Shoutbox

I have to post this otherwise I'm going to go mental.
maybe some other people will appreciate my now playing code

WMP is now Playing:

(band) Artist: Artist Here if present
Title: Title Here
(cd) Album: Album Here if present
Position: 1:00 / 3:00 [---|---]


If you'd like to have this song just type: !sendsong & I'll send it via normal file transfer, or type: !addtoshared & I'll add it to our sharing folder. To find out what I'm listening to at any time type: !np

code:

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[b][c=39]{player}[/c] [c=30]is now[/c] {status}[/b]:\n\n[if_artist](band) [b]Artist: [/b]{artist}[/if_artist][!if_artist](band) [b]Artist: [/b]Artist not specified[/!If_artist]\n[if_ext=mp3](8)[/if_ext][if_ext=wma](8)[/if_ext][if_ext=wmv](~)[/if_ext][if_ext=avi](~)[/if_ext][if_ext=mpg](~)[/if_ext][if_ext=mp4](~)[/if_ext][if_ext=mov](~)[/if_ext] [b]Title: [/b]{title}\n[if_album](cd) [b]Album: [/b]{album}[/if_album][!if_album](cd) [b]Album: [/b]Album not specified[/!if_album]\n(o) [b]Position: [/b]{elapsed} / {length} [{bar}]\n\n\n[c=red]If you'd like to have this song just type: [c=blue]!sendsong[/c] & I'll send it via normal file transfer, or type: [c=blue]!addtoshared[/c] & Ill add it to our sharing folder. To find out what I'm listening to at any time type: [c=blue]!np[/c][/c]

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(band) and (cd) are custom emoticons I have
Status [c=36]Paused[/c], [c=4]Stopped[/c], [c=3]Playing[/c]

Small problem;

When I have set the Now Playing Format to:
Now Playing: {artist} - {title} ({length})
it will return
Now Playing: - Bryan Tyler - The Preacher At Arrakeen (2:33) (Note the dash before the artist's name)

whereas if I would set the Now Playing Format to:
Now Playing: {title} ({length})
it will return
Now Playing: Bryan Tyler - The Preacher At Arrakeen (2:33)
as it's supposed to do with the first format. It might have something to do with me using foobar2000 and with the foo_winamp_spam.dll plugin.

Doesn't bother me since the problem is fixed by removing the artist tag, but I feel it's still something worth mentioning.

What player are you using? What player do you have the script set-up for?

I used to have this exact same issue when using the WinAmp setting for MediaMonkey, before a player script for MediaMonkey was developed.

EDIT: Duh, if I would have scrolled over, I would have seen you posted what player your using... duh me. So... disregard this post :\

Maybe it has something to do with the WinAmp Plugin/API for foobar as I believe that was the problem with MediaMonkey... iunno though, I'm not the best person to be asking about these kind of things. :\

That problem is because of the song not having an artist tag hence its set to "" you should use the bbcode ifs for this eg

code:

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[if_artist]{artist} - [/if_artist] {title} ({length})

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for a full reference of the tags click here http://nowplaying.thedt.net/tags/?lang=en

quote:

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Originally posted by Mizery_Made
Any further updates on an update? Hate to hound, but this is by far my fav. script and thus waiting for an update is like a Crackhead waiting for their next fix.

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haha, there will be an update soon, Ive gone back to tafe and its taking up alot of my time, ill see if i can finish a decent release within a week : >

I seem to have a problem with the now playing script, I can configure it just fine and everything, but for some reason it just won't show/work.

Nobody sees what I'm playing on their contact list.
So how exactly do I turn it on?
Using winamp 5.35 btw.

Greetz,
BobMaster

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Originally posted by -dt-
That problem is because of the song not having an artist tag hence its set to "" you should use the bbcode ifs for this eg

code:

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[if_artist]{artist} - [/if_artist] {title} ({length})

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Nope, first thing I checked. It's not the solution to the problem. It does so for every song, whether I use the if_artist tag or not.

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Originally posted by TagDaze

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Originally posted by -dt-
That problem is because of the song not having an artist tag hence its set to "" you should use the bbcode ifs for this eg

code:

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[if_artist]{artist} - [/if_artist] {title} ({length})

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for a full reference of the tags click here http://nowplaying.thedt.net/tags/?lang=en

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Nope, that's not the problem. It does so for every song.

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oh i just noticed that you're using the foobar winamp spam plugin thing , it might not implement the method i use to get the artist, hence it falls back to using the method it uses to get the entire title

I'm using WLM version 8.0.0812.00 with Messenger plus! Live version 4.23.0.276. My iTunes is version 6.0.4.2.

I seem to have a problem with the script. I have set a customized PSM with tags of the artist, song title and length.

Everytime a song finish playing, when the second song starts, instead of displaying the customized PSM, it jumps back to the normal "What I'm Listening To" display.

Example:
instead of displaying "I'm @ iTunes : {artist} - {title} ({length})"
it shows in the format "{title} - {artist}".

It happens randomly; sometimes customized format, sometimes WLM's format.
Is there anyway I can solve this problem?

Why not a {genre} option, that shows... guess what the genre of the song? And also the ability of [if_genre]{genre}[/if_genre] so that when there is no genre entered it won't show anyting...

Ok I just found out:
-That iTunes 7.3 is not supported with the {player} tag (might be only on vista). it shows up as Unknown
-The tag {listpos} not works with iTunes 7.3 (might be only on vista)
-The tag {samplerate is not supported with iTunes 7.3 (might be only on vista)
-The tag {filename} gives the wrong filename with iTunes 7.3 (might be only on vista)
-The comand !sendsong gives the wrong file with iTunes 7.3 (might be only on vista)