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jphlips
jphlips
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Album Art Widget

Have searched and not found what I want.....

January 31, 2007 2:33:13 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Howdy good skinners!
I am trying to get a widget that will display album artwork that is embedded in the tags on my MP3 files. All the widgets I have found for this only read picture files in the folder that the track resides in... I want just a transparent frame that will pop the currently playing song's artwork into it. Track/Album/Artist info would be nice as well.....
Unfortunetely for this poor fool I dont have a clue what to do to get the results I want.   Please help!!!
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jphlips
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Reply #1 February 3, 2007 6:21:10 AM
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It seems me I'll can help you. You will have transparent frame with artwork but I need know before this what the type of player are you use in your project.   
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jdsabin1
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Reply #2 March 11, 2007 8:48:53 PM
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I'd like this also. Badly. I use WinAmp but would use anything if it could display the album art (and retrieving it via the internet is fine). Here's a mighty fine looking example at the lower left bottom:

https://www.wincustomize.com/zoom.aspx?skinid=19334&libid=13
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jphlips
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Reply #3 March 12, 2007 6:16:41 AM
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I understood. All that you want turned out to be much complicated than I thought earlier...    So I see a several ways to make this:

1. You may look at the WinAmp ActiveX object and try to use it in your widget (I can't help you with this because I has no haved time yet to study how it works).

2. Use the WMP ActiveX object but I'm not sure that it can get Album Art from the internet (I know how it get images from music folders and music CD. And I can help you with this.)

3. Use Quick Time ActiveX but as I know only Martin (some examples are on his site) have tried to make something useful with this (I never used it...).

Is there have any sense?


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jphlips
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Join Date 03/2007
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Reply #4 March 12, 2007 10:07:14 PM
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The one in that picture I think is "CD Art Display", works with winamp and a bunch of other players and yes it can read the embedded art in an MP3 or from the net. It's a very nice program.

http://www.closetosoftware.com/


Now all I want is this program that can go on the Vista sidebar...*sigh*
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