mvdw-productions.net/gadg...queezebox2.jpg

and you can see that they just keep adding lines of text underneath to fit it all.

i don't think "no text" is an option tho, like it is on winamp, not sure on that however.

but i think for winamp, its best to stay with one line of text. so when/if you start to run out of room, just put three graphically close together dots:

Hard Days Night by The Bea...

however, here is where winamp could really shine. whether it shows that line of text or not, a great feature would be for the tooltip hovering popup to work on ALL albums, (where as now it only works on those where the text doesn't fit even if you have the text off!) ...and have it display the "by album artist" part as well if that option is set that way when text is shown.

Originally Posted by DrO

the only reason the new stuff was added was from me sitting on a patch for ~9months and then finally having a chance to finish it off and commit it.

-daz

i figured it was you. i actually think its one of the best new UI improvements in winamp, as there as a lot of reasons to use bigger art or remove the titles, or whatever. a lot of people wanted it over the years, & now can come close to mimic'ing the artist mockup on the homepage.

question: when you remove the titles, is the space actually "reclaimed" and used for artwork? if yes, to what degree? to me, it looks like u get 65% of it or so back. i'd like to get the art closer to each other, and remove more of the black border, minimize the gaps. is that a setting only you can do, or can i adjust via ini?

thx!

[DrO]

Originally Posted by MrSinatra

question: when you remove the titles, is the space actually "reclaimed" and used for artwork? if yes, to what degree? to me, it looks like u get 65% of it or so back. i'd like to get the art closer to each other, and remove more of the black border, minimize the gaps. is that a setting only you can do, or can i adjust via ini?

the removal just removes the space that would have been used for drawing the text. so visually you get more on screen, but the icon sizes and outer frame should be the same as before, it's just less height per item drawn. there's no way to alter the gap without changing a large number of hard-coded values and calculations in the code.

-daz

[MrSinatra]

Originally Posted by DrO

the removal just removes the space that would have been used for drawing the text. so visually you get more on screen, but the icon sizes and outer frame should be the same as before, it's just less height per item drawn. there's no way to alter the gap without changing a large number of hard-coded values and calculations in the code.

ok, np, very minor concern. however, please don't miss this bit, i should have emphasizd more:

Originally Posted by MrSinatra

but i think for winamp, its best to stay with one line of text. so when/if you start to run out of room, just put three graphically close together dots:

Hard Days Night by The Bea...

however, here is where winamp could really shine. whether it shows that line of text or not, a great feature would be for the tooltip hovering popup to work on ALL albums, (where as now it only works on those where the text doesn't fit even if you have the text off!) ...and have it display the "by album artist" part as well if that option is set that way when text is shown.

this is easy to reproduce. just turn the text off and use bigger art. you will see that many albums produce NO hovering tooltip popup, b/c if the text was on, it would "fit" under the album art. the tooltip only works on those where it wouldn't fit. this makes it appear random and broken esp when text is off.

my fix would be to just have the tooltip always come up. and the tooltip behavior as to whether it should add a "by AA" part, would be controlled by whether or not the proposed option of adding that text under the albums is enacted and turned on, or not.

[DrO]

the displaying of the tooltip on those views is automatically controlled by the OS against the length of the text that is visible as you're seeing with it's intermittent displaying. having it always show involves overriding the standard OS behaviour and do more coding which i cannot do.

-daz