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Hi, I'm using 1.32
I tried having full absolute URLs to images in the IMG src attribute but that doesn't seem to work. It only seems to recognise file names and they all have to be in the directory specified in the album tag.
If that is correct, then this is limiting because I have written some code to pull hi-res (original) files from flickr using their API key. Mainly this is to get hi-res files, but also to have more control such as having up to 500 images fed. Only problem is that flickr scatters images to various servers/folders. This means that without using the RSS feed, I cannot put a bunch of images in the same album.
It almost wouldn't be a problem if I could get albums to automatically progress (on random play) from one to the other, but as it stands, mss only loops through images from 1 album - and I have 1 image per album and something like 70 albums.
I'm using PHP with REST API calls (using a key) to generate a local copy of monoslideshow.xml which then has references to flickr _o.jpg files.
Q1 - Can I specify multiple image paths per album?
Q2 - am I missing something? can albums automatically progress from one to the next?
Q3 - what about version two of mss?
Q2---According to page 15 of the V1.32 manual there is a onFinished option. You can select loadNextAlbum. That would take care of your looping problem.
Q3--- Page 19 V2.02 onAlbumEnd
Thanks for your response. I missed that one in the manual.
I have implemented it, but I am finding that it comes with2 unwanted behaviors
1) it fades to the background colour and back to the image between albums
2) it reloads and plays the mark file
Does version 2 allow multiple paths/urls per album?
I have seen multiple flickr feeds (RSS) work well together in one album without transition issues. However, the way you describe your process of using REST API calls, it may not work well for you. You will want to read up on the feed tag and see if it is right for you. You must still define the path for each album.
The big problem with the RSS feeds is that the "large" files are not large enough for the slideshow I am running. I need to be able to pull the original files, this is the main reason for using REST. I also want to go beyond flickr's RSS limit of 20 items (in future).
re: multiple RSS feeds, that would probably be easy. I'd simply use PHP to pull multiple feeds in and then combine them into a single RSS which I would then feed to mss. However, this would not solve my problem.
All I would hope for is that you could supply the image path in the IMG tag.
If an RSS feed can have images from multiple locations, then mss should be able to have albums with images from multiple locations. This is really the only limitation. If version two had this feature, I would be happy to buy it.
I've made a little console to help illustrate the situation.
http://theecovillage.com.au/slides/
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