Ratings plugin

**tundra2000** · 01-17-2007, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Ruffy

these are in rr.ini

musicpath=d:\music\
playlistpath=C:\Program Files\Road Runner\Playlist\

havin your same problem. youre not alone.

more info: the plugin is writing to the _ stars.m3u correctly. that is not the problem (at least i think). anyway, yes i have set everything up right, RR is updated to the most recent update and is in the default place, winamp is 2.95 and in the default location (not that that matters), ratings is in the road runner folder in program files, and the playlists folder is in the road runner folder too. i have tried the CUSTOM#indicator thing and the ! and the custom dont appear (like ruffy) and the ! appear but then disappear (again like ruffy i think). thanks for helpin fix everything - this plugin is definitely working better than it did a few weeks ago and significant progress has been made. keep up the work.

my 2 cents is that there is some variable or command problem which has to do with my exectbl (the one in the RR folder or the one in the LSX VOID skin folder... not sure)? i really dont know. thanks again

ive edited this post like 4 times since i keep thinking about it. my diagnosis is that somewhere between clicking apply and having the audio_player.skin reload, the plugin (or my skin) tells the indicators to turn off.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-17-2007, 06:44 PM

if ur using the lsx void skin u need to make sure to update the exectbl with what i have in the ratingssetup. What he had in his exectbl.ini will not work anymore. Have you tried the debugger? Please do and tell me if you get the messages.

**Enforcer** · 01-17-2007, 06:56 PM

I get empty m3u's as well.

**Ruffy** · 01-17-2007, 09:39 PM

i'm not alone~! it's not just me and my messed up install!
weeeeee

**tundra2000** · 01-17-2007, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

if ur using the lsx void skin u need to make sure to update the exectbl with what i have in the ratingssetup. What he had in his exectbl.ini will not work anymore. Have you tried the debugger? Please do and tell me if you get the messages.

ok tried the debugger. i got all the message until i clicked on apply. idn if there are sposed to be more messages after apply or not. either way, i got 3 "this should be your track name" boxes and 1 "this is what u rated it". i put the exectbl.ini stuff in the exectbl.ini in the RR folder, not the skin folder. i could post my exectbl.ini from both the skin and from my RR folder, but that would take up a lot of space and i dont wanna go upload it anywhere. got any ideas?

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-18-2007, 09:51 AM

ok i've posted yet another version. I took out the way rr was writing to the playlist files and used the tried and true autoit method. Download the new version and overwrite your existing ratings.exe. Also there was an error in the exectbl "ONSONGSTART" entry. please lookat add to exectbl.ini for this.

I REALLY appreciate u guys sticking in and working the bugs out here. If this version gives you errors please list the following:

1. RR version
2. RR, music, and playlist install paths
3. Are .m3u's being created?
4. Are the songs being written to the correct m3u?
5. Any other issues

Doing it this way will reduce any confusion. Thanks

**liquid_smoke** · 01-18-2007, 11:12 AM

cool, ill give it a spin.

also note, i havnt had any of the issues others were having, all the updates worked fine for me.

**Enforcer** · 01-18-2007, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

also note, i havnt had any of the issues others were having, all the updates worked fine for me.

Then you're not really trying hard enough.

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 05:41 PM

updated everything, put the exectbl.ini stuff in both my main rr folder and my skins folder

still doesnt work. m3u files are still empty after rating.

Question
should the button that invokes the rating be

"MENU;ratings.skin||RunQW;C:\Program Files\Road Runner\Ratings\ratecheck.exe"

or

"MENU;ratings.skin||RunQW;C:\Program Files\Road Runner\Ratings\ratecheck.exe|$curtrack$"

I got the second method from LSX skin

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 06:13 PM

found something slightly interesting

the m3u files are NOT empty. Well they are in the sense that the proper data isnt being stored. Instead blank lines are being appended to each file

So if I rate 10 songs with a 4 star rating i get 10 blank lines in the m3u file

if you open up the file in a hex editor you can see this

0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A 0D 0A

One pair for each line. So it is attempting to write the data. but the plugin itself isnt pulling the song info from roadrunner like said above. Com issue? Would be nice if the plugin could interface with winamp directly for all the info it needed. Course if it could do that then it would be nicer if it used winamps built in rating support.

Oh wells. Best of luck.