Contacted Elan about a feature that I would like to "see" in Plex. However he do not have time at the moment (lot more prioritized matters that needs to be taken care of). So Im reaching out to the forum to see if there is a developer here who has C++/Cocoa skills. If that person also has some Quartz Composer skills, then we are a match made in heaven =)
The small project is actually based on a music visualizer that I have built. It has reached most of its potential already, the rest that I want to add is dependant on more information from Plex. This information needs to be passed to the visualizer.
So, anyone up for the challenge? I can set you up for some discussion with the Plex developers if needed.
In short, what I need someone who can investigate and make a patch for Plex that can pass data in to my Quartz Composer Composition via known keys that I define. Then I just publish inputs for them in my composition.
What I need from Plex is things like album art, artist and song name for the next track that will follow the current playing one. iTunes do not pass this data, which is to bad cause all the other features I have added is passed from iTunes.
This sounds pretty cool. If I had even a passing familiarity with C++/Cocoa I’d try to help. As it is, I can only look forward to the end result. Hope you find some coding help
Believe me, this is just a startup project. My follow-up project is even cooler. It also involves QC, but I want it to be a surprise for everyone. Even Elan :)
I just need someone able to help me realize this...
isnt plex already able to pass that info to the visualizer? the ‘now playing’ visualizer displays all that info, so it must get it from plex somehow. iirc i think the cdart viz in plexaeon does too.
Afaik it is a catch 22. The viz is "iTunes owned", and iTunes does not pass which the next song is. But the music (as implemented now) is driven from Plex, and Plex is the one who knows which song is to be played next. If that makes sense... :)
