Graphite Skin

[cyrilius4]

yep, that works, thanks a lot, i didn t even know this...

[Frenchi]

Hi,

I just added for the week end (in case of bad weather) an update of my graphite skin (Version 0.96). Download as usual on the German page.

Changes:
- some general corrections
- colors correct on vol and seek slider
- Artists are not longer written in”artists.txt” but are handled I the SJ database directly
- Scroll buttons for Artists are bigger now
- Global rating added (see below)
- Enqueue Buttons added (see below)

Global rating:
I had in my in configuration a problem with ratings; I have Silverjuke installed on several computers, all accessing the same server with the songs on. If I do rating on one computer, I also want to have this rating on the other ones. To do so, I’ve created an additional Database in which I record a copy of each rating and which can be accessed form all my computers. As index I do not use the URL of the song, (I do not always have the same drive letter for the server on my different computers), but I use artists + album + song title to identify a song. This has the drawback that it takes a little bit more time for handling (a few percent) and theoretically it might come to conflicts (if same title, same artist and same album is twice on the server). I accepted this drawback, in order not to change my whole configuration.
Usage:
- Via the config menu “Settings” Advanced” “Global Rating” you will get the below shown menu. Here you can activate the global rating (means that Silverjuke is writing the rating when you push the rating buttons not only in the Silverjuke database, but also in the global-rating-database. The name of this database can be given by “hand” or by clicking on “Select” you can call the standard window menu. Choose a storage place for this file which can be accessed by all your computers (best is for sure on the server itself).
- Via “Tools” “Write rating to global database” you start the transfer from your local ratings to the global database file. If you have a lot of ratings, this might take some time, but you have to do this only once, because new ratings are written in real time to the global rating database.
- Via “Extras” “read ratings from global database” you read the ratings from the global rating database and write it into the local Silverjuke database

Enqueue
On request of fuxfux (thanks for this idea) I added the Enqueue buttons to my skin (see below)
- “Enqueue now” will stop the actual song and start to play the actual highlighted song
- “Enqueue next” will add the actual highlighted song after the actually played one to the playlist
- “Enqueue last” will add the actual highlighted song at the end of the playlist

Please test and let me have your feed back. I hadn’t tested so much these new functions because of lack of time, but I post it for you for testing.

Have fun

frenchi

[DenCom]

Hi Frenchi,
Great skin, couple sugestions:

In playlistview is it possible to ad the star ratings in the tracklist? and beneath the cover you now see album and title..year would be nice aswell

And in artist mode a slider on the right side with mousecontrol could be handy!

keep up the great work and thanx
Greetz Denniis

[Frenchi]

Hi Denniis,

DenCom wrote:
> Hi Frenchi,
> Great skin, couple sugestions:
>
> In playlistview is it possible to ad the star
> ratings in the tracklist?
Good point. Will check and come back.

> and beneath the cover
> you now see album and title..year would be nice
> aswell
You are right, I just did it for the new update

>
> And in artist mode a slider on the right side with
> mousecontrol could be handy!
This is not possible I do not have via skinning the possibility to add these controls. I know that this will be realy nice, but haven't found a way till now.

>
> keep up the great work and thanx
Thanks, and keep on giving ideas.

> Greetz Denniis

[cyrilius4]

hi frenchi, i ve posted that in another topic but i m not sure you saw it.
there it is


well, there is what i'd like to have in a playlist view. not sure that everyone would like that, but there s an idea

This way, you ve got a nice "now playing..." with a playlist view as well.

I also would like to have the same color for the track seeking bar and volume too. i think that Red or yellow or whatever is not that good looking, the same than the little playlist is way better, in my opinion of course...

but that doesn't really matter cause i know how to set it...

I think it would be good to have the year of the album in the now playing view as well as the playlist view...

thanks anyway, hope you ll like my ide

[Rock&Juke]

Hi Frenchi !
Thank you for the GREAT IMPROVEMENT with the "Rating" database !!!
Thank you too for the blue letters in "search field"

Very great Skin !!

Hervé

[Frenchi]

cyrilius4 wrote:
> hi frenchi, i ve posted that in another topic but
> i m not sure you saw it.

You are right. I have overseen it

> there it is
>
> well, there is what i'd like to have in a playlist
> view. not sure that everyone would like that, but
> there s an idea
>
> ...
> This way, you ve got a nice "now
> playing..." with a playlist view as well.

Nice? For me personally I think it's overloaded, but this is only my personal opinion. The playlist itself without the blue color:I agree with you, this is smoother than mine, but putting it all on one screen?

Hmm, I have to think about. Will come back to you.

>
> I also would like to have the same color for the
> track seeking bar and volume too. i think that
> Red or yellow or whatever is not that good
> looking, the same than the little playlist is way
> better, in my opinion of course...

Yeah, here I fully agree with you. This will be changed for sure. Your colors are far better. Thank you.
>
> but that doesn't really matter cause i know how to
> set it...
>
> I think it would be good to have the year of the
> album in the now playing view as well as the
> playlist view...
sure, it is also in the now playing view. I only posted the picture of playlist, but I realized it for both views. Will be in the next update (as the changed colors).
>
> thanks anyway, hope you ll like my ide

Thanks to you for your support.

frenchi

[Frenchi]

Just posted a quick bug fix. You can download Version 0.97 from the german page.

Changes:
- Bug fix for globalrating if artist name contains a " ' "
- added year to playlist and now playing page
- changed colors on vol- and seek slider
- change background color in playlist

frenchi.

[cyrilius4]

don t know if it s coming from this skin, but when i m playing a song who s not in SJ database, it keeps on returning the error line 295 : range error bad index a several times...

[Frenchi]

cyrilius4 wrote:
> don t know if it s coming from this skin, but when
> i m playing a song who s not in SJ database, it
> keeps on returning the error line 295 : range
> error bad index a several times...

it's coming from this skin

Shame on me. Will try to find a work around. Stay tuned.