Ratings plugin

**tundra2000** · 01-18-2007, 06:35 PM

1) the latest version (11/12/2006)
2)RR: C:\program files\road runner\
music: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\My Media\MP3s\Music\
playlists: C:\program files\road runner\playlists
--all default
3) yes
4) yes
5) my issue is that when i rate a song, the indicator stars light up, then turn off immediately in my audio_player.skin. everything else is working fine for me tho. i am following all the directions

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-18-2007, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Ruffy

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

first method is correct. $curtrack worked with old versions of the plugin

Originally Posted by Ruffy

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.

i'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with having autoit and autoit beta installed. i did a quick test on a system that didnt have the beta installed and it didnt work. that would also explain why LS has it working (he uses autoit as much as i do). try updating both autoit and autoit beta.

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

first method is correct. $curtrack worked with old versions of the plugin

i'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with having autoit and autoit beta installed. i did a quick test on a system that didnt have the beta installed and it didnt work. that would also explain why LS has it working (he uses autoit as much as i do). try updating both autoit and autoit beta.

why do we even need autoit again? i thought when you compiled them to a .exe they were self contained.

I'll try the beta. dling it right now

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 06:46 PM

beta installed

Still blank m3u's

**tundra2000** · 01-18-2007, 06:57 PM

update: ok i accidently clicked on ratecheck.exe, and what do u know, RR loads and my current song is rated correctly. so, in conclusion, every time i reload ratecheck.exe, it does what the name of the app is (it checks to see if the current song is rated, and then does sets the indicators appropriately). so ta da, that works. however, if i rate a song 5 stars or whatever, then go to a new song (which has not been rated), it keeps the old rating up (from the 5 star song) for all the songs that i play until it finds a song that i have rated differently.

basically, ive got it working except whenever i dont have a song rated, it just keeps the rating from the previous song up (even if i run ratecheck after a song change).

so maybe you could create a 0 star.m3u, and have it turn off all the indicators. then i would put all my music into the zero star playlist, and whenever i rate a song differently, it would delete it from the zero star playlist and write it into one of the other 5 playlists. just an idea

by the way, im running autoit normal (not the beta version).

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-18-2007, 07:02 PM

check ur MAIN exectbl.ini for "ONSONGSTART". Do you have that command there? if so delete it. then make sure your skin exectbl.ini has

"ONSONGSTART","RUNQ;$RRPATH$Ratings\ratecheck. exe"

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-18-2007, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ruffy

why do we even need autoit again? i thought when you compiled them to a .exe they were self contained.

I'll try the beta. dling it right now

u shouldnt need it but at this point i'm guessing what the problem is. There's nothing wrong with the script. It works on my computers, my friends computers, and LS confirmed it works on his. The question now is whats the difference between all these rr installs and the ones that arent working. If you're run the debugger version i posted yesterday and it showed you the track playing there is absolutely NOTHING that should stop execution... cause after that its just a matter of writing a line to a txt file. ive tried multiple ways of doing this... and all of them worked for the pcs mentioned earlier. I gotta find out why it doesnt work for the others

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 07:09 PM

is there supposed to be a space between ratecheck. and exe?

"ONSONGSTART","RUNQ;$RRPATH$Ratings\ratecheck. exe"

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-18-2007, 07:13 PM

no sorry that was a typo

**Ruffy** · 01-18-2007, 07:15 PM

well my main execbtl is empty
my skins execbtl has the line. tried with both a space between ratecheck. and exe, and without just as ratecheck.exe

doesnt work.