Adds a nice album art preview to Songbird
Description
MediaFlow adds a new media view for your library and playlists you can access from the View>Media Views>MediaFlow menu.
You should have the Album Art Manager extension installed in order to fetch album art. You can find that extension here: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/102
This works well with the FocusTrack extension. With FocusTrack the currently shown album will change when the track changes.
If you want to change the background you need to change the styles in chrome://mediaflow/skin/flow.css The reflections should change to match the background color
Todo:
- More options
- Add 'Add To Playlist' to the album context menu
- A fullscreen view
Note: If you use linux you may notice really slow scrolling. It looks like the slowness occurs with certain proprietary gfx drivers like the nvidia accelerated graphics drivers used for 3d affects and programs like compiz. This is either an issue with the drivers and cairo or the drivers and mozilla. I don't think there is anything I can change to fix the issue.
Release Notes
-New options pane
-New preferences to toggle reflections and the number of displayed albums
Adjusting these preferences can help improve performance.
To quote myself from IRC:
stevel: holy hawwwwwwwtness
I plus 1 that baby!
This is amazing! Only wish it were a little smoother….kind of slow on my tablet with vista and 2gb of ram. I realize vista is probably the reason. Otherwise great work…..one thing I noticed though is that if I click the skip song button the cover does not change.
Thx JohnM
For me it works like a charm, in Ubuntu 8.04LTS. Its a really nice feuture, smooth and nice looking.
A couple of things you could add. It would be nice if it displayed the albums on the same order as the library does, for example I organize my library by Genre it would be cool if the albums were on that order. It would also be cool if you added a full screen mode or something like that but it would have to have some kind of view to see the songs in the album. Like fliping it backwards or something like that.
Good job and thx on a great add-on
pedroducos, those are some great ideas, thanks! I’ll definitely look into them for future versions.
When I shrink the cover flow display (just the covers) it shrinks the covers but then there are large blank spaces on either side of the cover flow. It would look nicer if it could fan out to the full width of the display.
For the sorting on genre I am not sure what you can do there, since this._array.isDistinct = true that means any addSort you use will return only distinct values.
WOW!!!
That is all I was going to say, but thought I would add a suggestion for the sake of perfection:
Consider the ability to edit the songs when we are using that view., but, not a big deal, as what you have done is a huge leap.
muy fantastico, this is awesome!
Very nice extension JohnM you do a really great job !
I’m impressed! Good job!
Great, mega-great! i have coverflow under ubuntu hardy now. I waited so long for this feature.
An auto-play option by clicking on the album would be very nice.
And a little db, or keep in ram option, to avoid this long loading, each time one changes the view.
If there is more than one jpg in the album folder it shows none of them. Perhaps this is an Album Art Manager problem?
JohnM,
THANKS ALOT.
Regards,
Nilsja
JohnM, one more thing: when selected a albumart with mouseclick, the songlist jumps to one of the last songs of the album – the first one would be much better.
playing around with this extension for hours now.
thanks again.
nilsja
nilsja, I’ll add the ability to play songs when you double click an album
I might be able to speed up loading if I increase the fetch size
The more than one jpg problem is an Album Art Manager problem
The next version will select the first item in your playlist for the album instead of a random one. That’s already done.
Thanks for the suggestions!
JohnM,
perhaps it is also possible when switching back from eg browser to library, that the cover switches to the matching song that is just playing?
btw John, you should remember to give the original authors of imageflow credit ;)
Nice add-on, I can’t wait to see what other features you’ll add :)
one more idea: ability to change the background color. would be good for use with other feathers.
is it a problem on my computer, or is it the extensions fault that i cant rightclick on songs in the MediaFlow view?
another idea: is it possible to make it for opengl. I found this project – maybe it is usable:
https://launchpad.net/gloobus
Great addon – keep on!
BB
nilsja: Are you talking about that happening if you switch tabs back to a playlist/library? I’m not sure if I want to do it that way, but I’ll think about it
I just added the ability to change the background color(It’s always been there, but the reflections would make it look like crap before) You can override them in a feather.
