Music XML generator

[DeVicious]

i am officially loving this for Artist folders, I don't use the other info and my tags are nicely done my iTunes but for getting folders this is heaven I will recommend it in my theme thread. Good Job!

[drizzt09]

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DeVicious wrote:

i am officially loving this for Artist folders, I don't use the other info and my tags are nicely done my iTunes but for getting folders this is heaven I will recommend it in my theme thread. Good Job!

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Glad you like it, I have been using it for a long time to embed coverart into my MP3s [ID3tag], renaming in a pattern I like and creating .m3u files [Album Playlist].

Then Joey made the ID3tag version of his theme, gave me he xml template and I found a way to get this nifty tool to generate the hub xml files and works pretty good.

Hint: You mentioned in your theme I developed it. I wish it was true, I did not. Just found it way before I had a hub and through discovery learned that it can also help with the hub and shared.

[DeVicious]

i thought you made it ...

well I won't clear that up in my thread let them think high of you.

As mentioned in my thread a friend of mine is just developing something similar, feel free to PM me your input if you want, it is supposed to have an automatic function like thumbgen which makes it probably even easier. If you are interested help developing it let me know :-)

[DeVicious]

here a little hint when generating covers...

if you have gathered your covers through iTunes, automatic or manual function you need to delete these files first because they are excessively compressed and too small.

Mp3Tag will ask you if you want to overwrite these images but you can't because they are protected by iTunes.

Here is what you gotta do

1) go to folder options and enable "view hidden system files"

2) open your music folder in windows explorer and search for *.*jpg

3) delete all greyed out jpg images

don't forget to create a folder.jog for the artist :-)

[DeVicious]

Drizzt, Joey, anyone

now here might be the most dense question of the this thread.........

I was trying to pay attention to the entire thread as good as i can but I can't shake of the feeling that some important information is missing like "the xml files are for tailor made themes such a as Aeonish Hub" 

Trying to make a work around to display the track titles with library mode off is pointless?

Is it pointless at all or theoretically possibly and if so would that mean to generate an xml file for each track?

If so... does that mean WD Coders are insane?

If anyone know the answer please let me know because it is easy to spend a week on this without results

[drizzt09]

I have 2 xml templates.....

This is the one I use [the "Comment" section I copy and paste the Editors comment or biography section from amazon when I search the album]:

$filename(%artist% - %year% - %album%.xml,utf-8)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<details>
 <album>%album%</album>
 <artist>%artist%</artist>
 <genre>%genre%</genre>
 <year>%year%</year>
 <overview>%comment%</overview>
 <prevalbum>N/A</prevalbum>
 <prevartist>N/A</prevartist>
 <prevgenre>N/A</prevgenre>
</details>

This one someone else requested which is tracklisting:

$filename(%artist% - %year% - %album%.xml,utf-8)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<details>
 <album>%album%</album>
 <artist>%artist%</artist>
 <genre>%genre%</genre>
 <year>%year%</year>
 <overview>
$loop(%album%) %track%. %title%
$loopend()</overview>
 <prevalbum>N/A</prevalbum>
 <prevartist>N/A</prevartist>
 <prevgenre>N/A</prevgenre>
</details>

 Whether they work with library off, I am not sure. They are not tailered for Joeys themes, they are just stock xml edited to support Mp3Tag application

[DeVicious]

thanx Drizzt, I appreciate the example sheets and your reply.

It seems I can only use them with the library on therefore I gotta wait until they have fixed the library to something that doesn't cause me a hemerhorrage.

[Steffen_2009]

With music xml: If we press the options-view info button - which XML is used for showing the data ?

I would like to modify the font size in the theme, because on my small tv it is too small ...

[drizzt09]

Good question... I'll leave that answer to Dev or Joey asi don't know the theming files

[DeVicious]

that should be "metadata_view_info.xml" which is not included with the most themes.

