Soptor

Works fine, nice add-on.

I would like the control buttons to remain hidden until mouseover, they take up unnecessary space and I don't imagine that I'll use them all that often...

Seb

Very good idea the slide show !

Seb

I have install also AlbumArt.
Sometimes with albumart a cover appear but not in NowPlayingArt...

tdmurphy

Great add-on Simon. Maybe you could make the controls for it only appear upon mouse-over, sort of like videos on vimeo.com. That way the art could take up the entire square, and it would simplify the interface.

And is there any way to set how quickly it cycles through images in the slideshow mode?

deOmega

SIMPLY AWESOME! I must say though that I agree about the controls being in the way.

Hiromacu

@Simon: Very good idea! I agree with tdmurphy and deOmega, and an optional fade out in the slideshow would be wonderful too. :P

deOmega

wow... WELL DONE.

klint

Simon,
Could the "raw CD" artwork displayed in the left bottom pane by using the one used by the Media Flow? And especially if the Vinyl Album Art (http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1358) is installed, take the Vinyl artwork ?
Thanks

klint

Simon,
Could the "raw CD" artwork displayed in the left bottom pane BE REPLACED by the one used by the Media Flow? And especially if the Vinyl Album Art (http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1358) is installed, take the Vinyl artwork ?
Thanks

verso

Hi,
just stopping by to show my appreciation for all your wonderful work, your approach to Songbird as a developer is truly distinct and singular.
Love the transitions options you added!
Please keep up the good work.

DivinityCycle

Greetings,
My Setup:
-Songbird 1.4.2, Build 1434 (the one that just got public release today)
-NowPlayingArt 1.3 (the version downloadable here)
-Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit

I haven't done anything with the settings for this extension, just installed it and played stuff from my library. When playing certain tracks, I get a pop-up window on top of SongBird, with the title "[Javascript Application]", and this is the content:
{
  "code": "/api/status/ok",
  "result": null,
  "status": "200 OK",
  "transaction_id": "cache;cache01.p01.sjc1:8101;2009-12-22T17:41:32Z;0016"
}

This appears to be occuring per-artist, and only occurs on obscure stuff. I can consistently get this bug to happen with any tracks by Akemi Kimura, a video game composer. I suspect this is some sort of unhandled case where nothing can be found for this guy.

Just wanted to give you a heads up :)

Chrysalid

Simon, can you double-check your code in 1.4.0.0? I have the same problem as DivinityCycle and I upgraded to 1.4.0.0 and the messages still pop up...

Chrysalid

Thanks Simon, 1.5. works great :) Happy new year!

piet85

I loaded this addon to replace "Album Art" Extension which is no longer available. I just want it to display the cover file of the currently playing song, which is stored in the same local folder where the song is. The problem is that it doesn't keep the changes I make in "search the ticked location". It always resets this setting to the default one, so I get no cover when no internet connection is available and false ones if it is. It would be great if you could help!

piet85

Oh, I was a little too fast with writing, I messed up artist and album art. Anyway the problem is still there, it just don't depends on those settings, so forget what is written above: The problem is, that some cover files are detected, some won't and some are only if a track with a working image was played before. Do you have any idea to explain this strange behaviour?

piet85

I found the issue, my watched folder wasn't set up correctly so it only displayed some covers which we're stored in the songbird profile.
So now I'm fully satisfied with this extension, it works perfectly!

piet85

It works most times now, like I said in the posting above, but sometimes it won't load any album art at all for a while.
The arts are stored in the particular folders where the mp3 files are. I get an: "error now playing art get album art but no tracks [Object XULElement]mediaitem {guid: ....}" The album art settings are correct. It surely uses covers from my harddrive cause it shows covers even of local/unpopular bands and even if there's no internet connection.
It could maybe have to do something with some special charachters only used in germany. I can reproduce the bug mostly when I play songs from a band using an umlaut in it's name, for those there has never been shown an album art, afterwards there are no album arts for other albums too. After a while or after restarting songbird they appear again. Also very strange to me: The addon stores sometimes artworks of songs I played in the artworks folder of songbird. It takes them from the destinations of my harddrive (no internet connection) and stores them, but only for some albums.

piet85

There are no extra full stops in filenames. According to allow an unproblematic exchange between Linux and Windows most filenames contain no special characters at all, that looks like: tracknumber-artist-songname1_songname2.mp3 Problems appear playing tracks of a band using an ä in it's name. In filename it is written ae, only in the id3-tag the ä appears.

piet85

Hey, that looks great. I had not much time for testing, but after a first overview I think the update fixed the problem. The albums I tested (ones that didn't work before), all showed an artwork and there were no new artworks stored in the profile folder. Great work, thank you a lot!

bluebehir

This is the exact app I want, but for some reason the download function is not available to me. Is it outdated or is the problem my own?

andy65

Great addon - especially the slideshow-feature. It would be perfect, if there was an option to start it by default, without pressing the button each time I start songbird.

Astara

New version has bug that can stop playback.

Occasionally an executable, "set-folder-flag.exe" gets executed by this extension, and it puts up a windows that says you can't distribute this executable compiled with an unlicensed compiler.

You might try using 'gcc'/gnu utils, they aren't encumbered by license problems...

Would have reported this on the extension's homepage, but there is no indication of what it is...?

Astara

Another bug: it creates bogus file names.

Apparently, it tries to interpret Window's Unicode filenames as some random code page.

Multiple times I had folder-names with Unicode characters in them (like U+FE13), the Presentation form for vertical colon, like the following, (between the word 'Blood' and 'Original'):

    "Trinity Blood：Original Sound Track"

On my system (using Arial Unicode MS font), it displays as:

    "Trinity Blood : Original Sound Track"

(i.e. it shows spacing around the colon even though it is 1 character).

Then this extension creates folders in some localized character set, even though the default on windows is Unicode.

So the above folder name gets 'recreated' as:

      "trinity blood：original sound track"

(all lower case even!)... um that looks like an 'i' with an umlaut, and
a 1/4 symbol. on my term. I.e. it appears to ignore the fact that filenames are Unicode encoded and tries to interpret them as something else.