Thread: Ratings plugin

Originally Posted by Enforcer

It happens, change of mind




Takes longer to write out the whole path



No difference. It actually creates two m3u files, one it leaves empty the other it sticks the filename in, neither are the one I selected

eg

Selected a song, gave it one star, 4 star.m3u created empty and 5 star.m3u created with file in.

select another song give it two star, 2 star.m3u created with correct song in

select a third song give it one star 1 star.m3u created with correct song it, but only that one, not the one that I did first.

I could now carry on infinitium and it will now correctly assign songs and even move them. It's just that first one.


OH! and still that I need this dummy road runner directory, rr.ini and ratings folder with contents on my C: drive for it to work.

i'm gonna have to set up my home pc the way yours is setup (with different drive letters doing different things) and see if i can recreate the problem. As of now there are NO paths in any of the exe's, they're all be received from road runner or ratingsconfig.ini.

Originally Posted by Quattro

Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread but just a quick question, with your rating system, how are the ratings saved?
I understand you make a playlist for each number of stars, but is that the only way to reference how many stars a song has?

I'm not so if you know but, ID3v2 tags have a rating system build in. You can just change that part of the tag for each song. That way you don't have to continuously have to save to a playlist, you can just use RR to sort according to the rating.

unfortunately this just manages the ratings in a playlist. Autoit doesnt have the ability to read or write to ID3 tags.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i'm gonna have to set up my home pc the way yours is setup (with different drive letters doing different things) and see if i can recreate the problem. As of now there are NO paths in any of the exe's, they're all be received from road runner or ratingsconfig.ini.

I don't have different drives doing different things normally, normally OS and Programs are on my E: drive, and everything works fine. It's just for this to work at the moment I have to make a dummy PF and RR folder for it to work. So something is defaulting to C:


can you share the actual scripts and let me a have a look.

cheers

Originally Posted by Quattro

Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread but just a quick question, with your rating system, how are the ratings saved?
I understand you make a playlist for each number of stars, but is that the only way to reference how many stars a song has?

I'm not so if you know but, ID3v2 tags have a rating system build in. You can just change that part of the tag for each song. That way you don't have to continuously have to save to a playlist, you can just use RR to sort according to the rating.

this is what i'd prefer

Originally Posted by Ruffy

this is what i'd prefer

I am gonna begin writing a tag editor plugin for RR (because there is always this one tag that I mess up and I always wished there was a way to change it within RR) and I will see if I can integrate the ratings part of the tag. I'll give Sonic the info so he can integrate it with his plugin.

if you write a tag editor it'd be easy for me to adjust my plugin to make use of it... but can rr read the tag information and load songs according to the rating inside the tag is the question.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

if you write a tag editor it'd be easy for me to adjust my plugin to make use of it... but can rr read the tag information and load songs according to the rating inside the tag is the question.

Good question, that is something we have to ask guino

Any luck sonix? One thing that MAY save you a little bit oof coding, is RR now has the ability internally to append a line to a file.

ADDTOFILE;$PLAYLISTPATH$5Star.M3U;=$CURRENTTRACK$"

You would still have to look and see if the song is in that list already, but it would make adding a line to a playlist very easy, instead of having to read the file in, add the line, and then save the file back out again.

I am anxious to get this working in my skin, as it is a fantastic plugin! I have it all skinned and ready to go, just waiting on the bug fixes ect.

I've been working with enforcer on some fixes. He donated some of his time and code and i'll have the results of that out tomorrow hopefully.