Koogle

31st October 2007 16:08 UTC

avs album cover
any way of using avs to grab the currently playing songs album cover and do stuff with it

here take a look at this screenshot

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/2821/fooavaja3.jpg

see the top two pictures with the album cover, and beat detection vis built onto the bottom... .that would be pretty cool in winamp.. is it possible?

QOAL

31st October 2007 16:12 UTC

Unless you feel like updating AVS, no.

Koogle

31st October 2007 16:20 UTC

thats a bit crap then oh well

Nanakiwurkz

31st October 2007 22:29 UTC

hmm Interesting
Sadly that sort of plugin is interesting but avs is not designed to do that sort of stuff.

Reasons:
1 avs is for visualization purposes only
2 a connection through the internet to retrieve a covers image would make avs slower then crap.
3 if you want the cover image on the avs screen i suggest you scan it then use picture.ape to render it then do whatever you like to it.

Koogle

31st October 2007 22:50 UTC

no my suggestion wasn't for avs to start downloading album covers.. it was more of a connection to use existing album covers.. much like how winamp now actually has album cover support to check if album covers exist.. the avs could sort of go through winamp to pull in an album cover if it existed, if not.. use default image selected...

other than that is it possible for avs to make those type of beat detection bars like at the bottom of that album cover? if not i guess this is pointless and either needs more developtment or something else to come in a do a better job.

Nanakiwurkz

31st October 2007 22:52 UTC

on the bars yes.

Koogle

31st October 2007 23:59 UTC

well thats good then.. now just AVS to support album covers and then AVS presets doing stuff with album covers to get things started ..and that would be cool

Nanakiwurkz

3rd November 2007 23:33 UTC

??
Question.

The picture you gave us showing the bars.
What music program are you using.

Because somethings are copy righted in the look and the way it reacts. and if i choose to make this sort of effect i need to know i won't get in trouble because the bars have to be on a program that is in the freeware category or i won't try it.

Koogle

4th November 2007 14:01 UTC

that skin is for Foobar... its a mod
http://dawxxx666.deviantart.com/art/...1-0-2-54383563

PAK-9

5th November 2007 13:29 UTC

Despite all the naysaying it would be very simple to write an APE for this purpose. If you could get ahold of the Picture2.ape source you are 90% done.

Assuming you are not a programmer, the only difficult part is finding a C++ coder willing to help you.

Koogle

9th December 2007 23:29 UTC

Well i'm no C++ programming.. really should be though.

anyway I won't let this thread die.. BUMP BUMP.. common must be someone who could add this..I don't think anyone could say this wouldn't be a bad addition to the AVS plugin. I really want to see it added somehow whether its on the AVS plugin or not ,I don't really care now.

Call to winamp devs perhaps...

Yathosho

10th December 2007 08:35 UTC

even if i could help you, that attitude of your's isn't too motivating. to be honest, try looking in a programmer's forum because you won't find practical help here.

Nanakiwurkz

14th December 2007 20:23 UTC

Koogle i'll have to be on Yaths side on this one.
You started out nicely then became hostile when people started turning the idea down. go to a cpp forum and ask there.

Koogle

15th December 2007 22:16 UTC

hey look.. you guys pick and choose who ever side you wanna be on.. I couldn't careless, and if this doesn't ever get developed for winamp or AVS doesn't bother me in the slightest.. I won't be asking around for it.. it would have been good however, anyway will let this thread sink into winamps oblivion now.