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[Not my release] Biography view

Biography view

A new component from the PSS/ELPlaylist/Library Tree developer
http://foo2k.chottu.net/

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[Not my release] Biography view

Reply #1
It looks very good, and I concur that Wiki would be nice. It misses a scroll function for longer text though:



Well it's still a young plug in, so thank you very much, developer.

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Reply #2
Best would be an option to choose the server the infos should come from.

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Reply #3
don't want to request too much only happy to see this kind of component being developed


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Reply #4
I like it

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Reply #5
Yet another great plugin from this developer - thankyou 

I realise it's still young but I would like to see;
1) Scroll bars
2) A list of album and a list of artist sources. Selection would be from top to bottom. If no match then move to next source etc.
3) If used as an album art only - could we have the usual scaling\fit options

That's it for now - thanks again.

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Reply #6
Interesting idea!
+1 for scrolling.
Anyway, great component!

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Reply #7
I'd like to see something like that doing it with wikipedia, though
But its a good starting point

Why?
Most of the last.fm biographies are sourced from wikipedia:

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Please read the following before posting:
    * Submitted content must not violate copyright. It's illegal to plagiarise someone else's biography of this artist.
    * You can copy from Wikipedia, or any other GFDL-licensed source, provided that you enter the URL to the source in the sources box below.
    * All submitted content remains copyright of the author, and is licensed under the GFDL.


I also would like to see scroll bars and some sort of option to set a limit size to images or scaling\fit options.

this component seems to work well with the default UI + foo_dockable panels. Many thanks, this is a great component! 

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Reply #8
Most of the last.fm biographies are sourced from wikipedia

That's right. But I may like to see the whole biography not only a few lines of it
And with all artists i now tried with this plugin enabled i only got a short "prologue"

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Reply #9
But I may like to see the whole biography not only a few lines of it

unclick "short description" and you'll get full biography, but then you'll need really large panel as you can't scroll

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Reply #10
Ah, thanks.
Haven't seen this option

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Reply #11
hi,

wow... great component! thank you very much for this.

greets

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Reply #12
i'm really enjoying this component: album mode also fetches album descriptions!

btw i think i found a bug:
- when the bios/descriptions are big the end of the last sentence gets cut-off by a few words...

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Reply #13
A well developed but simple plugin +1 also for the scrolling. Great plugin so far.

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Reply #14
Yes, it is better than i thought.
I played around some time now and i love it!

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Reply #15
I'm not sure it needs scrollbars, just for aesthetical reasons. Everyone is always asking if they can hide them, and now all of a sudden they want them! Maybe a link to the last.fm page (e.g. 'read more...') would work? I think this is the reason it can give a briefer description...

This is a great component though, thanks very much to the developer.

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Reply #16
No not a scroll bar but scrolling option with the mouse wheel at least!
It works in ELPlaylist so it should also be possible in Biography view

EDIT:
I noticed that it doesn't remembers the opacity value...

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Reply #17
This is a fantastic component, great work from the developer.

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Reply #18
No not a scroll bar but scrolling option with the mouse wheel at least!
It works in ELPlaylist so it should also be possible in Biography view

EDIT:
I noticed that it doesn't remembers the opacity value...


Then what we who have trackball ? 
Good plugin, in use atm

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Reply #19
Biography view 0.2 with scroll function (mouse-wheel)
Yes, that's it!
Unfortunately it still doesn't remembers the opacity value...


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Reply #21
1. Would be great if you were able to store specified info in tags once they were downloaded.

2. Would be even greater if it were able to get the tags-cloud and do same as (1) with it
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

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Reply #22
Biography view 0.2.1
(very busy today )
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- opacity to save settings and forget was fixed.(v0.2.1)
(translated with Live Search Translator)

For me its perfect now

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Reply #23
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For me its perfect now


Works beautifully. The mouse scroll works better than the scrollbar, didn't come to mind when I thought of that.

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Reply #24
mouse scroll doesn't work with foo_dockable_panels...