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Title: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on March 27, 2005, 10:03:20 am
I saw a somewhat strange behavior when using mjextman commands through girder. A smartlist that was supposed to be random, was perfectly random when executed through the MC11 interface. However, when I used the mjextman command, it was much less random, i.e. showing three time the same thing.

Have there been any changes around mjextman in MC11?
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on March 31, 2005, 10:25:06 am
Is no one using this command anymore? Am I an extinct species? Like dinosaurs? ;)
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: Matt on March 31, 2005, 11:35:12 am
That sounds like a coincidence.  The extension manager is just a stub that calls the same functions inside of Media Center.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: cncb on March 31, 2005, 02:17:28 pm
I've noticed similar behavior.  I have a Smartlist that chooses random songs for 30 minutes of play.  When I double-click the smartlist in MC it works fine every time but when I play it via mjextman with the /PlayReplace switch it only seems to work if PlayingNow is filled with something else.  That is, it will replace PlayingNow the first time the command is run if I have a different Playlist but all subsequent attempts just start playing the current songs in PlayingNow without replacing them.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on March 31, 2005, 02:24:11 pm
That is, it will replace PlayingNow the first time the command is run if I have a different Playlist but all subsequent attempts just start playing the current songs in PlayingNow without replacing them.
That's exactly what is happening here as well. It didn't with V10.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on April 01, 2005, 01:32:24 am
Let's go back to this one again because it is at the center of my audio jukebox. For whatever reason "random" with mjextman is no longer random but ALWAYS "the same".

As cnbc said a mjextman command like this doesn't produce random anymore: /PlayReplace treepath="Playlists\Random Album Play\Modern". It used to work fine with MC10.

Matt, this is really critical for everyone calling MC through girder. Thanks for having a closer look. ::)
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: cncb on April 01, 2005, 03:15:16 pm
I tried adding a /Clear command and a pause before the /PlayReplace but still have the same results.  I would also request that this gets fixed because it is important to my setup.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: cncb on April 14, 2005, 11:33:23 pm
sapnho,

Perhaps we didn't ask nicely enough or are invisible but this was brought up by someone else and fixed in build 236.  It seems to work as expected now.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on April 15, 2005, 12:41:12 am
That's what counts!
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: Mastiff on April 15, 2005, 01:53:00 am
cncb, I think it's because of sapnho's ugly avatar. What? Is that your real face? Sorry, man...  ;D

And if it helps, I've had that one a few times myself. And I agree. As long as the stuff gets fixed I'm a happy man.
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: sapnho on April 15, 2005, 06:40:05 am
cncb, I think it's because of sapnho's ugly avatar. What? Is that your real face? Sorry, man...  ;D

Oh, and I thought yours was your dog... ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: Any changes with mjextman.exe in MC11?
Post by: cncb on April 15, 2005, 09:26:13 am
Well, I have no avatar so as not to offend anyone but this didn't work either.  I agree - in the end I am just happy that it is fixed but I just had to cry about it first  ;D.