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Kirocker Music Display

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Kirocker Music Display
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Kirocker Music Display
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Link:  http://
Depends on  KDE 3.x
Downloads:  17580
Submitted:  Feb 7 2007
Updated:  Dec 14 2007

Description:

Make your Kicker (the KDE main panel) rock with your music.

It is a Kicker applet that displays what you listen to in Amarok.
A full-screen display can also be used independently of the applet.

With this panel applet, you always know what you are listening to, and can watch its cover and star rating: it is always visible.
It allows you to rate your music with one click: you can quickly change the number of stars of your musics from anywhere on your desktop.
Finally, it let you remotely control Amarok with one click from anywhere on your desktop: play next or previous track, pause, play, and seek to another position in the current track.

You also have the possibility to show your currently playing music in a beautiful full-screen display. Ideal for parties or to listen to music while doing something else away from the computer.
The full-screen display can be triggered independently of the panel applet. You can start it from the KMenu or from Amarok itself.

To install:
- You need to have automake 1.9 installed for the compilation to work. It should be Ok on modern Linux distributions. You also need Python for the Amarok script to work (optional). This should also be Ok.
- Extract the archive
- Open a konsole in the extracted folder (in Konqueror, go to the extracted folder and press F4)
- Run this set of command: ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix) && make && sudo make install
- It will asks your root password to install the applet on your system
- Right click the Kicker, choose "Add an Applet to the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Double-click "Kirocker Music Display"
- Start playing a music. The applet is empty when Amarok is stopped or paused, to not annoy you with useless information when you are working
- If you do not want the panel applet, the full-screen display can be trigerred from the KMenu or from Amarok itself (restart Amarok, enable the "Kirocker Music Display" script, and then right-click the playlist to see the action to show full-screen)

Note: After an upgrade from a previous version, press Alt+F2 and type the command "kicker default restart" to restart the Panel with the new installed version.

How to make the Kicker translucent:
The Kicker translucent white vertical background is also included in the package.
- Your screen resolution need to be 1280*800. If not, you will need some artistic skills and a Gimp experience to modify the given background
- Extract the image "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" located in the Kirocker Music Display archive
- Open your desktop background image with The Gimp
- Drag and drop "Kicker Right Translucent Background.png" to the Gimp window of your background image
- Save the image and set it as your desktop background image
- Right click the Kicker and choose "Configure the Panel..." (once the panel is unlocked)
- Place the panel on the right (click the button on the right)
- Set the size to "Personalized" and enter "96 pixels"
- In the "Appearance" tab, check "Enable transparency"
- Click "Ok" and you're done: ENJOY!




Changelog:

4.0:
- Theme support with wonderful ones provided by default and a graphical editor that is both powerful and surprisingly easy to use
- Have fun karaokees with automatically-scrolling lyrics
- Added a better no-cover image, from Oxygen (sorry guys, but it's the only beautiful and scalable image I found)
- Now using the "Track, Artist, Album" order (instead of "Artist, Album, Track") to be more complient with other displays, such as iPod, Last.fm, and even Amarok.
- Changed the application icon to a better one, using an Oxygen composition. Also show the icon back in the panel big tooltip, as it cannot be confused with an empty cover image anymore
- Removed a lot of bugs
- Enhanced performances

Browse for new themes:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/search.php?search=Search&text=kirocker

Older list of changes:
http://slaout.linux62.org/kirocker/old-changelog.html

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This is the End:
I think I will now return back to Windows, so i'm done with KDE development. I will perhapse help the KDE Windows project in the future, tough.
This project is now abandonned.
I'm afraid it will not be ported to KDE 4, unless new developers pop up.

Why I returned back to Windows:
http://slaout.linux62.org/Why_Windows.html




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 lyrics possible?

 
 by zeltak on: Jun 17 2007  
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hi Sebien

Amazing App, i must say i was in love with basket but now this is just awesome!
one sort Question though, is there any chance of getting lyrics in full screen? id would be awesome!

i have no programing skills what so ever but would like to contribute to the project if i can be of help (though i am also a Linux novice)

thx again

Zeltak


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 Re: lyrics possible?

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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That's a great idea.

But I will wait version 4.0, when there will be configuration.

I would not enable this option by default since it would clutter the full screen mode.

I easily imagine an area with a vertical scrollbar, progressing automatically as the song advance, so you will not have to manually scroll.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Great!

 
 by joth666 on: Jun 17 2007  
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Great app!

Just one question...I get the album-cover art in the kicker without a problem, but is it normal that it doesn't show in the pop-up you get if you let the mouse hover over the applet? Or the number of stars you've assigned the song for that matter. In the pop-up I only get amarok's standard no-cover image albeit with a yellow star centered over it.

Not a big problem since the information is available in the kicker itself, just struck me as somewhat odd.


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 Re: Great!

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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It's the icon of Kirocker Music Display, the applet.

