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[nila]

Ok,

New version with the play control program.

Execute it to see how it's called.

Feedback welcomed as always, hope it works well!!


http://www.hostrus.co.uk/tmp/SetupAPG.exe

I'll add zone control after, what it'll do is just call it to change the zone, wait X second then apply the rest of the commands.
U can set the value of X yourselves to tweak it to your systems.

[Mastiff]

Thanks, Nila. I'll try to look at it this weekend. This week has been crazy for me. One thing, though: The "wait x seconds" method is very unreliable. Isn't it possible to wait for a specific heading (window title), and to make those user configurable? In my case that would be for instance change zone to zone 3 and wait for "Media Center (Kevin)".

[nila]

I spoke to Rhino about this and he said it takes some low level programming to find out this kind of info.

Girder has a feature to check this so you could simply just set it up as a girder action set, first it changes the zone, waits for it to change then calls this to set what playlist to play?

[Mastiff]

That's the way I do it now, but then we're really back to square one since Girder can also call the playlists. In that case the easiest way is to stick with my multigroup.

[nila]

Hmm,
lol.

It sounds like a LOT of learning on my part how to pull the info out and when we can already get it working it just seems like my time could be better spent on other projects (website creator).

Girder sounds like it'll do the job pretty well and it's VERY powerful.

If I get more free time later maybe I'll look at it.

If there's something you cant do thou with girder then just let me know and I'll try come up with a fix for it

[Mastiff]

Thanks, I would agree that this is not essential. Girder really does all that pretty well, the only thing missing is the ability to send a playlist directly to an MC zone without changing to that zone. And that is impossible for as long as that function isn't put in by JRiver themselves. Like I believe I said, I'm very satisfied with the playlist creator you made, and I have got the simple system I wanted.  

[nila]

Cool,
so does the sort and everything else work properly in it now?

If so I'd say it's a done deal and I'll just archieve the code and not worry about it any more.

Also, you seem to be pretty good on girder.

How can I set it up so that when I press volume up it increases the volume by 5 and ALSO displays the current value for the volume? I cant seem to work out how to do this.


Also, holding down my buttons on it doesn't seem to work, it just acts like a single click and I have to repeatedly press it?


Any help appreciated.

Thanks!!

[johnp]

Do you have serial cntrol of the device you are trying to change volume on, or are you just doing the windows/MC volume?

[nila]

Just windows volume control.

[nila]

Wahoo!!!

SDK has Zone support or so it says here:

http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/DevZone/MJAutomation.html#CMJZonesAutomation

So, I can add it to my program, no need for Girder.

What versions of MC are you guys using? If it's ten then this should work for you guys!

[Mastiff]

Sorry, I haven't taken the chance to go beyond 9.1 yet, and it will take some time as well. Any chances of a crash is unacceptable to me, I'm afraid. It's the wife acceptancy factor...

[nila]

ah ok fair enough.

I asked what build the Zone support was added in so I could tell if it was added in v9.1 (they only just updated the documentation but did not say what builds the changes had taken effect in) but got no reply.

As such I have no idea when they added this.
Sorry

[NoCodeUK]

Nila has asked me to say if you require support for this plugin please contact him at mcpluginsupport @britcrew.com as he is no longer available here.

[godavego]

There is a lot of mention in ths thread about an AlbumIndex plugin.  I'm interested in using a plugin like this to make it simpler to use Supernudelist.  I have over 700 albums, so the thought of doing this manually doesn't thrill me.

My question is where is the plugin?  I looked around, but I didn't see any place to download it.  Is it available for download?

[mooseman]

Once I figured out how to create the AlbumID field, (OK, so I'm sort of a MC newbie) I had no problem generating the Albums ID's and playlists.

This is what I HATE about searching for problems on the internet.  If you were having problems figuring it out, someone else is as well.  Post what you did.  I can't find this information anywhere.

Don't mean to be rude, bad day of searching newsgroups for problem fixes.  Many people post that they're having a problem, but never post the resolution.

[mooseman]

Well I found it.

Under: Tools > options > Tree & View

Click add and enter in the field name and type.


Though now I can have it create playlists named by the albumID (1,2,3, etc).  When I change the field to Album, I get about 10 playlists created before it errors out with

Error: 76 - Path Not Found.

Am I the only one having this problem?  Anyone know the solution?

[kwitak]

Could you add a relative path option? My reason for using this plug-in is so that I can put the playlists on my mp3 player (which does not support sorting albums by track #, so I'd have to use a playlist). Obviously the paths are different on the mp3 player than my PC.