Topic: last.fm plugin (Read 5751 times)

Trilyan · « **on:** February 08, 2010, 10:57:07 pm »

MC 14.0.96 worked just fine with last.fm plug in. JRiver however, made software upgrade compulsory to keep on using the program, so now I'm using 14.0.140.
This is great, however, the last.fm plug in is somehow working strange, as it will only work by stopping it and starting it manually through the plug in manager each time i run MC, which i find really annoying.
Is this just me? or is it a known bug? please help me solve this..

I have already tried running MC with admin rights and no deal...

Trilyan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2010, 07:17:13 pm »

can anyone out there help me?? ?

JimH · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2010, 07:22:47 pm »

It might be related to this problem:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55924.0

Trilyan · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2010, 06:50:19 am »

Quote from: JimH on February 09, 2010, 07:22:47 pm

It might be related to this problem:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55924.0

i think it is, however, i solved that specific problem by executing media center as an admin, that gets rid of all crapy messages, as it allows the program to correctly write and read files over the disk...
but still, my last.fm plugin isn't starting by itself, even though the plugin manager shows it as active $:-\$

Trilyan · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2010, 03:05:36 pm »

mmm does anybody else experience the problem?? i feel lonely heree

JimH · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2010, 03:11:52 pm »

You should not need to run MC as admin. Try the fix from the other thread.

Try reinstalling your license.

Trilyan · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2010, 04:34:50 pm »

Quote from: JimH on February 10, 2010, 03:11:52 pm

You should not need to run MC as admin. Try the fix from the other thread.

Try reinstalling your license.

ok.. so now i don't have to execute media center as admin. COOL

but still.. the plugin isn't starting, it's really anoying ? i mean, i sometimes forget to start it manually, so it does not scrobble my songs to last.fm

someone has any other idea?

gappie · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2010, 04:45:18 pm »

are you using the lastfm plugin that came with mc? i have no probs here, it always starts automatically. a very far shot.. what version of the plugin you have?

gab

Trilyan · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2010, 06:08:31 pm »

finally some support

well.. i am using the default MC plugin..
here it goes

can it be the MC version?? which one are you using??

JimH · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2010, 06:36:28 pm »

Did you try reinstalling your license?

kamimeguro · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2010, 09:00:03 pm »

Hi Trilyan, JimH,

Same here, same plugin, did try to re-register, and still LastFm does not start with MC14 (140).
The "Run the plugin when..." is always unchecked when I restart MC.

Weird, no? Shall I wait for the next release?
I am on Win 7 64 if that may help.

Kami

JimH · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2010, 09:06:33 pm »

It might be related to this problem:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55924.0

kamimeguro · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2010, 09:52:41 pm »

Thanks JimH for the quick reply,

No such folder as C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\JRiver\Media Center 14... in my system.
I did try to re-install with a fresh download of 140. I also turned off and on UAC.
No success yet.

Any more advice will be apprecaited. Unfortunately, I do not remember since wich upgrade I did get this happening...
Not long ago, but I will say a few upgrade.

If there is anything else you want to know let me know.

Kami

djoolfr · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2010, 03:00:28 pm »

Hi,

I have the same problem, since v14.0.130 (I upgraded because of the forced upgrade, I don't remember which version I was using before). OS is Win 7 x64.

Since then, tried with .137, .139 and now with .140 without success. I just tried a full (with library) uninstall/re-install of .140. Restored my license too. Looked for that VirtualStore/JRiver folder but the VirtualStore directory is empty.

Surprisingly enough, last.fm support was still enabled after the full re-install, and my username/password were still there.

Scrobbling does work when the last.fm plug-in is selected in the left panel of the main screen. But as soon as I return to Playing Now, or anywhere else, it stops working. The "Run the plug-in when MC starts" is always disabled when I go to the plug-in options screen (can't tell how many times I enabled it already!).

So... maybe there's a bug here... everything else works fine!

Thanks in advance for your help

JimH · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2010, 03:25:19 pm »

Quote from: djoolfr on February 11, 2010, 03:00:28 pm

I have the same problem, since v14.0.130 (I upgraded because of the forced upgrade, I don't remember which version I was using before). OS is Win 7 x64.

