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[Barna]

Hey guuuuyyyyys

Piovrauz found a way to contact me, or rather, contact someone who told me to look at that mail inbox :-)

Actually I'm super stoked about people still using XMPlay and my plugins.
Sadly I myself have basically stopped listening to music and thus haven't checked back here in years.
I always wanted to release this and the winamp vis wrapper plugin as open source, maybe I'll get around to do so this time.

For now I fixed the path separator issue which seems weird to me as well, but totally occurred on my new shiny Windows 8 laptop, too. Forcing backslash fixed it as assumed.
Download: http://www.nukular.ch/xmp-coverart_rev.7.zip

I also noticed that each and every auto cover downloader is broken, which sucks. I always liked the amazon source the most but they now require some further draconian signing for their API which requires registration as an Amazon Associate which they say to be free but the registration screen wants to confirm payment details, which scared me away for now :-) Maybe they want money per API use above some limit or something.

Will try to stick around here for a while, make sure to tell me any further big issues. And if someone feels like looking at some rather old and thrown together C/C++ code, I'll make sure to hurry up to put the source up somewhere.

Thanks for sticking around everyone and greetings from Tokyo,
Bernhard

[piovrauz]

Hehe, so the mail I sent to the "wrong" address before yours was the one that made it?
Great, now I can enjoy covers again. And nice to see you around btw.

What do you mean by " each and every auto cover downloader is broken"?
I'm pretty sure my obscure metal bands CDs are being identified properly (mmm, lastfm seems to work)...

Anyway, thanks for the update, and also for the winamp vis wrapper, which I use as my only vis. I didn't noticed it was years old till there was this issue with the cover-art. XD

See you around.

[Barna]

Glad it works now :-)
Oh, you're absolutely right. LastFM does work indeed. Though it seems to load some covers twice somehow.
Google image search and Flickr stopped working due to them changing their sites.
Amazon stopped working because of API/policy changes as mentioned.

[dbz]

Wow, what a nice surprise! Thanks to your efforts piovrauz we're glad to see Barna here again. You probably don't recognize me Barna, but I've been around here long enough to remember you. In fact, I'm the one who kinda resurrected this thread in hopes of an update to the "No Cover Art" image, to something more appealing. Since my post here, others have made me aware that an image in the same location as the plugin will then act as the default "No Cover Art" image. So that works, but I was still hoping for something a little more permanent - such as an edit to the "text" image itself.

Perhaps you could use this image I got from the hydrogenaudio.org forum. As far as I can tell, it was posted by a member of the site for free usage, and made from public domain clipart. So I think it's ok to post this... if not then I apologize and Ian may remove it. Or if you have something similar but better than this, that's cool too

Edit: Ok here was my original idea... to use the xmplay logo image... and thinking about it some more, it's probably the best image to use since it goes with the default skin perfectly, plus not every audio file is necessarily related to a music cd/album cover. A radio interview for instance doesn't really fit with the concept of album art. Another even better example would be short audio samples (not music, but sounds like in tracker songs). In this particular case, album art doesn't make a lot of sense unless it's part of a whole collection of sounds. In these instances the xmplay logo is a generic image suitable for any type of audio - plus it looks real nice So please use this image, as opposed to the CD image. Oh, and I'll leave the cd image in case anyone finds it of use to them. Thanks.

BTW: this was the largest (256x256) I could find the xmplay logo (http://ncrow.deviantart.com/art/Icon-XMplay-136025061)... the creator of this work has .ico, .png, and .tiff versions included in the zip and he says the .tiff can be scaled to any size. I'm not a graphics expert so I don't know if you could use that, but if anyone has a higher res version and wants to post that, that'd be great. Also if anyone has a totally better idea for an image, feel free to post what you've got or what you think would work best.

[saga]

[OT]
I wonder when blank CD images like this one will become as obsolete as "Folder" and "Disk" icons in menu toolbars...
[/OT]

[Dotpitch]

Hey guuuuyyyyys

Welcome back!

For now I fixed the path separator issue which seems weird to me as well, but totally occurred on my new shiny Windows 8 laptop, too. Forcing backslash fixed it as assumed.

Thanks for the fix, it works fine now. It's actually quite impressive that it's the first bug in well over 3 years.

[Y@nek®]

Great! Thank you for new version.

[piovrauz]

The big XMPlay logo/icon will do a great no-cover for me.
Now, What can I use for "downloading"? A faded one? mmm
Since Barna is now around, let's check some newer milkdrop to see if all is fine...

[AstralSoup Design]

Bring the action 

Here's the icon rescaled to 3000x3000 Pixels.

[Chinese Sausage]

[OT]
I wonder when blank CD images like this one will become as obsolete as "Folder" and "Disk" icons in menu toolbars...
[/OT]

Let's hope not. A CD is still superior to any .mp3 or other lossy compression format.

