Help w/ Podcast Attempt using Music Albums

[rsingel]

I'm trying to jerry-rig a podcasting section on my GBPVR (which I run through a mediamvp only). I'm trying to keep the podcasts outside of my normal music playback (running Music Library2 for my mp3s).

Instead I have a separate directory for podcasts. I launch Juice (an open source podcatcher) once a day and have it fetch new podcasts and clean out older podcasts into this directory. Juice stores individual podcasts in folders named after the podcast itself. (e.g. bbc_news folder holds files bbcnew02012006.mp3 and bbcnews020022006.mp3)

I then added the Music Albums plug-in, which is directory-based and doesn't use the default music folder used by GBPVR. This player will open and show the folders and files (thinking each podcast subscription is an album), but whenever I hit play I get an error message telling me "object reference not set to an instance of an object".

I'm using the lovely ContourHC skin, and moved over the Music Albums skins folder from Blue into the CountourHC folder.

Is there a simpler way for me to do this? Is there another directory based music plugin that allows me to add extra directories outside the default GBPVR setup?

And also is there anyway to rename plugins in the menu so that the player I'm specifying for shows up on the menus as Podcasts not Music Albums (for instance)?

[ricklous]

that sounds like the sort of method i would use to seperate podcasts from music.

take a look at this thread re your question on renaming a plugin
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...nguage.xml

i dont use the plugin you mention so can really help you with the error sorry

[tieke]

The "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error is pretty much a generic one, usually associated with a lack of appropriate skin files. If you could replicate the error and then upload your log files it should hopefully be relatively easy to resolve.

[rsingel]

Here's the relevant error from the log (though this set up will throw other non-fatal errors)

I would upload the whole logfile, but I'm unsure of protocol? Zip them up or just upload the text file?

2/21/2006 12:00:13 PM.015 VERBOSE [268] MVP request processed
2/21/2006 12:00:13 PM.265 VERBOSE [270] No key mapping found for: ^S
2/21/2006 12:00:13 PM.265 VERBOSE [270] No key mapping found for: ^S
2/21/2006 12:00:13 PM.335 ERROR [270] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2/21/2006 12:00:13 PM.355 ERROR [270] at MyAlbumsPlugin.MyAlbumsTask.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& xbae0ec4fbb835d1e)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.x458c85690540575e()