Did you try re-installing your license?

djoolfr · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2010, 03:44:26 pm »

Quote from: JimH on February 11, 2010, 03:25:19 pm

Did you try re-installing your license?

I did! It didn't solve the issue.

JimH · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2010, 04:02:21 pm »

Quote from: djoolfr on February 11, 2010, 03:44:26 pm

I did! It didn't solve the issue.

Send me your details and I'll check your license. I'm jimh at jriver.

Trilyan · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2010, 05:36:08 pm »

i don't thik it's a licence issue, i completely unistalled MC and the licence, the reinstalled and the problem is still there ?

anyway.. i guess is good to know there's other people out there, and it's not just my pc, I'm using Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit

Trilyan · « **Reply #18 on:** February 11, 2010, 05:44:34 pm »

Quote from: djoolfr on February 11, 2010, 03:00:28 pm

The "Run the plug-in when MC starts" is always disabled when I go to the plug-in options screen (can't tell how many times I enabled it already!).

where do you find that option??

i only get to see the screen i uploaded earlier in the plugin manager, am i missing some config?

kamimeguro · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2010, 06:28:22 pm »

Hi Trilyan,
Check on the left pane under Services & plug-ins, you shall see a last.fm tab. If you click on options, you will find a list of choices including the "run the plu-in when MC starts"
Regards
Kami

Trilyan · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:51:31 pm »

LoL i had no ideaa of this panel

THANKS!

still... i have the Run The Plugin When MC starts disabled, and if i close MC it appears as disabled again ?

Trilyan · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2010, 07:58:50 pm »

OK I THINK I FIXED IT

Now that i got to the plugin menu, and saw the uncheked optioin i thought "Maybe it's beacause MC is failing to save the cheked option"
So i closed MC, and started with admin rights, went to the panel, and checked the box.
Now here's the deal
If i run MC with admin rights again, the plugin will start perfectly

if i don't, however, the box will misteriously unchek itself ?
i guess a just have to make a shortcut with admin rights and that's it...
let's see how long it lasts like this

JimH · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:47:31 pm »

Quote from: Trilyan on February 11, 2010, 05:36:08 pm

i don't thik it's a licence issue, i completely unistalled MC and the licence, the reinstalled and the problem is still there ?

If you'll send me your license details, I can check.

kamimeguro · « **Reply #23 on:** February 11, 2010, 08:56:05 pm »

Thank you Trilyan,
I did the same and it works now.
Thanks for the tip.

JimH,
Any chance to avoid circumventing this? I'm not an expert at all on Win 7 rights and permissions...

Kami

Trilyan · « **Reply #24 on:** February 11, 2010, 09:44:44 pm »

Quote from: kamimeguro on February 11, 2010, 08:56:05 pm

Thank you Trilyan,
I did the same and it works now.
Thanks for the tip.

JimH,
Any chance to avoid circumventing this? I'm not an expert at all on Win 7 rights and permissions...

Kami

hey no problem! you made me realize of that anyway

This pals is an incompatibility problem between windows 7 UAC and MC that disturbs the process of reading and writing files.
While we checked the option for the plugin to start automatically, somehow, MC didn't had the right to write that in the options file, or whatsoever, read it later. This is why giving admin rights definitely solves the problem.

What i cannot understand is, why if we run MC without admin rights, it will revert it's options, that's a mistery to me, perhaps a reading file problem, i don't know, i strongly suggest it's related whith the above mentioned post, MC is having trouble with UAC, please JRiver, work on it

JimH · « **Reply #25 on:** February 12, 2010, 07:18:23 am »

Quote from: Trilyan on February 11, 2010, 09:44:44 pm

This pals is an incompatibility problem between windows 7 UAC and MC that disturbs the process of reading and writing files.

This is an incompatibility with some older "bad" and unauthorized version of MC not downloaded from our site. Removing the options.xml files described in the thread linked below (and above) will probably fix it:

Quote

It might be related to this problem:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=55924.0

The bad software wrote a bad file.

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