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I am now openly accepting feature requests and answering questions.
NOTE: For Single Column Playlist, Row Height: 17, Group Rows: 5
My Windows Visual Style is Inverso Reborn Balanced and a discussion and link can be found here. A good resource for downloading artist images is http://artists.trivialbeing.org

Components Required

• Latest Version of PanelsUI
• Quick Search
• Custom info
• CWB Hooks
• ColumnsUI
• Foo Run
• Album List Panel
• Windows Explorer Panel

Fonts

• Bebas
• Calibri — Comes with Windows Vista and cannot be redistributed (but you may find a site that has it)
• BigNoodleTitling

Pop-up playlist, this appears beneath when thin (as below) and to the side when wide.

A pop-up menu, buttons and control panel

Im sure I will think of some much more advanced uses of this integration in the near future. But for now I think this is exciting enough. For those interested, to get going, the code for tabbed panels in PanelsUI is:

$select($add($getpvar(display.mode),1),
$panel(Option1,Track Display,0,20,%_width%,140,)
‚
$panel(Option2,Album list,0,20,%_width%,140,)
‚
$panel(Option3,Console,0,20,%_width%,140,)
)
$button2(0,160,0,0,14,14,button text,button text,‘PVAR:SET:display.mode:0′,)
$button2(14,160,0,0,14,14,button text, button text,‘PVAR:SET:display.mode:1′,)
$button2(28,160,0,0,14,14, button text,button text ‚‘PVAR:SET:display.mode:2′,)

This simple example (that needs the button text replaced with a $font()text code) is the basis for tabs, clicking the first button shows the track display, the second an album list, third a console.

http://host.trivialbeing.org/up/foobarfixed2.txt

— Fixed the crop issues related to selected and now playing songs
— Made the track title text area adaptive to the width of the window, so it crops only when it needs to
— Stopped album art showing for groups with only 1 track, as in this case the picture is ridiculously small.

Some images:

I decided to alter my SCPL to make things clearer. The code is here (note, this is a work in progress and the code still looks messy), row height = 17, group rows = 4: GROUP | ITEMS

Some things to note, the album art resizes to an optimum display size, so that albums of three tracks only can have art work displayed without all the other albums suffering from a small display size. The maximum image size is also easily defineable, so with one change I can make all the artwork scale up to 300px. The second image shows how Various Artist albums are handled.

I built the playcounts into a form of hotness rating, so that the more a track is played the deeper orange and brighter the track becomes. The ratings system is separate to this.

My latest design efforts see a scalable version of this with top left artist images. The artwork itself acts as a Play or Pause button, unless the cover art does not exist, in such a case the button action calls up a Custom Run script Cover Downloader which uses Amazon to find album art images and save them to the audio file directory. Similarly, when artist images do not exist a custom run GetArtistImg script that I created downloads the image and saves it as %artist%.jpg etc.

I’m always adding functions and tweaking it so it’s not quite done yet, but here are some screenshots:

+ some tweaks to multiple window / multiple playlists
+ added “Playing” playlist selection
+ $fileexists()
+ added NOKEEPASPECT option for images
+ added wildcard support for images
+ added alignment options for images VALIGN-T (vertical align-TOP), VALIGN-B, HALIGN-L, HALIGN-R

I have highlighted the key improvements that I am now making use of. With these new additions images can be stretched to fit a give frame, for example:

$imageabs2(100,100„,100,100,5„$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,*.jpg),NOKEEPASPECT)

This will display an image (finds any .jpg in the song’s directory thanks to the new wildcard function — * is the wildcard) and stretch it to fit a 100x100 frame. Expanding upon this using the new fileexists function:

$if($fileexists($replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,*.jpg)),
$puts(albumMarg,110)
$puts(datax,160)
$imageabs2(100,100„,100,100,5„$replace(%path%,%filename_ext%,*.jpg),NOKEEPASPECT)
$imageabs(5„images/artoverlay-1.png ‚)
$drawrect(5,0,100,100,brushcolor-null pencolor-0–0-0)
$drawrect(6,1,98,98,brushcolor-null pencolor-150–150-150)
,
$puts(albumMarg,10)
$puts(datax,60))

This checks that the images is there, if it is it defines a specific margin for later use in positioning of artist, album and trackinfo. It then draws the image, a PNG overlay and some surrounding borders. If the image doesn’t exist it defines a different margin so that the song data does not surround an empty space and instead is closer to the left, for example: