[[email protected]]

Hey wanted to send you and jenga some pizza and bear.. Where's you Donate button.. I know you guys are busting your ass and this is what you love but It
s close to Xmas.. 

JC

[SpaceOctopus]

Same here, was hoping to donate or something, keep the project going. This is easily the most beautiful skin and the main reason I have ever used Kodi. I don't know how or what I would do without it, honestly. Thank you so much for all the work you've done, it's so amazing. Just when you think there's enough features, there's even more hidden behind those....everything to satisfy your heart's desires..... it could not have been easy....so, just want to show my appreciation.

[great_vc]

Yes, this is the only skin i use and i've tried alsmost all. MacGyver has helped me a lot with customizations in .xml and i cannot even get the idea that this will be abandoned or stopped working in other Kodi Releases. In fact, i do not update Kodi for this reason. I have 18.3 now and stay there

Looking forward on how can we help

[[email protected]]

Yes, this is the only skin i use and i've tried alsmost all. MacGyver has helped me a lot with customizations in .xml and i cannot even get the idea that this will be abandoned or stopped working in other Kodi Releases. In fact, i do not update Kodi for this reason. I have 18.3 now and stay there

Looking forward on how can we help

Maybe we should try cookies and milk to get them to send them a paypal link ........HO HO HO,,, Some Turkey and stuffing ? Let us know how we can help..

JC

[MacGyver]

I've been working on other hobbies (mostly designing and building various 3D printers) but I too use Metropolis everyday so I'll always be pushing code when a new Kodi version gets released, but I don't control the repository so I can only post betas here and to my Github repo not the official one. 

I'll keep doing updates as needed but only jingai can release it officially.

[[email protected]]

I've been working on other hobbies (mostly designing and building various 3D printers) but I too use Metropolis everyday so I'll always be pushing code when a new Kodi version gets released, but I don't control the repository so I can only post betas here and to my Github repo not the official one. 

I'll keep doing updates as needed but only jingai can release it officially.

Hum Building 3D printers .. Cool Using Arduino or Raspberry......Doing any CNC tables

Anyway.. Like we said we want to kick you guys some funds for all your already hard work...

I've also discovered the deal with Artwork slide show.. Metropolis seems to be pickup on the fact that music with IDtags with the field Album Artists marked as Various Artist are to get the default background not sure about it being empty as i will have to remove some tags to find out as I mark them as unknown or Various Artists.  I use last fm's Various Artists Artwork there. .. The Flickering I described above is because slide show is flipping threw the pics I marked for it use as the artist called Various Artist.. The Default pic is being transposed over the top of it and as the slide changes I see the flicker.  Found this by tabbing in and out of the slideshow. All other slides with both fields using the artist name works fine. 

Did note it also is not downloading like Estuary does when it finds the finds an unlabeled artist. It just displays the default radio knobs image.  Like I said no hurry in this just something I'm picking up on might have something to do with not being able to install artwork downloaded and tell Metropolis its there.. is there a setting I change to tell it that it is loaded as an ad on to see if it will start downloading??

Thanks again..

JC

[[email protected]]

I've been working on other hobbies (mostly designing and building various 3D printers) but I too use Metropolis everyday so I'll always be pushing code when a new Kodi version gets released, but I don't control the repository so I can only post betas here and to my Github repo not the official one. 

I'll keep doing updates as needed but only jingai can release it officially.

Hum Building 3D printers .. Cool Using Arduino or Raspberry......Doing any CNC tables

Anyway.. Like we said we want to kick you guys some funds for all your already hard work...

I've also discovered the deal with Artwork slide show.. Metropolis seems to be pickup on the fact that music with IDtags with the field Album Artists marked as Various Artist are to get the default background not sure about it being empty as i will have to remove some tags to find out as I mark them as unknown or Various Artists.  I use last fm's Various Artists Artwork there. .. The Flickering I described above is because slide show is flipping threw the pics I marked for it use as the artist called Various Artist.. The Default pic is being transposed over the top of it and as the slide changes I see the flicker.  Found this by tabbing in and out of the slideshow. All other slides with both fields using the artist name works fine. 

Did note it also is not downloading like Estuary does when it finds the finds an unlabeled artist. It just displays the default radio knobs image.  Like I said no hurry in this just something I'm picking up on might have something to do with not being able to install artwork downloaded and tell Metropolis its there.. is there a setting I change to tell it that it is loaded as an ad on to see if it will start downloading??

Thanks again..

JC 

Correction.. It's not the field it's picking up its totally missing artwork and artist slideshow is trying to display my various artist info behind it. I defaulted the same artist set for missing artist as a fall back for missing art.

[[email protected]]

Ok done al little playing around with your MusicVisualisation.xml file and I'm no coder by far but I can follow the flow.. So here's what I did to get artist slide show fallback settings to work for me  Lines 12 thur 25 including my comment line..   

