Help with CDCovers

[neoxphuse]

Hey guys, new to Crni's CDcover suite for samurize. I can't seem to get it to work properly. It doesn't load any information or any album cover art.

I got my winamp in E:\Program Files\Winamp and my samurize in E:\Program Files\Samurize

And my songs are in my F:\My Music directory.

Am I suppose to have a specific filename for the cover album picture?

Thanks.

[Beginning]

A long time ago I figured out Samurize worked the best if I had it on C drive... As most people have it. And as most people who make widgets configure them to as such.. :) So I learned to just use the C drive for using Samurize... Too hard to go edit every config file for all the different widgets around.. Could be thats your problem.. Or did you edit the cd covers config file to run from E drive?

[Harsh!]

Are you trying to use existing covers you have? I just let samurize download them.

I got a folder in Samurize called "Covers" where it gets downloaded too and when my musics playing it grabs the coverart from the folder.

There should be somesort of config like this where you can configure the covers etc

[neoxphuse]

Still doesn't work, it even doesn't show the icons when the cover art is not available, etc. I would get help from Samurize, except the site is down.

The Winamp record just shows, I can active winamp by just clicking on it, but that's it.

[Harsh!]

Have you got this sort of config for the "Perform Command" section?

[neoxphuse]

K, give up. Not working at all.

[HipHopaholic]

is this your first time using samurize? The first time i tried the cdcovers with minicontrol was a success, then i uninstalled it, then installed samurize again, but this time i uncheck all of the option of samurize on the installation process (icons,taskbarclient,etc) Then installed minicontrol, but it refuse to show the album art and the song. So i reinstall samurize without extra icons,skin, and taskbarclient, total of 11.2 mb installation. Everything was normal. So did you untick anything on the installation process of samurize?

[Harsh!]

Thats a real good point!!!

[HipHopaholic]

I mean i seen several of this minicontrol in the desktop thread, and i doubt they keep there music on the c drive. Hundreds of people got songs over a gig.

[neoxphuse]

Well I tried minicontrols with samurize. Same problem.

This time I can activate the forward and backward buttons. But I can't get the thing to show the information! Not even the tags show up. So either minicontrols or samurize isn't reading the id3 tags or something.

[negative_zero]

Try placing a cover.png image in the album's directory.

So for example place the cover with the name cover.png for Album 1, in Artist 1/Album 1/

[HipHopaholic]

did it say something about having a problem find a dll, couldnt load information?

[neoxphuse]

No, there's nothing wrong with finding any .dll file. I tried putting cover.png in the album folder and still nothing.

C:\Program Files\Samurize is where my samurize is

C:\Program Files\Winamp where winamp is

F:\My Music\Album\blah.mp3 is where the song is, and in this folder contains folder.jpg, folder.png, cover.png

and so far none of them work.

[HipHopaholic]

hhhmmmm, thats my setup, excluding where my music is, which is C drive. weird

[moglenstar]

try contacting crni, im sure there is a contact e-mail on his website, and/or the forum/site you found his config :)

[hyewiz]

Have you tried reinstalling Samurize? with the Default options?

[aaronspuler]

I've been customizing the CD Covers to my own tastes, and was wondering if there is any way to automatically center text? I'm using CD Covers with Winamp, and in the following screenshot, I have a Winamp skin (emanon) that just provides controls.

I've edited the cdcovers.ini file to move some things around and change colors. I want to know if there is a way to set the alignment to "center" for the song title and band name. I'm new to samurize (just installed it yesterday), but coding is no sweat for me. So I'm not a total idiot.... just new to the samurize scripts.

[Beginning]

Hey.. Thats awesome... Any chance of sharing that setup?... :)

[aaronspuler]

Thanks, I think it's a really cool setup too.

Winamp skin: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13591962/ (using the "DA Colors" color theme)

Samurize script: http://www.spuler.us/temp/spuler.zip (you have to have CDCovers installed, I just included the 2 files I modified).

[aaronspuler]

Anyone know what website that CD Covers uses to download the jpg images from?

[HipHopaholic]

do anyone else have a problem with the cdcover? My problem is that it takes a few second to switch to the next album cover. Does everybody else expreience this?