Re: [Banshee-List] Changing track info in LCD extension

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Julon2000 <jul cornu gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a small VFD able to display 2 lines of text (Soundgraph iMon), and I
> use Banshee's LCD extension to display track informations.
>
> The way the information is displayed is however not very useful: the artist,
> track name, album and track number are all displayed during about less than
> 5 seconds, and then only the current time and total time of the track are
> displayed during the same amount of time.  I don't have time to read the
> info on the first "page" of information before it switches. I searched the
> web and this forum about this, but without much success.
>
> So my question is: is there a way of changing the way track informations are
> displayed by the LCD extension? I actually don't care much about the track
> time, so I'd like the VFD only to display the first "page", without
> switching to the second one displaying time. Or, quite equivalently, I'd
> like to be able to increase the time before the "pages" change on the VFD.

>From what I could gather after a quick look at the code, the LCD
extension defines two "screens" or "pages", one with the track
information and the other with the position, and send them to the
LCDProc server.
It seems that the time each of these is displayed is defined in the
LCDProc configuration :
http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/stable-0-5-x-user.html#server-section
In particular, take a look at the "WaitTime" parameter.

Having the LCD extension do what you want is possible, but requires
changes to the code :
http://gitorious.org/banshee-community-extensions

I hope I was able to help, even if I don't have an LCD display. ;)

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz