LCD Display request

[Caffiend]

Guess this is probably directed at MMcM...
This may be a limitation with LCD Driver, but I'd like to be able to output a multirow string. So for example I could have "Play" show up on all four rows of my 4x20 VFD.
Another thing that would be nice is a way to enable scrolling. When using the Winamp plugin, the title is just truncated. Even better would be if there was a way to separate artist and track title onto different lines.

Thanks!

-will

[MMcM]

As you may know, the LCD plug-in uses LCDriver. I'm not sure that has a big text mode. I'll check the latest version when I get a chance to confirm.

It does have a marquee mode. But it requires support from the display hardware. What kind of display do you have?

The Winamp title event is what Winamp exposes via its message interface and already assembles the artist and track title together. To get them separately, we'd need to go into the ID3 info. I've updated the Winamp plug-in to send the current filename to Girder. We could then have an ID3 Girder plug-in that took a string register with the filename and set other string registers with various fields, using id3lib or something. Maybe someone will be inspired to throw something like this together. I might even someday, although as I said, I don't spend much time with MP3s.

[genixia]

I think that you could probably split the artist/title string using the first '-' as the delimiter. Although this wouldn't be as robust as ID3 (artists with '-' as part of their name would split at the wrong place), it should work for 99%+ of tracks.

[Robin]

I came across this problem before (and am still writing my own full screen playlist editor plugin for WinAMP).

If you change the ID3 Title settings for the MPEG Input plugin to something like '%2, %1' (that's TWO spaces after the comma) then it becomes easier to search for the gap ... certainly none of my MP3's have this in them, but some do have the ' - ' mentioned previously.

Does this help at all ?