Auto Rating of Songs & Radio Announcer v5.02 [Script]

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:05 am

Current trigger is 'At play, rate previous song'.

This means if the player stop playing, this trigger is not pulled.

I made a 'Player Simulator' the other day that may replace the current trigger. That way it should be possible to also run a rating check on the last song played, even if it's at the end of the playlist.

At the weekend, I hope to get some time to merge the player simulator with this script, just to see how it turns out. If I get it done this weekend, I'll post a 'sample' here, so you can give it a go Peter.

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:52 am

No diddeleedoo not random the double playing is two players going at once one in background one in foreground only foreground being seen, or heard until the annoucer i use stops the player to annouce the song. then i hear the song in the background player.
i presume your announcer will do the same thing when he stops the song to announce it?

this is a media monkey error i am talking about.

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:54 am

I haven't noticed that bug yet, but then I haven't tried it with 'all sorts' of songs either. Hope a note in the Bug Forum may give that error some attention.

@Peter
Currently I use a version here that rate the last song in the playlist. This new model also allow for the first song after restart of MediaMonkey to be rated too.

All up a better model I think. Just have to try to verify everything a bit more, and I hope to have it all finished by the weekend sometime.

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:27 pm

@Mthrsuperior
Just found a thing that is related to what you mentioned about ratings Rating at First Full Play & Skip At First Play. Will be fixed shortly.

Mthrsuperior · Post by **Mthrsuperior** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:32 pm

Hey Diddel,

I looked at the .ini
It contained a correct numeric value (that matched the setting in the GUI) so that hasn't fixed my issue.

I think Cowboy is on to something though.
I was watching task manager while it changed tracks and a second MM process does open at song changes indicating a random track.
MM appears to not respond for a short time and then the "phantom process" ends.

Edit to add: I'm getting the same errors with the 2.5.4.978 build though.

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:54 pm

That's interesting. Will have to see if I can spot something similar. I possibly haven't noticed due to I never use the Shuffle function.

While having a study of the routine in the script, I found that the 'On First Play' & 'PlayCount Rating' combination had a line missing.

Inspired by Peter's request, I have rewritten the trigger system, so first song at startup can be rated, and the last song at an ending playlist get rated visually too.

It's easy to stuff up rewrites, so I'll try to get rid of any sort of mistake that I can find before posting it here. Shouldn't be long though I hope.

Mthrsuperior · Post by **Mthrsuperior** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:46 am

Thanks for all your efforts!

When you get a sec can you tell me how to wipe all references to this script from the .ini.
I'd like to start all over again but I noticed after re-install that MM is remembering my AutoRating settings so I'm guessing they must be in the .ini since I didn't delete it when i re-installed.

Thanks again.

arcspin · Post by **arcspin** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:53 am

Hi DiddeLeeDoo,
It's wounderfull news that you are taking the time to rewrite some of the code.

I'm honoured to have been an inspiration to you

Im looking forward to this new release...but make shure that you take your time and enjoy the weekend.

Cheers,
//Peter

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:35 am

@Mthrsuperior

While MediaMonkey is running, remove section
[AutoRateSongs] in
\My Documents\My Music\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.ini
and you can then go to Tools - Options - AutoRateSongs to set the options 'fresh'. Please visit all the 3 pages, before hitting OK.

In the version I'm testing now, the section
[AutoRateSongs] in
\Program Files\MediaMonkey\Scripts\Scripts.ini
will be removed too, but I'm not quite there yet..

@arcspin
I've been wanting to do this for awhile, just needed a kick in the bum. I like the idea of having the script working like that.

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:49 am

I think I finally nailed it. Will have to do some 'real life' testing during the week.

If you want to give it a go too, here it is.
INSTALL v5.00 BETA

Taken out for a bit to tripple check

All up a better solution, so thanks for bringing attention to these things.

arcspin · Post by **arcspin** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:33 am

This is so exciting

But I do miss a "download link" to the v5.00 beta script !?!

or am I missing something here ???

//P

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:55 am

Sorry about that apcpin, it was in here and then I found an area that could be improved, so I replaced the link with "Taken out for a bit to tripple check"

Was hoping to put it back right away, but it's in the 'workshop' still...

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:19 am

Ok, here's the link

Install v5.0 Beta (to be tested this upcoming week)
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removed
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I'll write a bit about changes here during the week. Need a break at the moment.

Basically the script follow the player instead of doing 'real time', which allow for rating of first song, and last song 'live'. A few little fixes of other things, like 'Rating at first full play/Rating at skipped at first play'. A more advanced system to deliver what you would expect it to do.

arcspin · Post by **arcspin** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:54 am

Hey,
This new script is turning out just fine.
It does rate the last song in the Now Playing list with out any problem.
Thank you for that.

Are there anymore new features that I should be looking for ?

Thank for this X-mas gift

//Peter

DiddeLeeDoo · Post by **DiddeLeeDoo** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:59 am

That's funny, we would have typed at the same time.

I just added a note to the 'link post' above, that it's all more what you would expect the script to do, since it is now 'buddies' with the player, instead of the clock.

As far as I know, it should be totally trouble free this version, but who knows. Anyways, it would be nice to have a beer by now, so I take a break, and will write up more during the week.

Auto Rating of Songs & Radio Announcer v5.02 [Script]

Christmas come early this year

Missing DL link

So far so good