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[gummbah]

Is it possible to only show a pop-up for the upcoming song?
I don't want playing now to show a pop-up for the song that was just played.
Is this possible?

Thanks,
G

[Deivit]

Of course you can. You can have the info on previous, current and/or next song. You just need to edit the .ini file of the skin of your choice accordingly, using

<"next.name"> <"next.Artist"> <"next.album"> etc.

Hope it helps.

[gummbah]

Thanks, but I would like to have no pop-up at all at the END of a song, only a pop-up at the BEGINNING of a new song, displaying info from that new song. Is that possible?

[Deivit]

mmmm... mine are always set to stay up during the whole song, so I'm not 100% sure. My guess is that, by desing, they're set to pop-up at the beginning and at the end of the song. Rhinobanga created this plug-in by popular demand a few years ago ala MTV or VH-1 banners that appear both at the beginning and at the end.

You can set the time you want them to stay up but I don't think you can make them to show up just at the beginning and NOT and the end.

Marko?

[marko]

right click on the popup and choose options > edit ini

find the "popup" section and add the following line:

popupatend=0

then save the file.
restart MC and that should be that sorted.

-marko.

[Deivit]

"Nice" one, Marko, if I may say so 

[marko]

[gummbah]

That didn't work  ?
I tried adding the line to the skin ini file (actually there was no [popup] section at all in that file), but no succes.
I tried editing the main ini file (there IS a popup section), but also no success.
Any suggestions?

[marko]

Like I said, right click > options > edit ini
As you've correctly noted, there is no popup section in the skin.ini files, only the main playingnow ini file

remember that MC changes track roughly 5 seconds before the last track actually ends.
there's a built in delay to stop the MC playback display showing the next track with a track position of -00:05, which is what it used to do, but the plugin picks up the track change as soon as MC reports it happening. You can see this as the popup opens showing the next track details while the current track is still shown in the MC display window.

-marko.

there's no way around that as far as I know.

[gummbah]

Like I said, right click > options > edit ini
As you've correctly noted, there is no popup section in the skin.ini files, only the main playingnow ini file

remember that MC changes track roughly 5 seconds before the last track actually ends.
there's a built in delay to stop the MC playback display showing the next track with a track position of -00:05, which is what it used to do, but the plugin picks up the track change as soon as MC reports it happening. You can see this as the popup opens showing the next track details while the current track is still shown in the MC display window.

-marko.

there's no way around that as far as I know.

Hi marko,

Somehow it is still not working for me. Like you said, i have right-clicked the pop-up and edited to ini by adding a line "Popupatend=0". However I still get a pop-up at the end of each song for the song that is ending, roughly 10sec before the end, and then another one for the next song, roughtly 5sec before the end.

I even tried to set "Enablepop=False", but I still get popups. Not sure what's going wrong. This is how the ini file (the one from right-clicking the popup) looks like now, but I still get popups:

;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  GENERAL SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[General]
EnableMediaCentreMultiMediaKeys=False
EnablePopup=False
EnablePaste=True
EnableLogging=False
EnableSpeech=False
EnableAudioScrobbler=False



;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  POPUP SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Popup]
Poll=750
ShowHotkey=Win+P
ToggleHotkey=Win+Ctrl+P
Skin=Adaptive
ExcludeExtensions=vob,mpg,mpeg,avi,dvd*,mov,asf
PopupOnFullscreen=Always
PopupAtEnd=0
EnableSound=False


;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  PASTE SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Paste]
NumPastes=2

[Paste 1]
Hotkey=Win+F9
Tokens=/me is playing: <red><Name><purple> - <red><Album><purple>  [Time: <Duration> | <Bitrate> kbps <Type> | <FileSize>]

[Paste 2]
Hotkey=Win+F10
Tokens=/me is playing: <Name> - <Album>  [Time: <Duration> | <Bitrate> kbps <Type> | <FileSize>]


;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  SKINS SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Skins]
JpegQualityOnSave=100
;Path=C:\Development\Perforce\C\MediaCenter\PlayingNow\Skins
Random=False


;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  LOGGING SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Logging]
;MaxEntries=50
;Filename=c:\PlayingNowHistory.txt
;Tokens=<Name>\t<Album>\t<Artist>
;Thumbnail=LoggingThumbnail
;Script=C:\PlayingNow.bat
;UseTempThumbnailFilename=True
;HideScriptWindow=False
;SaveWMPMetadata=True
;MSNSupport=True
MSNTokens=<Name> - <Album>  [Time: <Duration> | <Bitrate> kbps <Type> | <FileSize>]
;LiveMessengerSupport=True
LiveMessengerTokens=<Name> - <Album>  [Time: <Duration> | <Bitrate> kbps <Type> | <FileSize>]


[LoggingThumbnail]
Type=1
MissingImage=c:\PlayingNowMissingImage.jpg



;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  FTP SECTION
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Ftp]
;AlternativeINI=c:\MyFtps.ini
NumFtps=0


[Ftp 1]
Address=any.old.server
Port=21
UserName=Rhino
Password=Banga
PassiveMode=False
Filename=PlayingNow.jpg
Skin=Slimline


;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  Speech
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Speech]
;ToggleHotkey=Win+Ctrl+S
;  Note that MC's Player/Volume must be set to Internal for this to work.
;LowerVolumeWhenSpeaking=False

[Speech SameAlbum]
NumTexts=3
Text 1=Also from <Artist> is <Name>
Text 2=Now Playing <Name>
Text 3=Here's <Name> on the album <Album>


[Speech DifferentAlbum]
NumTexts=2
Text 1=Here's <Name> from <Album> by <Artist>
Text 2=Now Playing <Name> from the album <Album> by <Artist>


;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
;  AudioScrobbler
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[AudioScrobbler]
;LogFilename=c:\AudioScrobblerLog.txt
;LogLimit=1024
;  By default a track must have been playing for 50% or 240 seconds (or whichever is the soonest)
;  before submitting ... Changing the value below will alter the 240 requirement.
;HighWaterMark=120
UserName=
Password=
Extensions=*.mp3,*.ape,*.wma,*.ogg,*.flac
Artist=<"Artist">
Album=<"Album">
Name=<"Name">
 

[marko]

from the pn help file:

Setting: PopupAtEnd Description: This specifies at which point before the end of the track PlayingNow should popup to display itself.
The number is in milliseconds.
Setting the value to 0 will not show the popup at the end of the track.
Value Type: Number
Required: No ... the default is 10000 (10 seconds)
Example: PopupAtEnd=15000

This works as expected for me, I've really no idea why it's not working for you.
You've definately saved the changes to the ini file and restarted MC?
Which skin are you using?

-marko.

[gummbah]

Hmm I have to EnablePopup thing working now, had to do a full restart of my comp.
But the PopupAtEnd is just not working.
I have tried several skins and neither is working.

Is it correct that when I right-click to popup I am editing the main configuration ini file?

[gummbah]

Huh? It's suddenly working!? Maybe it only works after changing skins?
Anyway it seems ok now. Thanks for your help!