Cover art issue with Unattended

[Beauchamp Michel]

Hi Peter,

A new situation arose last week with Unattended not showing the cover art during playback. Before when the playback was initiated the screen was getting black and a couple of seconds later the cover art was showing up on the black screen background. Now the music starts playing but the black screen remains without the cover art.

When I hit Alt-S the music stops and the cover art shows up. If I hit Alt-P the music doesn't restart and the RDC gets lost. I didn't find any other way to recover from this situation than to reboot the PC.

I looked on the forum but I couldn't find another similar situation.

In the settings the following parameters are ticked: RAM OS, MinOS, Keep LAN Services, Persist and Use Remote Desktop. The music PC is on LAN.

Maybe I'm just missing a detail.

Thanks,

Michael_B

[PeterSt]

Hi Michael,

I am not sure whether the below text appeared somewhere formally, as it is quite difficult to pinpoint the exact solution. IOW, I myself, when I run into it, must always "fiddle". Hopefully it gives you sufficient hints.

Best regards,
Peter

In exactly this sequence, to be performed directly on the Audio PC (read : not via RDC/RDP) :

Go to your XX folder (where XXHighEnd.exe resides), find the Wallpaper.bmp file and delete that.

Start XXHighEnd and take care that no music is playing.

Go to the Control Panel, Find the Display (settings) and start that.

Find Personalization and click that.

Click the Wallpaper of your liking. This should appear right away; if not something is wrong and you need to get this part going.

Cause the Settings in XXHighEnd to show the Wallpaper (at least the Front Cover).

Now press Play in XXHighEnd in Attended (!!) mode;
Behind XXHighEnd the Wallpaper should now show (possibly with Desktop Icons still visible, but never mind those as later they will not be there automatically).

If you use RDP for remote control, now go to the PC controlling the Audio PC and, rightclick the Remote Desktop Icon and choose "Open with". From there choose Notepad.

In this file, find the line containing
disable wallpaper:i:
and take care the value for it is 0, like :
disable wallpaper:i:0
When you applied a change, press ctrl-s to save the changes.

Now double click the icon (start the RDP session) and all should be fine.
Fine is : When audio plays, the Wallpaper Coverart on the desktop and nothing else (but maybe OSD Text if you set that to show). When audio playback is stopped by means of Stop (not Pause), the Wallpaper Coverart will changed into you earlier selected (normal) Wallpaper and the Desktop Icons re-appear.

---
This procedure was checked on March 27, 2016.

It is assumed that  "Don't do anything with Coverart" (in XXHighEnd settings, Coverart section) is not activated. Also it is assumed that at this time Show as Wallpaper and At Attended both are active.

Press Stop in XXHighEnd.
Go to Control Panel - Personalization.
Again click Stop in XXHighEnd.
In Personalization click one of the Themes with a background. This should now appear.
Click Play in XXHighEnd. The Wallpaper Coverart will now appear (the normal Wallpaper will be disappeared).
Click Stop. The normal Wallpaper should re-appear.

When the above all happens as described, the Wallpaper Coverart should always appear in actual form (from the track currently playing) and when played Unattended, all should be fine as well.