RRMedia Plugin by Blue ZX3 [v1.3.0 Released]

**Blue ZX3** · 10-14-2008, 06:27 AM

Searching, Rating, Top x played, Recently played...ect

**GF-ler** · 10-15-2008, 02:33 AM

hi blue,

i uninstall all files for RRMedia, delete the both files in my MUSIC folder and start a new installation.
if its try to scan my musicfolder it stops after 2 seconds and no entry in it.

so i try it with the install of 1.0. there i get a complete scan of my music.

after installation i make the upgrade to version 1.2.2.0, also run the file 1.1dbUpdater.

the result of all is the same before. i can rate a song, it shows me the stars the time the song play. if the song change the stars are not showing (no star rated) after this song i switch the rated song again and it shows no stars.

if i look in my music folder i see 2 files, the biggest is RRMediaDB and the second the Rate.IN_ file.
in the Rate.IN_ file is written all songs i rate with 3,4,5 stars.
my question is, is the suffix of the rate file correct ?

perhaps i wait for the skin of MGD for comparing whats going wrong with my install.

**Blue ZX3** · 10-15-2008, 02:45 AM

Yes, the suffix is correct. What is the size of you RMediadb.db file?

**GF-ler** · 10-15-2008, 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

Yes, the suffix is correct. What is the size of you RMediadb.db file?

if i install with 1.2.2.0 its 29kB, if its installed with 1.0 its 2.362kB.

**Blue ZX3** · 10-15-2008, 03:34 AM

with the 1.2.2.0 that size of a db file tells me that nothing is getting added to it as that is the size of an empty db file. after a build using the 1.2.2, what is contained in the builder_debug.txt found in the RMDatabase folder?

**GF-ler** · 10-15-2008, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

with the 1.2.2.0 that size of a db file tells me that nothing is getting added to it as that is the size of an empty db file. after a build using the 1.2.2, what is contained in the builder_debug.txt found in the RMDatabase folder?

hi blue,

Builder_debug.txt

it ended after looking in folder BLUES, a lot of other Genres / Groups behind.
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so i try it again after cleaning every genre folder, playlists.. mp3´s with 0Byte aso.

if i rescan i get the message "Invalid procedure call or argument RMBuilder" and it breaks by 29kB.

**Blue ZX3** · 10-15-2008, 11:34 AM

Ya, something deff does not look right there...

**GF-ler** · 10-17-2008, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

Ya, something deff does not look right there...

a last try of understanding how it works.

1.step... i rate a song with 4 stars...
2.step... RRMedia.exe (always activ) see it and save it in file rate.IN_ in my music folder. (with editor i can see the entries)

QUESTION...is there another position where the number of stars would be saved too ?

3.step...the song ended
4.step.. a new song starts..RRMedia looks ???IN WHAT FILE?? for fixed stars to this song and set the flags.

ALWAYS... cycled RRMedia looks if there are any changes.

is there any thing i must fix in the rr.ini too ?
the information in the exectbl.ini is the same as in your demo skin.
also the entry in the menu.skin is done.

i think the probelm is not the writing of selected stars, its the reading. therefore it would be nice if you can tell me which file(s) RRMedia read for fixed stars.

**Enforcer** · 10-17-2008, 06:43 AM

read the commands text file, couldn't work out if there was a Rescan media files option.

say for example if you have dropped some extra mp3's in your audio directory.

also is there a way to detect if RRMedia is running?

**Blue ZX3** · 10-17-2008, 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by GF-ler

a last try of understanding how it works.

1.step... i rate a song with 4 stars...
2.step... RRMedia.exe (always activ) see it and save it in file rate.IN_ in my music folder. (with editor i can see the entries)

QUESTION...is there another position where the number of stars would be saved too ?

3.step...the song ended
4.step.. a new song starts..RRMedia looks ???IN WHAT FILE?? for fixed stars to this song and set the flags.

ALWAYS... cycled RRMedia looks if there are any changes.

is there any thing i must fix in the rr.ini too ?
the information in the exectbl.ini is the same as in your demo skin.
also the entry in the menu.skin is done.

i think the probelm is not the writing of selected stars, its the reading. therefore it would be nice if you can tell me which file(s) RRMedia read for fixed stars.

#2 That "Rate.in_" file is really just for a backup purpose only, it writes the rating to the db and then to that file. This way if/when something tragic happened to the db file,
all you have to do is delete ONLY the db file and upon creating a new db, it will put all of your prev rated songs back into to the db.

#4 Everything is done through the db.