Cover image

Hi.
I have a huge CD/MP3 collection that I'd like to stream.
I've been using the Andromeda ASP-script for streaming the last 2-3 years. Andromeda has a lot of tweakability but it isn't as fast and easy to use as the Vibe Streamer.

One of the features I miss in the Vibe Streamer is the possibility to display the cd-cover.

All my MP3s are catalogued by an unique directory per CD, and in each directory I have an image named folder.jpg which is the CD cover.

Is there an easy way to modify the skin to make it display the folder.jpg image for the directory of the song that's currently playing and/or while browsing the dir?

roho

Yes. Ill make something for you tomorrow ok?

I would love to have this also!

Hi, Amish.
Thx a lot!! Looking forward to see what you come up with.

roho

dope.

Yeah its hard its coming tho.

Amish, I'd love to see this as well...

Possible to post the code and location within specific files or what not so we may incorporate in our own skins later?!?!?

thanks for your efforts...

Hmm....its realling pissing me off. Argg. I need some coffee.

I thought amish people don't drink coffee.... heh...


yea the above would be great.

Maybe the next main skin version can incorporate all of these great skin additions!

Since I opened the forum I've discovered that people really seem to enjoy doing modifications. So at the moment I'm constantly working on the next version on every second of spare time I have.., mostly on the script engine, so yes,.. until the next version I'm focusing on giving people a lot possibilities more possibilities using the script language,. but it's quite a lot of stuff to rewrite and I'm doing it once and for all this time, so bear with me and there will be lots of fun to do when the next version is released

I can't wait... this is a great app and I'm planning to do some donating very soon. Right now I'm starting to sketch up some plans for a dedicated network storage machine, used primarily for vibe! I have some great ideas I want to get down in photoshop for a new skin...

Buno has a great skin youll have to wait for it to be released but it has the cover feature built in.

Hi, Amish.
Thx for your work. Any chance you know what timeframe we're talking about? I'm really interested in testing this feature.

roho

Hi!

The skin is nearly ready. I gave it to some people and they are currently testing it. If you also want to test it, send me a PM.

nearly ready or readily near?

One question

I have my music organized by Windows Media Player. Whenever I rip a CD, it organizes the tracks and includes the album cover image along with the files. However, these cover images are hidden files. In fact, windows system (aka. "super-hidden") files.

My question is, can we get Vibe Streamer to load up these hidden images? Is there a way to et Vibe Streamer to find and read a specific file? (ex. "folder.jpg")

you can remove the file attribute (system and/or hidden) with the attrib command
[code2pu4de1z]attrib -S -H /S C:\test[/code2pu4de1z]

I wanna keep my album cover images hidden so that browsing using Windows Explorer from my PC is more asthetically pleasing.

Would there be a way for the next release of Vibe Streamer to be able to read hidden images? or at least "folder.jpg", which is a common method used to give folders 'covers'.

Bulo's skin is fantastic. Other than some linux based issues I found, which he corrected quickly in version 1.4, I have been running it for months without issues.

Any chance we could get a look at Bulo's skin now?... it being March

Quick and dirty way to display the album art in the right-hand pane. I have used Windows Media Player in the past, so nearly all my album directories have "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" in them. You have to do the attrib trick shown earlier in this thread so Vibe can see them (from cmd window, CD to the root of your music directory then attrib -S -H albumartsmall.jpg /S[/color1y2obube]). Then make a backup of the directory.js file in the ..skins\standard\jscript folder - You'll be wanting this if things go terribly wrong. now open directory.js in your favorite editor, scroll on down to line 77 or so and look for the following line of code;

objSpan.innerHTML = sText;[/color1y2obube]

Replace it with the following code;

if (sText == 'AlbumArtSmall.jpg') {
objSpan.innerHTML = '<img src="virtual/' + sID + '">';
}
else {
objSpan.innerHTML = sText;
}[/color1y2obube]

Save the file, shut down any browsers connected to Vibe and restart the server. Connect to Vibe and navigate to a directory that has album art in it. It should show up in the right-hand pane (providing your art is named "albumartsmall.jpg", that is). If not, try re-indexing your virtual directory.

Again, this is quick and very dirty. If your art is named something other than "albumartsmall.jpg" then use your filename in the first line of the replacement code. If every album cover has a different name, then this isn't going to work for you.

If you want to show every image in a directory, replace the first line of the code above with
if (div2class == 'itemchild2_file_image') {[/color1y2obube]

This will show every image type in your directories regardless of size. I tried this, but as Windows Media Player and XP create several different sizes of the same image file, it ended up looking nasty. You could clean it up a bit by adding width and height attributes to the <IMG> tag in the second line of the code, but you would still end up with a number of duplicates.

I'm sincerely hoping someone builds on this - I would love to replace the folder icons in the listings with the album art. I'll keep chipping away at it, but it sure would be swell if one of you genius-types came up with a solution...

Most of the solutions about displaying the album-cover in this thread works with external image(by external I mean not embedded within the mp3 file) i.e "folder.jpg" or "AlbumArtSmall.jpg". Even I worked around successfully using the above mentioned way. [u3eat91lv]But how about the AlbumArt image embedded in the mp3 that one can access using ID3v2 tags.. [/u3eat91lv]

siit, is this possible to access the same using the vibe language?.. or is it going to be a feature in the future release?

About my developed skin, I have worked on the skin posted by terrazzo (Vibeamp), modified a bit here and there and come up with the following Skin(see snapshot below).

Please note the changes and enhancements
1. Inclusion of Cover Image. (using the folder.jpg idea).
2. Changes in the flash player.(clean buttons, "Volume" label and Seperators )
3. Playlist includes Album name.

Once again thanks mainly to terrazzo for the base skin and the idea.
- //460v3411 ( AboveAll)

[img3eat91lv]http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/917/vibeampplusiv4.png[/img3eat91lv]

Just found answer to my own question

[quotekiskea5d]Is it possible to access AlbumArt image embedded in the mp3 using ID3v2 tags? [/quotekiskea5d]
The answer to it is sadly ..[bkiskea5d]NO[/colorkiskea5d][/bkiskea5d].. as long as vibestreamer uses the id3lib binary to get the id3 info.

FYI, the latest version of id3lib.dll is 3.8.3 (from the id3lib.org) that itself is pretty old almost 4 yrs old, also does not support the id3V2.4, hence cannot access the APIC section. so bottom-line is that even if you tweak your way to the vibe engine to add extra id3 tags , as long as it uses id3lib.dll you cannot access the AlbumArt image embeded in the mp3 file.


//AboveAll

how did u get the skin that your screenshot shows?
or better yet how can i get that...that is awesome