Album art window size settings on "Winamp Modern" skin

[CiroConsentino]

hi all,
I'm trying to find where the settings for the window size of "album art" is stored. I want to manually set it to 200x200 pixels so it doesn't stretch images.

all album covers are stored within each file (.flac and .mp3) but they are stretch to 210x220 as I can't set the window size to exactly 200x200 pixels.

thank you.

[Batter Pudding]

Open %appdata%\Roaming\Winamp\winamp.ini

This is home to all of the Winamp settings.

With Winamp CLOSED scroll down the the section [gen_classicart]

Now you have lots of numbers to mess with. I don't know which is which, so make a copy before you start messing, but I just played with the width \ height variables and changed the window size.

(No idea what ff_width and ff_height are for)

A more careful experiment will lead you to exactly the right values to edit.

[CiroConsentino]

there is no [gen_classicart] section in the file.

I'm using latest build v5.623

[Aminifu]

Hi CiroConsentino,

What skin are you using? The current WA version is 5.63.

[CiroConsentino]

like thread title says, "Winamp Modern", color theme "default".

I have the playlist and album art in separate windows.

here's a sceenshot of my Winamp install
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/7871/winamptheme.jpg

I just updated to latest build 5.63 and section is still not there.

[Aminifu]

It appears you are using the "Album Art Viewer" plug-in. Right click on the window and disable the "Lock aspect ratio" option. You should then be able to re-size the window and it should maintain the new size.

[CiroConsentino]

huh, I didn't install any extra plug-in. I just installed Winamp and changed the skin to "Winamp Modern" and them I clicked "Alt+A" to display the album art window.

... unless this Album Art Viewer plug-in is part of Winamp.

and there is no "Lock aspect ratio" setting anywhere. I've checked.

[Aminifu]

I was going by the picture you provided. It may not be that plug-in, but did the context menu have an aspect lock option?

[CiroConsentino]

no. only "refresh album".

[Aminifu]

On second thought, it is not the Album Art Viewer plug-in. That plug-in is for classic skins.

[Aminifu]

Sorry for the mis-information. The options for that window have to be stored somewhere. I'll switch to that skin and see if I can find them.

[Aminifu]

Hi CiroConsentino,

I have good news (I found where the art window's options are stored) and bad news (have yet to find definitions for all of the options).

Below is an example of the section in the "studio.xnf" file where the options are stored. This file is in the same folder as the "winamp.ini" file. The " "rect" value " and " "restoredrect" value " hold the x, y (starting point) and size coordinates for the album art window. With WA shut down, I suggest you use notepad to change the last 2 values (164 in this example) to 200 on each line. Your artwork will then be sized to fit within the 200x200 window. I would expect the " "odim" value " and " "r" value " would have some effect on the image cropping also.

<section name="Container:winamp.albumart">
<section name="Album Art">
<section name="Layout:normal">
<entry name="appbar" value="-1" />
<entry name="appbarhidden" value="0" />
<entry name="appbarisautohide" value="0" />
<entry name="appbarontop" value="1" />
<entry name="appbarwantautohide" value="1" />
<entry name="autoopacify" value="0" />
<entry name="maximized" value="0" />
<entry name="odim" value="-2,-2" />
<entry name="r" value="1.000000" />
<entry name="rect" value="310,631,164,164" />
<entry name="restoredrect" value="310,631,164,164" />
<entry name="sl" value="0" />
<entry name="sm" value="1.000000" />
</section>
</section>
</section>
</section>

[DrO]

this thread is painful to read, heh. what is shown in the screenshot is the limited modern skin albumart window which doesn't have as many of the options as the standalone plug-in which was made to replicate and improve on that behaviour primarily for classic skins (though it can be used with modern skins).

so the best option is to install http://nunzioweb.com/daz/gen_classicart/index.html and uncheck the 'auto-hide window with modern skins' option via the plug-ins preferences or via it's right-click menu - it is probably easier to have Winamp in classic skin mode first before installing it and then change to Winamp Modern once installed.

then play around with the options like the locking of the aspect ratio and position as wanted. the only issue is you end up with two album art windows - just close the one with the two menu items on it's right-click menu.

-daz

[CiroConsentino]

thanks Aminifu. it worked. I just set the rect to "212,233" and now I get perfect 200x200 pixels. no more stretching

I can't beleive I didn't see it b4.

[Batter Pudding]

My reply was from a "Classic Skin" version of Winamp. Which probably explains the lack of that [gen_classicart] section in your winamp.ini

(Though it does not explain to me the random nature of my email notifications from this forum... Google must be randomly chomping on them in a spam filter somewhere... silly Google. No, please, this bit doesn't need a reply...

[edit - DrO]
was due to a spammer which was removed before this post was made
)