Topic: Playing Now v1.2 beta is now available (Read 9099 times)

RhinoBanga · « **on:** October 26, 2003, 08:58:50 am »

UNINSTALL ANY OLD VERSION OF PLAYING NOW PRIOR TO INSTALLATION.

Here's the download link:

http://www.jdnet.co.uk/pn.zip

Here's what's new:

Fixed quality of popup when saving/copying to the clipboard ... it uses the new JpegQualityOnSave item.
Added JpegQualityOnSave in new Skins section of PlayingNow.INI to allow fine tuning of the saved jpeg file (default is 100%).
Removed ForceSkinPath from General section of PlayingNow.INI and added Skins section to PlayingNow.INI with a Path variable
The show popup key now acts as a toggle, i.e. if the popup is showing it will hide it.
Added <Playlist.Offset> and <Playlist.Total> tokens so you can provide something like "1 of 10".
Fixed issue where was logging all files.
Added ability to switch skins at runtime via the right-mouse button
Added PreviousNowNext skin showing how to use the <"Previous."> and <"Next."> tokens.
Documentation ... well some anyway explaining all the variables in the .INI files.
Popup now shows itself at the end of the playing track, ala MTV, check out PopupAtEnd in the documentation. This can be switched off.
Added random skins ... check Random in PlayingNow.INI or via the right-mouse menu.
Can now automatically FTP the popup when a track changes. Check out AutoFTP in the documentation.

This is beta and if all goes well it will go production in the next few days.

Also per my previous email the [Thumbnail] section is gone ... so you will have to update your skins.

Have fun ... I'm off to play Fifa 2004.

dragyn · « **Reply #1 on:** October 26, 2003, 11:03:20 am »

Very nice Rhino!

Shelly · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2003, 12:31:53 pm »

This is great! Excellent job on the documentation, as well.

One thing that I can't find is how to turn off the popping sounds with opening of a popup. Unless it isn't a function of Playing Now??

Thanks, again.

wickesy · « **Reply #3 on:** October 26, 2003, 12:45:08 pm »

Quote from: Shelly on October 26, 2003, 12:31:53 pm

One thing that I can't find is how to turn off the popping sounds with opening of a popup. Unless it isn't a function of Playing Now??

Thanks, again.

Hi Shelley,

In the config.ini for the skin you are using there is an entry called "PlaySound=". Delete the value in this entry and you will not get the sound.

Edit: Forgot to say thanks Rhino for one of the best plug-ins for MC ever.

Drowbe · « **Reply #4 on:** October 26, 2003, 01:06:49 pm »

Wow. SOunds like you did an amazing amount of work. Thank you EVERY much for all of this...

antolod · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2003, 04:41:31 pm »

Fantastic job Rhino. Great plugin. Thanks millions.

Now Playing: Caroline's Spine: You and Me from Monsoon - 1997 courtesy of Rhinobanga's PlayingNow the MUST HAVE plugin for MediaCenter

KingSparta · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2003, 05:36:08 pm »

RhinoBanga

could you maybe create a ftp.ini or somthing so the installer does not keep overwriting the ftp site info if the file is already there?

lOth · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2003, 07:00:38 pm »

I don't seem to be able to get the ftp function to work. I've modified the playingnow.ini so that it would use my ftp account info, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all (my firewall doesn't seem to even try to intercept anything). Do you need to install anything beside the plug-in?

KingSparta · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2003, 07:54:50 pm »

right click on the window and, use the option to send it to the ftp site

Shelly · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2003, 08:50:21 pm »

Quote from: wickesy on October 26, 2003, 12:45:08 pm

Quote from: Shelly on October 26, 2003, 12:31:53 pm

One thing that I can't find is how to turn off the popping sounds with opening of a popup. Unless it isn't a function of Playing Now??

Thanks, again.

Hi Shelley,

In the config.ini for the skin you are using there is an entry called "PlaySound=". Delete the value in this entry and you will not get the sound.

Edit: Forgot to say thanks Rhino for one of the best plug-ins for MC ever.

Thanks, Wickesy. That was certainly easy enough!

TimB · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2003, 09:08:00 pm »

Holy Gomoly!!! Tres cool!

-=Tim=-

dragyn · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2003, 10:37:51 pm »

Request:

Is it possible for you to convert the duration to another format before being displayed?

Like if a file is 5:38, it would convert it to 5mins 38secs or something to that effect. Maybe have some time formats in the ini. Also do like 5m 38s. Same with hours. 1hr 5mins 38secs or something.

