MusicLibrary2 - version 2.3 - User requests

[psycik]

Updated on the wiki page:http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/MusicLibrary2

Please either this thread or http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=10326 thread for problems and or suggestions.

BTW - many people have asked for a select another set of random tracks at the finish another set. Unless I figure out another way to do this, it may not possible since play control is passed off to GBPVR, and there is no event or anything fired when the playlist has finished. But one way of getting around it it to hit the random button (from the library screen) more than once, and on the second time the tracks will be added to the first list.

Happy playing.

Change log as follows:

01-Jan-2006 : Version 2.3 - User Requests....

• Fixed bug where escape pressed while on playlist screen and visualisations were running, they wouldn't resize
  
• Added ability to scroll up and down the playing playlist (without skipping track)
  
• Added dynamic skin updating on new re-draw. Skin can be changed while GBPVR and on next re-draw (after keypress and the like) the new skin will take effect.
  
• Added current playing track position
  
• Added deletion of track in play list
  
• Added page download page up indicators on play list tracks
  
• Added ability to jump to track (scroll down, press Ok/Enter) - currently selected track will reset back to playing track on next track change.
  
• Changed random while in playlist to randomise the current playlist rather than add tracks. Adding random x minute playlist happens from the library screen only.
  
• Randomise playlist also works for saved playlists. They are randomised then started.
  
• Added option to set play button to queue instead of starting a new play list everytime. This is set from Config program
  
• Removed UltraID3lib.dll from plugins directory since it was causing conflict with some people who also had MyMusic installed.
  

Skin File changes

• General Blue skin fixes to clean up the look.
  
• Made track number (TNum), Track length (TLength) and track position (TPosition) separate text items in skin file
  
• Added TNumOf for track#/total# - TNum now only track#
  
• Fixed Blue Skin AlbumArt problem
  
• Added PlaySelectedNoFocusListItemImage for highlight the current track while scrolling the playlist with arrow keys
  

[LilY0da]

And here's the skin file for ContourHC. Just copy in skin\contourHC\MusicLibrary2

Bug report.
In the library view, the program truncates too many characters when you remove "A " from the artist title.
The band "A perfect Circle" ends up with the other bands starting with a E, and displays as "erfect Circle, A"

Feature request: importing m3u playlists (from the plugin, of in the config app)

[Jeff]

BTW - many people have asked for a select another set of random tracks at the finish another set. Unless I figure out another way to do this, it may not possible since play control is passed off to GBPVR, and there is no event or anything fired when the playlist has finished. But one way of getting around it it to hit the random button (from the library screen) more than once, and on the second time the tracks will be added to the first list.

I do this in the Music Player plug-in by listening for stop music events and then checking to see if the playlist is empty and if I am still in random play mode. If yes to both, then I add more random tracks to the queue.

Jeff

[psycik]

Includes a fix to that remove 'the' big and i found another one with the buttons.

Just posted a fix: http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/MusicLibrary2

01-Jan-2006 : Version 2.4 - bug fix

• Busted the buttons on the Home menu so had to fix them.
  
• Also bug found on "Remove 'The'" for 'A' entries, pulled off too many characters.
  

[psycik]

Hmm, sounds interesting jeff. What object triggers that event off?

[psycik]

Don't worry, figured it out.

Have started working on restarting a new random playlist when the previous one finishes.

[tkgafs]

Hello psycik,

just started using your latest version of the musiclibrary2 plugin.

I'm very pleased with it especially as you say you are working on a another version which will random play if the playlist is empty, excellent. The original jukebox plugin would wait a short time and then if nothing was chosen automatically just start randomly playing music.

As I have used your plugin over the last few days I have discovered something else which I feel is neccesary before it becomes the defacto music plugin, a method to allow the user to choose albums to play by album name rather than by artist, I have quite a lot of compilation albums by various artists which at the moment it's impossible to play completely as the individual tracks are spread out over about 20 artists.




would it be possible to also show the total running time of the playlist in a similar way to the way you display the number of tracks which are queued to play.

A standalone program for populating the database would also be handy so that I didn't have to go into the gbpvr config to get my db rescanned. I hate waiting overnight for it to happen automatically.

Could you supress the display of the current track time if the plugin is running on an MVP as it always displays 00:00:00

01-Jan-2006 : Version 2.3 - User Requests....

* Added deletion of track in play list

How do I delete a track from the playlist I have tried assorted buttons on my mvp remote but none seem to work

I also don't seem to be able to access the menu ? [mentioned on the wiki] from the home button or any other for that matter

thanks for what is becoming a great plugin

Tkgafs

[LilY0da]

A standalone program for populating the database would also be handy so that I didn't have to go into the gbpvr config to get my db rescanned. I hate waiting overnight for it to happen automatically.

How do I delete a track from the playlist I have tried assorted buttons on my mvp remote but none seem to work

Access the menu by pressing the "home" button on your keyboard, or the button labelled "i" on the MVP remote, then go into library and you can update it from there

To delete a track in the playlist, or a playlist that's not playing, press the record button (Ctrl-K)

Regarding the album view, I'd love it as well...
If the plugin could switch the album and artist lists around, that would be awesome

[tkgafs]

Access the menu by pressing the "home" button on your keyboard, or the button labelled "i" on the MVP remote, then go into library and you can update it from there

thanks that works fine if you are viewing the library, but not on the playlist screen which seems pretty reasonable

To delete a track in the playlist, or a playlist that's not playing, press the record button (Ctrl-K)

I cant get this to work,
It displays do you want to delete track yes/no when you select yes

you get object not set error

I'm using contour hc skin and Lilyoda's skin.xml for this plugin

logs dont give much info but here is relevent bit anyway

03/01/2006 17:39:30.828 ERROR [695] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
03/01/2006 17:39:30.828 ERROR [695] at MusicLibrary.PlaylistScreen.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at MusicLibrary.MusicLibrary.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.x458c85690540575e()
03/01/2006 17:40:22.922 ERROR [695] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
03/01/2006 17:40:22.922 ERROR [695] at MusicLibrary.PlaylistScreen.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at MusicLibrary.MusicLibrary.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.x458c85690540575e()

Tkgafs

[LilY0da]

weird. I'll try again tonight when I'm home. I haven't tested this on the new version
Did you download the latest plugin and skin file?