[SCRIPT] fancy album art script

Originally Posted by Sammy

Does it have to be on a black background for the reflecction to work?

Hmmm, have you actually checked the post and checked the image? I wrote that it will work with any background image. The script also resizes the background to 320 by y pixels, though I recommend using one that's already 320x240.

So, to be short: no, use any background you like.

Originally Posted by Pakkendu

Only problem: when you change the meizu background, the border of the album art doesn't match anymore..

Yes, well, can't do anything about that until Meizu builds us a firmware that accepts alpha transparency in images (read: PNG images). Too bad, I know.

Originally Posted by Pakkendu

Question: is there a way to increase the transpercy of the reflection? I no programmer so the code in the .bat's is all gibberish to me

Actually, you don't need to be a programmer for this. If you check the script, there's 2 places where GRADIENT gets set (#a0a0a0 and #808080). Those are just hexadecimal values of colors, just like in HTML or (I think) most image editing software supports. #000000 (or #000) being black and #ffffff (or #fff) being white. #ff0000 will give you bright red. Anyway, The darker the color, the more transparency. The GRADIENT value is the START color. So those #a0a0a0 and #808080 are 63% and 50% colored (37% and 50% see-through). The first one is the one that is used with a background image and the second one is used when no background image is provided (so black).

Further on in the script, there's the #000 value. That's the 'end point' of the transparency, in this case completely see-through.

As you can see, you can set these to any color you like.

Good luck. Be creative.

That shouldn't be to hard With those codes I'm farmiliar..

Thanks! I give it a go!

Originally Posted by parena

Yes, well, can't do anything about that until Meizu builds us a firmware that accepts alpha transparency in images (read: PNG images). Too bad, I know.

I don't complain, the script is great Couldn't do it myself..

hey..thanx for this program...works fine...sorry for the repeated question (couldn't get a clear answer) but is there a way to get rid of those black bars that appear on the sides?...it gets annoying after a while....

Originally Posted by stonecoldd

hey..thanx for this program...works fine...sorry for the repeated question (couldn't get a clear answer) but is there a way to get rid of those black bars that appear on the sides?...it gets annoying after a while....

Just start the script with 2 parameters: true <path_to_used_background_on_miniplayer>

Then the script will not use a black background, but cut out a piece of your desired background and use that instead. Seamless integration.

alrite...sounds simple enough...will try it soo thanx!

Hey, awesome script, looks freakin' sweet!!. I dunno if anyone thought of this, but you can change the f:\MUSIC in meizu_albumart.bat to whatever folder you want (ie a folder on your hd). I keep a folder up to date with all my album art on my hd for backup, so I made a second one for the fancy art. Then I created a third that the meizu_albumart.bat looks for to do conversion. Makes it easy to keep backups of both versions.

Ohhhh nice, I think I need this for the SuperMan...

Can you please explain the script a little bit? (comments in the code)
I'd like to make a GUI.

Okay, meizu_albumart.bat the is self-explanatory: it finds all the jpg's in your miniplayer's MUSIC folder and then calls the albumartfancy.bat to convert the image.

I updated albumartfancy with comments. Should be easy to understand how it works. I hope. You can download it in the first post.

How to use it on Mac OS? I don't have Amarok

Well, then you can't use it. You'd have to rewrite the thing to work with the music player you use on your Mac. That's probably iTunes, so good luck with that. However... Later this year, probably July when KDE releases 4.1, Amarok will be fully usable on Windows and Mac as well.

How tu change in Windows mode background of cover to transparent? What I must change in albumartfancy.bat file? It's working ok, but I've got black f**ked background above cover....

And whats must be a size of cover to make a best effect like in your snapshoot?

Sorry about my bad Engl :P

The transparent background is fake. You can give the background image you use on your M6 as an option to the script. The script will then 'cut out' the piece where the album art will go and it will look like it's transparent.

The best size is what most album art is: square or almost square. The script will resize to album art itself to 60x60 (the entire size is 80x80) but I have album art working that is a bit wider than high (for example 220x200). The script will calculate. It's not 100% because regular DOS cannot calculate with decimals, but it's pretty close.

Originally Posted by parena

You can give the background image you use on your M6 as an option to the script. The script will then 'cut out' the piece where the album art will go and it will look like it's transparent.

What do you mean saing "You can give the background image you use on your M6 as an option to the script" ? I must manually add a background img for all of my covers to see transparent, fake background?

Did you not read the first post?

Code:

meizu_albumart.bat <optional_path_to_background_image>

Example:
If you're meizu is F:/ and the background you are using is F:/PICTURES/picture01.jpg you do

Code:

meizu_albumart.bat F:/PICTURES/picture01.jpg

Read Windows/DOS version again from the first post. Remember you must have working album art already.

...man it's good to run Linux... :P

Yes, I've read firts post, but I don't uderstand it. I don't know that DOS have commands like this (I mean: meizu_albumart.bat <optional_path_to_background_image>). Ok i plug in my Meizu and check it Thanks fo reply.

Originally Posted by parena

...man it's good to run Linux... :P

I see... :P

I:\meizu_albumart.bat I:\system.jpg

I wrote this in DOS, script go replacing covers on my Meizu but... Under the all of covers I've got a background image system.jpg...

Yes, that is the idea. You are using system.jpg as the background for your M6? You need to provide the script with the same image that you use for the background of your M6.

Anyone else that might help out? I'm not in a Windows position right now.

Background img?! Ahhh... :D system.jpg is a small image, not my backgorund img... I think that I have to use any image and this script will cut out it around the cover :P I understand thah now :] I must see now how it looks

Yeah thats work!! Thanks parena !!! :]