Topic: Windows 7 Taskbar Progress Plugin (Read 33249 times)

danrien · « **on:** September 27, 2009, 08:18:46 pm »

Hello all. Thanks to ChrisZ's excellent C# plugin template and the also excellent Windows 7 C# documentation and API, I have now created a plug-in that displays the current progress of a track as the "progress status" in the new Windows 7 taskbar, like so:

View the full details of the newest release at http://davidvedvick.info/2012/06/13/coding/jr-mc-win7/

ThoBar · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2009, 02:31:06 am »

Failing to add to plugins for me. (Using plugin manager)

[Edit] - it got added anyway...?

danrien · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:27:49 am »

Yes it needs to run the installer to work correctly. Plugins don't install as nicely in the day of proper user privileges, unfortunately.

morrison · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:50:05 am »

Looks nice, thank you

installed without problem on win7 x64

marko · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2009, 04:20:08 am »

Neat piece of eye candy, working well on 7 x64 here too.

Only issue for me was that it installed the plugin in "active when visible" mode, requiring a registry edit to set it to 'always active'

Cheers,
-marko

danrien · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2009, 10:01:59 am »

Quote from: marko on September 29, 2009, 04:20:08 am

Neat piece of eye candy, working well on 7 x64 here too.

Only issue for me was that it installed the plugin in "active when visible" mode, requiring a registry edit to set it to 'always active'

Cheers,
-marko

Yeh, I haven't really figured out all the registry stuff yet. For some reason though, it started starting on start up for me

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neFAST · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:04:46 pm »

Great idea!

StFeder · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2009, 03:39:47 am »

I like it, too!

But it only works for one song for me

And it only does if I manually go to Plugin Manager in MC to hide and unhide it.

May this be solved by Markos trick? And what registry key do I have to edit / create? I only see one key for this plugin which is called "active" and set to "1"...?!

Quote from: marko on September 29, 2009, 04:20:08 am

Only issue for me was that it installed the plugin in "active when visible" mode, requiring a registry edit to set it to 'always active'

Thanks for any hint!

(Win7 x86)

marko · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2009, 07:28:39 am »

I found it at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Plugins\Interface\MC_jumpbar" Set "PluginMode" to "1"

Another little 'issue-ette' I've found is that if I stop a track half way through, the taskbar progress indicator does not clear.

-marko

danrien · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2009, 09:45:15 am »

Thanks StFeder. I'm not sure what is causing that issue for you - I run Win7x64, which shouldn't cause a problem, but could somehow be it.

Anyways, I've fixed both of the bugs that Marko mentioned - the new install can be found on the link above. Thanks for the feedback Marko and StFeder

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neFAST · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2009, 12:49:10 pm »

Any chance you release the source code?

StFeder · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2009, 05:12:33 am »

Cool! Your update works well! No I'll never use the "minimize to tray" option again. I'm looking forward to MCs jumplist integration which is, as Matt stated

Quote from: Matt on September 25, 2009, 10:16:31 am

[...] on our list.

edit:
Still one bug: after hitting "Stop" the taskbar doesn't get updated any more.

danrien · « **Reply #12 on:** October 04, 2009, 03:08:52 pm »

neFast, I was thinking about open sourcing this - the biggest problem is how to do it correctly (give myself the correct copyrights and whatnot). i'm aware that someone has a sourceforge page up for mediacenter plugins, so i wouldn't mind putting it up there. guess i dont really know how to and might not take the time to read up on that stuff (got a big engineering exam coming up), so any help in this area would be very appreciated.

cncb · « **Reply #13 on:** October 04, 2009, 05:27:18 pm »

This looks cool but I hope it is something that JRiver can add built-in to the main program (at least since they are working on the "jump list" anyways).

danrien · « **Reply #14 on:** October 05, 2009, 11:54:38 am »

Truthfully, CNCB, I also hope that JR includes it in MC as well. Until then, this little plug-in that was fairly easy to write does the trick.

cncb · « **Reply #15 on:** October 05, 2009, 02:17:52 pm »

Quote from: danrien on October 05, 2009, 11:54:38 am

Until then, this little plug-in that was fairly easy to write does the trick.

Absolutely! Nice work.

Fex · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2010, 12:46:13 pm »

Perfect. Thanks!

marko · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2010, 05:24:49 am »

This has stopped working for me.

Is it working for everyone else?

Win7 x64, MC 15

-marko.

Arbiter · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2010, 05:36:43 am »

Quote from: marko on August 02, 2010, 05:24:49 am

This has stopped working for me.

Is it working for everyone else?

Win7 x64, MC 15

-marko.

Still working here with no problem on win7 64bit with mc15 latest version. Tried re-installing the plugin?

tcman41 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03, 2010, 11:19:12 am »

Just installed the plugin, using windows 7 64 bit and j.river media center 15, it works fine for me.

TC

marko · « **Reply #20 on:** August 04, 2010, 01:47:18 pm »

Thanks for the replies, I'll investigate some more...

