No longer maintained by me, find the latest version here

I've never had any problems with it, but I'll try this to see if anything happens. Are you going to post the modified source?

I'll upload the source now.

Using it now. Seems considerably faster. Providing it is stable this is a great improvement. Thanks a lot. I hope this component and the track info panel get updated for foobar v9 once the SDK is released for it.

Thanks for the update. Testing now.

Would it be nice to indicate the version which you base on when you release the plugin. Or you could update the version number to prevent confusion from different builds.


Thanks. Keep on.

Thanks for the update. Redrawing is improved very nicely.

Thanks for the update.

the fading effect is great and is working so far.

thank you very much

Hello!

I can't get the panel to appear (juste as with the previous version). I probably forgot something. I get the Album art panel item in the preferences, but the cover art doesn't appear (not even the default one wich is located in the "components" folder). Please help.

Works great except one bug. It broke PNG transparency.

Can you show me some images that you have this problem with? I just created a transparent PNG in Photoshop which seemed to have no problems.

http://sv1.randomcrap.net/uploads/files/0/default.png

The background shows up black with your plugin though the background is transparent.

Black is the default background colour. If you want a different colour use the options on the preferences page (Use background colour).
Hope that helps.

Are you using the columns UI? Right click somewhere on the interface and check Panels->Album Art. Do other panels work?

I cant use it with new beta 13 of foobar. Why? May be is not supported yet?

Great work! So far the experimental version works great for me. I love the fading between covers!

Same here! Thanks for the plugin!

Thank you. I feel dumb now but it works (I'm not used to ColumnsUI).

Working great in foobar 0.8.3....fading rocks my world

Just a question... been having this problem with the old version too...
There is an option to control it also via the album list panel, however the albumart doesn't change until I select a track in the playlist (if follow cursor is enabled).

It's never worked for me either. I believe it requires a modified version of the album list panel. The original foo_uie_albumart zip file (which can be found here) includes this. It's older than the foo_uie_albumlist I was using, but it does work properly with this feature. I prefer my album art to display the currently playing track anyway...

Okay, so I finally tried out this plugin. Couple questions...

This is my "sources" set-up:
D:\My Music\album art\%artist% - %album%.jpg
D:\My Music\album art\no cover.jpgmi
-match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*
-components\default.png

What is this line in the preferences for? I couldn't find anything pertaining to this line in my search.
-match:$replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)*

I left the last 2 lines in because I'm still trying to understand it all. From what I have gathered from searching, the last line would normally point to a "default.png" file in my "components" folder in the fb2k folder. I don't see one there, so do I need to put a file there?

Well, since I want all my covers (even "no cover") in one folder, I'm going to delete that line anyway.

I'm basically curious to what -match, -components, and * means.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: removed incorrect info : , see below...

Ivanov: this does not work for version 0.9, and it won't until the final version of 0.9 is released (along with the SDK).

To the people who are talking about the album art panel interacting with the album list panel: yes, you need the modified foo_uie_albumlist.dll that is/was included with foo_uie_albumart. I remember, though, that there were many bug reports related to this modified album list panel, so be warned.

symbiont7: I'll be back in a minute with a link to the explanation on how the sources list works (it's buried in the original foo_uie_albumart thread).

rexy's explanation of the sources list

That's straight from the author's mouth. :-D

edit: changed "cycling" to "the sources list"

Thank you david_dl and gfngfgf. It all makes sense now.

thanx, it really works now ^^

Wow! I never thought a little thing like fading would make such a big difference. Excellent work and thanks!

Any chance you could have a go at trying to fix this bug?

stripe/ben

fixed url

Can you paste your sources list here?

Looks great, watch out for the new SDK when it comes out, this would be really hot for 0.9...

love the transition..

(whoops, should have previewed) I'm currently using the default sources, but with earlier versions of albumart I have attempted plenty of different configs, none of which worked. I'm getting the exact same behavior with this version, so I don't think the source list is the problem.

-ben/stripe

Great work on the update, and would there be any chance of adding support for reading in archived files ?

Very awesome idea, I love the transition.

500 miliseconds is perfect. :D

I'll investigate this some time after christmas, if I can do it through the foobar archive plugin (I forget what its called, its midnight on christmas day here ) it shouldn't be too hard.

500ms, that's the default I set right? I did a lot of research before settling on 500

Has anyone else notice this with transitions?

Turn off "follow cursor" mode. Play the second song and then select the first song. Albumart should show second song's cover, and it does. Now advance to the next track, instead of fading from the second song's to the third song's cover, it immdiately shows the first song's cover (the selected track) and then fades to the third song's cover.

Using foobar 8.3 with columns_ui here.

Hmm, are you still using Windows 98SE? Is there anybody who is using the albumart plugin and Windows 98 without errors?

Fixed , Get the update from my first post.

Yep, it's working as expected now. Thanks for the quick fix.

I'm having a hard time refreshing a cover that has been changed... anyone else noticed that? Great work nonetheless!

Thanks for this great plugin the fading between album art images looks just great.



Nice job.

One little thing: I normally have foobar2000 minimized to the system tray. When I open it and the album art has changed, it fades from the old album art to the current one. This is kind of awkward, though, because I might have minimized foobar2000 4 hours ago, and the old album art is, well, old. Is it possible to have the album just change when foobar2000 is restored, rather than fade?

I have a simply question:
how can I get this plugin to display whatever image I have in the folder where the playing file is located, regardless of file name?

That should do the trick.

is there anybody who can fix that albumlist panel modification?, because that along with this updated albumart would be so beautiful.

I think originally the default colour was the window background colour, usually light gray, but dependent on your Windows settings/theme. It would be great if you could revert to the old behavior. Also, please post your latest source for the fading version. Thanks in advance.

Great to see further development of my code. Good luck, david.

Put my hand up for this one as well!

Also this needs to be dealt with as well please. The problem is when you have multiple sources and one of them is not there album_art shows the last good source in the list instead of continuing skipping until the next good one is found. Hope you'll get it sorted!
Anyway, great job!

Added: Another one, bind 'first source' as a double-click action. Now when I double click the first source shows up only for a brief moment before it switches to second source.

FIXED SOURCE
David, I had a look into the source myself and managed to fix all of the above issues (not the system tray one though):

in uie_albumart.cpp:


I've implemented a little walk-around on the issue with double-clicking returning the second source. In the same uie_albumart.cpp:


Hope it helps!

Anybody who know foo_ui_albumart 2 and more used ?
ex) trackinfo.dll trackinfo2.dll trackinfo3.dll

thanks for your help..