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pacman:
I really like the new cd4-1 skin which displays song titles sorted by albums but when I run it on my cab in 640x480 it is impossible to read text as it comes out too small. Is there a way to have a better resolution with this skin, do I need to update the skn file then ? ???

Chris:

--- Quote from: pacman on June 20, 2005, 05:09:42 am ---I really like the new cd4-1 skin which displays song titles sorted by albums but when I run it on my cab in 640x480 it is impossible to read text as it comes out too small. Is there a way to have a better resolution with this skin, do I need to update the skn file then ? ???

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You'll have to tinker with the skin.  Edit cd4-1.skn and look in the [titlestrips] section for these lines:

SongsPerStrip=CD
Font=dvsans.ttf
FontSize=14
SmallFont=dvsansc.ttf
SmallFontSize=12

A couple of things you can do:

- Try a different font.  Tahoma looks better at small sizes than the DejaVu font, but I can't redistribute it.  You're likely to have it in your Windows\Fonts folder; find it and put the path to it in Font and SmallFont.

- Increase the font size.  This may reduce the number of songs per CD.

- Try a bold font, like dvsansb.ttf for the Font and dvsansbc.ttf for the SmallFont.

--Chrus

pacman:
Hi Chris,

Thanks for your tips.. ;) but do you mean that the number of songs per Album is limited ? I am asking that because I would like to use your Wincab to play the Top 100 Billboard of every year from 1975 to 1999 meaning that each album will have 100 titles... ::) ::)

Chris:

--- Quote from: pacman on June 20, 2005, 10:06:18 am ---Hi Chris,

Thanks for your tips.. ;) but do you mean that the number of songs per Album is limited ? I am asking that because I would like to use your Wincab to play the Top 100 Billboard of every year from 1975 to 1999 meaning that each album will have 100 titles... ::) ::)

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It will split those into multiple albums.  WinCab  tries to simulate an electromechanical juke, not a video juke, so there are no scroll bars.  If you have a 30-track album, you'll see one album with tracks 1-14, a second album with tracks 15-28 (labelled 01-14, but with a different album number), and a third album with the remaining two tracks.  All three should show the same album cover art, if all the songs came from the same folder.

--Chris

pacman:
Hi Chris,

Thanks a lot for your clarification...I will try then to update the skn file for a better result ;D ;D

Thanks

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