Album art and future plans?

well.. i just tested it on my site… here’s the low-down on how to include album art ??

1) create a folder called “sam” in your rood directory of wordpress..
2) edit /wp-content/plugins/ngs-sam-integrator/php/playlist.php file

find:

<tr>
                                <td> <?php echo $row_number++; ?></td>
                                <td><a rel="nofollow" href="<?php echo $song_info['requestlink'] ?>"><?php echo $song_info['artistandtitle']; ?></a></td>
                                <td><?php echo $song_info['formattedduration']; ?></td>
                        </tr>

in-line replace:

<tr>
                                <td><img src="/sam/<?php echo $song_info['album']; ?>" height="60" width="60"></td>
                                <td> <?php echo $row_number++; ?></td>
                                <td><a rel="nofollow" href="<?php echo $song_info['requestlink'] ?>"><?php echo $song_info['artistandtitle']; ?></a></td>
                                <td><?php echo $song_info['formattedduration']; ?></td>
                        </tr>

3) edit /wp-content/plugins/ngs-sam-integrator/php/functions.php

find:

function build_songlist_query($start_at, $number_to_show, $playlist_search_text) {

below that find:

$sanitized_sam_query = $samdb->prepare("SELECT id AS songid, artist, title, duration

in line edit:

$sanitized_sam_query = $samdb->prepare("SELECT id AS songid, artist, title, duration, picture

Repeat this for the ” else ” version as well..

Find:

function prepare_song(

below
$title = '';

add:
`

//ADD ALBUM ART!

$album = $song->picture;

if ( empty( $album ) ) {
$album = ‘NA.gif’;
}

//End Album Art!
‘

Save and reload your page…

If you have missing images, create an image 100×100 called NA.gif and upload it to the sam folder.

oh… forgot… after adding the //add album art block.. you need to edit the return array string…

at the end of the return arrat string.. add this:

, 'album' => $album

so it should look like this at the end

return array( 'artist' => $artist, 'title' => $title, 'artistandtitle' => $combine, 'formattedduration' => $mmss, 'requestlink' => $reqlink, 'requestcount' => $reqcount, 'album' => $album );

have fun ??

Hello Steve and thanks for this plugin. I have tried it on a test system in my virtual environment and is looking good. Tried the album art addition you have here and not getting the album covers.

Are you placing the album art in “/sam”.

Also I’m using Network multi-site with sub-directories. Not sure what I could post to give you more info since no errors occur.

Hi

Is it possible to adapt it for a particular catgorie. The request list to
I like that it can be searched. Only category 2 of my songlist to sam broadcaster.

thanks
Rene

Actually finally got back to this and wanted to post that the plugin seems to be working just fine.

I tried the modifications that “arcain6” suggested and I did get them to work and post the pictures on the “Requests Page” for some reason the “Top Requests” page only shows the “NA.gif” so I am trying to work that out.

I would like to get the pictures to post on the widgets “Recently Played”, “Coming Up” etc.

Also been playing with the Sam2Joom Joomla extension and its quite nice with a modest fee but I really like the looks of WordPress to Joomla but still testing both in my virtual environment. I think I may kluge together the Joomla extensions and this plugin in some fashion as I really need the blog functionality and really like some functionality Sam2Joom brings.