Ratings plugin

**CARLOS_CET** · 10-25-2006, 08:57 AM

Congratulations on the new baby. Is this your first? Say goodbye to getting a good nights rest. :-)

Thanks for the update.

I tried the new files with the updated version on my test laptop but that didn't fix it. I still have to try it in the car before I can def say that it's not working for me.

I have one stupid question, I know that I'm supposed to create a Ratings button to use the plugin and I can't remember if i did this when I first installed your plugin on my test laptop and car but I did have the plug in working before. Do I need to re-create the button? In the LSX skin, if I press and hold a button, I can re-assign the Ratings button. Is that all that I need?

**liquid_smoke** · 10-25-2006, 09:56 AM

the .skin files in lsxvoid need to be updated before it will work. Ill post updated files in this thread.

Im still getting my paths written with two drive letters

C:H:\My Music\Dave Chappelle's Block Party (live)\01 Hip Hop.wma

even when i edit the .m3u files to have the correct path, no dice.

also tried to use the flash skin but the close button dosent work, so the screen stays stuck open.
also dont have the menu.txt file

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-25-2006, 10:54 AM

do you have the latest flash? I had that issue to til my flash was upgraded.

As for your playlist save issue is your RR folder and music folder on the same drive? That might be part of the issue. The main issue was probably i only coded up to G: and you have H:. Thats easily fixable.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-25-2006, 01:32 PM

ok here's an exe i want you to test. This should make it so drive letter is obsolete as it reads the drive letter from your musicpath in RR.ini. As long as youre rating songs in your music directory it'll work (i hope).

The full setup version with this included will be released tomorrow when i go back to work. I have to update ratecheck.exe to make use of flash skins etc etc.

Speaking of flash skins, the reason i found close doesnt work is because i dragged it instead of clicked it.. even the slightest drag will trigger a drag event which is currently set to do nothing.. this will be fixed tomorrow as well.

**liquid_smoke** · 10-25-2006, 11:41 PM

that fixes the path issue. For some reason its still not tracking if the song is rated or not. For example, if i rate it 5starts, then go to rate it again, none of the stars are active and it shows it as not rated. Actually a lot of features still aren't working right. If i rate a song to be 5 stars, then rate it as 3 stars, its now located in both playlist, before it would check to make sure no duplicates.

Im still having some other issues though but im not sure if this is because how i have it setup.

In my skin, on the main menu, i have 5 indicators and also in the audio player screen i have 5 indicators, for the 5 stars.

The way i had it setup, before whatever changed in the last RR release, is when you played a song it would check to see what rating it was and set the indicators so you didnt have to guess if it was rated or not.

ill have to dig a little and see if i can figure out whats going on.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-26-2006, 09:01 AM

i know whats going on... the only exe i've updated since i fixed the changes was ratings.exe. the other .exe's will be updated today. ratecheck.exe is what you have running and it needs to be fixed. thats why youre indicators arent working. I'll have somethin out by the end of the day.

**CARLOS_CET** · 10-26-2006, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

that fixes the path issue. For some reason its still not tracking if the song is rated or not. For example, if i rate it 5starts, then go to rate it again, none of the stars are active and it shows it as not rated. Actually a lot of features still aren't working right. If i rate a song to be 5 stars, then rate it as 3 stars, its now located in both playlist, before it would check to make sure no duplicates.

Im still having some other issues though but im not sure if this is because how i have it setup.

In my skin, on the main menu, i have 5 indicators and also in the audio player screen i have 5 indicators, for the 5 stars.

The way i had it setup, before whatever changed in the last RR release, is when you played a song it would check to see what rating it was and set the indicators so you didnt have to guess if it was rated or not.

ill have to dig a little and see if i can figure out whats going on.

EDIT: SonicX, I was typing this up while you were replying to the post.

Same here. As of now, I can get the plug-in to even add the song to the playlist. I press the ratings button, select 5 stars and than go to the playlist and it's not there.
This is on my test laptop. Hopefully by this afternoon, I'll be able to test it in the car. It used to work before the rr update. My laptop at home has the pre-update version of road runner. I guess if I compared what files where changed and what was changed on them?

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-26-2006, 09:46 AM

ok new FULL version available. Please note that the new command to launch the skin is:

Code:

"MENU;ratings.skin||RunQW;C:\Program Files\Road 

Runner\Ratings\ratecheck.exe|$CURTRACK$"

provided you've updated your skins with CUSTOM this version should be fully functional

Oh and i also included the exectbl.ini entries for my flash skin.. THIS is another reason as to why it wasnt working as intended lol

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-26-2006, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by CARLOS_CET

EDIT: SonicX, I was typing this up while you were replying to the post.

Same here. As of now, I can get the plug-in to even add the song to the playlist. I press the ratings button, select 5 stars and than go to the playlist and it's not there.
This is on my test laptop. Hopefully by this afternoon, I'll be able to test it in the car. It used to work before the rr update. My laptop at home has the pre-update version of road runner. I guess if I compared what files where changed and what was changed on them?

download the update... change your launch command as posted in the README and lemme know if it fixes it.

**liquid_smoke** · 10-26-2006, 02:24 PM

@CARLOS_CET

if your using the lsx void skin there are additional steps that need to be done to have it working as before. As soon as i have it back up and running on my end im going to post a list of changes that need to be made to all the .skin files involved.