(12-22-2020, 03:19 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: We started with a 3 bar spectrum but one of its animation cycles looked like it was flipping the bird, lol

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(12-22-2020, 12:46 AM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: Do you hate it enough to hack your moOde 7.0.0 player?

I don't mind it myself---indeed I lean toward liking it---but with a few minutes to spare after dinner I sussed out enough of the feature to come up with a little script you can execute from the command line in user pi's home directory. Afterward, the 'now-playing line' in the queue will be denoted by an static ellipsis instead of by the animated bargraph.

Code:

sudo mv /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiod.svg /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiod.bak
sudo mv /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiow.svg /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiow.bak
sudo ln -s /var/www/images/dots.png /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiod.svg
sudo ln -s /var/www/images/dots.png /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiow.svg

If you don't like the effect, you can reverse your steps with

Code:

sudo mv /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiod.bak /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiod.svg
sudo mv /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiow.bak /var/www/images/4band-npicon/audiow.svg

Why does this work? The animation is contained entirely within the two scalable vector graphics files. By replacing each of them with a link to a static image file already available in the distro we kill the animation.

Why not just edit the Javascript/CSS files that point to the svg files and instead show the line number like moOde used to? I'll leave that to you (hint - minification).

Why not point to a better image file? Hey, do I have to do everything? If you got this far, you can do as you like.

As always, no guarantees---I may be causing damage to some other part of moOde out of ignorance (I'm not a frontend developer). I'm sure if I am I'll hear about it

Regards,
Kent

(12-22-2020, 03:03 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: Nah, I'm not trying to re-engineer the WebUI. It's just that my curiosity about the animation was piqued by the recent posts.


Personally, whether it's animated or static, I seem to need an obvious icon to the left of the now-playing item.

<rambling>
Gotta love SVG. I was using it in the 00's to generate dynamic, data-driven displays in a laboratory setting when only Adobe had a SVG browser worth spit and only my Silicon Graphics workstations had a decent graphics subsystem. Good times.

During my salad days as a student, I was involved in radio as a side hustle way last century. Recently I've been a tech mentor to my grandkids' high school theater group. It feels natural to me to see bouncing meters and/or bars on the console. I still occasionally poke at PeppyMeter to see how I would go about integrating it into moOde as an alternative to CoverView.
</rambling>


Regards,
Kent