Music Library 2 Installation comments and playback problems

[Techie from Sneckie]

I had difficulties installing the Music Library 2 plugin from the MusicLibrary2.zip file, despite following the posted instructions. Various problems relating to the skin.xml file and the Common Dialogs folder prevented the Library from starting. I eventually resolved matters by unzipping and installing the files from the zip archive manually. If anyone wants a detailed description of how to do that, please post and I'll happily provide the info - although, as you'll see below, I may not have installed correctly. However, I still have a problem as I cannot get any music files to play from this plugin. I can see the 3 windows, move between each and select indivdual tracks but then nothing happens. I tried creating a smaller music folder (only around 30 tracks) in case the size of my music folder was the problem but no joy. The full collection plays happily on the default Music Library screen. I've rummaged through the short and verbose log files but can't see anything obvious. I presume that, as I have not yet set up a remote controller, selecting an individual track and hitting Enter should play that track? Of course, there's always the possibility that my manual installation of the zipfile is flawed. Any suggestions welcome! (Apart from that - I'm very impressed with the whole package and will be recommending it to Forum Users on the Freecom website.).

The Techie from Sneckie

[McBainUK]

Have you tried ctrl-p (shortcut for the play button on a remote). Also ctrl-y is the yellow button - this I believe is used to add a track to the playlist.

[Techie from Sneckie]

Many thanks McBainUK - for both the solution (works perfectly) and the speed of reply!. Just one thing - where'd you get the keyboard shortcut? There are some mentioned in the ML2 plugin page (I tried them all with no luck) but there's no mention of Ctrl+P - is there a more comprehensive list of shortcuts somewhere?

The Techie from Sneckie

[psycik]

It sort of says what McBainUK said here, this is a cut paste from the wiki (http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/MusicLibrary2) Section titled Using the Plugin, Library Screen

# Press the right and left buttons to navigate between the Artists, Albums and titles.
# Pressing “Play” on the Artists will play all songs by the selected artist
# Pressing “Play” on the Album will play all songs from that album
# Pressing “Play” on each title will play that song

But yes i admit it doesn't actually tell you what "Play" is. For that you can actually find the information from a GBPVR level - http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manua...dReference

But since I seem to mention the Ctrl-Y and R I'll add the play/stop commands as well.


As to you installation problem most of the other developers seem to be going installer based so I'll probably be doing the same.

[Techie from Sneckie]

Now that you've reminded me, I admit to having previously come across the page you highlight - my memory not what it was! Many thanks and great bit of kit.

The Techie from Sneckie