album art overview

[gekkehenkie]

Hi there! Since I installed version 1.99.13.19100 my album art display has changed from this

to this:


Is there a way to fix this in the settings? I'd like to be able to see the year and track count for each album.

[dro]

I've still to implement the details mode in my local library plug-in.

-dro

[DJay]

I just installed 1.99.22.20200 and I have this view. Is this the normal view? I mean no spaces and separator between rows. The background color of the rows does not change either.

[dro]

That is what I'd expect the details view mode in my local library plug-in to currently look like as I didn't want to do a like for like replication of winamp's look for those items.

When items are selected in that mode the background colour of the text should change (as long as the skin being used defines things in a manner which makes it visually obvious) but I'm currently using a simpler way to achieve the details mode which I will need to come back to trying to expand upon but I was aiming more at just getting something that was working vs eye candy & which also worked ok under WINE based setups.

[DJay]

No problem with selected item highlighting. I meant even/odd bgcolor vide Winamp look. IMHO without clear spaces and a separator, the view merges, especially when we want a smaller thumb size, but it's your call 

[dro]

The alternating row aspect isn't implemented because as I went with a more Explorer like approach that ends up looking odder like a chequerboard since there can be multiple on a line unlike what winamp's local library plug-in was doing. What's right I still don't know & tbh it was a pain in the whatnot to get something working that didn't suck on the performance vs OS support which I was generally happy with as a first usable form. I also don't necessarily just want to mimic what winamp's offering of things did as some aspects I never liked when I was a dev / user of it but I get that from a user view point if the outer parts are all winamp-like then there's an expectation for the insides to also be the same or more similar. I'll have a think about it all for when I get back around to doing more on the local library view modes.

[DJay]

I understand your approach perfectly. I'm also a dev, but in this case I'm just a long-time Winamp user accustomed to a specific view, so I'm probably not objective.