Hopefully the next version will have a context menu, it’s not a problem with your computer
burton82: Thanks, that might work great with Canvas 3D. I’ll try and look into that
I was thinking I could make a db of Art in the Album Art Manager, then you could query AAM for the list of art, and it could monitor for changes.
JohnM:
- The context menu seem already there in 1.3.
- The play on click doesn’t work proper. It just starts playing the first song in list, not the album where i clicked on.
- I meant the click on library, no matter were i was before, so also in the same tab. It would be good if it automatically jumps to the now playing album.
i think here is the bug buried: the scrolling of the list to the actual selected albumart doesnt work anymore. On double or middleklick, not the first track in list is played, but the selected song starts playing. But in this version, the sync between cover and tracklist doesnt work.
By choosing a cover, the first song of this album should be selected/marked. I think the doubleklick should work than.
Thanks,
Nilsja
nilsja: the context menu in the playlist should have been there before. I’m talking about a context menu on the ‘flow’ like right clicking an album
It plays the correct song in the album for me. If you are already playing a song from that album it will cycle through the other songs in that album when you double or middle click it.
The only selection thing this version changed when you scroll to an album is to use ensureRowIsVisible instead of scrollToRow. It should look pretty much the same, only it won’t look weird when it is selecting something at the end of the media list. I had a little trouble understanding your problem so if it looks like I misunderstood or missed something you said, could you restate it?
stevo: If you think that would be better I don’t have a problem changing. How would that make things better though? Getting the album art property doesn’t seem difficult and I already monitor album art changes(although after just looking at it I did something stupid there so it doesn’t work right now…)
Hey There.. i seem to have a problem with this add on and i really really want it…looks fab…. the scrolling is fine but when you right click on an album nothing happens… and if you middle click it plays the first song in my whole collection or the last album i looked at using the panel view??? does anyone else have this…ive only had songbird a week and ma absolutly loving it..just wish this one would work…. hope you can help
oh by the way im using songbird 0.5 with a vista pc should of mentioned that maybe before!!!!
maynevibe: The next version will have a context menu when you rightclick an album, the current version doesn’t do anything then. Middle(or double clicking) an album should cycle through playing the tracks in that album. I only tried this in 0.6 though. Maybe you can try it in an 0.6rc2 build? Does it work if you scroll to an album and, once it has stopped moving, middle or double click to cycle through playing the tracks in that album?
hey johnm.. ok so i got 0.6r2build… worked like a charm… except.. the album art manager didnt,, ggrr then after bout 30 mins..the whole thing went crazy…so i had to delete it and re-download 0.5 .. gonna wait to 0.6 official release.. pity….looked great… be cool if it worked by artist instead of album title though….
hi JohnM: after installing 0.6 everything worked fine. i love it. but in 0.5 definitely not. perhaps you should mention that in the desricption to avoid a lot of frustration :)
for rightclick on albumart a queue to the “now playing list” http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/96 would be great.
for me full screen isn’t such important.
i think middleclick should also directly start playing the backmost covers. is that possible?
one more thing: if a album played through and a song from the next one starts, the albumart should also move to the next one.
I just installed Songbird/0.6rc3 (20080605012245) on Ubuntu 8.04 (64bit) and everything seems to be working fine except when the Now Playing popup shows up in the bottom right, its a light gray with light gray text that is near impossible to read. The album art shows up properly though. Other than that, its working very well.
*A problem I do have though with this add on – while I understand that the author is not getting paid, there NEEDS TO BE DISCLOSURE that the “Click here to see other albums from … on Amazon” contains an AMAZON ASSOCIATE ID. (and there needs to be an option to change or remove it).*
junkee: I don’t really know what you’re talking about with the disclosure. I think pretty much all of what you said was about the album art manager extension and not MediaFlow.
@JohnM
Awesome work!
