Topic: Can't Find Chart Grabber Plugin (Read 7230 times)

Klingler · « **on:** July 15, 2003, 06:07:59 pm »

King Sparta,

I can't find any versions of your Chart Grabber Plugin. The link on your home page takes be to the Media Center 9 Plug-in Page, but none of your plug-ins are listed.

P.S. I've found the Chart Finder Plugin to be great at correcting the date field in MP3s, especially for compilation albums of hits.

Thanks,
Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2003, 02:36:09 am »

looks like J River deleted them all for some reason.

LonWar · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2003, 04:14:16 am »

King, What's the last version for chart, lyrics and cover art finder that you made? is it 1.0.42??

Thanks,

KingSparta · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2003, 04:22:50 am »

1.0.77

and was displayed on the tab, don't go by what maybe in the plugin manager.

at anyrate, that program has been striped, and i am no longer working on it so if you don't have it then i am not sure if i have the code for it anylonger since I moved all of the items into indiv programs.

what options werew you looking for?

At any rate it seems J river wiped out all the plug-ins not sure why or why they did not state a reason. i do not want to upload anything to the site if they don't want it up there.

maybe Jim or someone will have an answer later.

LonWar · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2003, 04:34:25 am »

I had some problems with my PC and I had to remove somethings.

I just liked it that's all. Oh well I'll use your Lyrics finder instead!!

KingSparta · « **Reply #5 on:** July 16, 2003, 04:43:46 am »

well the newer versions are better and faster anyway.

Klingler · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2003, 05:28:46 am »

King Sparta,

Your new website looks great, but both the Chart Finder and Chart Grabber full plugins only provide their respective OCX files.

Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2003, 09:31:36 am »

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King Sparta,

Your new website looks great, but both the Chart Finder and Chart Grabber full plugins only provide their respective OCX files.

Rob

thats fixed now

Klingler · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2003, 10:39:34 am »

King Sparta,

First off, thank you. I love all of your plug-ins and have appreciated your rapid responses to my problems.

Second, I'm now having a problem installing the Chart Grabber plug-in. I receive this error message after starting Media Center:

Interface Plug-in'Chart Grabber' could not be found or created.

Suggestions?

Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2003, 11:10:37 am »

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King Sparta,

First off, thank you. I love all of your plug-ins and have appreciated your rapid responses to my problems.

Second, I'm now having a problem installing the Chart Grabber plug-in. I receive this error message after starting Media Center:

Interface Plug-in'Chart Grabber' could not be found or created.

Suggestions?

Rob

I just Uninstalled it.

then reinstalled it

And it installed and is working fine using MC9.1.213

since you failed to report any error messages i guess you did not get any when you installed?

and if your running something newer than MC9.1.213 then that may or maynot be the problem.

I do know they removed all or most of the plug-ins from there website. JimH has the FBI working on an investigation on this and when he is done i am sure a full written report will be issued. if you have the security clearance you may have access to the report.

Klingler · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2003, 03:35:47 pm »

King Sparta,

I'm now using MC 9.1.215... so maybe that's the problem.

I've also noticed that Chart Finder now will only identify the songs that are in "Playing Now" when Media Center starts. If I change the files in Playing Now, they are not reflected in Chart Finder until I exit and re-load Media Center.

Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2003, 04:30:08 pm »

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King Sparta,

I'm now using MC 9.1.215... so maybe that's the problem.

I've also noticed that Chart Finder now will only identify the songs that are in "Playing Now" when Media Center starts. If I change the files in Playing Now, they are not reflected in Chart Finder until I exit and re-load Media Center.

Rob

yea, thats because J River Changed the way plug-ins work. that plug-in does not work correctly after (around 9.1.205)

I have not had the time to go back to that plug-in and fix it. the others I have fixed, but basicly since the plug-in is always running now, if you change the files in playing now you must close MC9 down and reload mc9 for the program to see a new list. what i need to do is monitor the list and if the list changes i need to refresh the list.

I have been striping it down and some of the optons are now aval as another plug-in.

I will work on it soon, maybe when J river provides an updated SDK.

Klingler · « **Reply #12 on:** July 18, 2003, 12:41:44 pm »

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I have been striping it down and some of the optons are now aval as another plug-in.