I'd better remove it, since it serves no purpose and can be confusing.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Volume change

 
 by scream on: Jun 17 2007  
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Awesome app. One think I'd like to have changed though: The volume should be adjusted via the mouse wheel, not the song's current position. Other than that, awesome work, keep it up!

www.why2.de
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 Re: Volume change

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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In fact, I would like to add a volume slider to the applet.
It would be hidden unless you move your mouse over the applet.

So you will be able to scroll it to change the volume, and still be able to scroll the cover to seek in the track.

And if the volume is changed by another way (global keyboard shortcut, from Amarok)... the slider would automatically show up temporarily.
This would completely eliminate the need of the Amarok OSD.

As a temporar workarround, you can scroll the Amarok system tray icon.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Re: Re: Volume chang

 
 by scream on: Jun 17 2007  
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Yep, that's what I currently do (the workaround).
Though I think that scrolling with the mouse wheel should by DEFAULT change the volume, not the position in the track. This should only happen if you scroll not over the cover but over the position bar. Really, changing the position in a track is one of the things people normally never do. And if, they usually have the main interface opened anyway because they're searching through a couple of files.

www.why2.de
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 Cover image

 
 by gstnet on: Jun 17 2007  
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Great app - thank you.

One thing that I see missing is display of cover images for the Last.fm tracks.


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 Re: Cover image

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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That's not normal.
It should be Ok with 3.2.

Anyone to confirm/infirm this?

Make sure that after the installation, you restarted Kicker:

Press Alt+F2 and type the command "killall -sTERM kicker ; kicker"

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Re: Re: Cover image

 
 by gstnet on: Jun 17 2007  
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Just to make myself clear. Cover art does work. It only does not work for tracks from Last.fm

I did restart kicker and no change.


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 Re: Re: Re: Cover image

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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It me who haven't been clear.
I understood you that it was not working on Last.fm radios only.

So, let's try debug it.
The applet is looking for the Last.fm cover at this place:

~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/lastfm_image.png

Does this image exist for you?
Or is it named differently?
What version of Amarok do you have?

Thanks in advance for your help to debug this.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Re: Re: Re: Cover image

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 17 2007  
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Oh, I think I found why it's not working.

If the image exists and is well named, then the problem comes from my code.

Please open the file src/informationpoller.cpp and go to the line 270. This line is:

lastFmCover.resize(size, size);

Replace this line with those four ones:

if (size > 0) // The shadow is normally on the bottom and right.
lastFmCover.resize(size, size);
else
lastFmCover.resize(lastFmCover.width() - 6, lastFmCover.height() - 6);

Please recompile and tell me if it works (it should work!).

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Cove

 
 by gstnet on: Jun 17 2007  
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The image is there. I need to run out now but I will try recompiling with your fix later this evening and will report results here.

Thank you


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

 
 by gstnet on: Jun 17 2007  
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It seems that there is something else wrong with last.fm. Now it does not seem to return proper album and artist tags any more. Other at #amarok seem to have similar problems.


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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

 
 by Sebien on: Jul 29 2007  
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I released version 3.4 with the patch included, and awesome new features, BTW ;-)

I can't reproduce your bug of bad artist/album/title. Anyway, I changed the way how Kirocker Music Display retreive those information. So the bug can has been removed in 3.4.

Please test.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/

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 dcop

 
 by fabian2de on: Jun 17 2007  
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Owning a MacbookPro I have a built-in remote, which I like to use with Amarok. Now with your script it'd be just great to have the possibility to go into fullscreen-mode by using a dcop call. Or even by starting an application. Unfortunately I see no way to do so by now.

But all in all, I have to say: Your script is great!!! It really is! Thank you for all the work you've done! That's what I was looking for a very long time...


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 Re: dcop

 
 by fabian2de on: Jun 17 2007  
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aah, oh my god, I am just silly... sorry for the above post, I haven't seen there is a new version avaliable.. Sorry!


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 panel in the screens

 
 by ssuuddoo on: Jun 18 2007  
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hi, whta kind of panel/skin did U use on the screenshot (where the KDE icon and the time is full transp. while the others not)

thnx

btw, I use kirocker and think it is the best music applet ever.

thnx


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 Re: panel in the screens

 
 by Sebien on: Jun 19 2007  
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The panel "skin" is included in the Kirocker Music Display archive.

It is an image you must apply over your desktop background image while making the panel fully transparent.

See the section on how to install the translucent panel above in the project description.

The image is made for screens with a resolution of 1280*800. With GIMP basic skills, you should be able to adapt it to any screen.

One day, I will add an automatic script that apply the "skin" on every computers. One day :-)

BTW, thanks for your support.

Author of BasKet Note Pads (take notes and keep a full range of data on hand).
http://basket.kde.org/
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 :D fake

 
 by ssuuddoo on: Jun 20 2007  
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thnx 4 your info.
I will use this.

:D xixi
nice, but fake. :D


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