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posted on 10-12-2003 at 05:32 AM
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Animated .gif as albums background!
This may be common knowledge, but you can successfully use animated .gif files as a background image for the Albums view!
Sweet!
-Rich
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 08:30 AM
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Didn't know that... never thought of it!  Thanks for the info!
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 10:22 AM
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Ah ahh, very interesting...
When I think that yesterday, I have extracted jpg images of some animated gif before to add them as background!
Thank you very much for your remark Rich! 
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 11:14 AM
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Hey Rich, you give me another idea:
I think that would be sweet too if we could use animated gif instead of static images for the albums covers.
I have taken some animed gif on the sites of my favorites groups which could be fine as animated album images!
But I don't know if Audiosoft could easily add animated gif as a possible choice for album images in eJukebox? (Requested feature!)
What you think of my idea guys?
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 01:56 PM
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Hm.... i don't know. I feel that having animated gifs as an album cover is a bit... well... meaningless. Allthough it could look cool at some
points, i have no idea why i would use an animgif instead of the real cover for the album.
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 02:23 PM
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I feel that could be useful in some cases, when you have several images for an album of a group you like particularly... Then you could put them in an
animated gif, to bring attention on that album...
But of course, that would not be an obligation, only an additional possibility...
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 05:44 PM
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Yes, using animated gifs has always been possible. Animated gifs could also be used in the songlist for mouse over highlight effects, flashing star
images, etc by modifying the songlist.dis file. If anyone finds any good animated gifs to use for the album list background or songlist please feel
free to share with the group.
Using animated cover images would probally be over kill...and would require allot of reprograming as user cover images are saved as true color JPG and
not GIF.
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 05:52 PM
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OK, I understand that's too complex to program. I said that thinking maybe that could be easy to do...
Thanks for your reply.
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 06:14 PM
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Here's a small animated .gif that serves as a good example of how they work as backround images. There's plenty more on the web...
-Rich
*edit* attaching the .gif file didn't work. Can this feature be turned on in these forums, or would you (Audiosoft) prefer links?
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 06:23 PM
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Rich,
Could you give a link as example? just to see...
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 06:30 PM
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This site as a wide variety of animated backgrounds, and links to many more. A great deal of them are rather busy, but you can find some more subtle
examples that work nicely.
Warining: This site uses transition effects when navigating, and it's really irritating.
http://www.light-speed-web-graphics.com/index_animated_backs.htm
-Rich
*edit*
I'll post more links right here as I find ones that aren't too bad...
http://www.art-tlc.com/bground.html
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/6391/index.html
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posted on 10-12-2003 at 06:37 PM
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Waow, indeed that flash a max on your site! 
Thanks for the link.
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