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umihimeyokai

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Album Art Hidden on Stop Playback Option
« on: November 15, 2025, 01:25:00 PM »
This might already be a feature, so if it is lmk. I am a streamer and I am using the play tracker to save now playing text file log and album art log to be sourced on OBS. The text file play tracker has an option that let's you choose custom text to log when playback has stopped. So I can key a space in that field and on stream when I hit stop on WACUP, the text source visually disappears on OBS (since it's only displaying an invisible character). However, the artwork does not go away and I can't seem to find a way to do this through WACUP itself. Instead it just continues to show the last artwork that was playing. It would be great if a similar feature existed that replaced the album art file with a png, much in the same way I can choose what text is put in the log. That way I can simply point to a transparent png, but also people could choose any other png that might indicate no song is playing or something.

RN, the only way I can see to do this is to setup some kind of listener on OBS to hide the artwork when it senses no volume is coming through the WACUP source, or by setting up a hotkey in OBS to hide/show the artwork to be the same one that starts and stops WACUP. Unfortunately, since I multi-pc stream and I am porting multiple sounds over the same audio channel (it's ported via analog), this is not really feasible for me. It would be great if this was a feature built into WACUP. Would this be possible to implement?

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Re: Album Art Hidden on Stop Playback Option
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2025, 07:13:43 PM »
I had wondered if I should've also added in something similar for the current artwork when the log handling only recently got the stop specific mode as there's nothing in place at the moment that'd do it. Having it use a 'stop' specific image isn't tricky to get done though am also wondering if it should offer a means to remove the file completely or have it make the last image be all transparent so dealing with the the size of the image then isn't an issue (per the other config already offered for sizing).

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Re: Album Art Hidden on Stop Playback Option
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2025, 08:22:43 PM »
Hmmm It should definitely have an option to replace with transparent instead of being defaulted as replaced with transparent.

But as for whether it should have an option to remove the file completely, maybe that could make sense? Just not in my case. OBS is pointing to the file, so if the file is totally removed it'll create issues with broken link notifications and stuff, so it's better if goes transparent instead.

I like how the text log one works where it allows you the option to put what you want to replace it with, I can choose myself to make it a transparent png of a certain size if I want to, but I could also use a different png (like a tech difficulties one or whatever you use when an album cover is missing). I don't have any issues with size-related issue though so it wouldn't bother me any way.

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Re: Album Art Hidden on Stop Playback Option
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2025, 09:56:49 PM »
I've done it like the text one for when the preview build is updated so it'll use what you provide it to use otherwise it'll act like it currently does if not given a file to use.

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Re: Album Art Hidden on Stop Playback Option
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2025, 11:53:33 PM »
Holy frick! LETS FRICKEN GOO!! You're amazing!! Thanks! When try the release I'll let you know how it goes!