[Release] CD Art Display RC6


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1) Show the total time of the song next to the current time like (2:01 / 5:23)

2) Scroll the song text/artist. This is because some Indian songs/artists have humongous names and when wrapped around it doesn't look as pretty.

3) Hotkeys for Volume Up, Volume Down, Repeat (within playlist, song), Shuffle?

4) Lyrics Windows To be Always On Top

5) Is there a way to automatically tag lyrics to the played song if lyrics are blank? I am not sure think EvilLyrics with an script might do this but its UI is not as good. (If not, how can it be done elegantly?)

6) I haven't tried the Album Art feature yet but does the song have to be in the current folder of the song (if so with what type of filename) or tagged within the song?

7) Is there a way to tag multiple art covers within the song? If so how? (If not, how can it be done elegantly?)

8) What skin would you recommend? I'm a sucker for displaying the maximum amount of information per song while still looking pretty.

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1) you can use tags for that if you're using the last build ("Control Panel>Notifier Text"): (:00) / (%tracktime%)

2) not possible for now but you can set the text area, use just one line, a smaller font and the text will wrap

3) I'll see if all supported players can accept such hotkeys

4) nice suggestion

5) no

6) you can set CAD to search and save the cover in any folder you want; see Help for details...

7) no, CAD won't touch any tag

8) there are some nice skins out there; check DeviantArt (Winamp>Modern) or http://www.closetosoftware.com/?s=cadskins

Great update and awesome improvements u done there carlos

keep up the good work (Y)

Thanks! :)

it doesnt support chinese text =/

CAD does not support full unicode due a VB6 limitation.

just trying out the test build, Great stuff in there. But the right click doesn't seem to bring up the menu for me. :wacko:

Menu: if you set the toolbar to show on mouse over the right click is disable (at least for now) because the first button will bring the context menu. Anyway do you really think it's necessary to maintain the right click too? Note that if you disable the toolbar the context menu will be back.

Thank you all for your feedback! :)

  • 2 weeks later...
I was wondering if there is a way to improve the shadow under the lettering, for example this is a similar app (coversutra I think) on the mac:

untitled2po6.jpg

It's a small detail, but I think it would make a difference.

A soft shadow is coming! It'll have some limitation but it'll work in most of the skins. Skinned progress bar will come too!

cadsoftsha.jpg

cadicad2.jpg

:)

CAD RC6 Build 952 (24Apr2007)

Thanks to LaVolpe CAD has now a soft shadow/halo option!

More details here: http://closetosoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=250

Screenshot featuring soft shadow and skinnable progress bar

preview.jpg

cadsutra.jpg

Download

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc6b952.zip

Thank you all for trying it and please post your feedback even if you didn't find anything wrong!

PS: the second skin CoverSutra by UnknownMan 2025 can be found here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53760819

Have fun! :D

This is a nice upgrade. Hmm, for feedback, maybe you can add:

1) Scrollable Titles/Artists/Albums

2) Support for Repeat (All/One/Off) and Shuffle

3) Organization of Skins where the newer features are displayed and the older ones are not.

4) Make the cover/title/artist/album three times as big for the first three seconds of the song and then revert back to its mini size. That way it's easier to notice the song change and info.

Thanks for adding always on top for lyrics.

hmm wierd, the text area is already pretty big...

2002629999622143157_rs.jpg

Also is there any chance you could bring back the volume control? I found it very useful to just click the CAD then scroll the mouse wheel to change the volume. And is it possible to make control volume just when the mouse rolls over CAD??

thanks.

@ acies,

You're right. The shadow is cut. Just go to "Control Panel>Text" and set -5 (minus five) to the Line 1 "Pad Left".

Your screenshot setting was very helpful. Thanks.

Finally you can set a smaller "Text area" Height. Just the necessary to show the text. Maybe 80 instead 300.

The text area is indeed an in memory bitmap so the smaller the size the better should be the performance.

Regarding volume: I'll see what should be tweaked so please wait for the next build.

CD Art Display RC6 Build 1049 (02May2007) released

- Added mouse wheel volume control in "Options"

- Added "Show in track change" in "Options"

- Added Shadow option in "Lyrics"

- Added prev and next page to the Lyrics context menu

- Added mouse wheel to change Lyrics page

- Added "Troubleshooting" node in "Control Panel"

- Added custom position in "Troubleshooting" (may be useful for dual monitors)

- Added "Force read mode" for ID3 cover tag in "Troubleshooting"

- Adjusted text soft shadow

- Fixed mouse wheel volume control bug

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc6b1049.zip

See initial post for details. :)

I sent the email. Feel free to post it.

Another thing; I was making a skin with the toolbar under the text, rather than on the cover. it looked nice, but the toolbar only appears on mouse over on the cover. Is it possible to make it appear on mouse over where the toolbar is?? If that makes sense. Also "Always Visible" option didn't seem to work.

Thanks!

The toolbar will only appear on mouse over cover/case area.

Right now the best way to place the toolbar at the left side is to create a "case.png" with a bigger canvas at left. When "Always visible" the toolbar is drawn over case/cover area. This area is the "case.png" dimensions. I hope I was clear.

Thank you for the skin! :)

Edited by Carlos11

CD Art Display RC6 Build 1071 (05May2007)

-Added vertical toolbar support (*)

-"Control Panel>Effects" tweaks

-A skin may have a "backeffect.png" that will be drawn before case/cover (**)

(*) see the great "What's on TV" skin by OtisBee with vertical toolbar support:

http://closetosoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=268

whatsontvpreviewli4.png

(**) Meet "Celluloid" skin (that uses "backeffect.png") by OtisBee here:

http://closetosoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=270

celluloidpreviewuy0.png

Download:

http://www.closetosoftware.com/temp/cadrc6b1071.zip

Have fun!!

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Finally updated to this new build and there is quite a few things I don't really like. The toolbar buttons for one. Now I can't right click on the cover. I was so used to that and now toolbar buttons. Really weird to me, especially when I used to right click to search for covers manually.

Also, it doesn't seem to be saving my position on the desktop and restarts itself everytime when I close it. I updated to the newest winamp earlier and noticed that CDAD wasn't working anymore, figured this update would fix it, but it didn't. So it's not working anymore for me, plus all these new problems I'm experiencing. Is there a newer build?

:::Okay, so if you disable buttons, you can right click again. :). Now to just fix the ID3 tags and position on desktop and I guess I will like it. I'm also having problems changing skins.

CD Art Display RC6 Build 1116 (08May2007) Got that build and same problems. I wonder if it has to do with the new Winamp update.

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