Silly super fun: Add an option to view as CDs, LPs…maybe even cassettes. Use an img overlay to affect a clear plastic CD case, a somewhat dog-eared LP cover, etc. =)
Schmick extension :o)
I do have a couple of problems with it though:
1. It doesn’t follow the currently-playing song
2. It sorts by album name, not by artist, and there’s no way to change this.
Using Songbird 0.6rc3 on Ubuntu 8.04×86_64
@JohnM – Yeah, I’ve now figured out why my post didn’t show up under the album art manager thread. :(
Maybe I should learn to post when I’m not so tired. My sincerest apologies. The work you guys are doing is awesome, I just found that bit of amazon associate to be a little troublesome – but in no way has any relation to you. Keep up the good work!
roblord: Are you talking about a way to change the default album art? If that’s what you’re suggesting, bring that up with the album art manager extension ;)
sonicmaker: I think I might make #1 an option later. Possibly #2, also.
junkee: no problem :)
@JohnM
“MediaFlow updates when the tracks in your library/playlist change” that does not work automatically on song/album change. one have to click for it. Would be nice if MediaFlow updates when a album played through and the next one starts.
apart from that – perfect!
thanks,
nils
just discovered songbird and all the related stuff…. INCREDIBLE!!!
I have a problem with the MediaFlow plug-in: the View>Media Views>MediaFlow menu does not show on my system based on Ubuntu 7.10.
Any info you need just let me know
=)
thanks,
hugh
nisja: I guess I should have worded that better. What I meant was if you edit the name of an album that change will now be shown in the MediaFlow view. If you add or remove an album, that will also update the albums in the flow. The option to scroll to the currently playing track will come. It just isn’t in this version.
maraja: Do you get any errors in the error console? (Tools>Error Console). Is MediaFlow in the addons window(and enabled). Also, what version of songbird do you have?
@maraja
on my ubuntu 8.04 it works perfect. but only with songbird version 0.6*. to activate the MediaFlow view, you must be in the library first. or did you disable javascript in songbird? i think it should be enabled to run this extension.
@JohnM
Its a very cool feature to change the albumarts in realtime. i think if the autoscroll option comes, this extension would be absolutely perfect and final for me.
or do you plan cherrys on the cake like custom commands with variable handover eg the album folder for “burn this album on rightklick” ?
One thing I would love would be for the addon to remember the size of the album art. When I use it I like to resize the app so the art is smaller. Maybe you could have the size of the app be stored to a file so when I restart it will be the same until I resize it again. Hope that isn’t too confusing, should be a fairly easy fix. Thanks.
I’m running a distro based on 8.04 Hardy, and the covers do not “flow” as the title suggests. It takes approximately 9-10 seconds to switch from cover to cover. I’ve tried 0.6rc4 and 0.5. This is on my desktop, with a 2.2 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a Nvidia 8500 GT video card.
Even more baffling is the fact that it works like a charm on my laptop, which has a 1.73 GHz Pentium M with 2 GB of RAM and built-in Intel 600 GMA.
Are there some kind of dependencies for this add-on that I’m missing (I have the album art manager installed in both cases)? This should work way better on my desktop, shouldn’t it?
Pardon me for the double-post, but I meant Intel 900, not 600.
csdahl01: I’m going to try and get the resizing to work better so it remembers what its last position was like.
dberg918: Do you have a 32bit or 64bit install? Does the cpu max out when you are scrolling it? I’ve noticed some problems in my 64bit Ubuntu with the drawImage function of 1.9’s canvas object causing crazy cpu usage(1.8, which FF2 used, worked fine). So I actually experience some of the same problems you have, which makes it a pain developing when you can’t easily test how fast it would actually work on a normal computer. If you minimize the view so there is less to draw it should start to smooth out a little.
i’ve just installed it for songbird 0.6 on mac os x 10.5.3, and it is just not working. no album covers appear at all. and in itunes, i have album covers for everything.
ogoog: Did you also install the Album Art Manager extension? Open that window up and try fetching for covers.
this is wonderful but scrolling is VERY slow and painful, ive got a quad core with 3gb ram but it maxed out my cpu and is unfortunately unusable. Heres hoping for speed optimisations!!
Keep up the good work John!
willwill100: What version of songbird, what OS, and 32bit or 64bit?
