I just bought my SqueezeBox Duet. It is replacing an old tired custom mp3 player (really just a wrapper around WMP) I wrote (in VB 6) years ago. The way I use my player is to have the media library stored in a RAID attached to a Win2K3 server box. There is also a simple SFF Dell PC in my home theater setup. This Dell HTPC simply runs my custom mp3 player and is connected to my AVR as just another audio/video source. The video (the PC's desktop with the custom mp3 player's GUI) is then displayed on the plasma disply of my home theater while the audio is played through the systems amplifiers. Because the display is a plasma it was neccessary to implement a screensaver into the GUI of the player. This screensaver was simply two images moving around the screen bouncing off the borders and each other. The images included the album art of the now playing track with the track title, artist and a progress bar indicating play position. The second image was identical except that it is of the next track in the playlist (obviously this second image does not include the progress bar).
This screensaver is what I am trying to find a way to duplicate in SC. Can anyone tell me if there is a plugin already which provides this (or similar) functionality. Or if no such plugin currently exist could someone give me some pointers on how I can get this info (album art, track title, artist, play position) for both the currently playing track and the next track in the playlist from SC into an external app. With this information I could then attempt to write my own screensaver in VB. Thanks, Steve -- sredmyer Steve Redmyer www.RipitDigital.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sredmyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23527 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60128 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
