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MusicBee & Add-Ons => Customizations => Plugins => Topic started by: Alexrose on August 16, 2019, 09:19:17 PM

Title: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: Alexrose on August 16, 2019, 09:19:17 PM
Yo guys. I just got MusicBee and it annoyed me that it didn't have WMP's forward and back playlist stuff, so I made a plugin for it.

Say you open Playlist A, and then Playlist B, if you click back you can go back to Playlist A, on the exact song you left off on, at the exact timestamp. And you can progress like this forever, you can go back through 500 playlists and forward again if you want.

Likewise since it stores your history if you mess up your playlists you can manually fish back through the file and recover your playlists (or just cycle back).

Here's (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vh0swMcoDWzl-vhC_rIeX1A1PmEgLaEE) the download link.

Bit hard to show a music plugin in a gif but you might get the point from this:

(https://i.imgur.com/PJiGTMU.gif)

If you still don't get it, I uploaded a video here (https://www.reddit.com/r/musicbee/comments/crc5h1/made_a_playlist_history_plugin_so_you_can_resume/) that describes the functionality.

I'm vanishingly unlikely to respond here so if you need me for whatever reason, I'm AlexRoseGames (http://twitter.com/AlexRoseGames) on twitter. Enjoy! <3
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: JZStudios on August 18, 2019, 12:10:35 AM
I don't use Twitter. Does it only work for actual playlists? I very frequently just shuffle all artists or play albums while doing some other cleanup, and accidentally start another song.
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: Alexrose on August 18, 2019, 12:16:25 AM
It works for any time you switch what you're playing. So if you double click somewhere else in your current playlist on the main view, load a new playlist, load a new album, open up an mp3 externally etc, you will trigger a new playlist.

If you just skip 1 song forward within your "currently listening to" list (as in, press the Next Song button), this is non applicable, this is for when you switch what you were listening to and want to revert, it won't help if you accidentally hit next song (though you can fix that in 2 clicks anyway, just go back and estimate where you were).
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: ProfessorMarvel on January 24, 2020, 01:32:07 PM
I love the idea of this plugin!  However after installing it multiple times and in multiple ways, I cannot find any way to use it. The menu items indicated are not being displayed. The MB plugin dialog shows it as installed. Where would I find the commands? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: phred on January 24, 2020, 01:56:31 PM
@ProfessorMarvel- be aware that the developer of this plugin hasn't been on the forum since a few days after the first post - August 2019.
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: SuperMrBlob on February 03, 2021, 03:13:25 PM
I had the same issue as ProfessorMarvel. I fixed it by adding a bunch of permission in the security tab on the "MusicBee\Plugins" folder.
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: Migue on April 08, 2021, 03:57:03 AM
So I was using this plugin with the desktop version of MusicBee and like the poster above said, the plugin uses the location where MusicBee is installed to save the playlist history, and writing to this location requires Administration privileges by default. I wanted to move to using the Microsoft Store version of MusicBee and thus this plugin didin't work at all because of this issue. So I modified the plugin to use the normal user accessible folder to do its thing.

Download it here: Modified PlaylistHistory plugin (https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmxDwvq11Y6WstAIZCuKEm51HloAiA?e=GJa97J)
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: Carfamellow on October 04, 2021, 03:32:38 PM
Nice plugin! I use it literally for 3 minutes, I like it, maybe later I will find some flaws.
I have one wish - that you create the same plugin, but with undo / redo not between different files, but between different time rewinds within the same file.
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: phred on October 04, 2021, 04:32:27 PM
be aware that the developer of this plugin hasn't been on the forum since a few days after the first post - August 2019.
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: xswzaq44321 on July 12, 2022, 08:38:09 AM
So I was using this plugin with the desktop version of MusicBee and like the poster above said, the plugin uses the location where MusicBee is installed to save the playlist history, and writing to this location requires Administration privileges by default. I wanted to move to using the Microsoft Store version of MusicBee and thus this plugin didin't work at all because of this issue. So I modified the plugin to use the normal user accessible folder to do its thing.

Download it here: Modified PlaylistHistory plugin (https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmxDwvq11Y6WstAIZCuKEm51HloAiA?e=GJa97J)

May I ask where does your version stores its history?
Title: Re: Playlist History 1.0.0 - Added WMP's playlist history functionality to MusicBee
Post by: Migue on October 30, 2022, 09:56:53 AM
So I was using this plugin with the desktop version of MusicBee and like the poster above said, the plugin uses the location where MusicBee is installed to save the playlist history, and writing to this location requires Administration privileges by default. I wanted to move to using the Microsoft Store version of MusicBee and thus this plugin didin't work at all because of this issue. So I modified the plugin to use the normal user accessible folder to do its thing.

Download it here: Modified PlaylistHistory plugin (https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmxDwvq11Y6WstAIZCuKEm51HloAiA?e=GJa97J)


May I ask where does your version stores its history?

Sorry for the late reply. It saves to
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mbApiInterface.Setting_GetPersistentStoragePath(), "PlaylistHistory.History.txt"
which translates to
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%AppData%\Musicbee 
if using the standalone version, or
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%localappData\Packages\50072StevenMayall.MusicBee_kcr266et74avj\LocalCache\Roaming\MusicBee
if using the MS Store version.