The plugin appears to be installed and initiating correctly, but I am not getting any progress indicator in the taskbar icon....

Quote

Plugin Initiated OK
Position: 348/379
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MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_VOLUME_CHANGED/-1
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
Position: -5/266
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_TRACK_CHANGE/0
Position: 0/266
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MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0

Arbiter · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2010, 11:59:04 am »

Quote from: marko on August 04, 2010, 01:47:18 pm

Thanks for the replies, I'll investigate some more...

The plugin appears to be installed and initiating correctly, but I am not getting any progress indicator in the taskbar icon....

I Think i know what you mean, Marko. It stopped working since yesterday here:/ I didn't do anything other than messing with the DSP options.

I'll try to just reinstall the plugin.

marko · « **Reply #22 on:** August 10, 2010, 01:42:19 am »

Are you running MC build .92?

Something is upsetting the plugin. As far as I can tell, it doesn't work at all with build .92, with a different build, it works again, but the "progress indicator not clearing when playback is stopped" bug is back again.

This could be down to a recent MC change, or perhaps a recent windows update change. I've not performed a system reboot here for 12 days or more either, so it's equally possible a reboot might shake things back into order.

-marko

Arbiter · « **Reply #23 on:** August 10, 2010, 04:08:32 am »

Quote from: marko on August 10, 2010, 01:42:19 am

Are you running MC build .92?

Something is upsetting the plugin. As far as I can tell, it doesn't work at all with build .92, with a different build, it works again, but the "progress indicator not clearing when playback is stopped" bug is back again.

This could be down to a recent MC change, or perhaps a recent windows update change. I've not performed a system reboot here for 12 days or more either, so it's equally possible a reboot might shake things back into order.

-marko

Yes i am running Build .92. I also tried a reinstallation of the plugin but i still get the same behaviour. Hmm that's weird!

HTPC4ME · « **Reply #24 on:** August 27, 2010, 06:44:12 pm »

new here just downloaded and i dont see anything on my taskbar at all... once installed do we have to reboot pc? i shut down JRiver then restarted it. but taskbar looks the same on my end.

Thanks

marko · « **Reply #25 on:** September 03, 2010, 12:41:57 am »

Something, somewhere, has changed. This plugin no longer works reliably.

Sometimes, it works, but, if it does work, and I stop or pause a track, the progress in the taskbar icon does not clear.
Other times, it simply doesn't do anything.

A shame as it was a neat and simple plugin.

-marko

rick.ca · « **Reply #26 on:** September 03, 2010, 03:31:03 pm »

FWIW... It still works fine for me (on Win 7 x64).

sydlexius · « **Reply #27 on:** October 01, 2010, 04:44:48 pm »

Count me in among the ones who can't get this plugin to work reliably. I'm running MC 15.0.122 on Win7 x64.

zxsix · « **Reply #28 on:** October 02, 2010, 09:22:32 am »

I really wish I knew what the issue is for you folks. I'm on Windows 7 x64 running MC15.0.125 and the taskbar progress is working for me as I type this.

The status area of the plugin reads like this:

Plugin Initiated OK
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYLIST_FILES_CHANGED/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYLIST_FILES_CHANGED/1025914166
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_VOLUME_CHANGED/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_TRACK_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_VOLUME_CHANGED/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_PLAYERSTATE_CHANGE/0
MJEvent type: MCCommand/MCC: NOTIFY_TRACK_CHANGE/0
Position: 0/341
Position: 2/341
Position: 4/341
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marko · « **Reply #29 on:** October 02, 2010, 10:16:16 am »

My status area shows that too, but the taskbar icon either doesn't update, or, if it decides to do so, and I stop a track, the taskbar icon sticks there, half-full of progress indicator and it doesn't clear.

EDIT: I wonder if this is dependent upon output mode settings? I can't test this atm as the man from OCUK still has my PC....

My output mode was set to use Creative ASIO.

-marko.

zxsix · « **Reply #30 on:** October 02, 2010, 10:41:27 am »

That is a good theory worth testing. I use wasapi.

danrien · « **Reply #31 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:57:16 pm »

I have finally updated this plugin. Use the link up top.

There is one new feature: displaying cover art in the thumbnail preview window!

This can be enabled/disabled by going to the plug-in's config screen. It's a little buggy; when enabled, Windows Peak won't work, as I couldn't figure out how to get MC's windows messages sent to my plug-in, and thus couldn't update the Peak at the correct time.

I've also hopefully made the status indicator a little less buggy; added in some custom exception handling for play status.

danrien · « **Reply #32 on:** June 18, 2011, 06:15:04 pm »

Found a memory leak

Updated and uploaded. Enjoy!

danrien · « **Reply #33 on:** June 19, 2011, 10:32:12 am »

Woo! Got the peak working. It's just a screenshot, not a live update, unfortunately, I don't know how to enable custom thumbnails but disable custom peeks ?

Anyways, custom peaks is now enabled by default.

