AIMP

[Pako]

It seems that AIMP player is becoming more and more popular.
That's why I thought it was lacking EventGhost plugin for it.

ATTENTION:
For proper function of this EventGhost plugin it is required the Web Control Plugin
(aimp_web_ctl.dll) from Vitaly Dyatlov to be installed to AIMP !

Note:
This plugin works even if AIMP is installed on a different computer than EventGhost
(but it must be connected to the same local network).

Download here.

Pako

[igvk]

This is great to have plugin to control AIMP!

But - I noticed that when AIMP is shut down, this plugin prints error:

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Traceback (most recent call last) (1600):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eg\Classes\Scheduler.py", line 137, in MainLoop
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\AIMP\__init__.py", line 279, in Polling
    song = self.MakeRequest("get_song_current", "json")
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\AIMP\__init__.py", line 223, in MakeRequest
    self.con.request("GET", "/?action=%s" % name)
  File "httplib.pyc", line 910, in request
  File "httplib.pyc", line 927, in _send_request
  File "httplib.pyc", line 814, in putrequest
CannotSendRequest

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And it doesn't recover even when AIMP is started again.

[Pako]

Thank you for reporting this issue.
It has long seemed that no one ever used this plugin.
I'm currently working on something. Once that is done, I will return to AIMP.

Pako

[Pako]

You can download the corrected version.

Pako

[igvk]

Thanks!
It's working now.

Is it possible to add commands such as "stop playback after current file"?

[Pako]

Is it possible to add commands such as "stop playback after current file"?

Unfortunately, the current version, it would be very unreliable.
It's because this (EG) plugin is based on the use (AIMP3) aimp-web-ctl plugin (that creates web server).
I can only offer such a feature, that offered aimp-web-ctl plugin.
It is true, that something more I could invent, but just something simple.
What you want to do I can not sufficiently comfortable, yet reliable.

Pako

[igvk]

Ok, I underdastand this is a limitation of aimp-web-ctl.

And here is a small bug report for the EG plugin:

I have the following Python command in one of macros, and it can be autorepeated 20 times per second:
vol = eg.plugins.AIMP.get_volume(); eg.plugins.AIMP.set_volume(int(vol)-1)

Sometimes, I get the following error in logs:

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Error in Action: "vol = eg.plugins.AIMP.get_volume(); eg.plugins.AIMP.set_volume(int(vol)-1)"
Traceback (most recent call last) (1610):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\AIMP\__init__.py", line 420, in __call__
    return self.plugin.MakeRequest(self.__class__.__name__, self.value)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\plugins\AIMP\__init__.py", line 237, in MakeRequest
    self.con.request("GET", "/?action=%s" % name)
  File "httplib.pyc", line 910, in request
  File "httplib.pyc", line 927, in _send_request
  File "httplib.pyc", line 814, in putrequest
CannotSendRequest

Is it something that can be fixed?

[igvk]

I have also noticed the following strange behaviour:
When AIMP isn't running, this plugins unsuccessfully tries to connect to TCP port 38475, and it repeats this process until source port of the outgoing connection also becomes 38475 - and it somehow establishes this connection.
After that, it's impossible to run AIMP with web-ctl.

I have never seen this with ZoomPlayer plugins.
That plugin manages to establish connection only when ZoomPlayer is running, and I don't see its unsuccessful attempts to connect in netstat or Process Hacker.

[Pako]

I have the following Python command in one of macros, and it can be autorepeated 20 times per second:
vol = eg.plugins.AIMP.get_volume(); eg.plugins.AIMP.set_volume(int(vol)-1)

I am afraid that with it we can not do anything.
Only create a new plugin, for which would have not needed aimp-web-ctl.dll.
I think that communication based on the web server has too much overhead and therefore sometimes not manage.

I have also noticed the following strange behaviour:
When AIMP isn't running, this plugins unsuccessfully tries to connect to TCP port 38475, and it repeats this process until source port of the outgoing connection also becomes 38475 - and it somehow establishes this connection.
After that, it's impossible to run AIMP with web-ctl.

Oh, that's interesting. With that, I'll hopefully be able to do something.

I have never seen this with ZoomPlayer plugins.
That plugin manages to establish connection only when ZoomPlayer is running, and I don't see its unsuccessful attempts to connect in netstat or Process Hacker.

I also do not know Zoom Player plugin. However, the problem here is that we can also control AIMP, which is installed on another PC (than EventGhost). In this case, we can hardly determine if AIMP is running.

I see one possible way (I currently excludes the possibility to create a new plugin that does not need aimp-web-ctl.dll):
when AIMP is installed on the same PC as EventGhost, I can do some routines differently.

Pako

[igvk]

It would be nice to fix this.
Is it possible to make only one persistent connection to aimp-web-ctl server?
P.S. With Zoomplayer plugin it is also possible to connect to ZP instance running on different computer.

[Pako]

Is it possible to make only one persistent connection to aimp-web-ctl server?

This (EventGhost) plugin is done in such a way as to establish and maintain one connection for as long as possible.

I have never seen this with ZoomPlayer plugins.
That plugin manages to establish connection only when ZoomPlayer is running, and I don't see its unsuccessful attempts to connect in netstat or Process Hacker.

P.S. With Zoomplayer plugin it is also possible to connect to ZP instance running on different computer.

That's interesting. I have to see how this plugin can do that. To me it seems impossible.

Pako

[igvk]

This (EventGhost) plugin is done in such a way as to establish and maintain one connection for as long as possible.

I noticed with Process Hacker and also see with RawCap that it always establishes and quickly closes the connection - and does it very often
(several times a second).
Does it depend on the version of webctl plugin?

As for Zoomplayer, I looked at the plugin code, but couldn't find anything special at first glance - but that's probably because I don't know python.
It seems to connect to ZP in __init__ here:

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        # create and connect a socket
        self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        eg.RestartAsyncore()
        self.settimeout(1.0)
        try:
            self.connect(address)
        except:
            pass

[Pako]

There is a fundamental difference between AIMP and Zoom player plugins.
It can not be compared:
1) AIMP (through aimp-web-ctl.dll) creates a web (HTTP) server
(you can use your browser with the address localhost:38475 to control of AIMP)

2) Zoom player communicates via TCP socket (and without the need for further support plugin).

Unfortunately I can not try it, because there in the free version of Zoom player I can not use the TCP remote control.
Or am I doing something wrong.

Pako

[igvk]

Isn't it possible to set up persistent connection to AIMP?
O.K., the protocol is HTTP, but is it possible to use an already established TCP connection without closing it (and use HTTP/1.1 persistent connection)?
Or aimp-web-ctl doesn't support it?

[igvk]

I noticed that the problem with never-ending frequent connections is due to the fact that events triggering options were set.
I have switched them all off, and now it doesn't show itself the way it used to.