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320x240 - Working on CenterArt v2.0, need design advice

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kage:
when I run center-art v2,0, the center box is filled with the "next songs" list...but most of them (like right now for instance) are random nonsense [like IDEQ.mp3, or VUDP.m4a] ...I don't know if that is supposed to happen or not...because, if the track names would actually show themselves correctly, that would not be a bad way to fill that space...
except, maybe get rid of the band name, and just have the track name...



only until they reach the top 2 or 3 spots on the list are they given an understandable name...

there are 10 songs displayed there...

It would be hard, but I wonder is you could put some sort of "active wave" thing there... like a scope of the music waves... It seems like that would be VERY hard to do...but it is just a suggestion

and if you want to keep the "all text" theme, you could do a bar thing instead of waves...and use text as the bars...

I am going to take a gander and say that this would probably be impossible...

JdGordon:
those are the file names on disk. you've used ituned to copy them on? and yes, only the first few will ever show the actual track info

kage:
okay...yeah, I used itunes to copy them on...
I will be stopping that soon, because I don't like itunes, and finally have a way to put music on my ipod without it...

I just need to organise my library into something that I can understand...

Yotto:
Band - Song was a design choice I made. I preferred knowing the band and the first few letters of the song (if at all) to just the song.

You can modify the theme to show just the song. Change the very final line:

--- Code: ---%Vp|1|+%ia-%it| %fn|

--- End code ---

to:

--- Code: ---%Vp|1|+%it| %fn|

--- End code ---

Also, that "+" next to each song is an indicator that the song is queued in memory (which is why you can see the track info and not just the name). I like it but removing it would give you an extra character to see more text.

I'm thinking of having a different way to show the playlist, stretching it over the rightmost data box when hold is on. That should make the playlist view much more useful.

*EDIT*

Also, I'm noticing a lot of missing lines on your screen. Is that the way the theme looks? It's supposed to look more like the screenshots in the theme website.

JdGordon:
you can also scroll those lines, but it looks pretty shit if you do :p (add %s to the text)

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