I know I could make a new field and use that for the time but converting those in MC would be a pain.

lOth · « **Reply #12 on:** October 26, 2003, 11:44:13 pm »

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right click on the window and, use the option to send it to the ftp site

That worked great. Any way of automating the ftp send each time a new track is played?

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:26:00 am »

LOL ... I guess you didn't you read my message at the top of the page:

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Can now automatically FTP the popup when a track changes. Check out AutoFTP in the documentation.

lOth · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:40:37 am »

oops, I had skipped directly to the ftp section of the help file

kx3 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:50:46 am »

Well as it been said before Great Work!

As i tried to modify it to my work i found one problem...
I am from Israel and half of my songs are in hebrew.
The playing now doesn't know Hebrew.
Even if i changed the font , to fonts that know hebrew like ariel , it still shows GIBRISH .
I need to add something like FontScript=hebrew but i could not found how to do it, is there any body that know how to slove this?
P.s All the other programs knows hebrew well, even more then what i know LOL

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #16 on:** October 27, 2003, 06:19:39 am »

I'd take a guess that it's because the plugin does not support Unicode. Do tracks with just ASCII text work?

bennyd · « **Reply #17 on:** October 27, 2003, 11:14:38 am »

When installing whatever version of PlayingNow I get the following error message and then ofcourse the program doesn't work:

I have Windows XP (Dutch) SP1 and Office 2003 (Dutch).

I read somewhere it could have to do something with Office but I can't imagine what.

Any clues ?

Thanks,

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #18 on:** October 27, 2003, 11:39:41 am »

I doubt very much is has anything to do with Office. It's probably down to the fact that I do not ship out the MSVC/MFC libraries anymore and you don't have them on your machine.

Download this file:

http://www.jdnet.co.uk/mfc42.zip

And copy the files into your Windows\System32 directory. DO NOT OVERWRITE ANY OF THESE FILES IF THEY ALREADY EXIST.

Then try re-installing.

bennyd · « **Reply #19 on:** October 27, 2003, 11:55:52 am »

All dll's where already there, still not working, same error message

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #20 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:11:49 pm »

Can you check that the following files exist within your Windows\System32 directory:

wininet.dll
winmm.dll
msimg32.dll
mfc42.dll
msvcrt.dll
comctl32.dll
msvcp60.dll

bennyd · « **Reply #21 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:21:33 pm »

all there

bennyd · « **Reply #22 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:32:24 pm »

Just for your information:

I tried version 1.0.6 and that works fine.

Whenever installing the new version 1.1.x or 1.2, I get the dll error.

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #23 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:33:58 pm »

Can you validate that file file:

C:\Program Files\James Dickson\PlayingNow 1.2\PlayingNow.dll

Exists on your machine.

Next hit start then run then enter the following and press return:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\James Dickson\PlayingNow 1.2\PlayingNow.dll"
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\James Dickson\PlayingNow 1.2\PlayingNow.dll"

And tell me what errors you get.

bennyd · « **Reply #24 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:39:22 pm »

The file exists,

If I unregister the dll, it says it succeeded.

If I register, it gives the error like above screenshot.

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #25 on:** October 27, 2003, 12:52:06 pm »

Can you download this http://www.dependencywalker.com/ and load up the .DLL and tell me the errors please.

bennyd · « **Reply #26 on:** October 27, 2003, 03:03:50 pm »

When loading PlayinNow.dll in the program, the following error message is listed:

EFSADU.DLL not found, error opening file

bennyd · « **Reply #27 on:** October 27, 2003, 03:08:54 pm »

the other error messages I get is:

Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.

I searched for the EFSADU.DLL file but it is not on my system

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #28 on:** October 27, 2003, 03:16:04 pm »

Well I'm glad to report that file is nothing to do with PlayingNow ... it's an OS one. Checking on google brings up loads of hits on that dll where people are getting the same error.

I have the file on my machine ... it's in \Windows\System32 and \Windows\System32\dllcache:

File version: 5.1.2600.0
Description: File Encryption Utility
Copyright: © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

How I got it on there I don't know. But I did find this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xetbsFileSystemLocalAccessSecurityComponents.asp

Maybe you have a bad XP installation?

bennyd · « **Reply #29 on:** October 27, 2003, 03:17:50 pm »

http://users.pandora.be/benny.dormaels/depend.jpg

bennyd · « **Reply #30 on:** October 27, 2003, 03:35:47 pm »

The versions worked fine until some day (I think since I installed office 2003).

