Ratings plugin - Page 2

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-21-2006, 03:32 PM

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

liquid_smoke · 08-21-2006, 11:06 PM

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

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-22-2006, 12:20 PM

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.

liquid_smoke · 08-22-2006, 07:18 PM

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.

liquid_smoke · 08-22-2006, 07:25 PM

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

liquid_smoke · 08-22-2006, 10:34 PM

ok, so far everything seems to be working fine.

Only issue was the 1star.au3 still didnt create a playlist file or anything.
I took a look at the soucre and compared it to the others and noticed there is a filedelete line that was missing but present in all the others.
When i added it to 1star.au3 and recompiled then it worked fine.

other than that, everything else works perfect without any modifications.

The only real issue i think that's going to comeback and bite you again and again is reading the RR.ini file and requireing the brackets at the first line.
I completely understand why it has to be there, else autoIT wouldnt read the file properly.
I thought about asking guino to reformat the RR.ini file to a standard .ini file format a long time ago when i wanted to read and write to RR.ini, but figured i would try to find another way first.

I think it may be better to just have the user set the paths manually in seperate file, maybe ratingsconfig.ini so you dont have to deal with having to put the brackets back in everytime you save the file from RR.ini

I take a look also and see if there are any other alternative options for reading and writeing to RR.ini with autoIT

but as far as everything else, everything seems to be in order.

Nice Job.

Tippa · 08-23-2006, 01:23 AM

Good plugin. Just installed and tested it whit freedom skin.

Works well, but what is this nag window saying TEST and deafult after i rate song?

liquid_smoke · 08-23-2006, 02:05 AM

the test and default pop up is kind of a debug screen that was put in to make sure things were running correctly. The next version i believe will not have this pop up.

If you pop up says TEST default, then you dont have the plugin setup correctly.

Open RR.ini and add
"[]" without quotes! on the FIRST line of the file

The playlist files should be saved into the dir specified in RR.ini as the playlistpath
If the plugin cant find the playlistpath= line in RR.ini it will use the default which is the musicpath.
But if it cant find that, which its prob not if you dont have the brackets in RR.ini it will save the playlist in the same dir as the script files.

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-23-2006, 08:54 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Tippa

Good plugin. Just installed and tested it whit freedom skin.

Works well, but what is this nag window saying TEST and deafult after i rate song?

whoops thought i took that out

updated first post with version without debug msgbox.

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-23-2006, 08:57 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

the test and default pop up is kind of a debug screen that was put in to make sure things were running correctly. The next version i believe will not have this pop up.

If you pop up says TEST default, then you dont have the plugin setup correctly.

Open RR.ini and add
"[]" without quotes! on the FIRST line of the file

The playlist files should be saved into the dir specified in RR.ini as the playlistpath
If the plugin cant find the playlistpath= line in RR.ini it will use the default which is the musicpath.
But if it cant find that, which its prob not if you dont have the brackets in RR.ini it will save the playlist in the same dir as the script files.

Thanks for the help again.. today i'm gonna look into a way to do it without the brackets. I do think rr.ini needs the standard format though just to avoid the same problem with other programs.
I also corrected the 1 star playlist. Thanks!

liquid_smoke · 08-24-2006, 02:53 AM

np,
Ive been wanting something like this for a while, so im glad to help out anyway i can.
I see guino is going to make the RR.ini follow standard ini formats, so thats good news.

Blue ZX3 · 08-25-2006, 12:16 AM

Too late...

You can read the so called rr.ini file and pull any info you want from it with it being in any order...been there done that.. I'm sending sonic my snipet to do this...

you just have to think out-side the box sometimes...