Total Commander

Not sure if this should be in the plugin section. But if you could make a view plugin that would allow me to display thumbnails of the folder.jpg file within a folder, a common album art filename. That way i could browse my music in total commander by album cover by switching to a view. A mouse over could switch to the back.jpg file for the back cover.

So it would essentially look like the thumbnail view but work off a specified filename that could be configured. Additional options that i can think of are having a border width and size of the thumbnail.

I have found the mp3commander plugin but that is too much, all i want is a view plugin that can be turned on and off by a command so i can assign it to the menu or a button. I don't want to have it read my music files or have a database.

Could someone please point me in the right direction, if i wanted to try and build a plugin that would work as a view with the functionality that i have specified. What tools will i need, is there a totalcmd dev section with docs on how to start up ?

2sekular
You should take a look on plugins API:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=25751

To be exact: lister plugin -> ListGetPreviewBitmap (or ListGetPreviewBitmapW)

But I am afraid that it may be not possible to have folders thumbnails taken your way. I may be wrong but it seems that only files thumbs are created via plugins and the rest is set automatically by TC.

I would like to have cover flow!. Like Itunes/Iwank or what every its called.. I don´t use it but it looks nice.. Se the folders.jpg and with one click enter the folder.

TC shows folder.jpg files instead of the 4 mini-thumbs if you configure it to use the Explorer method for folders:

configuration > options > thumbnails >
"use explorer method for"

TC shows folder.jpg files instead of the 4 mini-thumbs if you configure it to use the Explorer method for folders:

Note that the setting for WmfAllowed has to be 2, 3 or -1 (for -1 the Windows patch for WMF files has to be installed) for this to work.

2petermad

I forgot to mention that, thanks.

thanks i did not know about that settings. The current thumbnail functionality is great but i have never used thumbnail view myself or itunes, i just use foobar. What i was after was a way to show the images without creating a thumbnail db of them, to load them on the fly. Eventually i also want to have no border spacing and have all the albums art with about 4 or 5 in a row. Or one per row with a almost full size image of the album art. I will continue to try to do this. thanks for the help!