Bring the action 

Here's the icon rescaled to 3000x3000 Pixels.

Very nice pic Nicolas! 

Hey guuuuyyyyys

Piovrauz found a way to contact me, or rather, contact someone who told me to look at that mail inbox :-)

Actually I'm super stoked about people still using XMPlay and my plugins.
Sadly I myself have basically stopped listening to music and thus haven't checked back here in years.
I always wanted to release this and the winamp vis wrapper plugin as open source, maybe I'll get around to do so this time.

For now I fixed the path separator issue which seems weird to me as well, but totally occurred on my new shiny Windows 8 laptop, too. Forcing backslash fixed it as assumed.
Download: http://www.nukular.ch/xmp-coverart_rev.7.zip

I also noticed that each and every auto cover downloader is broken, which sucks. I always liked the amazon source the most but they now require some further draconian signing for their API which requires registration as an Amazon Associate which they say to be free but the registration screen wants to confirm payment details, which scared me away for now :-) Maybe they want money per API use above some limit or something.

Will try to stick around here for a while, make sure to tell me any further big issues. And if someone feels like looking at some rather old and thrown together C/C++ code, I'll make sure to hurry up to put the source up somewhere.

Thanks for sticking around everyone and greetings from Tokyo,
Bernhard

Thank you for the update Barna!

[saga]

Let's hope not. A CD is still superior to any .mp3 or other lossy compression format.

So? It has practically no advantage over any lossless format. CDs will become obsolete, it's just the question when the mainstream will finally recognize this.

[piovrauz]

well, depends on DRM... or how industry will make us eat DRM. It's all there.

[dbz]

Thanks Nicolas for posting a much higher resolution image of the xmplay logo.

[dbz]

I guess all we need now, is for Barna to come back again and see what's going on

[Matt K.]

Hey guuuuyyyyys

Piovrauz found a way to contact me, or rather, contact someone who told me to look at that mail inbox :-)

Actually I'm super stoked about people still using XMPlay and my plugins.
Sadly I myself have basically stopped listening to music and thus haven't checked back here in years.
I always wanted to release this and the winamp vis wrapper plugin as open source, maybe I'll get around to do so this time.

For now I fixed the path separator issue which seems weird to me as well, but totally occurred on my new shiny Windows 8 laptop, too. Forcing backslash fixed it as assumed.
Download: http://www.nukular.ch/xmp-coverart_rev.7.zip

Good to see you back Barna! (Thanks also for finding him, Piovrauz!) Thanks for the update Barna! Glad to see you pop a quick fix out for those running newer OSs than me (I'm still stuck on XP Pro, but it's starting to feel more like a Commodore 64!) out there...

Will try to stick around here for a while, make sure to tell me any further big issues. And if someone feels like looking at some rather old and thrown together C/C++ code, I'll make sure to hurry up to put the source up somewhere.

Here's hoping the source code follows soon... I haven't coded in quite a while, but this is something I might be willing to dust off my programming knowledge on... I'm guessing my coding can't be any worse than yours Barna...

Glad it works now :-)
Oh, you're absolutely right. LastFM does work indeed. Though it seems to load some covers twice somehow.
Google image search and Flickr stopped working due to them changing their sites.
Amazon stopped working because of API/policy changes as mentioned.

Yes, it'd be nice to have the Google search & Flickr options back. (PLLLllleeeeaaassseee???)

Edit: Ok here was my original idea... to use the xmplay logo image... and thinking about it some more, it's probably the best image to use since it goes with the default skin perfectly, plus not every audio file is necessarily related to a music cd/album cover.

I agree, good idea!

Here's the icon rescaled to 3000x3000 Pixels.

Thanks! (It looks great!) Now we need a better "Downloading.jpg" file too...

[dbz]

I know I haven't gotten a response yet (Barna where are you? lol), but I'm gonna go ahead with this one other thought I have about this plugin. If at all possible, I'd like to see a better algorithm for the image resizing of the cover art. I'm okay with how it looks when the image gets scaled up in size, but when it gets scaled down (downsampling) it could use some definite improvement in the quality of the image. Yes a higher quality image might take slightly longer to render, but I think the trade-off is worth it in the end. I don't write C+ code myself, but if you were to make the source code available I'm sure someone could work on this if you are busy with other things. Barna???

[Cosworth]

Want to delete Cover Art v6, what name that plugin has? Can't find it.

[Dotpitch]

Want to delete Cover Art v6, what name that plugin has? Can't find it.

xmp-coverart.svp. Don't forget to check the visuals folder .

[piovrauz]

Side note: I had a mail forwarded to Barna, but since it's Xmas I don't know if/when he'll answer.
It was for coverart and wavis. Let's wait and see.

[Cosworth]

Want to delete Cover Art v6, what name that plugin has? Can't find it.

xmp-coverart.svp. Don't forget to check the visuals folder .

thank you)