Autoplay at Startup

martialartsguy · Post by **martialartsguy** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:41 pm

I used TweakMonkey for a long time, but it kept giving me problems, so I just install it sporadically to do a backup of my database and ini files. The thing I loved about it was that I could automatically start playing MM at full volume when I started it. Is there a way to do this without TweakMonkey?

Thanks-

Brian "Chomping at the bit for 3.0"

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:05 pm

what version are you using ? Teknojnky is good about keeping that thing working go get the latest version you can find in the thread for tweak monkey. it should work with out errors,
if not then tell him what is going on he might make a fix for your system?

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:16 pm

martialartsguy wrote:I used TweakMonkey for a long time, but it kept giving me problems...

What kind of problems? I'm also using TweakMonkey and I have unselected every options in it except the "Resume State/Position at startup" function. Works great. If MM was playing when I closed it, it will play next time I open it.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sun May 20, 2007 6:12 am

If you right click on the shortcut you use to open MM and click properties. In the file path add " /play" to the end. This switch tells MM to play at startup, no script necessary!

Have you tried my Backup script?

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sun May 20, 2007 8:25 am

trixmoto wrote:If you right click on the shortcut you use to open MM and click properties. In the file path add " /play" to the end. This switch tells MM to play at startup, no script necessary!

WOW!

I must try that. Thanks Trix

martialartsguy · Post by **martialartsguy** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:02 pm

Wow, thanks for the replies! The problem I had with Tweak was when shutting down - it would hang and then give an error message. But again, I used it mainly for the backup, so Trix- I'll give your backup script a shot. It'd be nice to have a total backup all the time, as I change a lot of stuff every time the Monkey's open.

Tried to add "/play" at the end of the following Target:
"D:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.exe"

but I get an error message saying the path is not valid. Any hints?

Oh, and I've added with "\" instead, both before and after the " but I still get the same errors.

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:09 pm

Put it outside of the quotation marks, like that:

["C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\MediaMonkey.exe" /play]

martialartsguy · Post by **martialartsguy** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:12 pm

Eyal -

Thanks, that works just fine.

Trix-

Downloaded your backup script - works great and no problems so far! Sweet. Thanks everyone.

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sun May 20, 2007 1:19 pm

About the Backup script: If you loose for good (& without reason) some directories on your hard disk when you close Mediamonkey, know it's because of that script... It happens to me twice.

martialartsguy · Post by **martialartsguy** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:05 pm

Eyal-

After looking through the thread for Trixmoto's Backup script I made sure I created an Output folder that was separate from anything to do with MM. I think that may be what caused your directories to disappear. Of course, I'm no script writer so I may be wrong. You may want to check in the thread for that script.

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:09 pm

You may be right. Anyway I do by backups manually.
Thanks

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon May 21, 2007 4:47 am

@martialartsguy - I'm glad you like the script, I use it every day (on shutdown in fact) and wouldn't be without it.

@Eyal - the latest version has lots of checks to ensure that folders are not deleted unless you want them to be.

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Mon May 21, 2007 5:49 am

@ Trix, thanks for the advise. But 2 weeks ago I downloaded and use your last version of Backup script and I lost all my C:\ root directories beginning from "A" to "C". "C:\Batch" was containing all my batch and cmd files, and I miss it...

It don't really matter, nothing real important was deleted. I recently bought an external hard disk and use the provided software to do backups of all my precious files - like Mediamonkey & all my music

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:48 am

I'm sorry for that. The latest version was released 7 days ago.

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