Modern Skin Hack (Albumcover)

[VooDoo`]

I hope this is possible to show the album cover in the song notification (look at the picture)

The Idea comes from omote in this thread: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....0&pagenumber=2

I have send a mail to bartibarman, but he did not answer

So I hope someone can do this.

[carlosp]

It is not possibel yet. Sorry.

[roth377]

Is it not possible even if it is included in the ID3v2 tag?

Ideally, it would first search for a tag picture, and if none look for a cover.jpg in the current file's folder.

This would be much like Itune's Synergy plugin (for OSX only I believe).

Maybe if anything Toaster could add this in?

[VAG]

I believe could be done with a hack where will say to notifier to detect the skin placement on desktop and to appear on LCD this info on a special placement for this info.

Like a 2nd notifier but only this info will be viewable always as an extra component layer upon the skin (if can be happen this)

I don't know......maybe iPlayTheSpoons can answer this as coder, but I know always there are "hacks", only the way of doing those is different......

I hope it helps,
LaterZzz

[Plague]

vag, no it's not possible..
you'd have to create a component (.wac) to implement this.
two problems:
#1: there's no way in maki/xml to detect the album cover in the id tag.
#2: there's no way in maki to browse/open files (security reasons)

[neoflox]

so i assume this is not possible too:
to put some id-tag information on the songinfo display somewhere...

[Plague]

some id tags are accessible, but not the album cover..
With the accessible tags, sure, you can do that..

[neoflox]

And what are the accessible tags? I mean are there more than "Artist", "Title" and Bitrate?

[Plague]

you can use System.getPlayItemMetaDataString(String metadataname); to get some tags.
I'm not completely sure which tags you can get, but I think for example you can get: album, artist, title, genre, bitrate, samplerate, track (use .# I think).....

-Plague

[neoflox]

mhh...i'll see if ican use this...THX!

[inthegray]

i'm not sure if this is related or not, but check out this screenshot i found. yes, that is winamp he's using, just with an apple-esque skin (from rpeterclark and another guy who i can't recall).

apparently, it's a "configuration" called CDCovers for an app called Samurize. it should work for foobar, wmp, qcd, and winamp 5 full. google will have more information for you.

[roth377]

thanks for the post inthegray. Yeah, that's basically how I would like it to work. The "problem" with samuarize is that you either have the "widgets" attached to the desktop, or always on top (as far as I know). I'd only like to information to pop up much like only when the notification pops up.

I've messed around with Desktop X and Samurize, and can't seem to get them to work that way, so unless someone knows of a way, then I'd be a happy man

[roth377]

YEAH!

Nevermind about my previous post. The lastest version of CDCovers config file has a Synergy "port" That functions very well. I'm stilling messing around with it, hoping it takes info from either ID3v2 or folder.jpgs (right now it goes to Amazon.com). It even allows it to go "always on top" when the track changes, then fades away. Awesome!

I still believe Winamp should really consider making this a part of the notification, but I'm happy with this "workaround". Thanks for all the help guys (and gals???)

and a special thanks to inthegray who turned me back onto Samurize after I had given up on it quite a while back.

[inthegray]

glad to be of help. it'd be cool if someone could reverse-engineer/ask-the-dev-of CDCovers and make a Winamp plug-in for this, or a stand-alone app if neccessary. that way, we'd have this awesome function without having to run Samurize.