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marko:
Depends when you jump. For me, that's right away, both times, and they were a year apart, almost to the day.

That said, I've also never had any issue getting MilkDrop up and running on any version since MilkDrop became an MC thing.
Would still be neat if they could make it a part of MC though, instead of a buggy plugin :)

Supersnake:
William-NM, thank you very much for making MilkDrop2 available for us. Your detailed installation instructions were very clear and helpful. I was able to install MilkDrop 2 onto MC 20 with ease, thank you!

Supersnake:
Pressing the numerical 0 while MilkDrop is playing brings up access to the program's configurations.
I'm assuming that Windowed mode is the only mode that can be used because the Desktop and Full Screen mode are grayed out, which is no problem for me because MC will display visualizations in full screen.

What I really would like is to be able to tweak the Maximum Frame Rate and increase the size of the fonts that appear in the MilkDrop on screen console - because the text is too tiny to read.
However, any changes I make don't remain after I close the configuration window.
How does one make the frame rate and font changes take effect?

 

William-NM:
Hi Supersnake, you're welcome. I wish I had the programming skills to bring the program up to date. As far as your config changes not 'sticking', the only thing I know to suggest is applying the principles in these steps from the install doc if you haven't already - it sounds like a permissions issue.

Quoting:

Here's how to make your CONFIG changes stick, courtesy of 'Aimhere'
I also managed to get Milkdrop2 to be able to save changes to its settings, by changing Windows' folder permissions as discussed previously on this thread
You only need to change the permissions on the configuration files themselves (NOT the "Milkdrop2" or "Visualizations" folder, or the Media Center folder... absolutely not on the entire "Program Files" folder!).
If you followed the installation instructions correctly, Milkdrop2 lives in "C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 19\Visualizations\Milkdrop2" (this is for 64-bit Windows; remove the " (x86)" if using 32-bit Windows). This folder contains a second "milkdrop2" folder and several individual files. The "milk2.ini" and "milk2_adapters.txt" files are the only ones that need their permissions changed.

For each of these files:
* In Windows Explorer, right-click the file and select "Properties..."
* Click on the "Security" tab.
* Click on the "Edit" button.
* In the list of group or user names, click "Users".*
* Down below, in the list of Permissions, click "Modify". "Write" will also become checked.
* Click "Okay" to close the "Permissions" dialog, then "Okay" in the "Properties" dialog.
After that, you should be able to change the settings in Milkdrop2 and they will be saved between sessions.
Hope this helps.
Aimhere
*(Note: I only needed to change permissions for "Users". You may need to also set them for "creator owner". To do this, in the "Permissions" dialog you would click "Add", type "creator owner" and click "Okay", then click on "creator owner" in the group/users list and add the Modify/Write permissions as above.)
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 I was having trouble with access rights to change files in those folders until this tip from beats_works:
 Quote from: beats_works on December 30, 2016, 11:32:35 pm:
Not sure what issue you encountered but I changed permissions on Presets folder and can change ratings by hitting 6 then +/- and the ratings stick.
* In Windows Explorer, right-click the Presets folder and select "Properties..."
* Click on the "Security" tab.
* Click on the "Edit" button.
* In the list of group or user names, click "Users".*
* Down below, in the list of Permissions, click "Modify". "Write" will also become checked.
* Click "Okay" to close the "Permissions" dialog, then "Okay" in the "Properties" dialog.

...You might try that on the folder containing the .ini or other config files and see if it helps.

William

Supersnake:
William, thank you for alerting me that it was a permissions issue and providing detailed instructions how to change the permissions.

I employed an alternative, easy method to change permissions by right clicking on the files then clicking "Take Ownership, the changes immediately take effect in the background without the need to open or close any windows.

A few years ago, when I was running on Vista (or was it XP), I was tired of dealing with the frustrating hit-and-miss orthodox method of modifying permissions.  It was during that time I discovered a registry hack that still works.

In a recent article (March 16, 2017) entitled How to Add “Take Ownership” to the Right-Click Menu in Windows Explorer,  How-To Geek.com brought the hack back into the spotlight.
Near the end of their article you will see Download Our One-Click Registry Hacks. The download will be a compressed folder containing a InstallTakeOwnership.reg file and a RemoveTakeOwnership.reg file.

Here is the URL to the article:  https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

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