I will work on it soon, maybe when J river provides an updated SDK.

The Chart Finder feature is my favorite feature of your plug-ins, so I hope you J River provides an updated SDK quickly. In the mean time, I've found that I can effectively get it to work by using the Start and Stop Plug-in buttons in the Plug-in Manager.

I'm still unable to use the Chart Grabber plug-in, but that may be unique to my system and an inadequate uninstall earlier. I'm not sure, but will keep looking at other possibilities.

Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** July 18, 2003, 01:05:24 pm »

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The Chart Finder feature is my favorite feature of your plug-ins, so I hope you J River provides an updated SDK quickly. In the mean time, I've found that I can effectively get it to work by using the Start and Stop Plug-in buttons in the Plug-in Manager.

I'm still unable to use the Chart Grabber plug-in, but that may be unique to my system and an inadequate uninstall earlier. I'm not sure, but will keep looking at other possibilities.

Rob

well you should try my new chart finder on my web site.

the chart finder problem maybe because you do not have Windows XP.

http://www.spartasoft.com

Klingler · « **Reply #14 on:** August 29, 2003, 07:59:03 am »

KingSparta,

I'm stilling unable to load the ChartGrabber plug-in.

I am running Windows XP, so that's not the problem. I have also uninstalled everything related to MC9, including MC9, and then re-installed everything. I still receive the error message: "Interface Plug-in'Chart Grabber' could not be found or created. "

I'm happy to try any suggestions that you might have, and I'm not afraid to dig around the registry if I need to. I would really like to get the ChartGrabber plug-in working as it's my favorite KingSparta production.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

System Info:
Media Center Registered 9.1.241 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1993 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 219 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.57 (1008) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1997 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.57 (1008)

Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

KingSparta · « **Reply #15 on:** August 29, 2003, 08:29:24 am »

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I would really like to get the ChartGrabber plug-in working as it's my favorite KingSparta production.

sounds like a movie

what link are you downloading from?

what version are you trying to install?

now that my Lyrics quest Phase 1 has completed yesterday and i now have more lyrics than any lyrics site on the internet.

I do plan to go back to this plug-in this weekend due to the fact the last time i ran it it seems on some of the pages it gets info from the date format has changed.

use the full install do not use the ocx only replacement

you can go to add remove programs in windows and remove the plug-in from there, if after that it is still in MC9 un-install it from the MC9 plug-in manager and then try to re-install.

if you wish to go to c:\program files\mark farmer\

and delete the folder for that plug-in (just in case)

Klingler · « **Reply #16 on:** August 29, 2003, 11:19:38 am »

I'm downloading using this link: http://www2.spartasoft.com:12345/My%20Programs/Chart%20Grabber.ZIP

According to the file properties of the ocx files, it's version 0.0.0.9.

I've been trying to install the full version.

I've uninstalled from Add/Remove Programs, inside MC9, and by deleting the directory. I still get the error after re-installing the Chart Grabber plug-in.

Rob

KingSparta · « **Reply #17 on:** August 29, 2003, 11:26:31 am »

Humm

I will play with it tomorrow and see if i have the same problem.

maybe i can se my wifes computer and see if t installs on hers with the latest version of MC9.1

since my programs are perfict it must be:

1. Windows
2. MC9.1

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** August 29, 2003, 11:29:02 am »

BTW

did you ever have it working?

Klingler · « **Reply #19 on:** August 29, 2003, 11:33:30 am »

Yes, at one time Chart Grabber worked perfectly... if it only hadn't, then I wouldn't miss it so much now.

It stopped working around the time I upgraded to 9.1, but I don't recall exactly when now.

KingSparta · « **Reply #20 on:** August 29, 2003, 11:52:22 am »

here is the deal

i just tried installing it on my wife's computer (with windows xp) and the latest version of MC9.1

it installed fine.

so the problem is not with the program.

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one thing you can do is.

1. do not have MC9.1 running.
2. go to windows explorer, tools internet options

general "tab"

temp internet files, Push on the "Delete Files" button

then try to reinstall.

this some times will fix a install problem this is a known bug in Windows\IE

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