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Title: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: KingSparta on February 11, 2005, 10:55:20 am
I Was (Sort Of) Talking To Bob Today

Was Wondering What Users Think Is The Most Useful Plug-In That JRiver Has Made, Others Or SpartaSoft (AKA: KingSparta=Me).

Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: benrad on February 11, 2005, 11:19:25 am
PlayingNow. I use it every day.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: tlongacre on February 11, 2005, 11:58:46 am
for me, it's a toss-up between Playing Now and AudioScrobbler. Both are used every day.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: LonWar on February 11, 2005, 12:21:46 pm
It has to be Playing Now....
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: lpr on February 11, 2005, 01:38:56 pm
Audioscrobbler - It's always on!
Music Lobby - My PPC is happy.

Later.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Wile E. One on February 11, 2005, 09:01:33 pm
It's a toss up for me really, because I agree that Playing Now is very useful on an ongoing, daily basis. However, I also found Lyrics Finder, Cover Art Finder, and a few other of KS's plugins to be very very useful. The difference is that I used each only once or twice.

To me, it's sort of like comparing a snowshovel with toothpaste.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: KingSparta on February 12, 2005, 05:44:41 am
Quote
snowshovel with toothpaste

What!
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: hit_ny on February 12, 2005, 08:25:37 am
i tried Playing now at first and loved it. Its very useful if you are working on the same machine as MC. I moved MC to a media only PC, so playing now was less useful as i have MC maximised and remote desktop share it.

The other plugin i used was King's dupe finder, this helped with fixing some tags. I hope to use it more when they allow Virtual albums via APL files.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: schnidrig on February 12, 2005, 10:31:50 am
I'd say the Flac plugin. Without it I would have stopped using MC by now.

Christian
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: lpr on February 12, 2005, 10:55:16 am
I'd say the Flac plugin. Without it I would have stopped using MC by now.

I was waiting for someone to mention this... I would have to agree, it's an *essential* plugin.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 12, 2005, 03:25:25 pm
The DirectX plugin is used always.

As for other plugins, I have never been able to connect to King's site, so have never been able to use the one I want.

Not his site, it's the way it is here in beautiful Anhui Province.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Wile E. One on February 12, 2005, 11:13:23 pm
What!

Hehe... toothpaste is useful on a daily basis, but a snowshovel is invaluable on those occasions when you need it... just like Playing Now and Lyrics/Cover Art Finder.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: iCamp on February 13, 2005, 12:30:17 am
Lyrics Finder...but if aTagger was still working that would win by a wide margin, IMO.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: mrsnarky on February 14, 2005, 04:08:11 pm
For me, it's the DirectX plugin. RGC Audio's High Frequency Stimulator does wonders for MP3s.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GRAYDOG on February 14, 2005, 07:03:49 pm
Hehe... toothpaste is useful on a daily basis, but a snowshovel is invaluable on those occasions when you need it... just like Playing Now and Lyrics/Cover Art Finder.
I guess that's why you are "The Wile E. One" Great saying
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: unrealreality on February 15, 2005, 12:02:24 am
my favorite would have to be "tempo and pitch" heh heh...i used to use pacemaker with winamp, but that was sooo long ago. Sometimes it's cool to listen to old songs at a faster speed. It definitely makes slow songs have a beat. Sure it's a novelty, but a fun one...well...if that sort of thing floats your boat.

Eric
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: MGD_King on February 15, 2005, 03:45:50 pm
Playing Now. It's the only Plugin I have installed.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: AndromAK on February 17, 2005, 07:21:32 am
- Audioscroller
(very cool to discover other music)

- Playing Now
(it should be integrated to MC, I think)

They are the most usefull for me...

I am waiting for a pluggin for stats... that miss!!
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 17, 2005, 08:20:13 am

I am waiting for a pluggin for stats... that miss!!

Now a stats plugin would be cool.
I'd use that pretty often.

I'm a bad person to ask about plugins that change data.