        <control type="image">
            <include>MusicVis_Background</include>
            <texture background="true" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>
            <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgFanart)</visible>
        </control>
<!--Removed from end of line 15 above " | String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(6950))" -->
        <control type="multiimage" id="6950">
            <include>MusicVis_Background</include>
            <timeperimage>6000</timeperimage>
            <randomize>true</randomize>
            <loop>yes</loop>
            <imagepath background="False" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt)]</imagepath>
            <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgExtraFanart) + Skin.HasSetting(SkinHelper.EnableExtraFanart) + !String.IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt))</visible>
        </control>


Boredom got the best of me..but it worked and don't have a clue to what the label set I got it to ignore might break. 

JC..

[Elluminatus]

Hi there,

first of all, thank you for this great piece of Skin! I don´t know if I found a little bug, but when I choose the Banner Template
the headline appears like this

<![CDATA[Lucifer]]> and not like expected only Lucifer

Same in the description Area. Can this be changed in the Banner template or is this a failure somewhere else?

Greetings Elluminatus

[Elluminatus]

Hi there,

first of all, thank you for this great piece of Skin! I don´t know if I found a little bug, but when I choose the Banner Template
the headline appears like this

<![CDATA[Lucifer]]> and not like expected only Lucifer

Same in the description Area. Can this be changed in the Banner template or is this a failure somewhere else?

Greetings Elluminatus

I can answer to myself: See here <![CDATA - Failure and here TMDB down

[kvdex]

Hey, since Artist Slideshow addon 3.0.0  was released, it requires a quick edit to MusicVisualisation.xml (located in: /.kodi/addons/skin.metropolis/720p). Delete (starting from line 6):

xml:
<control id="99" type="multiimage">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>

  <randomize>true</randomize><visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgArtistSlideshow)</visible>

</control>

<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture background="true" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgFanart) | String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(6950))</visible>

</control>

<control id="6950" type="multiimage">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <timeperimage>6000</timeperimage>

  <randomize>true</randomize>

  <loop>yes</loop>

  <imagepath background="true" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt)]</imagepath>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgExtraFanart) + Skin.HasSetting(SkinHelper.EnableExtraFanart) + !String.IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt))</visible>

</control>

then replace with:

xml:
<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture fallback="home_art/music.jpg" background="true">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgFanart) | String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible></control>

<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image)]</texture>

  <visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible>

</control>

<control type="multiimage" id="99">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <randomize>true</randomize>

  <imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>

  <visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady)</visible>

</control>

I'm not a skinning pro, so if something could be cleaned up, please speak up.

[[email protected]]

Hey, since Artist Slideshow addon 3.0.0  was released, it requires a quick edit to MusicVisualisation.xml (located in: /.kodi/addons/skin.metropolis/720p). Delete (starting from line 6):

xml:
<control id="99" type="multiimage">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>

  <randomize>true</randomize><visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgArtistSlideshow)</visible>

</control>

<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture background="true" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgFanart) | String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(6950))</visible>

</control>

<control id="6950" type="multiimage">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <timeperimage>6000</timeperimage>

  <randomize>true</randomize>

  <loop>yes</loop>

  <imagepath background="true" fallback="home_art/music.jpg">$INFO[Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt)]</imagepath>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgExtraFanart) + Skin.HasSetting(SkinHelper.EnableExtraFanart) + !String.IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Music.ExtraFanArt))</visible>

</control>

then replace with:

xml:
<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture fallback="home_art/music.jpg" background="true">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>

  <visible>Skin.HasSetting(VisBgFanart) | String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible></control>

<control type="image">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <texture background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image)]</texture>

  <visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible>

</control>

<control type="multiimage" id="99">

  <include>MusicVis_Background</include>

  <randomize>true</randomize>

  <imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>

  <visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady)</visible>

</control>

I'm not a skinning pro, so if something could be cleaned up, please speak up.

Great fix.. Noted some my extras started displaying properly as well so I must of have added something to the code in my edit removing what I did.

thanks
James..

[kvdex]

Hey, to clarify, you should delete everything in the first code box (or starting from line 6 of the original MusicVisualisation.xml file) not line 6 of the above code box.

[[email protected]]

Hey, to clarify, you should delete everything in the first code box (or starting from line 6 of the original MusicVisualisation.xml file) not line 6 of the above code box.

I was referring to code I must have edited incorrectly in my edits of message 113 above.. Your edits were very clear to me. Remove top box of code replace with bottom.
 Sure hope these guys get Metropolis back in the kodi repositories because I personally think hand down this skin gives me everything I want to see in a skin without it being a memory hog..Great work guys and Merry Xmas to all...

James

[kvdex]

Hey, to clarify, you should delete everything in the first code box (or starting from line 6 of the original MusicVisualisation.xml file) not line 6 of the above code box.

I was referring to code I must have edited incorrectly in my edits of message 113 above.. Your edits were very clear to me. Remove top box of code replace with bottom.
 Sure hope these guys get Metropolis back in the kodi repositories because I personally think hand down this skin gives me everything I want to see in a skin without it being a memory hog..Great work guys and Merry Xmas to all...

James  

I just re-read it this morning, and it looked confusing. However, I have since realized that it does work, but only kind of. If you always use the slide show it's fine, but if you try using the fanart, extrafanart, or artist slideshow 'visualization background' checkbox options (under settings/metropolis/music settings/) it's all screwed up. So, I guess since my kids have started Christmas vacation, I'll see if I can figure it out in between referee time.