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Purpose
- Required: No
- Type of Change: Feature
Some extra skin properties have been provided in the music now playing screen which provide extra info about the current and next tracks.
These properties are based on data embedded within the tags of music files (the track details) or Album or Artist info that has been scraped from within Mediaportal and loaded into the database. If data is not embedded within tags or no album or artist info has been scraped by the user these properties will be empty.
Description of Change
The exposed properties are:
Current Track Properties
Skin Property |
Notes |
|---|---|
#Play.Current.Title |
Title of the current track |
#Play.Current.Track |
Track number of the current track |
#Play.Current.Album |
Album the current track is from |
#Play.Current.Artist |
The artist for the current track |
#Play.Current.Genre |
The genre of the current track |
#Play.Current.Duration |
The duration of the current track |
#Play.Current.Rating |
The rating of the current track |
#Play.Current.Year |
The year of the current track |
#Play.Current.AlbumArtist |
The album artist of the current track |
#Play.Current.BitRate |
The bitrate of the current track |
#Play.Current.Comment |
Any comment stored in tags for the current track |
#Play.Current.Composer |
Composer of the current track |
#Play.Current.Conductor |
Conductor of the current track |
#Play.Current.DiscID |
Disc number of the current track |
#Play.Current.DiscTotal |
The total number of discs on this album |
#Play.Current.Lyrics |
The lyrics embded within tags for the current track |
#Play.Current.TimesPlayed |
The number of times the current track has been played in MediaPortal |
#Play.Current.TrackTotal |
The total number of tracks on the album |
#Play.Current.FileType |
The type of file of the current track |
#Play.Current.Codec |
The codec of the current track |
#Play.Current.BitRateMode |
The mode of the bitrate of the current track (VBR or CBR) (only populated for mp3) |
#Play.Current.BPM |
The beats-per-minute of the current track |
#Play.Current.Channels |
The number of channels in the current track |
#Play.Current.SampleRate |
The sample rate of the current track |
#Play.Current.DateLastPlayed |
The date the track was last played in MediaPortal |
#Play.Current.DateAdded |
The date the track was added to the database |
Music Now Playing Track Skin Properties
Next Track Properties
All these properties are also available for the next track queued up on the playlist by replacing #Play.Current with #Play.Next
Scraped Album Info Properties
Skin Property |
Notes |
|---|---|
#Play.AlbumInfo.Review |
The review of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.AlbumInfo.Rating |
The rating of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.AlbumInfo.Genre |
The genres of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.AlbumInfo.Styles |
The styles of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.AlbumInfo.Tones |
The tones of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.AlbumInfo.Year |
The year of the album (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
Music Now Playing Album Info Skin Properties
(these properties are not set for the next track)
Scraped Artist Info Properties
Skin Property |
Notes |
|---|---|
#Play.ArtistInfo.Bio |
Artist's biography (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.Born |
Artist's birth daye (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.Genres |
Artist's genres (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.Instruments |
Artist's instruments (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.Styles |
Artist's styles (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.Tones |
Artists's tones (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
#Play.ArtistInfo.YearsActive |
Years in which the artist is/was active (currently scraped from allmusic.com) |
Music Now Playing Artist Info Properties
(these properties are not set for the next track)
Additional Information and References
Mantis Issue: |
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Related xml(s): |
MyMusicPlayingNow.xml MyMusicPlayingNowAnVU.xml MyMusicPlayingNowLedVU.xml |
Windows IDs: |
510 |
Related GUI control: |
None |
Author: |
jameson_uk |
Date added: |
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 |
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