On 31 Aug 2005 Simon Baxter linuxtv@nzbaxters.com wrote:

I'd like to use the MP3 plugin to convert and play a random slideshow of my personal photos when switching tracks, rather than the usual cover/artist/background images.

How can I do this?

For the radio plugin I cron a bash script which randomly chooses a file to convert. This is also a bit hit and miss - but still better than NO SIGNAL, Black, or the same image over and over. Since the MP3 plugin caches images, I'd need to disable this. I could then randomly choose an image file and link it into the playlist root periodically.

If no other image is found, the plugins load ths file background.ext from the mp3-source basedir (where ext is one of jpg, png, gif).

You could simply link your image there and delete the allready converted mpg from the cache. Otherwise you have to disable the cache check in the plugin source and let the image be converted every time.

Regards.