Now Playing to External Files

[boroda]

New version of plugin released

• Minor improvements.

[boroda]

New plugin version is released

• Added support for new tags (Genres, Artists, Artists: Artist, Artists: Performer, Artists: Guest, Artists: Remixer).

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Now_Playing_to_External_Files

MB latest update is required:

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_3/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[boroda]

New plugin version is released

• Added option to choose encoding of exported text files.

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Now_Playing_to_External_Files

[martynonline]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! You are a true hero! It works perfectly and improves upon an already amazing plugin. Only one small issue though. When MusicBee is closed, a new blank file seems to be created. This file is still in UTF-8 format so '' characters get shown on my desktop sidebar panel. Would it be a big pain to ask for you to consider, in a future release, to make it so that a custom message gets displayed instead upon close (eg. No music currently playing.) so as to hide this?

Sorry if I'm requesting too much, if you post a donate link, i'll shout you a beer on me! 

[boroda]

Sorry if I'm requesting too much, if you post a donate link, i'll shout you a beer on me! 

No. Not too much. Donation is not needed, I'm doing it just for fun

Actually I'm surprised that on plugin closing it writes something to files. I'll check this later, probably on this weekend.

[boroda]

It was a bug and its fixed:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/k9wr4u71dxdyoqa/mb_NowPlayingToExternalFiles_2014-02-22.zip

[martynonline]

Thanks for the quick resolution, but now there seems to be a new issue (for me at least). Although the NowPlaying.txt that is created in the MusicBee folder appears to be blank, the display says 'ERROR: Input past end of file' in place of where the '' used to be. Any idea why this may be? 

[boroda]

Maybe because length of file is zero after closing MB? Try this version, let me know if it works for you:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/olbfe76u147xtb2/mb_NowPlayingToExternalFiles_2014-02-22-2.zip

[martynonline]

That last version works perfectly, thank you!! I am very, very grateful to you!

 I hope your talent with code makes you rich and happy in life!

All the best, Mart 

[boroda]

done:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ap0851xwclww4u7/mb_NowPlayingToExternalFiles_2014-03-15.zip

[boroda]

• New plugin version correctly parses singe-key hotkeys in textboxes, i.e. you can assign for example 'space' as hotkey and use 'space' as normal character in plugin settings window

http://www.mediafire.com/download/1auxw192cdfkefb/mb_NowPlayingToExternalFiles_2014-04-14.zip

You need MB 2.4 latest patch to use new plugin version:

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_4/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[martynonline]

Hey boroda74, hope you are well! Just popped back to say thanks again for such a great, great plugin. I still use it daily and I really do appreciate the time you took to add my requests into those releases back then. Best wishes buddyl! -Mart   

[boroda]

Thank you very much! Russians say: kind word is pleasant even for cat

[BeeBeeKing]

Hi boroda74,
Not sure that you saw this in the general thread:
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Further: The plugin removes the txt file.
The streamer I'm using gets stuck on the last known title because it can't access the file when we shutdown MusicBee (when we go live on air).
What I'm suggesting, could there be an option in settings so that instead of removing the text file it creates a blank entry in the text file?
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We are using it on our overnight jukebox with MusicBee here myradiostream.com/fleurieufm

By the way it is a great little plugin , thank you so much
cheers,
Geoff

[boroda]

yes, i saw this post, just be patient and i'll fix this