Comments on: Flash iTunes Cover Flow – Version 2

By: Darius

Darius — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:28:37 +0000

Can you walk a newbie like me through this procedure please. I see where you are
somehow editing the resources like we used to years ago in OS 9 or earlier, but
how are you doing this. I am using Mac Intel Tower, Running latest Leopard, not
Snow, and using latest iTunes. Will iTunes allow me to update in the future and
if it does update, will I have to go make this patch every time it updates ??

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:49:41 +0000

In order to use transparent PNGs you need to modify the code. You can find how to change it in the comments.

By: Darius

Darius — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:09:12 +0000

I am trying to use some nice Transparent 24 bit PNG files of CD's for some of
my iTunes music artwork. The png files insert properly into iTunes, but the
next time I open iTunes, the files are no longer die cut and partially transparent,
instead they are on a white box background? I thought iTunes supported .png
files with transparency masks?

Any suggestions?

By: georgedelajungla

georgedelajungla — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:34:41 +0000

hello!

Thanks for your SUPERGREAT job and share with the rest of the world.

Everything work perfect but when I load from a main swf like: this.reference_clips.loadMovie("iTunesAlbumArt.swf");

The cover is not in the center and even don't disappear on the right....

Any help? I really appreciate....

Good lluck!

By: SurferRob

SurferRob — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:02:15 +0000

Is it possible to have the reflection fade down? I've been searching through the code for somewhere to adjust this, but haven't found anything relevant. Thanks fer da help!

By: Lengen1971

Lengen1971 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:09:05 +0000

Hi,
to use PNGs with transparency in as2 version change the following lines (near line 530):
root["_bmd" + this.number] = new BitmapData(target._width, target._height);
root["_ref" + this.number] = new BitmapData(target._width, target._height);
to:
root["_bmd" + this.number] = new BitmapData(target._width, target._height,true,0x000000);
root["_ref" + this.number] = new BitmapData(target._width, target._height,true,0x000000);

w/regardw

By: CS

CS — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:46:57 +0000

Where am I supposed to add the link, and how would the link script be??? In the file albuminfo or something else???

By: JohnnyFever

JohnnyFever — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:25:35 +0000

Awesome code. I have made several modifications and it's working great. However, I changed something in the code that now causes the scrollbar to jump 2 – 4 images every time I push the scrollbar arrows. So instead of the arrow jumping to the next image (album) it will jump a few. I feel like an idiot but any help on this would be much appreciated.

By: a guest

a guest — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:24:13 +0000

Fab code, thank you for sharing – have tweaked it to my liking… except that when I click on an image to bring to the centre, it quickly flips to the next image and I can't seem to find a way to change this. Is there a variable for this that I've overlooked, or do I need to add some kind of 'delay' script? (Actionscript first-timer!)

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:53:50 +0000

Yeah sounds like the paths need to be changed.

You need Flash CS4 for Flash 10.

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:53:49 +0000

Yeah sounds like the paths need to be changed.

You need Flash CS4 for Flash 10.

By: kieranbell9

kieranbell9 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:49:51 +0000

thank you sir - I will investigate further. As for checking the paths, I can see in the de-bugger that there is a reference to my c:drive, but this appears to be the location of the.fla file, besides which its ghosted out.

All the assets on my desktop have been placed in my ftp (in their own folder), so I am unsure as why is cant seem to work it out

Finally - I only have flash cs3 and it can open v10? i get an error meassage...(using a pc if thats the reason..)

Thanks for the quick reply...

Kieran

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:23:43 +0000

Are all the assets relative to the HTML hosting the SWF?
Check the XML path, make sure its appropriate for your file structure.
Also check out the new Flash Coverflow made in Flash 10 for better preformance.

By: kieranbell9

kieranbell9 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:15:03 +0000

Hey Stephen – great code and good work to make it open source – a very clever way to give your company global exposure!

A quick question – I cant get the .swf to work on my website. I have uploaded all files assets (images, .xml, html, swf, js) but i just get 'cannot load XML data' error message online – I am bemused (or possibly being dumb!) the movie works great locally and I have uploaded all the assets to a folder on my ftp – its as if the swf is trying to reference c: drive files, even online. Can I change this somehwere?? I have looked at the code and cant sem to pin it down – hope someone out there can help me!!

By: Hondo311

Hondo311 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:36:21 +0000

This is great!

How can we make this loop? For instance, instead of the current image moving to the left when you click the second image, how about the first image goes to the back of the line? So basically what you see is always the current image and a line of images to the left of it?

By: wk9876

wk9876 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:07:44 +0000

who have the Flash iTunes Cover Flow (AS3 version)? if someone have, could you mind send it to me~~ email wk9876@yahoo.com.hk thanks~~~

By: Fabien

Fabien — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:28:01 +0000

Merci! Thanks a lot! Good job!

By: sauce

sauce — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:51:17 +0000

How can i put two of this in only one page???

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:20:30 +0000

I wouldn't recommend it. Take a look at the new version using Flash 10. It will preform a lot better and get your closer to 50. Maybe do some paging.

http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2009/12/fla...

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:42:53 +0000

I dunno if it's possible. I looked at the ActionScript for atleast half an hour and was wondering…. is it possible to put more than 50 Album Covers on there?