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alatsombath — Dexterity (NowPlaying Display for Rainmeter) by-nc-sa

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Published: 2015-04-11 20:13:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 312400; Favourites: 404; Downloads: 64258
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Description

SPECIAL THANKS TO


poiru - NowPlaying plugin - Connect with any supported media player and display song info on your desktop


dgrace - AudioLevel plugin - Realtime harmonious reactions to your computer's sound card


jsmorley - WebParser progression - Explanation on how to handle related information from multiple sources



You can change the font, size, bar width and spacing, bar height, and number of bars through the "Edit variables" context menu option


When launching the skin for the first time, the number of bars is automatically adjusted based on your computer's CPU usage


When playing the track's album for the first time, the album art colors are retrieved from online sources and are then permanently stored (cached) in a separate variables file


On every skin launch, one random album art color is chosen out of three stored colors



If the album isn't on Last.FM, or if the track has incorrectly spelled metadata (tags), then the skin may not be able to retrieve the album art colors


Sometimes, you may also have to restart Rainmeter (not just the skin) due to the ridiculously long timeout nature of the WebParser plugin



Media player controls from Google's Material Design icon set


Technical framework on retrieving the dominant album art colors: Uses Last.FM's track metadata API to find the current track's album art online and Johannes Charman's YQL Open Data Table to send a POST request to PhpFiddle's code execution API , whose query contents include a URL-encoded PHP-based cURL request to the Pictaculous color palette generator



Skin files on GitHub


Release notes on GitHub


Latest release is 1.0.2 (11 April 2015 rev 2)



Let me know if you have questions, concerns, a feature or documentation request, if anything is broken, or just anything at all!



Discover new skins for Rainmeter on the official forums, Customize.org , Reddit , and right here on DeviantArt


Download Rainmeter 3.2, then download and install the .rmskin file at the top-right corner of this page. Cheers!


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Comments: 61

baisaltar [2015-04-26 11:09:04 +0000 UTC]

Good work! Is that possible to make a version that the cover and mini player is on top?

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alatsombath In reply to baisaltar [2015-04-26 16:17:14 +0000 UTC]

Did you mean that you want to hide the visualizer and track info, but put the player controls on top of the cover? Or just hide the visualizer?

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OriginalStylish [2015-04-17 19:36:13 +0000 UTC]

i need help with the libcad plugin, its not working with latest vlc. help plz

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alatsombath In reply to OriginalStylish [2015-04-17 19:42:45 +0000 UTC]

The libcad plugin is not yet updated for VLC 2.2+


See this thread for details: rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.…

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OriginalStylish In reply to alatsombath [2015-04-17 20:24:10 +0000 UTC]

ah, 2bad, thx for the quick replay.

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Ragingwasabi [2015-04-13 05:10:28 +0000 UTC]

Mate your concepts are amazing! Best thing is you know how to make these concepts real!

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Ragingwasabi In reply to Ragingwasabi [2015-04-13 06:04:01 +0000 UTC]

oh thats weird. I installed it and the spectrum analyser is fine, but NowPlaying stuff is not there. no time, control buttons or track info. Any one else have this problem? 

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alatsombath In reply to Ragingwasabi [2015-04-13 16:37:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I think you forgot to change the PlayerName?

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Ragingwasabi In reply to alatsombath [2015-04-14 01:43:16 +0000 UTC]

OHHH right LOL.  yep thats exactly why.

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Swat567 [2015-04-12 06:39:41 +0000 UTC]

Amazing

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