Music plugin - Folder icons

[7ore]

First, MixMan, how about a new section in 'Plugin & Skin support' for your plugins and skins?

It is tedious to find an specific answer when you have to browse through more than 10 pages in one thread (the one in Community announcement). So therefor I'll start a new one here with my small problem.

I use the Music plugin in Folder view and it is shown in a list.
I have two issues here. One is more general and it concerns the icon 'Unknown.jpg'. That one is shown at every node in my list, even as icon for Back (...). This seems universal and it would be far better to have a specific 'back' icon.

The other problem is that this unknown.jpg is the only one shown when I use the list. Why can't the list show very small album/artist icons, as it does when you use any other view?

[7ore]

Hmm, My first problem is probably originating from the community skin. So I guess I'll have to fix the skin.

The other one is still valid.

[Fatman_do]

Hmm, My first problem is probably originating from the community skin. So I guess I'll have to fix the skin.

The other one is still valid.

The CommunitySkin is out of date with the last two releases. If you fix it before I post an update, please share it here.

[MixMan]

First, MixMan, how about a new section in 'Plugin & Skin support' for your plugins and skins?

It is tedious to find an specific answer when you have to browse through more than 10 pages in one thread (the one in Community announcement). So therefor I'll start a new one here with my small problem.

I use the Music plugin in Folder view and it is shown in a list.
I have two issues here. One is more general and it concerns the icon 'Unknown.jpg'. That one is shown at every node in my list, even as icon for Back (...). This seems universal and it would be far better to have a specific 'back' icon.

The other problem is that this unknown.jpg is the only one shown when I use the list. Why can't the list show very small album/artist icons, as it does when you use any other view?

The back icon folder-up.png is included in the Blue skin and shows.

Well, we just did it that way....having a folder icon indicating that it is a folder. Blue skin "compatible" in folder view.

[7ore]

Correct, I have now tried out a couple of different skins, and it is only Community skin that differs.

If you fix it before I post an update, please share it here.

Will do (if I find out where the listview settings is stored...).

One question remains.
Is it technically possible to replace the folder icons with small album previews in the list view??

[MixMan]

Correct, I have now tried out a couple of different skins, and it is only Community skin that differs.


Will do (if I find out where the listview settings is stored...).

One question remains.
Is it technically possible to replace the folder icons with small album previews in the list view??

We had it like that in the beginning of the development, but we thaught it looked "cluttered", when the album art was sporadicallt present. So we decided to look like the original GBPVR.
The folder view is very much like the original GBPVR, the folder view reads the folders on the hard disk and is not stored in the database.

The community skin uses another naming than the default names in the original Blue skin, thats why folder images might not show or show twice. I'm sure that Fatman_do will adjust this.

[Fatman_do]

The community skin uses another naming than the default names in the original Blue skin, thats why folder images might not show or show twice. I'm sure that Fatman_do will adjust this.

Actually we use all 8 image names used by Blue. The only folder image defined by blue is Folder.png and we use that. I do not find a place in the skins to define this either way. I noticed in your install package you add to blue:

• folder-up.png
  
• folder-up1.png
  

These look like the images described and they appear to be hard-coded by the plugin. 7ore, if you place those two images in the \Skin2\Community3\_CoreImages folder you will get the look you are looking for. I'll add those to the CommunitySkin package as well.

[MixMan]

Actually we use all 8 image names used by Blue. The only folder image defined by blue is Folder.png and we use that. I do not find a place in the skins to define this either way. I noticed in your install package you add to blue:

• folder-up.png
  
• folder-up1.png
  

These look like the images described and they appear to be hard-coded by the plugin. 7ore, if you place those two images in the \Skin2\Community3\_CoreImages folder you will get the look you are looking for. I'll add those to the CommunitySkin package as well.

There are images that does not come with the Blue skin or are defined in the skin files, but will show up when the @thumnail and @folderpreview variables are used. These are the files....that I know of and included with the blue music plugin skin.

music-file.png
music-folder.png
video-file.png
video-folder.png
picture-folder.png
folder-up.png

Music plugin added these @thumbnail images
music-artist.png
music-albums.png
music-playists.png
nocoverart.png
nogenreart.png
no-icon.png

[Fatman_do]

There are images that does not come with the Blue skin or are defined in the skin files, but will show up when the @thumnail and @folderpreview variables are used. These are the files....that I know of and included with the blue music plugin skin.

music-file.png
music-folder.png
video-file.png
video-folder.png
picture-folder.png
folder-up.png

Music plugin added these @thumbnail images
music-artist.png
music-albums.png
music-playists.png
nocoverart.png
nogenreart.png
no-icon.png

Ok, I'll make sure all those images are part of the package, thanks.

[7ore]

I thank as well.
I was comparing the different skin.xmls to find the differences, but i just got frustrated. Now I know why. I looked in the wrong place...
Thanks for the skin-education.