Auto refresh

[Munger]

Hi Hakko. I have just installed MC, and it looks great. A couple of things seem to vanished. Firstly, when viewing random albums on the home page, SS refreshes them every 10 seconds or so. Did you consciousl remove this feature or is it hiding in a settings page somewhere?

Also, is it straIghtforward to restore the default SS theme?

[hakko]

Hi!

I didn't implement the auto-refresh of random albums, so there's no hidden setting to have it happen. I made a couple of re-arrangements and moved things around so it's not an exact copy of SS, there's a bit of give and take. It wouldn't be impossible to add some javascript to make it happen (as you can have a look on how it works in SS) but it's not very high on my personal priority list to be honest.

I'm not into graphic design at all so rather than creating new icons (radio, genres, tree view) for all themes, I just dropped them. You don't need be a programmer to put them back, you can take the files from a SS install and add them to the current themes. If you do take the time to add new icons to a previous theme, let me know and I'll be happy to bundle it with future releases. I'm just not making icons myself, you wouldn't like that anyway.

[Munger]

I haven't redesigned any icons (yet), but if you want to save yourself a lot of work, use a transparent background on your icons. If you have imagemagick installed, try this -

find icons/musiccabinet_white/ -type f -iname "*.png" | while read -r F;do convert "${F}" -transparent white "${F}";done

Your icons will now work nicely on most background colours.