Theme for iPod Video: AluminArt

[fantango]

Here's a new theme featuring large (200x200) album art for standard Rockbox builds on 5G iPods. It uses two fonts but does not need the multifont patch.

For more info, see the wiki:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod5g#AluminArt

All feedback welcome!

Wiki newbie question: why does my header "AluminArt" appear in blue in the wiki, immediately followed by a link "Create this topic"? Or is that just for me? The wiki code for the header is identical to everyone else's as far as I can tell.

License newbie question: some parts of my theme are based on other people's work (details in the wiki), but I assume it's still possible to release the theme under a creative commons license, provided I get their permission? Perhaps permission isn't strictly required (except to be polite)?

[BdN3504]

your Theme looks good. i like the idead of using the rb logo as an hdd indicator. I'm not so good with all these licenses neither, so i don't think i'm can help you with that. But if all the images you have taken are from themes, which were published under a CC or GPL license, i think you can use them if you mention the authors name, without his permission.

PS: As you can now use conditional viewports, i generally think that these album "art not available" images don't have to be there. Instead you could draw a big viewport there, which holds information on the current track (like album artist, album, song, year, rating, size etc.) using the big font.

To your newbie question:
Answer can be found, if you click on "more formatting help" at the bottom of the wiki edit page:

WikiWord Links:
CapitalizedWordsStuckTogether (or WikiWords) will produce a link automatically if preceded by whitespace or parenthesis.
TIP If you want to link to a topic in a different web write Otherweb.TopicName.
HELP The link label excludes the name of the web, e.g. only the topic name is shown. As an exception, the name of the web is shown for the WebHome topic.

It's generally a good idea to use the TWikiVariables %TWIKIWEB% and %MAINWEB% instead of TWiki and Main.

Prevent a Link:
Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prepending it with an exclamation point.

[ZincAlloy]

nice one.
that rockbox logo looks like it could be a lot cleaner. send me your email adress via p.m. and I'll send you a clean version (including vector paths).

[fantango]

PS: As you can now use conditional viewports, i generally think that these album "art not available" images don't have to be there. Instead you could draw a big viewport there, which holds information on the current track (like album artist, album, song, year, rating, size etc.) using the big font.

Thanks for the feedback! I considered using conditional viewports as you suggest, but the info I would have put there was already onscreen (albeit in a small font), plus I really liked the blank CD image I found. No doubt someone will soon release a large album art theme using that idea - or perhaps even mod AluminArt (feel free everybody).

CapitalizedWordsStuckTogether (or WikiWords) will produce a link automatically if preceded by whitespace or parenthesis.

Prevent a Link:
Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prepending it with an exclamation point.

That was it, thanks! Stupid me, should have realized. Someone had already fixed it for me though.

[soap]

! I considered using conditional viewports as you suggest, but the info I would have put there was already onscreen (albeit in a small font), plus I really liked the blank CD image I found. No doubt someone will soon release a large album art theme using that idea - or perhaps even mod AluminArt (feel free everybody).

I hate to ask the obvious, but you do have permission to release said found image under your CC license?

[fantango]

I hate to ask the obvious, but you do have permission to release said found image under your CC license?

Not yet. I've PMed the hydrogenaudio user who uploaded it. But as I wrote in the wiki, I intend to release the theme under a CC license once I have permission from all those involved. I haven't formally released it yet. I don't expect any problems though - everything I've used was either posted with explicit licenses or with clear intent to be shared.

[Llorean]

It's not an issue of "release." You can't distribute it, whether "released" or not, without the appropriate explicit permission. It must be explicitly licensed, interpretations of intent don't count. Unless they said "You have permission to share this" and what terms you may do so under, there's no license.

[gldfshkpr]

fantango

Really loving your WPS.  The red progress bar goes well with the black background and the green and blue indicators are nice accents.  I've tried other album art themes and the 200x200 size is what really makes this stand out.  The only thing I didn't like was the Missing Album Art scribbling on the the CD cover.  Even though I have all the album art, it still shows up for a split second before the actual album art loads.  I simply renamed the emptycase.bmp to emptycase_text.bmp and replaced the file.  Thanks for including that.  The blank CD case is better (for me) than looking at the "Missing Album Art" everytime a song loads.  This is by far my favorite WPS.  Nice job!

[kylemcgee]

Hey!

Nice looking theme.. I have a few requests though and I can't figure out how to make the changes to the WPS file..

One, I'd prefer to have battery time left instead of a percentage...

Two the time left and current time in the file are cut off on the right.. I do use long files (5 hours +) which may have something to do with it..

Any ideas about how to make these changes? I am using r18116.

Thanks!

Kyle

[gldfshkpr]

Any ideas about how to make these changes? I am using r18116.

Thanks!

Kyle

Here's a link on how to customize the WPS... http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomWPS