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basement
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05/22/11 12:55 PM (14 years ago)

adding second image to a screen

I've got mp3's playing on my app, and I've added a single background image to all pages on the app. Is there a way to add a small image of the band who's song is playing on top of the background image without having to bloat the app with a full screen image of the background for each band (as there are 30 so far, and I hope there will be many more soon). I tried by adding a url to the smaller image in the background image section of one particular song, but when I gave it the position of top middle, all that happened was the background template image moved to the top middle, and the new image was not shown. Any thoughts on this? thanks
 
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05/22/11 03:24 PM (14 years ago)
Is the app live already? I would have just taken the album art and taken the band logo/ album cover art and made it small paste a layer over the compilation art work and created an action in Photoshop and batched them all, having them all saved as web optimized png to save o the file sizes. There may be an automated method to do this, but I am not aware of it.
 
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05/22/11 03:41 PM (14 years ago)
not live yet, waiting for hopeful approval. I just didn't want 50 or more full size screens bloating the app. I thought the one background screen file plus 50+ small image files would make it a smaller app....if that's possible. No biggie if not, I thought it would be a nice thing to add.
 
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05/23/11 12:56 AM (14 years ago)
This does sound like an interesting idea. I'm not sure how you would do this with the streaming audio screen. I can think of a few ways to use thumbnails in the HTML, along with background audio. You could add the one background image you're mentioning to an HTML screen, then some CSS to position a thumbnail. This screen would then use background audio.
 

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