I have been bitten once too often and have become gunshy about allowing MC to write to my files. Might have been me, might have been MC, might have been the phase of the moon.

Regardless, I love the library, love smartlists, love the DirectX capability, love the fact that any format I want can be played.

Plugins that do something with existing data would be welcome. Like a stats plugin.

Also, I'd like to see something like this:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Winamp_Cover_Notifier_/1108096770/1

Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 17, 2005, 02:24:32 pm
Rhino's PlayingNow can do that, and more if you wanted it to. If you want it to do just that, like the screenie, I don't mind sorting out the popup for you. All you need to then is install the plugin and tell it to use that "skin"...

Thanks!

I have downloaded the plugin and a couple of your skins. I will try it out for awhile to see if I actually like things 'popping up'.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 17, 2005, 02:46:03 pm
you're welcome.

bit of a rush job, but I just knocked up this to mimic the cover notifier...


Cool! That was fast!!!
Just looking at your ini for this to get the cover art to be its original size. It seems to be stretched to about double.

I kinda like the trans-opus skin too except I get a warning that there is no 'bios' field.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: risingdamp on February 18, 2005, 05:35:46 pm
Personally I can't get by without Lyrics Finder.  I used to use Playing Now until I discoved NetRemote.  When you discover NetRemote you don't need another app to show you what's playing graphiically and in a custom format, though I have to say that Playing Now is awesome.... just not quite as awesome as NetRemote.

Lyrics finder is great except for new stuff when you really have to go get the lyrics manually and submitt them to king's server.  It would be good if it could do a search of a couple of popular sites for new stuff.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: KingSparta on February 24, 2005, 05:37:52 am
Any More?
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Myron on February 24, 2005, 08:01:49 am
Without a doubt,

the UPnP Server!!!
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: gpvillamil on February 24, 2005, 09:58:55 am
For me, it's the DirectX plugin. RGC Audio's High Frequency Stimulator does wonders for MP3s.

yep, me too.
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Deivit on February 24, 2005, 01:25:17 pm
For me, it's the DirectX plugin. RGC Audio's High Frequency Stimulator does wonders for MP3s.

yep, me too.

I must admit that never heard of that plug-in... is that, in your opinion, any better than DFX? I'm currently a happy user of DFX but always ready to try new things if they are worthy.

Thank you
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 24, 2005, 02:31:00 pm
I must admit that never heard of that plug-in... is that, in your opinion, any better than DFX? I'm currently a happy user of DFX but always ready to try new things if they are worthy.

Thank you
Way better than DFX, and free to boot!
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Deivit on February 24, 2005, 02:51:03 pm
Way better than DFX, and free to boot!


Great! Do you know where can I find it? I just installed JRiver DirectX Host Plug-in and I assume I have to install also RGC Audio's High Frequency Stimulator. I tried their website but could not find the plug-in.

Thanks ind advance, GHammer  :)

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Listening to: 'Esta Noche' from 'Gente' by 'Presuntos Implicados' on Media Center 11
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: GHammer on February 24, 2005, 02:56:56 pm
Great! Do you know where can I find it? I just installed JRiver DirectX Host Plug-in and I assume I have to install also RGC Audio's High Frequency Stimulator. I tried their website but could not find the plug-in.

Thanks ind advance, GHammer  :)

Go here. There are many including that one.

http://www.directxfiles.com/plugins.htm
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Deivit on February 24, 2005, 03:14:00 pm
Go here. There are many including that one.

http://www.directxfiles.com/plugins.htm


Thank you!  :)
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: Noman on February 24, 2005, 04:18:56 pm
Flac Plugin, Have all my music in flac format
Title: Re: What Is The Most Usefull Plug-In For Media Center 11?
Post by: RobOK on March 09, 2005, 11:18:30 am
Go here. There are many including that one.

http://www.directxfiles.com/plugins.htm




Please tell me more....


In what cases do you use this, for all types of music?  For only damaged rips you are trying to fix?

In other words, if you have high quality rips (using EAC, LAME, APS), what will this and other DX plugins do?

Thanks!!