I know it is in Joey's and Tinwarbles Darklight, if that is not what you are using and can't find that page anywhere

this would be the origninals osd code, copy and paste it into notepad and save as "metadata_view_info.xml"

and change the portion that says fontsize="xx"

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<page background="@@metadata_info_bg" overlay="@@metadata_info_bg_overlay">

<ctrlgrp>
		
<button valkey="BACKDROP"/>
		
<linebreak/>
		
<button valkey="HIDE"/>
		
<textbox valkey="info" numlines="7" directkey_table="UD[]"/>
	
</ctrlgrp>

	
<image image="@@metadata_info_image_bg" x="0" y="0" w="1280" h="720" bg="1"/>


	
<image image="@@movie_metadata_thumbnail_bg" x="70" y="49" w="139" h="196" align="hcenter" scale_type="fixratio" scale="100"/>
	
<image image="@@movie_metadata_thumbnail" x="70" y="49" w="139" h="196" align="hcenter" scale_type="fixratio" scale="100"/>
	
<text text="@@movie_title" x="216" y="55" w="994" h="48" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="48" align="left" speed="1" delay="2"/>
	
<image image="@@movie_option_rating" x="218" y="108" w="124" h="21" align="hcenter" />
	
<image image="@@movie_favorite" x="356" y="108" w="23" h="21" align="hcenter" />

	
<text text="@@text-BACKDROP" x="871" y="178" w="340" h="32" textcolor="0xffffff" active="@@act-BACKDROP" selected="sel-BACKROP" actnoseltextcolor="0xff8400" activetextcolor="0xff8400" fontsize="30" align="right" disable="@@disable-BACKDROP"/>
	
<text text="@@text-HIDE" x="871" y="218" w="340" h="32" textcolor="0xffffff" active="@@act-HIDE" selected="sel-HIDE" actnoseltextcolor="0xff8400" activetextcolor="0xff8400" fontsize="30" align="right" disable="@@disable-HIDE"/>

	
<text text="@@movie_year" x="216" y="145" w="320" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>
	
<text text="@@movie_total_time" x="216" y="182" w="320" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>
	
<text text="@@movie_actor" x="216" y="219" w="650" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left" speed="1" delay="2"/>
	
<text text="@@movie_genre" x="545" y="145" w="320" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>
	
<text text="@@movie_director" x="545" y="182" w="320" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>

	
<image image="@@music_metadata_thumbnail_bg" x="70" y="49" w="196" h="196" align="hcenter" scale_type="fixratio" scale="100"/>
	
<image image="@@music_metadata_thumbnail" x="70" y="49" w="196" h="196" align="hcenter" scale_type="fixratio" scale="100"/>
	
<text text="@@music_title" x="279" y="55" w="932" h="48" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="48" align="left" speed="1" delay="2"/>
	
<image image="@@music_option_rating" x="282" y="108" w="124" h="21" align="hcenter" />
	<image image="@@music_favorite" x="420" y="108" w="23" h="21" align="hcenter" />
	
<text text="@@music_artist" x="279" y="145" w="580" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>
	
<text text="@@music_genre" x="279" y="182" w="580" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>
	
<text text="@@music_year" x="279" y="219" w="580" h="22" textcolor="0xffffff" fontsize="20" align="left"/>

	
<image image="image/video_option_divider.png" x="70" y="260" w="1140" h="1" align="hcenter" />
  
	
<text text="@@info" x="70" y="286" w="1140" h="340" fontsize="26" textcolor="0xc1c1c1" align="left" numlines="@@numlines-info" id="info" start_line="@@start_line-info" disable_tail_dots="1"/>

	
<image image="image/video_option_divider.png" x="70" y="636" w="1140" h="1" align="hcenter" />

	
<text text="@@prev_page" x="70" y="656" w="400" h="22" fontsize="20" align="left" textcolor="0x565656" active="@@prev-info" actnoseltextcolor="0xffffff"/>
	
<text text="@@next_page" x="810" y="655" w="400" h="22" fontsize="20" align="right" textcolor="0x565656" active="@@next-info" actnoseltextcolor="0xffffff"/>

</page>