Howto: Music album covers in Thunar Nautilus and everywhere!

[Yuzem]

Thanks so much, guys!
With a little tweaking, I changed the film launcher to use gmplayer instead of totem

If you change a program file it will be overwritten with a new version and there is no need to do that because it can be configured:

gedit ~/.avatar-factory/grabbers/film

insert:

launcher="gmplayer"

You can also do that from the gui:
1. launch avatar-factory
2. press ok
3. select the grabber
4. set the launcher

but I was wondering how I would go about adding arguments to that. I haven't gotten around to encoding some of the 1080p films I have, and they're still in raw .ts form, meaning that I need to start them with: `gmplayer "movie.ts" -really-quiet -cache 4096 -ni -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all` to get them to play with a minimal amount of lag.
Now, I haven't tested this, but if I make a new launcher called film-hd, I would add all those arguments to the end of this line, after the final `)`, correct?:

eval $film $(echo "$URL" | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' -e 's/[cC][dD][1-9]/"???"/' -e 's/[1-9][oO][fF][1-9]/"????"/')&

No, you should not touch the grabber for that but the launcher.
The grabbers are in:
/usr/local/share/avatar-factory/grabbers
the launchers in:
/usr/local/share/avatar-factory/launchers

The grabbers always set the avatars to use the launcher so you can configure the launcher without building again your avatars.

Again there is no need to edit the files on those paths.
To configure the launcher as you want you do:

gedit ~/.avatar-factory/grabbers/film

insert:

launcher="gmplayer -really-quiet -cache 4096 -ni -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all"

Or from the gui... but I think that you can set those options in:
~/.mplayer/config

[ashmew2]

Yuzem...Nice work and keep up the good work Please!!

I noticed Something ,
In the GUI , when i select a Grabber(Film/music or any other) ,

and double click this :

Delete Broken : No

It is changed to

Delete Broken : Yes

But if i double click it again , it is still

Delete Broken : Yes

Is it on purpose ?

[Yuzem]

Is it on purpose ?

No, it is a bug. It will be fixed on the next version.
Thanks for reporting.

[ashmew2]

Thanks for reporting.

Nah man , We Thank You for making this GREAT piece of application.

Thanks Yuzem..You ROCK !

[soro2005]

No, it is a bug. It will be fixed on the next version.
Thanks for reporting.

I think that this might be the same bug, or you've been made aware long ago. Just in case: The option to disable the music widget does also not stick here. Thanks for the great work!

[Yuzem]

Thanks Yuzem..You ROCK !

You are welcome.

The option to disable the music widget does also not stick here.

Are you sure that is the same thing? I can't reproduce that error...

[soro2005]

You are welcome.

Are you sure that is the same thing? I can't reproduce that error...

No, I'm not sure it's the same thing. Was just guessing. But if you can't reproduce it, here a fuller description:

If I open the music options dialog, the last entry is "widget." I double-click it, and the dialog reloads. "Widget" is now on "yes." I click "ok" to close the dialog, then open the dialog again, and "widget" has no value. The same if I double click on "yes" to get "no." Click "ok" to commit, and on next open, the value is gone again, and the widget keeps appearing on the desktop. In other words, I cannot disable the widget through the dialog.

I use Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit.

[Yuzem]

Ok, it is a different bug. It will be fixed in the next version.

By the way, if someone could test it and report some bugs, that would be great. It is attached.

Changelog:

??.??.08------0.7.7
	+film grabber: yahoo fallback
	+film & imdb grabbers: changed the no cover icon
	+film & imdb grabbers: detect if there is a cover for a movie wich had no cover before
	+fixed error message with file inputs
	+fixed error in picture launcher
	+tv-show grabber: fixed problem when no cover is found.
	+gui: fixed "delete broken" option problem
	+gui: fixed problem with music grabber configuration
	+gui: improved and simplified

[soro2005]

Ok, it is a different bug. It will be fixed in the next version.

By the way, if someone could test it and report some bugs, that would be great. It is attached.

Thanks for fixing the widget option! It seems that it's not working with mpd at the moment. I click on a launcher and nothing happens. May be because my mpd is currently in a weird state, though. Audacious seems to work.

[Yuzem]

The config file has changed in the latest versions. If your mpd music directory is not in /var/lib/mpd/music you must edit the config file "~/.avatar-factory/grabbers/music"

You can read about that:

avatar-factory -g music --help

(MPD INSTRUCTIONS are at the end)