JohnM: I’m running a 32-bit Linux Mint Elyssa system, and the cpu is most definitely maxing out on scrollage. Desktop environment is Gnome, I have compiz running…if there’s any other information you need, I will certainly provide.
Your reference to a drawimage function and canvas 1.9 went completely over my head. If someone wouldn’t mind clarifying…or telling me not to sweat the details, whatever.
Just a note, the version I used on my laptop was 0.6rc3, which I have not run on my desktop yet. I’m assuming that since 0.5 didn’t work for me, I doubt rc3 will do any better.
Its 0.6, linux (ubuntu hardy) and 32 bit. Any ideas whats clogging up the system?
oh by the way, I just saw this website for a similar plugin for banshee, appears to have the same problem, but you can do some crazy zooming thing. check it out:
http://fleow.berlios.de/
dberg918: don’t worry about that other stuff. I was just saying it ran better on Gecko/XULRunner 1.8 which powered Firefox 2 than Gecko/XULRunner 1.9 which powers Firefox 3 and songbird.
I have the same problem you have so at least the problem is reproducible for me! I also run Gnome, Compoz, and have the cpu maxed out. I also think this problem exists regardless of what version of Songbird you are using. Now if it was just an issue loading the albums, that could be related.
willwill100: Firefox 3(which means Songbird, too) has a new canvas 3d(I think it actually requires a separate extension) This means I can use opengl with some hardware acceleration. That might help speed things up if I can find a good way to implement it. There was a post earlier here pointing to an opengl coverflow like implementation so I might be able to look at that.
I can’t really look into a fix until next week though
Hi, Just wanted to say this is a fab Addon but it’s unusable for me because it is so slow. The frame rate is about 3 fps and the CPU is maxed out. Seems that others are having this problem on similar setups too so I guess you know about it. Anyway, if it helps I am on Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3. I use Gnome and Compiz is on. I am on a Dell Precision 390 with a dual core 2.4GHz CPU, 2Gb of RAM and an Nvidia Quadro FX 3450.
If you’d like to know more or have me run some tests I’d be happy to help.
Keep up the good work on this amazing addon!
Slate8: yea that sounds like the problems others have. Same deal, ubuntu gnome and compiz.
I wonder if it works without compiz or with another window manager like kde. I haven’t heard any complaints from them, but that might just be because nobody with that setup has tried this.
I really think this is a mozilla bug so I’m not sure how much I can do.
JohnM, thanks for your reply. I will try a few things tomorrow:
1. The new version of Firefox3 is out tomorrow – will see if that makes any difference.
2. I will turn off Compiz completely and see if I get any improvement.
3. I will try it within KDE instead of Gnome.
I’ll let you know how I get on as I really think you have the best addon here.
Well, let’s see if I can confirm. Running Ubuntu 7.10, Gnome and no Compiz. Also getting ridiculously slow scrolling.
I am running a P4 1.8 GHz w/ 1GB RAM which is probably a bit lower-end than the rest of you.
Running top and scrolling through the albums in Songbird brings Xorg straight to the top, taking up to 80% CPU. The minute I stop scrolling, Xorg drops toward the bottom of the list again..
dberg918: What OS/distribution are you running on your laptop where it works like a charm? I don’t think you mention it above, is it identical to your desktop?
Following a few tests I’ve not had much luck getting a performance boost. Disabling Compiz seems to make no difference. I now have the new Firefox 3 but no change (if it should influence songbird at all).
Finally I tried it on KDE and the performance was worse unfortunately. I was getting about one frame every 6 seconds and it actually froze the whole system at times.
I have also tried it with just a small collection but this seems to make no difference either. Such a shame but if nothing can be done I’ll just have to live without this addon.
Thanks for trying Slate8. Sorry but it looks like I don’t have a fix for this problem and I don’t think I’ll be able to get one anytime soon. It looks like a lot of linux users are going to have some slow scrolling. Now I wonder if there are some linux setups where it actually scrolls smoothly.
jackflap: MediaFlow should work smoothly on Windows and Mac. (Well, much smoother than on Linux anyway)
@JohnM
on my thinkpad with ubuntu 8.04 scrolling is smooth.
