showing alternate text wihle itunes not playing

[FreakQuency]

Ä° am trying to show an alternate text at the bottom of the skin when itunes is closed (not paused) and vice versa progress bar and artist track info when its playing something.The problem is i couldnt figure out how to check if its playing something or not.

I tried to use GetPlayerPosition but couldnt succeed the way of thinking is if it equals 0 than show alternate text else show progress and track info but it didnt work for some reason.Is there a way to achieve this?

[Chewtoy]

GetCurrentTrackTime - the length of the track

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[MeasureTotalTime]
plugin=iTunres
bla
bla bla
Command=GetCurrentTrackTime

[Anything]
Measure=Calc
Formula=MeasureTotalTime = 0 ? 2 : 0
IfBelowValue=1
IfBelowAction=!Execute [!RainmeterHideMeter AlternativeText][!RainmeterShowMeter TrackTitleAndOtherStuff]
IfAboveValue=1
IfAboveAction=!Execute [!RainmeterHideMeter TrackTitleAndOtherStuff][!RainmeterShowMeter AlternativeText]

Try that.

[FreakQuency]

hmm i tried that but it didnt work either

[Chewtoy]

Odd. I get it to work just perfect with a foobar equivilant.

[FreakQuency]

ı solved the problem with adding a measure between the measure and meter.Practically it doesnt do anything but i got rid off the "type incorrect" problem with adding this.

[MeasurePlayerPositioncalc]
Measure=Calc
Formula=MeasurePlayerPosition * 1

thanks again for the help (:

[brianam]

Hi I have the same problem with my WMP skin.
I edited the mediaplayer from the Omnimo 2 theme, so it shows artist and track, but when WMP is closed it just shows a "0".
Can anybody help me here, I can paste the code if you need it.

[Chewtoy]

Hi I have the same problem with my WMP skin.
I edited the mediaplayer from the Omnimo 2 theme, so it shows artist and track, but when WMP is closed it just shows a "0".
Can anybody help me here, I can paste the code if you need it.

If you get a zero when nothing is going on, that meaning wmp is closed, you can implement the same thing.
For, if you measure the track while it's playing, this will NOT be 0. But if it is closed, and it displays 0 like you say it does, then i obviously is equal to 0.
So you can use what is already posted. Just adapt it to wmp.