Music library

[nightwalker]

I have a question about the standard music library.

I was trying to clean it up a little bit to make it a bit simpler. I wanted to get rid of it showing the title and the artist in the listing. I found a section in the config file that seems to have taken care of it. i changed this,

<MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>[title] - [artist]</MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>

to

<MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>[title]</MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>

this.

That worked and now i'm just seeing the title in the list but for the life of me i can't get the line to use all the space in the skin file. Right now it's only using the same amount of space about half, that the old tag with title and artist used, I'm trying to get the title to use the empty space that the artist used.

<!-- list view -->
<CompositeImage name="ListViewNormalItem" size="500,24">
<DrawText text="@fileName" loc="10,2" size="420,20" textStyle="ListText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>

<CompositeImage name="ListViewSelectedItem" size="500,24">
<DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListItem_Selected.png" loc="2,2" size="498,22"/>
<!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="2,2" size="498,20" radius="5" borderWidth="0" borderColor="Transparent" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground"/ -->
<DrawText text="@fileName" loc="10,2" size="420,20" textStyle="ListTextSelected" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>

<CompositeImage name="ListViewNormalFolder" size="500,24">
<DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListIcon_folder.png" loc="10,4" size="16,16"/>
<DrawText text="@folderName" loc="30,2" size="420,20" textStyle="ListText" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>

<CompositeImage name="ListViewSelectedFolder" size="500,24">
<DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListItem_Selected.png" loc="2,2" size="498,22"/>
<!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="2,2" size="498,20" radius="5" borderWidth="0" borderColor="Transparent" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground"/ -->
<DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListIcon_folder.png" loc="10,4" size="16,16"/>
<DrawText text="@folderName" loc="30,2" size="420,20" textStyle="ListTextSelected" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>

I figure it's got to be in this section somewhere but so far no matter what i adjust the line stays the same length and cuts off half the titles. My wife's classical selection titles are very long.

Any thoughts?

[sub]

You can increase the "420,20" bits on <DrawText> tags to something like "485,20", which should show you more of the title.

[nightwalker]

You can increase the "420,20" bits on <DrawText> tags to something like "485,20", which should show you more of the title.

Sub:

that's exactly what i would have thought too, only it didn't make any difference what number i put for the drawtest, it always stayed the same length. I've taken that number all the way out to 720 and the title still gets cut off a little more than halfway, same as ever. At 720 it should have been running way off my screen. I just don't understand, it has to have something to do with the way the title - artist was coded, i think anyway because no matter what i do when i deleted the artist in the config like i outlined above it never uses the space that the artist information was in, no matter what numbers i use.

most perplexing, at least to me.

any other thoughts?

Is there maybe something else i should be using besides @filename, something like @title ?

[sub]

any other thoughts

No, not really.

Is there maybe something else i should be using besides @filename, something like @title ?

No, I'm fairly sure it should be either @filename or @name, which should both be the same.

[nightwalker]

Ok, thanks, i'll keep plugging at it some.

[nightwalker]

I did some more testing and found that if i use the tag in config set to

<MusicLibraryShowMP3Tags>false</MusicLibraryShowMP3Tags>

i get the filename.mp3 and it uses all available space in the skin. if on the other hand i use

<MusicLibraryShowMP3Tags>true</MusicLibraryShowMP3Tags>

I get the title - artist combination, again using all the available space.

When i change the config from this

<MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>[title] - [artist]</MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>

to this

<MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>[title]</MusicLibraryMP3TagFormat>

it displays just the title, but only using half the available space. the rest is left blank and the title does not use all the space, only half.

Based on this i don't think it's my skin that doing it. Is it possible that it's hard coded to use half the space for title and the other half for artist and if only one is chosen the rest of the line is not used?

Wishlist item, would it be possible to look at this for a future release?

[sub]

Wishlist item, would it be possible to look at this for a future release?

Ok.

[nightwalker]

Ok.

Thank you!