Hi Criss,

have you tried using the layout presets? Those little buttons labeled 1 to 5 on the top left. If you simply need to have a shrunken down interface while using XXHE in attended mode, then you should be able to achieve what you want using that feature.

With 5 presets to define as you wish, you could set one layout for only the controls, another to show the playlist etc. It's just a matter of dragging the GUI borders around to hide of reveal the components you wish to use.

Creating a "lite" version for each release would be a lot more work for Peter I imagine.

See below for one example.

Cheers,

Russ
 

Try running your desktop at a lower resolution. 1280 x 720 should make it much easier to read the text and navigate around the buttons.

Cheers,

Russ

OK ... you win .. haha.

I must have wagged school when you posted that feature review 12 months ago , and didn't appreciate how powerful it is. Guess I should have known better .. oops!

I'll go stand in the corner now 

Russ ( the ol' dog who is learning new tricks )

err .. I beg to differ actually 

Within Photoshop you use "file/scripts/image processor" and you get a panel shown below. Select your folder, specify the boundary size parameters, and the images within that folder(s) will be resized to fit accordingly and maintain their original aspect ratio.

I agree that 1000x1000 is 'sometimes' a little too small to read some of the booklets, but a large amount can be read comfortably using a height of 750 to 900 pixels in height. Unless you are using a digital panel rather than a CRT monitor, in which case all bets are off .. LOL

Cheers,

Russ

Yep ... that is how I foresee the above being interpreted at the moment.

In the above example, by amending the lowest folder to read:

Oscar Peterson\His Box\CD01 - 1950 - 1955 - The better years
Oscar Peterson\His Box\CD02 - 1956 - 1960 - The later years

and applying my suggestion from previous post, we will hopefully then see:

Album -> His Box
Artist -> Oscar Peterson

and the discreet discs identified as:

CD01 - 1950 - 1955 - The better years
CD02 - 1956 - 1960 - The later years

appearing under a folder called His Box.

How that's achieved from a coding perspective is best left up to his maestro

Cheers,

Russ

WOW ... someone is up early ... or hasn't gone to sleep yet !

Yes, I'm aware of the resizing function, but haven't used it. I prefer using Photoshops batch function processing for something like that.

For a while now I've been using 500x500 for folder.jpg size ( averages about 80KB ), and 750x750 up to 1024x1024 depending upon how much info and the size of the fonts used for the back.jpg. When you have lots of albums though it all takes a little longer to process. The SSD make a huge improvement, but like most things involving speed, when you've had a taste you just want more .. haha

Certainly no demand on my part for the optional function. Just throwing an idea into the hat that's all.

Cheers,

Russ

G'day Peter,

would it be possible to have a tickable option when creating the galleries to ONLY create the folder.jpg and back.jpg entries ?

I'm thinking it should dramatically speed up the presentation of the galleries if only those items are handled, and would be helpful in minimising the storage space needed, which is particularly useful when the galleries are residing on small SSD's. As SSD's become bigger and pricing drops further then if you subsequently wish to create galleries containing all coverart then simply remove the tick from that option.

I could do it myself manually, simply by using the explorers search function, and cull out all other jpegs etc not wanted, but a built in solution would be better.

Further to this, perhaps when creating galleries in this way, there could be a marker of some sort, in the right panel, to indicate there is additional coverart available to browse, should you wish, using the inbuilt explorer options available when rightclicking on the folder art in the middle panel. Or better yet, by simply clicking on that marker, you have an explorer window opened for you.

Food for thought?

Russ ( always thinking of better ways to build a mousetrap )

morning Peter,

I've been spending some time cleaning up my naming schemes and seem to have it understood how the use of " - " delimits the components now, but it is still those boxsets that are causing head scratching as to how to make things meaningful and provide appropriate descriptions rather than simple call them CD01, CD02 etc.

May I suggest that you consider a mask that, if it sees a folder starting with "CD" followed by 1, 2 or even perhaps 3 numerals, that it is solely treated as a multi-volume set, and is thus associated with the next higher folder name as being the actual Album Name. I think this should take care of MV "issues" to a large extent.

Using "CD" as a unique prefix to say "hey , I'm part of a multi volume set and belong in the folder above without changing my folder name or interpret me in any other form", should allow using a meaningful description to follow the "CD".

As it stands at the moment, whenever anything follows the "CDxx", it gets treated as a unique album name and the folder above it then becomes treated as an artist. As you are well aware.

I've checked through all my artists and albums names and I don't have anything in those categories starting with a "CD" so I think it should be safe.

Food for thought perhaps, or unobtainable from a coding perspective ?

Cheers,

Russ





 

Sweet !

Looks a little tidier than my typical test bench though .. haha

It looks like the sort of rig the guys at AnandTech would enjoy.

Thanks for the link.

Just tried as requested and the boundary on my system is between 247 & 248 MB. At a setting of 247 the album I had queued started playing fine. At 248 or above the OutOfMemoryException message came up just after GUI dissappeared.

I tried it with 2 different albums.

I've been using a value of about 60 to 75 till now so haven't noticed this error until mentioned.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Russ

For those worried about case fans noise, it is very easy to run them on 7V without resorting to a commercial speed controller. Simply use the red and yellow leads from the molex plug that typically powers them. The yellow is at 12V potential and the red is 5V, with the difference being 7V.

To facilitate a neat setup, use a tool such as this ...

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83_266&products_id=14870

to re-arrange the leads on a Molex Y adapter ...

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=19_197&products_id=2679

then hang your fans off that.

Have been using this method for years and it works a treat

 

ah , well done Suteetat .. you just beat me to it .. haha

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_733&products_id=8096

Russ

Such a beautiful voice



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Gardot

http://www.melodygardot.com/

Excellent recording from a technical perspective also.

Enjoy

Russ

Been there ... done that ... didn't work !

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1403.msg13521#msg13521

I'd be interested to know if you had better success.

Russ

ouch ... inflation must be rife where you live. All you NEED for a dedicated server ( which was your original design criteria ) is something like this ..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131371

If you're living outside of CONUS though, which is what Newegg restricts delivery to, and you can't find something like that, consider a browse through eBay for preloved cards if you're comfortable with that. Not everyone is though. The funds you save could be better put towards a faster CPU.

Happy hunting,

Russ