The context menu of the albumarts only works for remove and edit, not for play.
What do you think about the idea of single middleclick on album art to play it? (also the backmost ones).
“What do you think about the idea of single middleclick on album art to play it? (also the backmost ones).”
I like that idea so much it’s already available! It must be a problem with the play method for you. What errors do you get in the error console when you try and play and album like that?
Is it possible to display only the albums in a particular genre or band name? Also, if I choose a certain band, I would like to see them displayed in order of release, not alphabetical.
kstefanec13: You can make a playlist for a genre and select the MediaFlow view. I don’t think there is currently a better way to filter in the MediaFlow view. Sorting the albums will hopefully come in another version.
Great add-on, but it takes up half my screen real estate. I always resize it to take up only 1/4 of my screen, but every time I restart song bird it is back to taking up half the screen. Any way to lock the size of the various panes in song bird so I don’t have to every time I restart?
@JohnM
the first middleclick on a cover directly plays it, but doesnt jump to it in the mediaflow view. fruther middleclicks don’t do anything, no reaction, no error.
in general these errors appear by playing a album with doubleclick:
“Error: observer.onDataChanged is not a function
Source File: chrome://songbird/content/bindings/observesDataRemote.xml
Line: 204”
“Error: this._that.rebuildTip is not a function
Source File: chrome://songbird/content/bindings/playerControls.xml
Line: 1371”
these first too errors appear very often, the next one just one time:
“Error: [Exception… ”’JavaScript component does not have a method named: “getSupportForURI”’ when calling method: [sbICoreWrapper::getSupportForURI]” nsresult: “0×80570030 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JSOBJECT_HAS_NO_FUNCTION_NAMED)” location: “JS frame :: file:///opt/songbird/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js :: _callMethodOnAllCores :: line 900” data: no]
Source File: file:///opt/songbird/components/sbPlaylistPlayback.js
Line: 900”
the one-middleclick play always works on the selected albumart in the front, but for the backmost ones only one time. and this one time, it doesnt scroll to it.
Very great job!
Just one problem on my computer: right click for choose: “Clear Artwork” and abort by clicking “no” clear the artwork anyway !
Just want to know if it’s only my comp!
poupougnac, same on mine. albumart is gone. after clear artwork – “no”.
JohnM: I have to correct my sentence “fruther middleclicks don’t do anything, no reaction, no error.” to: further middleclicks on the backmost….
regards,
Nils
Ok that what I thought, I’m sure this will not be a big deal for JohnM. Thank you for your work JohnM !
4ster: That will come in a future version of MediaFlow
nilsja: I’ll look into the issue more, but I don’t know if those errors you showed are all MediaFlow’s fault. I might be wrong.
poupougnac: I think that clear artwork problem is a problem with Album Art Manager. That problem also shows up for me in the Album Art Manager window
That right, I’m going to tell them that thing!
Hi and thanks for working on a project for a community!
I’m using version 2.0, on my windows box (xp), and there seems to be some weird behavior with the middle click as stated in previous comments. Middle click on current album cover will play the album, or rather progress through it from 0 as intended. Middle click on any albums behind the frontmost will not step to them and play, however, middle clicking on an album in the background followed by a standard single left click will act like a middle click or double click should: move to front and play.
Even more interesting is say I middle click any of the 6 albums to a side, then proceed to single-left click a DIFFERENT one, it will show the cover as expected from a single-click, and if i do it again to another one, it works, but as soon as i single-left click on the on I had placed a middle click on that seemed to do nothing, it will switch to and start to play.
If i middle click on say, album 2 and 4 to the right of middle in that order, it would only switch AND PLAY on the 4th one when i single-left click it, i.e. the last middle-click is the only one retained.
Also, “flow” following currently playing song would be nice as others have suggested.
Play from the right-click context menu does nothing.