I can't imagine office would corrupt win XP installation ?

I found the dll on the net and copied it into my system32 directory, still the same error when installing your prog.

Via the dependancy checker I only get now the second error (see screenshot previous post), but I don't know which dll it is complaining on, I don't know the tool enough to find out.

nila · « **Reply #31 on:** October 28, 2003, 07:25:58 am »

Rhino - the 'Show after song' is GREAT.

Perfect for me and the way I work - it's sooo much more useful to see what I just listened to.
I'm like: yeah, I liked that song, what was it - boom - thats what it was

One small thing - would it be possible to have a: TimeToShowLastSong - so we can set how long the pop-up shows at the end individually from how long it shows at the beginning of the next song.

What would be toooooooo (yes: toooooooooooooooo) cool, would be if we could have a:
DoNotHideIfNotRated = 0/1.
DoNotHideLastSongIfNotRated = 0/1.

we could then set it so the pop-up did not hide if the song was not rated (people could set it to show for the currently playing song or the last song played).
Just like a reminder to rate the song.

What'd u think?

I know I still have like 7000 songs unrated and have NO plans to spend a week in the house going through each one just rating them - no thanks - got better things to do.

This would just remind me to rate as I listen

(isn't rating songs such a necessary but painful task!)

nila · « **Reply #32 on:** October 28, 2003, 07:48:45 am »

Oooh - Here's what'd be GREAT.

U already have turned everything else into objects where we can have as many as we want.

Why not make the 'pop-up' objects too - with one of the parameters when it shows up (in %)
0% = beginning of song
100% = end of song
along with a duration for each object
and a: showIfHasRating = it only pop's up at that point if the song is rated?

That'd be tooooooo dope!!

lol - along with a Next/Last browse button that would let us browse through pop-up's for all the songs in playing now showing the info in the window as if all the songs were like a little book we could browse through to see the info for each.

Then it'd just be orgasmic

Doof · « **Reply #33 on:** October 28, 2003, 08:16:34 am »

Is it just me or does the Toggle Popup command seem kind of flaky? Sometimes when I hit it, it pops up and immediately starts to fade out. Anybody else seeing this?

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #34 on:** October 28, 2003, 08:40:09 am »

If you hold down the keys for too long then windows sends two notifications. Try it ... hold down Win then press P and keep them pressed down.

waltercr · « **Reply #35 on:** October 28, 2003, 10:48:47 am »

Is there any way to save the popup to the hard drive WITHOUT going through ftp?

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #36 on:** October 28, 2003, 11:05:02 am »

There is a Send To menu item on the right-mouse click menu.

kx3 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 28, 2003, 03:13:12 pm »

Hello Again

I am the guy from Israel, I couldn't understand exacly what you meant, It shows well the songs that are in English, but the songs that in Hebrew are in signs...
I need a way to change the coding or the fonts( I know how to do it but it doesn't good cause the program try the latin fonts).
how can I modify the coding of the program?
like if I am having the problem with the Internet Explorer I do i by using the encoding language and it is ok

Thanks again

waltercr · « **Reply #38 on:** October 28, 2003, 11:12:36 pm »

Is there a way to do this automatically, that way I can attach it as my email signature what I am currently playing?

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #39 on:** October 29, 2003, 12:42:36 am »

Quote from: kx3 on October 28, 2003, 03:13:12 pm

Hello Again

I am the guy from Israel, I couldn't understand exacly what you meant, It shows well the songs that are in English, but the songs that in Hebrew are in signs...
I need a way to change the coding or the fonts( I know how to do it but it doesn't good cause the program try the latin fonts).
how can I modify the coding of the program?
like if I am having the problem with the Internet Explorer I do i by using the encoding language and it is ok

Thanks again

I know absolutely nothing about making a program work with "foreign" character sets. Can anyone point me to some help in this area?

RhinoBanga · « **Reply #40 on:** October 29, 2003, 12:44:47 am »

Quote from: waltercr on October 28, 2003, 11:12:36 pm

Is there a way to do this automatically, that way I can attach it as my email signature what I am currently playing?

Yes but it would require some effort on your part. Enable logging then in your email client write a script that reads the logfile and appends the information to the end of your email.

Why not just use one of the paste keys? It's only 2 key presses.

KingSparta · « **Reply #41 on:** October 29, 2003, 11:43:19 am »

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Can anyone point me to some help in this area?

Matt I Am Sure Can Point, Since He Went Thru This.

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