I've been trying to find and 've been waiting for a just simple gadget, showing the album art (cover CD) of the song that I"m currently playing in Media Player..

So far I've found a high-tech advance media player gadget, which can display your libraries, play videos, have a mini preview, etc etc..

I just want a simple gadget that displays the album art (no controller needed on the gadget) is such gadget exist?

Similar like http://closetosoftware.com/ (CD Art Display)

Where did you find the "high-tech advance media player gadget, which can display your libraries, play videos, have a mini preview, etc etc.."??

Unfortunatley, it appears that many Gadget builders aren't posting their work on the actual Sidebar Gadgets website at Microsoft.com.

Thanks!

--ScottKin

The ones on the official site really aren't what I am looking for either, hope to find one soon!

If you can find a widget made for konfabulator or Apples Dashboard i can probably convert it.

http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?show...c=5079&st=0

Hmm well I'm currently using the CD Album Art widget (not a vista gadget)..

Isnt that for itunes?

I had a look on the konfabulator website and didnt find anything sadly.

I've looked into it and i cant find a way to read the current playign track from Media Plyer. Brandon Fuller made a now playing plugin which i could base the gadget on and make in about an hour but he charges $10 for the plugin needed and i doubt he'd be willing to give it away free for this gadget.

So unless you maybe emailed him and beg i can't think of a way to do it, sorry.

LoL..beg.. don't think that will work.. imagine if 10000 people beg him

That album art works on almost all players except Media Player :{..the new one has a support.. but I've tried and couldn't get it to work, so I switched to Winamp just because of this.. not that it's a bad move

Is THIS what you're looking for?

Am!no

Problem with that is if you dont already have the album art, it wont show it, also it doesnt work for the current track. Lyon whats that about WMP11 having support?

I'd like to see one that will pull the artwork when playing iTunes.

Im sure there will be some for that soon, it's pretty easy to interface with the itunes interface. I would port one over but i dont have itunes to test on.

There's already one there on the Windows Gadget site that displays album art for music being played in iTunes. I can't get the link right now because I'm at work. I'll link it when I get home.

The gadget for iTunes is located here.

Aww.. I don't like using iTunes..prefer my simple built-in Media Player (WMP11)


Oh, it's the software I linked at my 1st post (CD Album Art?). The latest has a WMP11 support, but you need to install a dll, put it somewhere, etc.. I tried that but didn't work or maybe it's just me doing it wrong..

Well I'm very happy to use the CD Album Art Widget, and "reposition" it to the Vista sidebar so it really looks like its own gadget lol (not sure cpu/memory usage wise, whether it's better than a built-in gadget)

they don't advertise WMP11 support very well...

bump on this.. Heard nothing about it.. Is there a album art gadget out for Vista Sidebar yet? Would like for it to work with WMP or Winamp.

I made a gadget to interface with audio scrobbler which retrieves your album art from amazon.

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.asp...6af0328&l=1

ok but how long does it take to update.. I mean if I am listing to Madonna 1 sec and then swaps over to Fallout Boys the next will it update immediately? Or do I have to wait till 30secs or even longer in the song for it to change?

there is a massive delay in the retrival of the album art

see that's not what I want.

Indeed there's a big delay, but currently you're not going to get better. You can either have album art for songs your playing in WMP with a 2minute delay. Or you can have album art for a seperate sidebar instance of media player with about a 3 second delay.

You cant get instant album art for media player in a gadget yet.

Now Playing Gadget

There you go, instant album art.

Its does not show anything when i play on mine, wmp11 on vista ultimate. Look good though ljames28

Indeed, i should test stuff more, i think it works now. The dll for the WMP plugin wasn't registring properly, it should now.

Just uploaded a new version thats more stable, has better plugins, and has support for controlling WMP (pause, next track etc).

Here

Very cool!

That is wicked

Updated..again. Does the track duration and ratings setting work ok?

I love it, and yes everything is working...
One request I have - Could you make it so that the album art is huge when not docked to the sidebar? I have awesome 500x500 pixel images for all my album art. It would rock to have a scalable option...
thanks

You could modify the CSS style sheets manually to do that if you wish. I'd need graphics to do that though, and i dont have any graphics for making a 500x500 gadget unless you'd be willing to do them.

I was also looking for something that displayed 500x500 album art and tried to edit your gadget but the result was pixelated I guess it's because it's retrieving images from folder.jpg (200x200) instead of the mp3 tags. So what I ended up with was a 260x260 background with a 200x200 album display. I'm not good at coding it was basically trial and error, I swapped out the Milky Flavor with a background from another gadget. I'm pleased with the results however I really want to make the buttons look more like wmp is there a way to do highlighted and pressed buttons? Anyways thank for this awesome gadget I hope you don't mind me fiddling with it...

The art is retrieved from the folder.jpg or Amazon, i don't know how to get it from mp3 tags yet. It looks like your editing it properly so unless i can get it to use mp3 tags i guess i cant fix it.

With buttons you'd have to do that manually, editing the .htm

I didnt really put too much work into the buttons as they'll always be on your start menu anyway, as you can see in your screen shot

ljames28, i was using your app a lot until the new 2.6 update, after which point its no long working...

when i select the player to be wmp, it just says "play a song in wmp" which i am doing...??

is this a problem on my end, or yours....??

any help would be a appreicated....

forget it, for some reason the uICE plugin wasnt enabled automatically ater the update...

For future reference, whenever WMP crashes (if you cut the power without shutting down for example) it'll automatically disable all plug ins so that can also cause issues.