Hi all,

Well I've made a start on my project and am learning little by little.

It may sound stupid but am happy with managing to get buttons on my project.

I ran round the room shouting YEAH when I managed to click on the play button of my project and it changed to pause, then clicked on pause and it changed back to play.

I've drawn a box where I hope the coverart will go and put titles for Album, Artist & Gentre etc

That is really all I've done so far but am very happy with the progress so far.

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@1Mouse

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I ran round the room shouting YEAH when I managed to click on the play button of my project and it changed to pause, then clicked on pause and it changed back to play.

I haven't had that feeling since I first started using AMOS to write a monopoly game.
I got Hollywood a couple of months ago to try to recapture the fun, but I haven't had the time to get properly started. Have fun!

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@1Mouse
Congratulations friend for your first success with Hollywood, I hope soon tocan see your program runs in my Sam.

@Templario

Are there any people on here that could give me a few pointers to Hollywood and Designer.

I've registered with the Hollywood forum but there's not that much activity on there.

So all help will be greatfully accepted.

Thanks to all.

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@1Mouse
UFFF, it is very difficult because I have the same problem that you have, a litle of help to programming, the forum I think that is death because the main object of its success and is live had been to have a source code section with examples, but this is because I think that the cause is the selfishness of shared routines and code; I included my code in my programs or in my site, for example Acuario or Sirena Player, because if we share code we have more programs made with Hollywood and more people programming with it.

@1Mouse

Ask detailed questions here, I try to help you. I also promise to visit hollywood forum more often during next weeks

greetings gerograph

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I've just been looking at AMC and read that it was programmed with Hollywood.

So I can now see the power of Hollywood in the right hands.

If there were some tutorials, videos or just more information out there about Hollywood I may progress at a faster rate.

Are there any routines available to help Hollywood access freeDB or CDDB?

Is it possible to access ID3 tags in Hollywood?

Are ID3 tags of any use in getting track, length, track number, track title, album title...?

So far I am able to create buttons on a page in Hollywood that can be clicked on and take you to another page and also created my play button that changes to a pause button when clicked.

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@1Mouse

you can for sure use Hollywood to create a your own IDTag reader (as just spoken), but you have furst to study the idtag structure at:

http://www.id3.org/

I've do the same when I've created my Exif reading routine for image files...

for the FreeDB/CDDB you have to do it yourself like for ID3...and probably you have to use some external cli command to retrieve the information you need nd than use it in yout program...

For the ID3 tags purposes you have to read the above site...

GOOD WORK!

PS AMC was GREAT soft!!!!!!
PPS no real tutorials around yet...
PPPS if you need something in paticular post in the Yahoo Hollywood ML or in the official forum and be more precise...do one thing at a time not many (complex)question at once...

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@1Mouse
Yes Holywood access to ID3 tags in the HollyAmp there is the example, but I don't know as to have the full information, album, genere, etc., but if you want make one player for AmigaOS I have the SirenaPlayer and I added the source code, because I think that other mind cans programm other player with best options that mine, and I for me isn't important that you copy my code, not as other Hollywood programmers... because I think that some routines mines can to be to help to develop other programs, tools, games, etc., that now we are need in our system.

@1Mouse
Maybe you can write some AMC plugins later ; )

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@Templario
Is ID3v1 or ID3v2 tags supported? Because v1 is incredibly easy to read, but almost useless these days, while v2 is rather (very much!) more complex to read.

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@ChrisH

Hollywood dont support ID directly...
Simply Andreas in one of him examples that come swithin Hollywood package made a simple media player that reads some IDTags with the Hollywood DOS lib...

Since me too made a rather complex routine that reads the Exif TAGs(I read easly Exif thumbs and other infos) was clear that 1Mouse too can made a routine that can read the IDv3 TAGs...

The DOS lib in Hollywood was really powerfull imho!

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@Tuxedo Quote:

Simply Andreas in one of him examples that come swithin Hollywood package made a simple media player that reads some IDTags with the Hollywood DOS lib...

Yes, and I was asking which version of ID3 tags is supported, so as to not mislead 1Mouse.

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Since me too made a rather complex routine that reads the Exif TAGs(I read easly Exif thumbs and other infos) was clear that 1Mouse too can made a routine that can read the IDv3 TAGs...

Hmmm, yes, I did the same in PortablE for PictureAlbum, but I don't think it's something that a beginner like 1Mouse could do IMHO. Plus I think ID3v2 support will be more complex than Exif Tags (although I haven't checked to be sure).

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@ChrisH


Now I'm not at home...
If I remember right reads simply some few tags(like lenght and full name) with really few commands...so I think it reads standard tags from v1...

I dont studied thougthly IDv3 but at a fast look it seems rather similar to Exif...however I can be wrong here...

Second point...I'm not an expert programmer...I made all myself and after some training(mistakes and forum reads) I do my Exif read routine simply studing and reading...so 1Mouse too can do it
Be optimisitc

The hollywood examples was a really good training place

As I told to 1Mouse he have to ask something more precise to be helped corectly...too many questions toghter wasnt so easy to reply imho...at least from me.
Better to ask one thing at time and get the reply you need that many...and better to use the 2 hollywood official support sites(ML and forum), here you may get messy replyes imho...

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ID3v2 is chunk based so with a proper chunk reader (I have one in C) it shouldn't be that hard to read the entire tag and extract the info you want (artist, album, cover art, etc.).

The confusing part may be the unsynchronization scheme it *may* use.

The biggest problem IMO is being able to handle lack of info in the tag. Like a title field just containing the word "title" or an artist field that just contains "artist". I have a ton of MP3s that were encoded by stupid people using stupid software that filled the fields with dummy information instead of skipping it all together when the actual artist and album info etc. wasn't found.

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@Tuxedo Quote:

Second point...I'm not an expert programmer...I made all myself and after some training(mistakes and forum reads) I do my Exif read routine simply studing and reading...so 1Mouse too can do it

From what 1Mouse has said elsewhere, he didn't seem to want to do anything complicated, so I really doubt he'd want to try that.

Sounds like he has two options:
1. Switch to a 'proper' programming language, which can support Amiga libraries such as id3tag.library, or
2. Someone else write such a route for him in Hollywood code...

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@ChrisH

There is a third option, and as I said in my first response the feeling of elation that you get when you push this awkward, limited, cranky piece of software to doing what you want it to do will stay with you for a lifetime.

@1Mouse
Keep trying, and when it goes right... enjoy

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@Nimrod

Well, I've included the ID3 sub-routine that comes with the examples and now displays track, artist and length.

My buttons work so I can now open an MP3 and play it.

Layout still not quite right and coverart display not implemented.

Am definitely getting there though.

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@1Mouse

Yeah, it's great to see your programs spring to life and do what you want them to do, I've knocked up a few programs in Hollywood now

Shameless Plug

I find it very powerful, but also easy to use.

I could publish the source codes if anyone is interested.

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@AmigaOneProductions

Unfortunately at the moment I can only open one MP3 at a time.

I would like to add playlist functionality so that I can load a full album and play the tracks one after the other.

I have managed to get it to display artist, track and length but the playlist option still illudes me.

All help great fully appreciated.

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