MusicPlayer problems

[Jeff]

The plug-in already supports telephone keypad like input. It does not filter the list but it will jump you directly to the point in the list that matches the input. Does this work for you?

Jeff

[tkgafs]

I'm seeing the following error repeated in a file called ArchiveDB-PC.log

27/06/2005 21:33:01[2] Error when opening archive database. Error System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\video archive.mdb'.
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.ProcessResults(Int32 hr)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.InitializeProvider()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
at CommonGBPVRUtilities.ArchiveDB.Open()

I presume I'm missing a plugin

Tkgafs

[Jeff]

Hmm. The database in question comes as part of the video archive plug-in, but I didn't think I had a dependancy between it and the music player. As a short term fix you can download the video archive plug-in here. I will take a look to see if I can reproduce the problem.

Jeff

[Jeff]

I just removed the archive database from my machie (along with the video archiver plug-in) and re-ran GBPVR. The music player loaded without problem. Can you send me, or post, your full gbpvr.exe.log?

Thanks

Jeff

[tkgafs]

I just removed the archive database from my machie (along with the video archiver plug-in) and re-ran GBPVR. The music player loaded without problem. Can you send me, or post, your full gbpvr.exe.log?

Thanks

Jeff

Jeff,

I cant get it to happen again either and I'm afraid the relevant logs have gone

tkgafs

[tkgafs]

What seems a long time ago now, I added code to the original jukebox plugin so that if a file called noindex.txt existed in a folder then the plugin would skip that folder and any subfolders and not randomly choose tracks from them.

Is it possible to get the same funtionality added to your plugin ?

It is very useful if you have somewhat odd taste in music which you really dont want to inflict on other people if you have a few friends round

Tkgafs

[tkgafs]

It should select 10 tracks and, when it reaches the last of the 10 tracks it should select 10 more and so on forever, or until you press stop. You can send me your musicplayer-PC.log and/or musicplayer-mvp.log plus gbpvr.exe.log and I can takke a look if you'd like.

Jeff

Jeff,

it does seem to be working although with a few odd exceptions which may be related to the size of my music collection [about 8000 tracks].

On one occasion it has played 10 tracks correctly then played another two but without updating the screen, the screen then got updated but only with 8 tracks

On another occasion it has selected 10 tracks then 7 then 10 again correctly

nothing odd shows in logs and it certainly seems now to keep playing which is all I'm really bothered about !!

thanks for the plugin

Tkgafs

[Jeff]

I have inserted a one second delay from when the plug-in gets the track stopping notification to when it selects the next set of random tracks. I think there is also a second delay from when it gets the notification of a new track playing to when it updates the display. If you factor in the lag of when these notifications are sent you can end up with several seconds of delay in total, but missing 2 or 3 tracks on the display seems odd. I put the delays in because I noticed that sometime I had threading issues where things were happening too quickly. A second seemed like enough time to ensure that things were settled down. A low-tech solution, but it seems to work.

Jeff

[Jeff]

Have you changed the skin elements Jeff? I've got this plug-in working and you're done a great job, but I know you know that already. I have to call it Music Box so it can work with Paul Music and your Video Archiver is called Video A/V in the next X M E D I A.

I have made one change in the jukebox.xml file. I added a screen element for an error indicator that is displayed on the on-screen display if the user tries to delete a track that has already played from the play list queue.

I also re-did the blue skin jukebox to rearrange the now playing information. You might want to compare it to the high visibility blue skin to see what look you like better.

Jeff

[Jeff]

What seems a long time ago now, I added code to the original jukebox plugin so that if a file called noindex.txt existed in a folder then the plugin would skip that folder and any subfolders and not randomly choose tracks from them.

Is it possible to get the same funtionality added to your plugin ?

It is very useful if you have somewhat odd taste in music which you really dont want to inflict on other people if you have a few friends round

Tkgafs

I have added this to the next release. You can also press the record button (control K) to toggle the state of the selected directory (excluded from jukebox or allowed) and I have updated the skins so that you can, if you want, put a little symbol next to excluded items to remind you what they are. The changes to the skin are option; it wil lwork just fine with existing skins too.

Jeff