AlbumArt Rendering Changed Recently?

[NorTheBear]

Hi, I upgraded from 3.3 to 3.4 recently and found that my custom WPS does not work anymore.

Basically, my custom WPS makes use of several viewports in order to frame the AlbumArt (rounded corners) and to print the song title across the AlbumArt (thus achieving bigger AA). See screenshots attached: left side = works as intended, right side = broken.

It seems to me that at some point between the two releases, AlbumArt is refreshed frequently while before it was only rendered once per song.

I couldn't find a way to rescue my theme as no matter where I place the %C tag within the WPS it will always overlay any other parts of the layout.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Norbert.

[JdGordon]

yes, recent changes stopped that trick from working... hopefully it will be fixed to draw the AA much less frequently.. but dunno when

[bobbydriver]

Just upgraded from 3.3 to 3.4 and now the MaximumArt WPS is not displaying the art.

It IS displaying the noart.bmp though

Player is a Sansa C200 v1

Arwork is in jpg format and was all working fine in 3.3

The Theme page for MaximumArt C200 does say that it works OK with 3.4 - but seeingly not on my player!

Any thoughts anyone?


EDIT - have upgraded to the latest build and MaximumArt still doesn't work

Now downgraded back to 3.3 and guess what? Normal service is resumed..album art displays just fine. Must be a 3.4+ issue

[robin0800]

Yes your right but I have no idea why
Please try this Severely modified wps file, just overwrite it should be fine.

Edit
Memo to self

try amendments before posting

Edit2
this attachment now works for me 

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attachment removed see below

[bobbydriver]

Many thanks Robin - that new version of the WPS file works fine with 3.4

[NorTheBear]

yes, recent changes stopped that trick from working... hopefully it will be fixed to draw the AA much less frequently.. but dunno when

Well, you may call it a trick but I would rather see it as creative design to elegantly overcome the display limits of the H320 (due to its landscape display orientation). And I like the rounded corners.
DAPs like E200 or Gigabeat with their vertical display orientation are definetly better off when it comes to displaying XXL AA. 
Anyway, thank you for affirming my suspicion. Is there any reason to display the AA more than once in a song?

[audio-i]

This change also affects deeply AAfreak theme for ipod video, that I know of

[robin0800]

The Maximumart wps for sansa c200 has been updated now on the theme site.

[NorTheBear]

This change also affects deeply AAfreak theme for ipod video, that I know of

Yes it affects AAfreak and all themes (very few though)  that uses any kind of overlay design in connection with AA.  I am not sure if this is something that shall go to the bugs tracker or not. Any opinions around?

[moonscapex]

My Zune v3 theme is broken too.  Please change the album art code back.[color=][/color]

[JdGordon]

should be fixed now

[NorTheBear]

should be fixed now

Not quite. While it brings back the texts on top (hooray), the other parts of the layout (8 bitmaps) remain in the background (see screenshot made some minutes ago with a current build).

I wonder if it would be possible to display the graphical elements in a chronological order (as they appear in the logical flow of the WPS)? If not then I would suggest that AA is displayed first.

So far thanks a ton for taking care of this issue.

[Ste-]

NorTheBear: I quite like your theme would you mind posting it to the theme site ?
if this ever gets fixed or not I'd quite like it also.

[JdGordon]

thats rather urious actually... the imaghes are the last thing drawn (except AA) but they are drawn every pass (5 times per second or something fast) while the AA is only drawn once per track....

post the full theme so i can have a look and debug (images also)

[NorTheBear]

JdGordon: here you are ...

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