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There's a Kodi metadata importer for movies and TV shows, yeah? Does anybody think they could handle building a plugin to import metadata and cover artwork from a Calibre library into LaunchBox? Ideally the game path would link back to the book file in Calibre.

Hokay, so I want to dictate a way for Big Box to display icons which indicate all of the operating systems a game is intended to support. Right now I am using the "Series" field to dictate which OS goes with which games. (Series: Windows XP; Windows Vista; etc.;) This works when displaying the information as text, of course, but I want a visual icon which goes beside a game's content rating and the favorite, etc. icons. I'm trying to use this code (admittedly borrowed from another skin): <Image x:Name="Windows7" DockPanel.Dock="Left" Source="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/Themes/BigForce/Images/Core/Windows7.png" Margin="0,0,5,0" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" > <Image.Style> <Style TargetType="Image"> <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed" /> <Style.Triggers> <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding ActiveGame.Series}" Value="Windows 7"> <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Visible" /> </DataTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> </Image.Style> </Image> But this doesn't seem to be working, presumably because there are multiple values in the Series field. Is there any way to reword the "Value=" command into some kind of "Value contains" command?

You want to save new presets.

A way of storing and sorting by the staff who developed the game. The director, the composer, etc.

I think my biggest want at this point, because I'm out of like... little touches, would be implementation of Staff metadata.

Keep in mind that LaunchBox brought some new ideas to the table when it comes to gaming frontends (most notably the Additional Applications utility) which could be brought over to Music Box Alpha to give it a leg up on the competition. Wouldn't it be neat if you could launch music videos and view the artwork (ahem, "manuals?") from an album's Right-Click menu? I don't think the current music players can do that.

What are you looking for by "cleaned up" romsets? The majority of ROM files are stand-alone documents... so the only thing I could think you're looking for are file names. I'm pretty sure there's tools that can rename your files for you.

Oh Jason, all those looks at my collection and you finally decided to just give me a LaunchBox for music, huh? "Maybe this will stop Kriven's shit from breaking!" I really like the interface. Any chance LaunchBox could see a bit of an interface overhaul to look half as slick?

In LaunchBox, yes. In Big Box it depends on your theme. Most themes that I've seen incorporate "Completed" icons, but there are probably a few that don't.

The only way to do this would be to get the game developers to cooperate with Jason and add something special to their game that would tell LaunchBox what percentage of the game you've completed (and it would be utterly pointless for games with more than one save file).

I will give that a try. Thanks

Does anybody know if it's possible to get LaunchBox and Big Box to use different front box images automatically? (For instance, is it possible to have LaunchBox look for Box Front and have Big Box look for Box Front Reconstructed)?

Is there a Leapster emulator out there that I'm not aware of? O_o Those are real spiffy, either way.

If Jason doesn't want them, I'll take 'em out.

The logos themselves don't have any pornography. Thought that should be okay.

Some new comic banners. Publishers, creator, some lesser known groups and websites.. Could somebody with some graphic design talent try to recreate this insignia for St. John Publications? The only scans I can find of it are pretty low resolution.

Feel free to ignore this, but I have a bit of a request. I don't know anything about coding or I would do this myself. Hopefully it won't be much trouble... Could you write a modified version of this plugin which downloads only actor metadata, and uses that metadata in the "Series" field in LaunchBox?

Oh wow, you did some cool things with my ideas there. I like how you included the play button and had it fade out as fanart became video, that's very nice.

Lookin' good, my friend.

I've been using Launch/Big Box for my music for a long time now. Here's how I've been doing it: I create an .m3u playlist for every album and use that playlist as the "game" to import. You'll see also in the attached images that I also use "Developer" as "Artist" and "Publisher" as "Label." Not pictured is "Status," which I use to tell me if the files are .flac, or .mp3 (or other formats). As my emulator I have a portable installation of Foobar. Additional applications help me with the rest. I use the same file link as the album's ,m3u file to perform "Add to Now Playing" and "Visualization" options. For "Add to Now Playing," the additional application uses the same Foobar install but with a new emulator, which launches with the custom command option "Add." For visualization I use a portable VLC install which launches right into the visualization. A long time ago I used to add every song as an additional application with the primary application being the m3u playlist, but I found that to be tremendously tedious and often too cluttered. Particularly when an album came with things like art books, which I also added as additional materials.

Eh, I just took the play icon from the Netflix web UI. I thought it was a little "accuracy touch." The image would remain static, since I don't think the fading clipshow that Netflix does is possible in Big Box atm.

Sorry for the double post, but I wasn't quite happy with what I had come up with before. Here I've deviated a little bit more from the source material, but I think I've come up with a much cleaner and more pleasing look. I also removed some redundant information.

I decided to combine some of what I was trying to do with what you've done here. BigFlix Original replaced with platform clear logo. Took some influence from the web version of Netflix (which my theme was going to be based on) and moved the "Favorite" and "Completed" icons. The currently selected game is larger than the next games in line, and also displays the game's clear logo in the corner. ESRB rating with description text. Altered Netflix color scheme to Big Box color scheme. There's a lot of empty space on the bottom that could be used for things, although I know the sleek look is part of what makes the Netflix theme so definitive. If it's possible, it might be worthwhile using that space for either the ESRB/developer information (to declutter the upper section).