ulvi;584189 Wrote: > I would like to try the custom clock applet when > I find the time. But at the risk of sounding lazy, > how do I, for example, set the title display to read: > > GENRE: TITLE........Performer(s): ARTIST........AlbumTitle: > ALBUM........Track: TRACKNUM........Length: DURATION > > which is what I have it set on my SB3? Can this be done on > the Touch with the custom clock applet? > With Custom Clock you can: 1. Forward any title format defined in Squeezebox Server Settings to the Touch 2. Display those title formats on a Custom Clock screen which you have created your custom layout for.
However, it also have a limitation that it does not offer any touch screen support, so you will be forced to control it using IR-remote. There are two possible solutions for this: 1. Configure the Custom Clock screen to replace the standard Now Playing screen and use IR remote to enter/exit/move to playlist 2. Configure the Custom Clock screen to be used as "When playing" screen saver and touching it or using the IR remote will exit the screen saver and show the standard Now Playing screen which have the touch buttons. Unless you want a scrolling text, there is no predefined layout to show all information you like, so you will have to design your own. You can of course base it on one of the existing layouts and just modify them with some more text elements. If you are happy with a long scrolling text, it should just be a matter of configuring one of the predefined layouts. The attached screenshots shows you two samples: - The VU meter style graphics is made by jstraw - The spectrum meter style contains switching artist images from LastFM web site through Song Info plugin to the left and spectrum meter to the right. Both styles looks a lot better on the Touch than on screen shots, as you can see there are a lot of artifacts on the screen shots which isn't available when you use them on the Touch. In both cases it's pretty easy to reconfigure which title formats you like to use on the text elements or even add more text elements if you like to do that instead of having scrolling elements. All configuration is made through the Custom Clock Helper plugin that needs to be installed in Squeezebox Server. If you know how you like to to look like and can draw a simple image of it, I'm sure there are people that can help you configure it. There are a lot more predefined styles than the ones included as screen shots in this post. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: LastFMArtistVisualizer.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10791| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75410 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
