Thread: Ratings plugin

after changing the paths in the scripts and recompile,
there is still something that is forceing it to save all the playlist .m3u files into
C:\Program Files\Road Runner\Ratings

also tried to change the ratingsconfig.ini to my playlist path, but it keeps overwriteing it to this
Playlistpath=default5 stars.m3u
which is in Ratings folder so im assumeing thats why it saves the files there and not where i specified in RR.ini
I actually dont see anywhere where you are reading the playlist path in RR.ini ?
Are you counting the line numbers in RR.ini? If so that may also be an issue as the lines could be in any order, and RR dosent care what order they are in.
I ask this cause i see you have to add the brackets on the first line and i know autoit uses those for section names.

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(after some testing and editing)
I have gotten it to work sort of, it saves the playlist files (still in wrong dir) but now they have data in them, before they were empty but i knew it was writeing to the file from the time stamps.

I think its not finding my playlist file cuz its set to a line number in RR.ini and my playlist= line prob is not on that line.

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(some more digging)
ok, i see why it saves the playlist in the wrong dir.
ratewrite.au3 is set to save to musicpath= from RR.ini and not playlistpath=


so now i have it fully working, but i dont see how this would work on anyone elses setup with making those changes.

also i notice, nothing happens when you rate a file as 1 star, files get written for all the other stars except 1star.


looking at your included .skin files
if you move the indicators from ontop of the buttons they will stick.
Maybe set it up so there are numbers on top with a star below.
The numbers can be the actual buttons and the stars below the indicators.


even with my hicups, nice job, ive been wanting this feature for a while.

Sorry ya had troubles. I wasnt aware of the winamp install path info. i didnt know there was a playlistpath entry in rr.ini. Guess i've always just had my playlists in the music folder.

Thanks for the information on the skin.. Guess i rushed thru that part

if you dont mind, can you post your .exe and i'll add it to the install path. That way people dont have to fumble thru my code to get it working.

I havent noticed a problem with the 1 star. i just tried it and it wrote the 1 star.m3u in the same folder as the rest of em.

been playing a little more. Intergrated it into my skin.
So far things are good after the changes i made.
One thing i notice though, is there is no way to know if a song has allready been rated, and the ability to add the same song twice to the same playlist.
Is it possible for you to read the actually rateing from the ID3 tag? Then do a library scan and fill the playlist up with existing rateing found in the files?
Not sure if you can read ID3 tags with autoIT, so ill look into that myself and see if its possible.

I really wish RR did this natively though.

Ill send you the files i have with the changes i made.
PM me your addy

well a little searching on the autoit forums and i found a mp3 tag editor
dosent look like it reads rateing though, but maybe it can still be used and modified.
http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/...ycat/udfs.html

reading the ID3 tag might be a little complicated for me even if doable with the new version of autoit. What i can do is make the program check for the song title in the playlist files and if so notify you. This would be less cpu-intensive then scanning a library or songs i believe

yeah, i think it would be better that way, but with out notification.

new version released. Check post #1
LS, if ur not too busy could you test the new one out since you have a grasp on the program already. I'd appreciate it. BTW if you want ur skin removed just say the word.

cool, ill test it out in a sec

I dont mind if you include my skin as the default.
I think i may have changed it a tad after i sent it to you, ill send you an updated version if what u have is different.

check your dowload, you included 2 copies of everything.
Not sure if they are old and new ver or just copies of same thing.
Ill do a compare in a sec to see if they are the same