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Re: Biography Discussion

Reply #900 –
Quote from: WilB on
Regarding filmstrip, I've put some custom styles in my layout, but so far I haven't seen an issue. If I encounter it I'll add a fix.

In the meantime are you sure you're not inadvertently clicking layout > filmstrip > top/right/bottom/left menu item which looks fairly similar and which does auto-enable the filmstrip?

Thcx for replying.

No, I'm not. No problem though I do not switch the layouts at all.

I use one panel default for Artist with Image+Text (Part Overlay + Dark) and the other panel default Album+Tracks with Text (Full overlay + Blend cover based, which nicely blends with the art I am displaying underneath). I just mentioned it, because  it seems to be a bug.
 
Only small issues I have are with LibTree, but I made a post about those in that topic.

Re: Biography Discussion

Reply #901 –
@DJ FRANK G.
Stubs are normally set in foobar2000 preferences > display. Go to the artist tab and at the bottom set the stub image. They can also be set in panel properties ("Stub..."), which is checked first. If neither are set, the biography-styled stub is used

@Jul2323

Removing ' .........' with advanced radio stream parser should be doable. Filmstrip should work fine. Currently display of lyrics by biography isn't using the modifed artist and titles in such scenarios: I've added it for the next version. Then it should work fine for pre-existing lyrics, although the modifed artist and titles won't be used by lyric downloaders.

As this seems a very simple case, and assuming the artist is being correctly returned, it may work now for filmStrip + display of pre-existing lyrics in bio by changing the main title format in the title format tab, e.g. set %BIO_TITLE% to
Code: [Select]
$replace($meta(title,0), .........,)
[retains your leading space].

This is untested as I don't have the stream URL to check.

Re: Biography Discussion

Reply #902 –
@Defender

I've still not seen the filmStrip misbehaviour. If you have a set of panel properties that always shows the issue when you do X, and the issue is retained on import of the panel properties into a new panel, then post the panel properties and I can take a look. But say what X is. You may as well post the biography.cfg as well if you do have a reproducible scenario. Otherwise I'll keep an eye open for the issue.

Also, alt + middle click toggles filmStrip on/off.
 

Re: Biography Discussion

Reply #903 –
Quote from: WilB on
@Defender

I've still not seen the filmStrip misbehaviour. If you have a set of panel properties that always shows the issue when you do X, and the issue is retained on import of the panel properties into a new panel, then post the panel properties and I can take a look. But say what X is. You may as well post the biography.cfg as well if you do have a reproducible scenario. Otherwise I'll keep an eye open for the issue.

Also, alt + middle click toggles filmStrip on/off.

Like I said ... Not a big deal, but I understand you want no bugs :-)

In the first panel ("Artist" no issues with Filmstrip). Second panel ("Txt only Album+Track) always shows all of a sudden Filmstrip when I change anything with images (Display / Layout). Easy enough to disable Filmstrip via the rightclick menu of ALT-double middleclick.

I attached my biography.cfg. It seems as if it it shared between both biography panels I have. If you need more info please ask.

Another thing is that when there's no artist found (happens a  lot when you click on a not running radio stream) artist_stub_user.png is displayed which is actually the last successful artist. So I copied a blank (not a No Artist image since nothing is playing anyway) in the same folder where biography.cfg is located and set it to read only which solves the issue. Don't know if you knew that one but anyway it is solved.
Had the same issue in biography 1.1.3 but there it displayed the artist picture of the first group it found in YTTM\C which was artist C :-D (took me ages to find that picture and thus the folder).

I'll look into your LibTree reply a bit later today :-)

Thx for being so responsive