PrettyPictures (Album Art Browser) [MM 3]
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good pick up FadeToBolivia, you're right.. it's a bug.
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Says I Don't have current flash player
This is a great script and is one of the reason I started using MM about a month ago. However, when I start MM, PP always says I need to upgrade my flash player and then gives an option to bypass detection. I have PP v0.51, Flash player 9,0,28,0 and IE7. I know someone brought up this problem before but I couldn't find an answer in the postings. Is this something I wll just have to live with or is there a problem with something on my computer? I appreciate any help. Thanks
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Well, it is "working" for me. Only, it will not show any art. I assume it isn't cache-ing. I read it as "click the one of the yellow buttons to cache". This does not seem to do anything. I let it sit over night thinking it took a long time to cache. Nothing.
Also, would it matter that all of my art is saved to the tag. None of it is in the folders (hidden or not). I would not think that would matter. I think you answered that before but I was not clear.
Also, would it matter that all of my art is saved to the tag. None of it is in the folders (hidden or not). I would not think that would matter. I think you answered that before but I was not clear.
I thought I better clarify my post. Once I click on by-pass detection everything works fine. I just wondered if everybody was having to do this when MM first started up? After that everything works fine until I shut down MM. When I restart it, PP says it can't detect the flash play and to click bypass if it is installed.
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in autos/prettypictures.vbs, there's a line that reads:thom0522 wrote:I thought I better clarify my post. Once I click on by-pass detection everything works fine. I just wondered if everybody was having to do this when MM first started up? After that everything works fine until I shut down MM. When I restart it, PP says it can't detect the flash play and to click bypass if it is installed.
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HtmlPnl.Interf.Navigate path &"FlashPage.html" 'what html file to load
do a search for that and replace it with:
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HtmlPnl.Interf.Navigate path &"FlashPage.html?detectflash=false" 'what html file to load
however.. I would supsect that it might be an issue between 'what' browser the plugin is installed in... not sure.. but are you running any others?
at any rate.. that should work for you.
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sorry, not sure what's going on here... you're right.. one of hte yellow buttons with a blue plus sign on it... but as soon as you click it a progress bar should appear at the bottom of media monkey indicating it is doing it.Pat_McRotch wrote:Well, it is "working" for me. Only, it will not show any art. I assume it isn't cache-ing. I read it as "click the one of the yellow buttons to cache". This does not seem to do anything. I let it sit over night thinking it took a long time to cache. Nothing.
Also, would it matter that all of my art is saved to the tag. None of it is in the folders (hidden or not). I would not think that would matter. I think you answered that before but I was not clear.
can you tell me what version of mediamonkey you are running?
also look in you auto/prettypictures directory in the medimonkey folder and tell me if a directory called cached or caching appears and if it's got anything inside it.
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When I posted that is was 2.5.3. I just updated to 2.5.4. The same thing is happening.DaledeSilva wrote:
can you tell me what version of mediamonkey you are running?
Yeah it is being created. I am assuming the "_curAlbums.xml" is the cache? With 960 albums, shouldn't that be larger than 260 bytes? So there is that file and "_Settings_Global.ini"DaledeSilva wrote: also look in you auto/prettypictures directory in the medimonkey folder and tell me if a directory called cached or caching appears and if it's got anything inside it.
Another thing, about the yellow buttons. I have never seen a blue plus sign. And after pressing the yellow buttons for the fist time after a re-intall of PP (I've done this a few times now) I never get a progress bar.
I just end up with this...
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just above and to the left of the vertical "Pretty Pictures" title bar are two buttons.. they are yellow and in your screenshot they do have a blue plus sign on them. are these the buttons your pressing..? - if you hove over them it should say "cache pretty pictures" or quick cache.
if "_curAlbums.xml" is all that's being created, it is not caching at all.. that directory should also have "_cachedAlbums.xml" and a lots of .jpg files... it may also have .ini files if you've changed the visual settings.
Dale.
if "_curAlbums.xml" is all that's being created, it is not caching at all.. that directory should also have "_cachedAlbums.xml" and a lots of .jpg files... it may also have .ini files if you've changed the visual settings.
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DaledeSilva, thanks for the quick response. I changed that line of code and PP startup without that dialogue and ran perfectly. You asked about the browsers I use. I use Firefox 2.0.0.1 for almost everything and the flash player works fine in this. I have IE7 installed but I only use this if going to a microsoft site. When I went to the adobe flash player site using both browsers it said that version 9.0.28 was installed. I didn't have this problem until Secunia, a site that checks for security updates said I needed to update my flash player. When I updated to 9.0.28, that is when the problems started. But like I said PP is working great now. Thanks so much.
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glad you worked it out... I guess you were switching on the auto-expand / contract settings as those are the yellow check boxes in the PP window...
hope it's working for you now.
Dale.
hope it's working for you now.
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Caching did it
Caching caused the images to show. I can't believe that the Pretty Pictures script cannot automatically do this up front, or at least prompt the user that this needs to be done. This needs to be shored up.
have no images
Hello,
2 hours that i try to make this script run Looks terrific though
-I 'm gone to the adobe website with IE6 and have installed the last version of flash player.
- Have enabled "Active X acceptance" in IE settings and via regedit.exe
- Modified the line "HtmlPnl.Interf.Navigate path &"Flash ..." in prettypictures.vbs as described above
- clicked on the "quick cache pretty pictures button"
Every time i start mediamonkey i have an error dialog "Error executing script event" (pretty pic. is the one and only script installed) and all that i can see is white squares with albums names in it.
Any suggestions ? Thx in advance
2 hours that i try to make this script run Looks terrific though
-I 'm gone to the adobe website with IE6 and have installed the last version of flash player.
- Have enabled "Active X acceptance" in IE settings and via regedit.exe
- Modified the line "HtmlPnl.Interf.Navigate path &"Flash ..." in prettypictures.vbs as described above
- clicked on the "quick cache pretty pictures button"
Every time i start mediamonkey i have an error dialog "Error executing script event" (pretty pic. is the one and only script installed) and all that i can see is white squares with albums names in it.
Any suggestions ? Thx in advance