RRMedia Plugin by Blue ZX3 [v1.3.0 Released]

**alex21008** · 09-21-2008, 07:01 AM

Yep, the download link isn't working Blue!

**MGD** · 09-21-2008, 10:27 AM

It is working just fine. Maximise the new window, the files are on the right.

**alex21008** · 09-21-2008, 02:49 PM

Thanks MGD and thanks very much for the update Blue.

**spamminator** · 09-21-2008, 10:15 PM

Blue:

Tried rescanning my DB (after updating it to the 1.1 standard) and got the following at the 10,760th file:

9/7/2022 10:12:35 PM: RRMedia Builder> MediaInfo communitation OK!
9/7/2022 10:13:22 PM: RRMedia Builder> Subscript out of range

I tried deleting the DB and starting from scratch, but I got the same error at the 10760 mark again. Is there a way to turn on more debug in the plugin?

Edit:

I turned on RRDebug, but there doesn't seem to be anything weird in the log:
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Enter Exec: False, rm_builder.skin, , False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Que Exec: True, rm_builder.skin, "RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10724 Files", False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Que Exec: True, rm_builder.skin, "RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10724 Files", False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Que Exec: True, rm_builder.skin, "RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10735 Files", False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Que Exec: True, rm_builder.skin, "RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10749 Files", False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Leave Exec: False, rm_builder.skin, RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10749 Files, False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Enter Exec: False, rm_builder.skin, , False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Que Exec: True, rm_builder.skin, "RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10760 Files", False
9/7/2022 10:17:28 PM: Leave Exec: False, rm_builder.skin, RM_SETLABEL;RM_BuildCounter;Found 10760 Files, False

**Blue ZX3** · 09-22-2008, 01:37 AM

@nasa
Lets start with a few things first...

When you put a playlist on a disk, there is no link between the playlist and whats on the disk, it reads the selected playlist
then removes the musicpath set in rr from all of the songs before writing the remaining path data to the selected disk number wi
along with the resume info.

So the reason that your disks are not playing is that these playlists you are creating, are using a different main musicpath to
the relivive part of the path. This probably sounds kinda confusing as trying to describe it, isn't easy either..

Lets try this example...

rr musicpath=D:\Music\MP3\

Playlist#1
#EXT
D:\Music\MP3\AC-DC\Razors Edge\Thunderstruck.mp3
D:\Music\MP3\Ac-Dc\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3
D:\Music\MP3\Metallica\Metallica\Enter Sandman.mp3
D:\Music\MP3\Metallica\Metallica\The Unforgiven.mp3

When putting the playlist to disk, it removes the "D:\Music\MP3\" part so the remaining data written to the disk looks like
(this is to keep all stored paths in the db relitive to the set music path)

Disk#4
AC-DC\Razors Edge\Thunderstruck.mp3
Ac-Dc\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3
Metallica\Metallica\Enter Sandman.mp3
Metallica\Metallica\The Unforgiven.mp3

When you load a disk, it re-adds the musicpath, then tells rr to play the temporly created playlist at the last track and posistion played.
So, if you playlists you are creating don't include the musicpath that is used where you are trying to use it from then that is probably
where the issue is coming form and then when you rate one, it can't find a match in the db to save your rating to.

Hope this helps to narrow your problem down, if not, post what you still don't understand.

PS. By chance, where you the one that many moons ago, asked about importing ratings from MediaMonkey?

**nasa** · 09-22-2008, 06:35 AM

Blue,

Great explanation.... It clearly identifies my issue. Let me explain my issue (BTW: Yes, I am the one who asked about MediaMonkey). I am trying to sync my music collection on my media server with my music collection in my car. I do most of my music listening in my home. So I prefer to do most of my music tagging, rating, etc in my home as well. I can use MM to create an array of different playlist (and I am sure this is true for any music management software) -- however, the path in my house doesn't match the path in my car. To get around this, I have created a folder structure like this:

.../abcde/<artist>/....
.../01playlist/<playlist>
.../fghij/<artist>/...

and so on. With this structure, I could create relative paths for my playlist, which would work in both areas.

From your description -- that's not going to work.

Possible solutions:

-- Match all my systems to use the same path....

-- Help Blue do a minor software fix

I'm assuming you programmed this in VB with sqlite as the database. I know next to no VB, however a quick google search lead me to a suggestion:

Dim TestString As String = <full mp3 path from playlist>
Dim TestArray() As String = Split(TestString "/", ,CompareMethod.Text)
Dim Song as String = TestArray(TestArray.length - 1)

The song string is now in "Song". Again, my VB is no existant -- but this should work....

**Blue ZX3** · 09-22-2008, 09:08 AM

The only parts that are in vb are the dll and the builder as the main app is in Autoit. I do have a app that i did start work on importing the rating from MM as it too uses a sql db to store its data but found that MM uses a 0 to 5 star going in 1/2 star increments(I think, been awhile since I actaully worked on it).

The whole reason that I only store the relitive paths in the db is so that you could have a mirrored image of a music collection in two diferent places, in two different paths and be able to just sync the needed RRMedia files and everything would work.

**nasa** · 09-22-2008, 12:15 PM

I'm such a dunce... After rereading both of your post -- suggesting a change/addition to your code was a little premature.

I now have a new question.... When you add a playlist to disk, if the music paths used don't include the music path -- what does the software do? Will it just add it to the database as is? Then when a song is called up, it addes the music path to the database entry?

Thanks again

**Blue ZX3** · 09-22-2008, 01:37 PM

That is correct, this way as long as the music collection is mirrored past the music path you could use the db in either location becase it would just add the musicpath + path from db = full path

So, like this example would work..

House comp:
Musicpath=C:\Doc & Settings\bla bla\My Docs\My Music\
example song path would be: C:\Doc & Settings\bla bla\My Docs\My Music\AC-DC\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3

Car comp:
Musicpath=D:\Music\MyMusic\
example song path would be: D:\Music\MyMusic\AC-DC\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3

As long as the the folder structure is the same past the set music path this works. Allows building of the db in the house and only need to transfer the db file & rate.in_ to the car's music path to use it...

**Sal R.** · 09-22-2008, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

That is correct, this way as long as the music collection is mirrored past the music path you could use the db in either location becase it would just add the musicpath + path from db = full path

So, like this example would work..

House comp:
Musicpath=C:\Doc & Settings\bla bla\My Docs\My Music\
example song path would be: C:\Doc & Settings\bla bla\My Docs\My Music\AC-DC\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3

Car comp:
Musicpath=D:\Music\MyMusic\
example song path would be: D:\Music\MyMusic\AC-DC\Razors Edge\Are You Ready.mp3

As long as the the folder structure is the same past the set music path this works. Allows building of the db in the house and only need to transfer the db file & rate.in_ to the car's music path to use it...

Now that is a useful tidbit of information.

Does your plugin perform a similar operation when loading playlists (*.m3u)?

i.e. create a playlist on the desktop > copy playlist to carPC > load playlist (same folder structure, different $musicpath$)