Album applet uses shuffle a little differently. When you select an album from the scroll it shuffles through the songs on the album as though it’s doing a repeat none shuffle of the one album.(Although first chosen song has a bug in the way it’s picked when switching albums) It would be nice to be able to use MediaFlow to change through the available styles of shuffle/album play as a single solution. Perhaps when shuffle is active, either middle click behaves differently, playing the whole album selected on shuffle instead of jumping through the whole library? Furthermore, if one had shuffle on and wanted to spontaneously listen to a full album (i.e. friends over and wants to hear new album) you could have a context entry to queue the album without shuffle?
I don’t know the difficulty of these options and which way would work best, but it would be nice to have all available via a mouse without having to turn shuffle on/off, or create a whole new shuffle option in songbird to change it’s behavior.
Thanks for taking the time to read this ;x
Doom0r
Doom0r: Thanks, I’ve noticed it now. I’ll fix it when I have time to work on it, which will hopefully be this week.
omg, i'm actually listening to The White Stripes when I found this (Conquest)
awsome addon!
JohnM,
This was filed on http://getsatisfaction.com/
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/mediaflow_choppy_view?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_topic
The mediaflow function is great, but is very "choppy" on my PC, the CPU load indicator rises to maximum when i browse in Mediaflow view.
Is this "normal"? When using iTunes, it runs very smooth in coverflow.
What kind of graphic feature does this Mediaflow-function utilize?
My PC is up to todays standard, so it shouldnt be a hardware issue...
Any settings etc i could try and change...?
I installed this addon on latest nightly (it is 19th July), and it totally crashed the library. I know that this addon isn't optimised for nightlies, but to prevent further crashes you could set max version to 0.6.*...
Sorry about that Pino, I'll have to test it again. I tried it on an earlier 0.7pre when I set the max version originally. I haven't been keeping up with the nightlies though
Really nice add-on. I think it could be awesome if there was an option to browse the library by artist, in addition to album. I am used to search artist that way, but I'd like to use this mediaview for that. What do you think?
Addon is broken in latest 0.7 nightly's. Shows up blank and there are many XPCOM errors in the Error Console.
Tyler out!
tylerstyle, thanks. It's broken in 0.7 because one of the songbird files mediaflow uses was moved. This will be fixed in the next version.
Misterpotato, that's one of the features I want to add next.
Too slooooow on my PC (ubuntu 8.04 Core2 + 1Go Ram) ... Xorg grow up at 100% cpu..
d2mac, it's not really your computer specs making it slow, it's some sort of problem with mozilla's canvas in linux. It might be an issue with gfx drivers, but I'm not sure. That's why I mentioned the potential issue at the end of the description here.
yeah, too slowww on my pc too (ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron)
1gb of ram
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz (dual core)
512 mb of vieo - Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTX.
I think this problem must be solved hurry, because most of users use linux.
so if you make something that doesn't work well on linux people won't use it.
p4tr1ck: I don't think it is something I can change. I think it is a problem with mozilla's canvas code or whatever that code uses, because my same code seems to run fine in windows and on a mac.
great
@JohnM:
Thanks for the upcoming improvements (artist sorting). I'm really looking forward for that :D
I got the latest version today and it's working with the 0.7 pre again. And it seems to work better than before (less resources) too.
Really good job, once again.
misterpotato: The latest version (2.4) should have artist sorting already, it just shows how you have your playlist sorted. The way you described it, it sounded like you thought that was coming later.
Great add-on!
Got some issues while searching in my media library though.
First it shows every album in my library, but when I then search for example an artist I would like media flow to only show pictures of albums for that artist, on my computer it still show every album in my library...
I don't know if someone already brought it up, it will be nice, if the album preview would change when you're listening to a new track. The pop-up does show the album, but mediaflow does not follow, at least not on my system...
thanks otherwise and sorry for my english
its awesome
Tallin98: Thanks, I forgot songbird could do that.
thx84: yea, it's been requested. I'm thinking about adding it, but it sort of feels like something that should be able to apply to all media views.
limemintcooloer: thanks, I'm glad you like it :)
I am having trouble with this add on i cant enable it apparently. When i go to view media views is greyed out. I know that i installed it.
Darkhero5050: What version of songbird are you using, what OS, and are you viewing a media list when you try and switch to media flow? Make sure you are looking at something like the library or playlist before you try and switch the view. If none of that fixes it, maybe I messed up the last version, does 2.4 on http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/238/versions work?
