Artist and song name

rundagor

9th October 2009 14:58 UTC

Artist and song name
When I play song, its basic information is shown for only few seconds.
I would like to have artist and song name shown on visualization screen for whole time (since the song starts till it ends). How to do that?

QOAL

9th October 2009 16:38 UTC

Hmm?
AVS doesn't overlay any song info like that, although presets for it can can.
Are you sure you're not using Milkdrop rather than AVS?

To add the artist + song name to an AVS preset, so it's always show you simply need to:
- Add a render -> Text
- Drag it down to the bottom (if it's not already, so it's drawn last)
- In the text to display box put: $(title)
- Fiddle with other text options to taste

But that will only affect the current AVS preset.

Yathosho

9th October 2009 18:15 UTC

Originally posted by QOAL
AVS doesn't overlay any song info like that, although presets for it can can.

it does that by default, guess most people have it disabled ("Suppress title text")

QOAL

9th October 2009 19:35 UTC

Oh wow, you're right. Well I'll take that back then.
Guess it's been awhile since I've seen that turn on.

Of course it's still true that the only way for the song title to be shown all the time is to modify presets to display it. (Or custom build of AVS but there would just be too much hassle trying to get it to build correctly.)