ENJOY!!

danrien · « **Reply #34 on:** June 19, 2011, 12:07:26 pm »

Talking to myself :S. Still, had another bug fix that I snuck in. Might have to start doing versioning on this bad boy. Will also submit to the plug-in guy later today....

danrien · « **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:13:12 am »

Updated again, now with options to display playlist progress or track progress in the taskbar, as well as an option to display the artist/trackname in the title of the peak.

marko · « **Reply #36 on:** June 23, 2011, 12:51:24 pm »

Nice one danrien, thanks for the update. Working well here so far...

danrien · « **Reply #37 on:** June 24, 2011, 08:18:47 am »

Tnx dude.

StFeder · « **Reply #38 on:** June 24, 2011, 05:46:36 pm »

Quote from: danrien on June 23, 2011, 08:13:12 am

an option to display the artist/trackname in the title of the peak.

Fantastic new feature! I also like the feature to show the cover art!

Fantastic work!

rick.ca · « **Reply #39 on:** June 24, 2011, 07:36:40 pm »

FWIW, the cover art option doesn't work for me. Maybe because my cover art location is "in the same folder as the file"? It shows a spinning disc for 10 seconds, then the MC icon. And then the caption doesn't appear either. With the cover art option off, everything else works fine.

StFeder · « **Reply #40 on:** June 25, 2011, 04:58:36 am »

For me both options working together fine. I have cover art located in a separated folder.

phytio · « **Reply #41 on:** June 25, 2011, 08:29:31 am »

Just to let you know I tried using the latest version of this but it makes MC crash. I'm currently using MC15 build 174 on Win7 x64, if it needs MC16. I've gone back to an earlier version that does work

danrien · « **Reply #42 on:** June 25, 2011, 02:40:21 pm »

Thanks for the feedback all. @phytio, what options do you have enabled in the new version? @rick.ca, I have my cover art location set to the same as the file, so that's a very interesting bug....

Fex · « **Reply #43 on:** June 29, 2011, 01:42:22 pm »

Quote from: rick.ca on June 24, 2011, 07:36:40 pm

FWIW, the cover art option doesn't work for me. Maybe because my cover art location is "in the same folder as the file"? It shows a spinning disc for 10 seconds, then the MC icon. And then the caption doesn't appear either. With the cover art option off, everything else works fine.

The same here (Win 7 64bit, MC 16).

Thanks for your work!

phytio · « **Reply #44 on:** July 02, 2011, 10:16:14 am »

I re-installed and found that everything worked pretty smoothly until I tried to enable album artwork. When I did that and hovered over my MC taskbar icon the aeropeak thought about it for a while, but never showed anything. When I moved my mouse onto where the picture of MC should have been the programme then crashed and I had to force close it. Hope that helps!

danrien · « **Reply #45 on:** July 04, 2011, 11:38:57 am »

Sorry, this is very mysterious for me. I am running with the same setting as all of you experiencing crashes, and am unable to reproduce. One thing that is worth mentioning is that if you downloaded it before June 23rd, the exact issue everyone is having would have occurred, due to some poor logic on my part. However, recently, I have corrected those issues, so if you are still experiencing them, I am even more intrigued. I encourage everyone to re-download and re-install, and if that still doesn't fix everything, PM me some basic system info, i.e. permissions level, error logs, etc. I can help you with finding this information if you need it.

Thanks,
David

**EDIT: To be clear: if you downloaded after June 23rd, you should not experience the crashes. Thanks again.

Fabricio · « **Reply #46 on:** July 21, 2011, 05:15:24 pm »

Quote from: marko on September 30, 2009, 07:28:39 am

I found it at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Plugins\Interface\MC_jumpbar" Set "PluginMode" to "1"

Another little 'issue-ette' I've found is that if I stop a track half way through, the taskbar progress indicator does not clear.

-marko

I install the plugin, but not show cover art, not show in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Plugins\Interface\ ....

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JRiver\Media Jukebox\Plugins\Interface\TiVo Sever (only).

In Media Center show plugin: plug-in manager > interface > MC_Jumpbar.

Now?

Not show cover art.

Help-me

Thanks,

Fabricio, from Brazil.

rick.ca · « **Reply #47 on:** July 21, 2011, 07:01:42 pm »

The option settings are reset to default every time a new build of MC is installed. This is rather annoying, particularly since the default includes "enable cover art" which doesn't work for me, and not "display artist and track name" which does. I see these settings are in MC_jumpbar.dll.config, but changing them there does nothing. How can I change the defaults, or otherwise make my preferred settings "stick"?

danrien · « **Reply #48 on:** July 22, 2011, 09:03:11 am »

@rick.ca:

I'm not sure of a way to fix this.

Everyone else: I'm working on a solution to the cover art problem, which is a bit difficult since I can't reproduce it on a Win 32 or Win 64 machine, but I'll try somethings and maybe have you all be my test monkeys

Thanks,
David

rick.ca · « **Reply #49 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:00:59 pm »

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I'm not sure of a way to fix this.

Where are the settings saved?

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