My Music 3 Beta

[nkh]

yeah pushing record should bring up a dialog box saying something like "Looking up album information". and then you should see around 10 different results found (it only pasers the first page of the amazon resutls, im going to change this), and then you select which album you want (im pretty sure another dialog box is shown saying "downloading album information"), and then you should have new cover art for that folder, and then you can push the "menu"/home key. i was meant to change this to be the same button but forgotm .

Hmm, this is pretty strange I get the "Looking up album information" box for a few seconds, then it changes to the "No Album Information Found. Sorry there was no album information found in the database for the request album.". I'm not running any firewalls...

I have tried to press record both while a song and a folder with an album is highlighted (I use a "/band/album (year)/## - song.mp3" system for my music).

[Necro]

Just curious, but is there a reason not to step through directories, make a DB of all files that are there, and utilize all the ID3v2 info for display if it exists?

Also, could be used to sort/display based on all the different tags available...making it super deluxe.

(Yes, I have alterior motives...this is what I want. I want to be able to sort my 60 gigs of mp3's based on composer and original artist...but display Artist Name as the artist name. LONG story...basically it works amazingly well for various artists, etc., in meedio).

[Necro]

Interesting...the plugin doesnt appear in my menu...at all...even when it's selected, etc.

Found the issue though, seems when it calls for the database it uses a hardcoded path (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\). I use C:\Program Files\gbpvr\ .

Hrm.

[nkh]

Found the issue though, seems when it calls for the database it uses a hardcoded path (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\). I use C:\Program Files\gbpvr\ .

hmm, are you sure? my GBpvr lives in C:\Programmer\devnz\gbpvr (I'm using a Danish windows version), and the plugin works here?

[Necro]

TEsting something out, but it seems I missed one place where the directory was in a config file I had to change by hand. It just caused a problem, oddly enough.

[reven]

Interesting...the plugin doesnt appear in my menu...at all...even when it's selected, etc.

Found the issue though, seems when it calls for the database it uses a hardcoded path (C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\). I use C:\Program Files\gbpvr\ .

Hrm.

no its not hardcoded, if you havent got experience usign this plugin i dont suggest you use it, im wont be providing any basic support like how to set it up until the final. this is only meant to be used by experienced users. the dbconn string is set in the config app (i have hardly anything hardcoded in most of my plugins).

Hmm, this is pretty strange I get the "Looking up album information" box for a few seconds, then it changes to the "No Album Information Found. Sorry there was no album information found in the database for the request album.". I'm not running any firewalls...

ok that just means that amazon returned 0 results from the band/album, this sometimes happens (since amazon doesnt have every single cd ever made), most worked for me however, the only band of mine that didnt show up was "Ghost of the Robot".

(Yes, I have alterior motives...this is what I want. I want to be able to sort my 60 gigs of mp3's based on composer and original artist...but display Artist Name as the artist name. LONG story...basically it works amazingly well for various artists, etc., in meedio).

wierd, i cant really test meedio, my trial expired (unless someone wants to buy me a copy ). the probably with using a database for everything (the file structure) is that is slower than using directories, and directories can achieve probably the best structure for music, ie artist\album\songs.

what happens if that information is missing? are those files just not listed? or does it use the actual artist as the composer? since i cant remember seeing any of this information set for any of my songs...

[nkh]

ok that just means that amazon returned 0 results from the band/album, this sometimes happens (since amazon doesnt have every single cd ever made), most worked for me however, the only band of mine that didnt show up was "Ghost of the Robot".

I have tested it a bit more and checked if the album is on amazon.com, these are the albums I tried (all of them gives the 0 results, all of them have the album in the id3 tags): Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album, Oasis - Definitely Maybe, Pink Floyd - Animals, The Raveonettes - Whip It On

I must be doing something wrong, 'cos they're all on amazon.com but they don't show up in MyMusic.

[Necro]

Reven, it's a database import that you have to run to add new files. It won't list anything that isnt in the database.

Essentially, it runs off a database that seems to have each files location all the id3 information. Then you can setup 'views' which show items based upon a certain id3 tag, then another, etc. So you can view genre, and when you select a genre you can have it setup to show the next screen by albums, artist, year, etc. Ad infinitum. It's by far the best setup for sorting/finding music I've seen so far.

As for what I said about the original composer, etc., thing is a kind of hack. You can get it to sort artists in proper alphabetical order while showing the right name (so, sort by original artist which would be Green, Al and display the artist name which would be Al Green). So things are where you would expect them to be alphabetically.

As for speed, it's slower in the making but once the DB is loaded into memory its not too bad. And I have 13k mp3's so...that a pretty good check .

Sorry if this is just a bunch of added crap - this is actually the ONE feature that I like with meedio. It does music damn well.

And, btw, the DBConn setting is correct, pointing to the right place but it won't create it. *shrug*

[reven]

I have tested it a bit more and checked if the album is on amazon.com, these are the albums I tried (all of them gives the 0 results, all of them have the album in the id3 tags): Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album, Oasis - Definitely Maybe, Pink Floyd - Animals, The Raveonettes - Whip It On

I must be doing something wrong, 'cos they're all on amazon.com but they don't show up in MyMusic.

i think if you set debbuging to max it will print the url out to the gbpvr.exe.log file, it only does a search based on the folder name, so its probably just searching "Animals" etc. i managed to get it to work with metallica, greenday, pearl jam etc, so i know it does work, but its not complete yet (i want to search based on artist as well as album, and return about 50 hits, ie the first five pages of the results).

[nkh]

i think if you set debbuging to max it will print the url out to the gbpvr.exe.log file, it only does a search based on the folder name, so its probably just searching "Animals" etc. i managed to get it to work with metallica, greenday, pearl jam etc, so i know it does work, but its not complete yet (i want to search based on artist as well as album, and return about 50 hits, ie the first five pages of the results).

wow I think it's because I have the year in the folder name for my albums (music/abc/band/album (YYYY)/## - song.mp3), I thought you were getting the album names from the id3 tags. Anyways, I tried to remove the year from one of my albums and it did give a result.

First I tried the folder "Metallica (1991)", then "Master of Puppets (1986)" and then "Master of Puppets" (twice), the second time I tried the last one I got kicked back to the main menu with an object reference error and then I quick GBpvr. I think there are some pictures missing from the skin, but I don't know if the rest works as it should?

I dunno if all this makes any sense to you, but here you go

This is the log for what I described above: log-my-music-problem.txt

This is the error I noticed:

Code:

05-10-2005 11:16:34.858    ERROR    [2]    Unable to find named image: /settings/CompositeImages/CompositeImage[@name="Rating_45"]