This add-on is just what i was looking, but i definitely miss a couple of things:
1. Like thx84 mentioned, it would be great if media flow could accompany the tracks being played.
2. I chose media flow to be my media view in the Now playing tab, but it doesn't seem to be functioning. This would also be an important feature, as i see it.
Keep up the good work!
ruipenunes: Could you explain how it isn't functioning? I assume you're talking about using it with the Now Playing List extenson?
Yes, I have been using the Now Playing List extension. I forgot to mention it.
I open up a new tab and then choose Play Queue from the menu tree on the left. I make a selection of mp3 from the library, I add it to queue and then start playing it. In the Now Playing tab i choose Media Flow as my media view, but where I was supposed to see the album covers (like in the library tab), all I see is black.
I hope I have described the situation correctly. Thanks!
ruipenunes: Thanks. It looks like MediaFlow works somewhat with that Queue. If you refresh the view it should display the albums, the problem is with adding the albums to the flow as items are being added to the playlist. That should be fixed in the next version.
Thanks. It's exactly as you said. After refresh, the album covers immediately show up. Keep up the excellent work. I'll be waiting for the next version.
I need help. Ive gone to the album art manager website and I dont know which version to download. I tried 1.4.2 and follow the prompts from there. I clicked "save" and then finnished but nothing to my knowledge happened, nor did anything change in SongBird. I would really like to have the MediaFlow application work for me but Im computer illiterate and I just dont know what to do. Please help!
Hey JohnM, about the choppy animation in Linux, were you able to narrow it down enough that you could file a bug report somewhere for Mozilla or Cairo? Just hoping we can help them fix this problem...
Gratebrittian: What version of songbird do you have? Also, it might be easier to try to install the extension from within songbird. If you download it from outside of songbird (like from Firefox) you'll need to drag that .xpi file onto the songbird interface.
dberg: I haven't, but I should do that soon if there isn't one.
JohnM
I have version 0.6.1
How do I install the extension from within songbird
JohnM
F***'n YAY!
I got it installed! I gave your recommendation a shot and tried to figure it out for myself and it worked. You'll have to excuse my excitement but when you're computer illiterate like me and you get something to work that no one else had a problem with but you, its a big deal (lol)! So thanks!
Is there anyway you can get this add-on to recognize existing cover.jpg in the album's directory already please?
iOsiris: You would need to either ask the author of the Album Art Manager extension or for Songbird 0.7 you would need to ask the songbird team (maybe at getsatisfaction.com) MediaFlow gets the artwork from the url in the database. The fetchers in the albumartmanager would probably help with that though. I think it might currently be possible if you mess with the options it has.
I've enjoyed using this Add-On and I just want to make a request. Is it possible for the MediaFlow to update the album art when Songbird changes songs? What I mean is that if Song 1 finishes and switches to Song 2, Media Flow displays Song 2's artwork. At the moment, I have to click on the Song Ticker to update and was wondering if this can be done automatically.
Hi JohnM, and thanks for a great add-on!
one thing though, if you'd alter the perspective on the covers behind the selected one, it just might improve on the "flow" feeling. But that's my thought, I don't know how it'd look in final.
Looking forward to fullscreen view,
Schwadegan.
ajeewa: I think I'm going to add that. I think that should really be a global songbird option, but in the mean time it makes sense to add it to MediaFlow.
Schwadegan: I can't do that using the 2d canvas that MediaFlow currently uses. It doesn't provide enough skewing options. I have been looking into using the 3d canvas available in Firefox 3 and the latest version of Songbird, but it would require a rewrite of the drawing portion and I haven't gotten around to that.
looks like great add-ons...but i've installed both albumapplet and media flow and neither work. when i switch to albumapplet it simply changes to "list" view. when i switch to media flow, its only a black bar with the album name at the bottom. i can scroll, but no album art anywhere...any tips?
i'm on Ubuntu 8.04.
also, just gonna throw this out there...what about a "full screen" media flow view? is it even possible?