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TimB

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Audioscrobbler causes crash
« on: January 06, 2006, 09:05:54 pm »

Playing a playlist on 95 it crashes after a few minutes in the 1st song.

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Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2006, 09:31:30 pm »

Back-tracked to 92, same problem.

How can I recover to where I was?

Thanks! :)

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Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2006, 11:15:02 pm »

TimB,

Try a full uninstall then reinstall.  I've been playing music all night with no issue. 

If you keep having problems, start a thread and give any other details that might be relevant.

Thanks.
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Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2006, 01:01:41 am »

Playing a playlist on 95 it crashes after a few minutes in the 1st song.

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Do you have the audioscrobbler plugin installed?
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Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2006, 07:42:29 am »

Do you have the audioscrobbler plugin installed?

Yes is that significant?

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Audioscrobbler
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2006, 09:31:56 am »

But the point of the Audioscrobbler thread was that it is not the best in MC and wondering if a JRiver plugin would be a wanted solution.

Seems that it was.

We all know it crashes at random for some users. That's why we'd like to see it supported in MC. More useful to me (and to others it seems) than various services that have been bundled.
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Re: But...
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2006, 11:12:09 am »

to create a plugin, you need access to the last.fm sdk, and my understanding was that you need to request this from them, and that their attitude goes along the lines of "there's already an MC plugin, so no need for another"

If that is so, then I guess we need to get someone willing to write the plugin, jriver or third party, then as a group, apply pressure to last.fm to allow the thing to be created.

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Re: But...
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2006, 11:27:50 am »

heh, that sure does sounds strange. you'd think they's be bending over backwards to get peple to enter data into their system for free and make it as easy as can be.

Personally i think it's lastFM that should be doing the running around. Given that lots of pppl here are *BIG* collectors. That's a lot of data they would be getting by catering to the MC crowd.
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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2006, 01:12:31 pm »

Bingo!

Thanks! :)

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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2006, 01:58:18 pm »

Bingo!

Thanks! :)

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Does that mean you disabled the plugin to fix it or does that mean you tried the fix I posted and it solved it for you with the audioscrobbler plugin still in use?
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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2006, 02:13:08 pm »

zxsix,

I have tried your audioscrobbler work around to no avail.  I copied the audioscrobbler.ini file down one level from /library to /Media Center 11, but it does not seem to work.  I have gotten in the habit of logging in every time I restart media center. 

One thing I did notice was that in your oringinal "fix" you state:

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When you go into the plugin settings and fill in your login/password info, or change the options and click the apply button, it saves to the audioscrobbler.ini file located here:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\J River\Media Center 11\Library\audioscrobbler.ini

Now, I noticed that when starting up MC and pulling up the plugin settings again, the login/password is of course blank now. Turns out it was attempting to read, and not finding, the audioscrobbler.ini file because it was looking for it here:

E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\J River\Media Center 11\audioscrobbler.ini. (note the lack of the Library folder in the path).

Was that change from drive c: to drive e: a typo on your part or is that what the plugin is really doing?

Micah
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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2006, 03:03:41 pm »

That was a typo.
Yours may be working differently than mine based on installation paths and registry settings.
You could duplicate what I did and see if there's different results.

Download the FILEMON program here http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/FilemonNt.zip

Start up MC and go into the audioscrobbler plugin screen.

Start the FILEMON program.
In the Include setting,  type in    audioscrobbler.ini
All boxes at the bottom should be checked except for "Log successes".

Click the apply button under the audioscrobbler control section.
At this point you should have some entries in file monitor.
Take note of the path.

Close MC.

Restart MC.
You should now have more entries in the file monitor.
On my system, the path shown now that it's reading, does not match the path that was showing before.
Copy (not move) your audioscrobbler.ini to the path showing here.
That's where it needs to be to work correctly.

If yours shows the same path both times, then I can't tell you where to go after that other than to keep pressing last.fm to work on an update to their plugin.

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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2006, 03:29:50 pm »

Thanks!  That did the trick.  The plugin was writing the file to:

F:\Documents and Settings\Micah\Application Data\J River\Media Center 11\Library

but then looking for it at startup in:

F:\Program Files\Common Files\TiVo Shared\Beacon

How strange!  But i copied the file and it seems to work correctly now.  This will help alot.  Thanks.
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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2006, 04:55:17 pm »

Wow!  Very different from mine.
Glad my forensics worked out for you though.
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Re: But...
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2006, 05:28:10 pm »

to create a plugin, you need access to the last.fm sdk, and my understanding was that you need to request this from them, and that their attitude goes along the lines of "there's already an MC plugin, so no need for another"

If that is so, then I guess we need to get someone willing to write the plugin, jriver or third party, then as a group, apply pressure to last.fm to allow the thing to be created.

In addition to the official itunes plugin there are at least 3 other plugins by individuals. So its not that hard to get a unike submission id for a new plugin. But yeah, you have to ask them.

Examples:

Audiopod goes iScrobbler
Jscrob2
isproggler


Update:

Here is the latest protocol :

http://www.audioscrobbler.net/wiki/Protocol1.1


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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2006, 05:04:06 am »

My weekends tend to be busier than my weekdays so I just disabled Audioscrobbler for a couple of days, schedule permitting I'll go back with the fixes, etc. next week. :)

Thanks!

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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2006, 08:49:44 am »

the lastfm site seems to be down..

..could this be a reason the plugin was starting to act up.

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Re: Audioscrobbler causes crash
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2006, 11:46:17 pm »

i'm not exactly sure why my thread voting on whether we wanted a built-in AS plugin or not got locked.... but anyways, i think it is possible to make your own plug-in, using the wiki page listed above.  just for those to scroll up the page, here it is:  link
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