the popup would work like this:
When you hover over the group header of a normal album the artist picture is shown, when available, otherwise the cover.

Thank you Andy, it's nicer to get the cover than always the same artist.

Quote from: Onkel Andy on 2008-12-17 00:32:28

the popup would work like this:
When you hover over the group header of a normal album the artist picture is shown, when available, otherwise the cover.

I don't wanna klugscheissen, but hovering over the header of a normal album the noartist.cover is shown, cause you defined it so with the $puts (artist_path...). 


But I have another problem.

I did a workaround with artist covers which have invalid characters in the artist name.
I put these covers in every single album folder as invalidartist.jpg and defined a constant (also for the artist wallpaper) - so this is ok, but I don't like it cause it's a lot of work.

I have read the Title Formatting Reference 5 times today to find an answer, but I don't make it.
I wanna a title formating which checks if there are invalid characters in the artist , replaces it with space and take the new filename for "%artist%.jpg".

An example: Phantom/Ghost --> Phantom Ghost -->Phantom Ghost.jpg

$replace(%artist%,/, ).jpg

$puts(artist.path,'F:/Artist Images/'$replace(%artist%,/,_)'.jpg')

$if($findfile(%__ART_PATH__%),
$puts(art_path,%__ART_PATH__%),
$puts(art_path,$get(foo_path)'images/'$get(config_name)'/cover/nocover.png')

$if($findfile(%__ART_PATH__%),
 $puts(art_path,%__ART_PATH__%)
,
 $puts(art_path,$get(foo_path)'images/'$get(config_name)'/cover/nocover.png')
)

__PHOTO_PATH_ALBUMARTIST__: F:\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\Artist Cover\$replace(%album artist%,/,,?,,*,,",,<,,>,,|,,:,,).jpg

__PHOTO_PATH_ARTISTGROUPHEADER__: F:\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\Artist Cover\$replace(%artist%,/,,?,,*,,",,<,,>,,|,,:,,).jpg

$puts(config_name,%__CONFIG_NAME__%)
$puts(foo_path,'./')

$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),
$puts(VA,0),
$puts(VA,1))

$if($findfile(%__PHOTO_PATH_COLLECTED__%),
$puts(artist_path,%__PHOTO_PATH_COLLECTED__%),
$puts(artist_path,$get(foo_path)'images/'$get(config_name)'/cover/noartist.png'))

$puts(albumartist_path,%__PHOTO_PATH_ALBUMARTIST__%)
$puts(artist_groupheader_path,%__PHOTO_PATH_ARTISTGROUPHEADER__%)

$if($findfile(%__ART_PATH__%),
$puts(art_path,%__ART_PATH__%),
$puts(art_path,$get(foo_path)'images/'$get(config_name)'/cover/nocover.png'))
$puts(time_of_year,%__DATENAME__%)
$puts(time_of_day,%__TIME__%)
$puts(header,$if(%artist%,%artist%)$if(%album%, - %album%)$if(%tracknumber%, - %tracknumber%)$if(%title%, - %title%))

$puts(Remixed_By,$if2(%remixed by%,$if2(%DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDITS%,)))
$puts(katalog,$if2(%catalog%,$if2(%discogs_catalog%,'N/A')))

// Cover And Artist Picture//
$ifequal(%el_item_count%,1,
$if($findfile($get(artist_path)),$imageabs(12,40,$get(artist_size),$get(artist_size),$get(artist_path),nokeepaspect,) $puts(space,12),)
$imageabs(12,$add($add($get(space),40),$get(artist_size)),$get(cover_size),$get(cover_size),%path%,artreader,,)
,
$ifequal($get(VA),0,$if($findfile($get(artist_groupheader_path)),
$imageabs(12,12,$get(artist_size),$get(artist_size),$get(artist_path),,),
$imageabs(12,12,$get(cover_size),$get(cover_size),$get(art_path),,)),
$ifgreater($strstr($upper(%album artist%),'VARIOUS'),0,
$imageabs(12,12,$get(cover_size),$get(cover_size),$get(art_path),,),
$if($findfile($get(albumartist_path)),
$imageabs(12,12,$get(artist_size),$get(artist_size),$get(albumartist_path),,),
$imageabs(12,12,$get(cover_size),$get(cover_size),$get(art_path),,)))
)
)

$puts(artist.path,'F:/Artist Images/'$replace(%artist%,/,_,\, ,*, ,?, ,",,<, ,>, ,|, ,:, )'.jpg')

$puts(artist.path,$if2($findfile(F:\Artist Images\%comment%.jpg),F:\Artist Images\$replace(%artist%,/,_,\, ,*, ,?, ,",,<, ,>, ,|, ,:, ).jpg))

EDIT:
You does mean showing it in PSS or ELPlaylist, right?

EDIT2:
Tried it now, it could be shorter
$puts(artist.path,F:\Artist Images\$if2(%comment%.jpg,$replace(%artist%,/,_,\, ,*, ,?, ,",,<, ,>, ,|, ,:, ).jpg))
No need for $findfile... wink.gif

Can anyone explain me how to put the musics of an album sorted by album, and not like this..
I wanted all the song of an album under the album, just like in the 1st post by Br3tt...

This config works and looks great.

I just have two questions.

What is the best way to tag single tracks for use with this config?

Also, will it always show track numbers as question marks with single tracks?

Thanks!

It would be great if the album and artist panels would also display the name of the albums/artists on the images.

Maybe you download my tweaked version and use the Group by Single.. At least you can use the code to start tweaking it by yourself..? It actually totally depends on how you want single tracks to look like... Use %el_item_count% to config the behaviour the way you want to!

Can anyone explain me how to put the musics of an album sorted by album, and not like this..
I wanted all the song of an album under the album, just like in the 1st post by Br3tt...


Cumpz...

Quote from: Andu on 2008-12-21 17:46:38

It would be great if the album and artist panels would also display the name of the albums/artists on the images.

What do you mean by that? Actually my tweaked version shows the title of the album in the "album"-panel (graphical browser) if there is no cover found. Just look at the code and adapt it to your needs (most of that code was provided by Thuan - thanks go to him!)