I've spent a lot of time on getting consistent and complete data, I sure don't want it annoying how do you play albums with no playlist? Track metadata, and album art is important, but not displayed all over the place. I'm surprised no one has picked this up before, or that it hasn't been fixed. I also tried the pls playlist format offered by winamp: it contains even more metadata that ends up in the playlist. The Gaia skinj I'm using can hide its playlist too, and is even more minimal. I've tried different skins like the c_Pro_minimal_1_1_1_1 for example, yep I can hide the playlist window to stop it displaying the playtime, but that's a bit of an extreme way of doing it As a BTW the cPro_minimal is kinda nice, I'm looking for a clear Metro/Modern type skin, and that almost works properly. However, the playtime still appears in the playlist and in the titlebar with the trackname. That playlist contained only tracknames, made with dir /b and a little editing. OK, I've now tried a playlist with no extended info, and it loads just the track name, not the artist, and looks a lot cleaner too. This coiuld all be made much clearer in explanation with one tiny jpg, if there's need I can speedily post one. I figure though, that even if it isn't a major issue, that people - including myself - go to a lot of effort getting something as important as a music hub to be just right, so I'll make sure it's exactly what I want.
#Minimal space winamp skins skin#
I use the Gaia 10 skin atm, and my preferences lean toward minimalistic as can probably be guessed at. I've tried this with quite a few skins, they all behave the same way. The tracknumber, thankfully, is easier to manage. I also have an issue with the tracklength being displayed both on the playlist and on the main window title bar - duplicating info looks messy, and doesn't seem to have any setting at all. What I get is that the artist and title appear when a playlist is loaded, then as a track is played the artist disappears and only the title remains. The winamp playlist editor allows flexible title formatting within its metadata reading page, and also has a few options determining when that format is applied, for example when files are loaded, when they are played, or played and viewed, etc, but I can't get this to take effect properly.Īt the moment I have a single string %title%, and would like that to be displayed in the Playlist view when a playlist is loaded. I hope that this is an appropriate forum in which to pose this question, apologies and please advice if not.