MediaMonkey

[Pako]

I do not have MS Word (I use Open Office).
I think, it is easier to edit directly __init__.py.
I find changes easily (I use the "compare files" in PSPad editor).
In the near future I do not expect changes, but
there would be no problem if I change something or want to add.
Pako

[Pako]

Here is a corrected and improved script EventGhost.vbs.
I have made a small adjustment, so the event "MM_playing" carries as payload the title of the current playing song
and the event "MM_seeked" carries a information, how many milliseconds of the current track were already played.
Pako

[jitterjames]

nice. thanks.

OK I'll edit the .py file. I'll try to get it back to you within a few days.

J

[jitterjames]

Pako: A couple questions for you

you define some strings but I'm not sure if you use them or where:

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    verboseON = "With waiting, result verbose"
    verboseOFF = "With waiting, result numerical"

on your load playlist functions you talk about slow speed:

accessible = "Load only accessible tracks (low speed !)"
random = "Order by random (low speed !)"
randomToolTip = '''Disadvantage: Low speed

but I detect no difference in speed if I use these options or not (always slow). Am I missing something or is this left over from an earlier version?

[Pako]

Pako: A couple questions for you
you define some strings but I'm not sure if you use them or where:

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    verboseON = "With waiting, result verbose"
    verboseOFF = "With waiting, result numerical"

These two strings are used in three actions:
AddCurrentSongToPlaylist
RemoveCurrentSongFromPlaylist
RemoveCurrentSongFromNowPlaying

Suppose you have a playlist called "Night Music".
If verbose mode is selected, eg.result will return texts such:
Track added to playlist Night Music
Track already exist in Night Music playlist
Playlist Day Music not exist
Track removed from Night Music playlist
Track not exist in Night Music playlist
Track removed from Now Playing window
Track not removed from Now Playing window

If numerical mode is selected, eg.result returns only numbers (0 = success, 1 or 2 = failure)

If the mode is selected "Without waiting", eg.result returns string "Call without waiting!"

I just come to one bug: Please correct the line 2175. Is there

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if verbres <2:

and has to be there

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if verbose < 2:

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on your load playlist functions you talk about slow speed:

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accessible = "Load only accessible tracks (low speed !)"
    random = "Order by random (low speed !)"
    randomToolTip = '''Disadvantage: Low speed

but I detect no difference in speed if I use these options or not (always slow). Am I missing something or is this left over from an earlier version?

This is to be divided into two cases:
1) Option "Random"
Yes, it seems that you are right. I made several attempts and one was even faster with option "Random".
I of course tried it before. Then I received those results, attempt with option "Random" has always lasted longer
(the difference was the greater, the more songs to meet the condition).
2) Option "Accessible"
There is absolutely certain, that the control of availability will cause the selection of songs will take longer.
This control is not done differently, than that check the existence of each file on the medium (disk).
Pako

[jitterjames]

ok, here it is with a few changes to the text. most of it was already pretty good. I could probably have done a better job in terms of consistency.

[Pako]

jitterjames,
thank you very very much for helping me with improving MediaMonkey plugin.
New version (0.2.2) is now available in the SVN repository.
Pako

[jitterjames]

you are welcome, but my efforts have been very small compared to yours. Thanks for this really great plugin. It is part of the reason that I love eventGhost so much!

[jitterjames]

Hi Pako,

I'm having problems with the exit/disconnect action on both my computers. Is it just me?

I get

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         Application is not running!

[Pako]

Hi jitterjames!
I do not have this problem. Perhaps you have another version of MM ?
Please do the following:
1) Start MM
2) Insert the action "Find Window" to the EG tree and in dialog select MM window
3) Close the dialog box click OK
4) Right-click on the line with the action "Find Window" and in contextual menu select "Copy"
5) Then log into this forum and post "Paste"
Pako

[jitterjames]

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1194">
    <Action>
        Window.FindWindow(u'MEDIAM~2.EXE', None, None, None, None, None, False, 0.0, 0)
    </Action>
</EventGhost>

it does seem to be disconnecting, just not closing.
I am using version 3.7.1194 of of eventghost. I'm not completely sure anymore if I'm using the latest version of your plugin though.

[jitterjames]

to wait or not to wait.

Hi Pako,

now that I understand the concept of using "wait" or "don't wait" in your sql actions I am trying to use it, but I find it is not practical to tie up the eventghost thread, especially when there are many results. I was thinking that instead of using wait, and putting the result into eg.result , your function could generate an event with a payload (containing information about the number of songs found) when it was finished. That way we could go on to do other things right away but still display the results (or try another query if there are none found).

From my limited knowledge of eventGhost and Python I think this should be quite easy to implement.

What do you think?

(If you don't like the idea, that's OK. I don't really need it, I just thought it was a better way to do it)

[jitterjames]

delete me

[jitterjames]

Hi jitterjames!
I do not have this problem. Perhaps you have another version of MM ?
Please do the following:
1) Start MM
2) Insert the action "Find Window" to the EG tree and in dialog select MM window
3) Close the dialog box click OK
4) Right-click on the line with the action "Find Window" and in contextual menu select "Copy"
5) Then log into this forum and post "Paste"
Pako

Ok, i modified the code for mywindow matcher and it works now

starting at line 77

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MyWindowMatcher = eg.WindowMatcher(
    None,
    u'{*}MediaMonkey{*}',
    u'TFMainWindow{*}',
    None,
    None,
    1,
    True,
    0,
    0
)

my change is that I switched the first parameter to: None

I think you are just lucky that your machine is always calling it MediaMonkey.exe
I have seen task manager reporting the process as: mediamonkey.exe or mediam~1.exe or mediam~2.exe on different machines. I don't know why it does that. Probably if I restart my machine it will go back to mediamonkey.exe but I almost never reboot.

[Pako]

Hi jitterjames!

now that I understand the concept of using "wait" or "don't wait" in your sql actions I am trying to use it, but I find it is not practical to tie up the eventghost thread, especially when there are many results. I was thinking that instead of using wait, and putting the result into eg.result , your function could generate an event with a payload (containing information about the number of songs found) when it was finished. That way we could go on to do other things right away but still display the results (or try another query if there are none found).
From my limited knowledge of eventGhost and Python I think this should be quite easy to implement.

Yes, this option, I know I mentioned also:

2) EventGhost is not waiting for the completion of the action.
Advantage: EventGhost is not busy and he can perform other work.
Disadvantage: EventGhost not receive any information about the outcome of work performed (it would perhaps was tackled by triggering events, but it is not user-friendly).

But okay, I'll try implement this option too. But you expect, that I will again need to correct my lousy (dictionary base) English.

Also a problem with WindowMatcher obviously look.
Pako