Track text and standalone version

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:03 am

just wondering if anyone else had noticed this or not, the beta standalone isnt showing track text but the plugin is.? anyone?

Post by **gorus** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:21 am

Actually, Standalone has never showed track text. There is no way for it to know what the name of the track is--it's just listening to the audio. The media player plugins, on the other hand, are able to get the track text from the media player.

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:19 pm

gorus wrote:Actually, Standalone has never showed track text. There is no way for it to know what the name of the track is--it's just listening to the audio. The media player plugins, on the other hand, are able to get the track text from the media player.

I did not know this,

I used to use the plugin version all the time but always with the track text shut off. when I switched to using the standalone It never crossed my mind that it wouldnt show me track text because it was already shut off anyway, but since I was beta testing I was wondering why I didnt see any text.

thanks for the explanation gorus!

since I have your attention what about the V-bar pushing all the icons across my desktop after resizing it?

my desktop has about 50 icons on it and they are all set in custom groups. I have the icons hidden and only go to my desktop when necessary. its been a while and I had forgoten about this and after I tested the V-bar this time around I needed to go to my desktop and all the icons were nowhere near where they were and the align option only aligns them to the grid so I have to go and regroup the icons. its a pain.

any suggestions on this one?

thanks

juxtiphi

Post by **gorus** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:58 pm

Unfortunately, it's standard Windows functionality that the V-Bar uses. For example, take your Windows taskbar and make it take up 1/3 of your screen. You will see that it does the same exact thing as the V-Bar and shifts the icons. The only workaround is perhaps to put the V-Bar all the way on the right side of the screen, where you have perhaps less icons and the chances of icons shifting are less.