A simple play all feature

Zed · Post by **Zed** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:08 pm

How about a simple "Play All" feature which plays all your songs in your media library? Auto DJ does not work well - when you stop a song, etc. it starts replaing songs in your aut list that were already played. Chosing the location takes too long to read all the files (I have 180GB).

Post by **Lowlander** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:43 pm

Choose the artist node, select all (ctrl+a) and drag & drop to now playing or right click and select play now (alt+enter).

spacekris · Post by **spacekris** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:11 pm

i would like to have a play all button for what is actually displayed in the window without having to select first all the entries manually and then press a button or select play all.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:39 am

These are autoscripts so they need to be in {MM}\Scripts\Auto\ with a .vbs extension. Restart MM and you should have the play button you require on your toolbar.

@spacekris

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Sub OnStartup
  SDB.UI.AddMenuItemSep SDB.UI.Menu_TbStandard,0,0
  Dim PlayVisibleTBB
  Set PlayVisibleTBB = SDB.UI.AddMenuItem(SDB.UI.Menu_TbStandard,0,0)
  PlayVisibleTBB.Caption = SDB.Localize("Play Visible")
  PlayVisibleTBB.IconIndex = 13
  PlayVisibleTBB.UseScript = Script.ScriptPath
  PlayVisibleTBB.OnClickFunc = "PlayVisible"
  PlayVisibleTBB.Shortcut = "Shift+Alt+Enter"
End Sub

Sub PlayVisible(TBB)
  Dim s,p
  Set s = SDB.AllVisibleSongList  
  Set p = SDB.Player
  p.PlaylistClear
  p.PlaylistAddTracks(s)
  p.Play
End Sub

@Zed

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Sub OnStartup
  SDB.UI.AddMenuItemSep SDB.UI.Menu_TbStandard,0,0
  Dim PlayLibraryTBB
  Set PlayLibraryTBB = SDB.UI.AddMenuItem(SDB.UI.Menu_TbStandard,0,0)
  PlayLibraryTBB.Caption = SDB.Localize("Play Library")
  PlayLibraryTBB.IconIndex = 13
  PlayLibraryTBB.UseScript = Script.ScriptPath
  PlayLibraryTBB.OnClickFunc = "PlayLibrary"
  PlayLibraryTBB.Shortcut = "Shift+Alt+Enter"
End Sub

Sub PlayLibrary(TBB)
  Dim s,p
  Set s = SDB.Database.QuerySongs("")  
  Set p = SDB.Player
  p.PlaylistClear
  p.PlaylistAddTrack(s.Item)
  s.Next
  p.Play
  Do While Not s.EOF
    SDB.ProcessMessages
    p.PlaylistAddTrack(s.Item)
    s.Next
  Loop
End Sub

N.B. The shortcuts are the same so you'll need to change them if you install both!

spacekris · Post by **spacekris** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:50 am

ah,great! the first one works.
can i change the location of the button to appear on another bar?
would ike to have it with the normal play-buttons.

is there a difference between the first and the second script?

mean time · Post by **mean time** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:07 am

in the options under palyer you can change what happens when double clicking a song, this might also do what you want ?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:26 am

@spacekris - this difference is the one written for you plays all the tracks that are visible in the main window, whereas the one written for Zed plays every track in the library.

@mean time - you cannot achieve either of these with the double click action. Unless you set it to play current track and all after it, and double click on the first track in the main window, this will do what spacekris wants.

heinimuecki · Post by **heinimuecki** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:38 am

maybe i didn't understand it right but in my case when i want to play all the songs in my library i just select one of the node in the tree, i.e. the artist node, an the make a double-click on the first song in the appearing list. MM then puts all songs into the "now playing" list and plays them .
but nevertheless it's allway nice to have a button where you can do this with just one click

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:48 pm

When I want to play all the songs in my library i just select one of the main nodes in the tree (e.g. the artist node), and then press Alt+Enter (play now). This will *always* place all songs in the now playing list, and start playing the first song.
Instead of pressing Alt+Enter, you can also right-click and choose "Play Now", or do the same from "Play" menu.

spacekris · Post by **spacekris** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:34 pm

spacekris wrote: can i change the location of the button to appear on another bar?
would like to have it with the normal play-buttons.

thanks

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:34 am

Sorry, I didn't see this question before. You can change the menubar, but I've got no idea which one is the one with the play buttons on. Anyone?

spacekris · Post by **spacekris** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:42 pm

hm, the "play all visible tracks" is still not implemented in mm3 as a regular feature???

@trix: is there a way to choose another button for your script.
maybe an arrow in a different color than the "play selected tracks" button.

spacefish · Post by **spacefish** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:36 pm

When I installed MM, it came with an autoplaylist All Accessible Tracks. Does this not work for you? Mine is simply a playlist with no search criteria. All tracks show up there and I actually use it quite often to see how many tracks I'm up to.

spacekris · Post by **spacekris** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:53 pm

no.
eg. i search for something, i want to play all findings with a single push.

i am not using playlists. and i dont want to start..

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:13 pm

The now playing window is not very efficient for playing whole libraries. It uses a temporary .m3u file (mediamonkey.m3u) and if you have a large number of files you could end up with a hundred meg m3u that MM has to hold and manage in memory.

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