Now playing music for spotify / itunes / winamp on stream.

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Dopefish

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BenGhemrawi said:
I don't know if this has been answered before, but I re-downloaded this three different times, and each time I do it I encounter the same problem. No Snip.txt shows up, I created a txt file called Snip to see if that would work, but it didn't. So I am a bit lost? http://vvcap.net/db/wVi9NZU8nOeeDYVEVmN1.htp
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Snip.txt gets created when you play a track for the first time. The text file appears in the same directory as Snip.exe.

ChaoticPRod said:
It happens whether I open up snip 1st and then spotify, then I select save information separately, or if I open spotify, then snip and it says the same thing. It only happens as soon as the music starts to play.
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I still can't replicate this.

I only have Spotify installed currently so I tried it with that.
I started Snip, enabled "Save Information Separately", started Spotify, and then played a track. Snip correctly shows the artist/track and saves it to the separate files fine.
 
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SupeRaven

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BenGhemrawi said:
I don't know if this has been answered before, but I re-downloaded this three different times, and each time I do it I encounter the same problem. No Snip.txt shows up, I created a txt file called Snip to see if that would work, but it didn't. So I am a bit lost? http://vvcap.net/db/wVi9NZU8nOeeDYVEVmN1.htp
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Did you stick the files in a sub-folder of OBS, Program Files, or Program Files (x86)? If so you need to run the app as admin (right-click, Run As Admin) for it to have permissions to make or modify a file of those "Program Files" sub-folders. I'd recommend moving it to a location on desktop or off root of hard drive (e.g. c:\NowPlaying\).
 
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integrabyte

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Thanks for your excellent work mate. I have been using SNIP since the beginning. A few days ago, while i was streaming, I noticed a net framework error and SNIP completely froze. From that point on, it started giving me problems. Please find below:

1. Snip becomes very 'laggy' and sometimes stays behind Spotify by 3 tracks. If I hover my mouse on SNIP it shows what track is playing but it has no connection with Spotify and then all of a sudden it catches up.
2. When I right click on SNIP, it refuses to launch. I sometimes have to wait 1 minute and I can't tick/untick anything. This did not happen in the past.
3. All of a sudden I cannot stream my album art. I have the song name but the art snip does not update itself. SNIP randomly decides to show 1 out of 10 artworks but even that is dodgy.


I would love some help with these issues, I have updated, downgraded, something happened since that framework error and Windows is telling me everything is up to date :(


http://i.imgur.com/wqlluDT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FZYeVBi.jpg
 
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Dopefish

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There is still some UI-blocking code in Snip that I'd like to get rid of eventually. It doesn't happen often but if Spotify's web server were really slow to respond some time then it may cause it to hang. It may also skip downloading the artwork if there's no response in a short period of time. If your internet is slow or under heavy load it may fail to download the artwork.

I'll take a look and see what I can come up with. I may add some hidden debug settings that allow it to save dumps or hung calls.
 
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theOperator

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I am also having the .net error issue when trying to use snip with iTunes. If there's anything I can give you to help you work out this bug, let me know! I'd be happy to help.
 
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nustake

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Dopefish said:
Uploaded v4.3.0,
https://github.com/dlrudie/Snip/releases/tag/v4.3.0

integrabyte,
Run this version, set your options, press Ctrl+Alt+D, and then play your music from Spotify. If it hangs anywhere then hopefully the time gets measured. After you're done send me the Debug.txt file in the Snip directory. You can also paste it to pastebin if you want.
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I just have done a try with the 4.0 and didnt work, but with this one worked instantly, honor for you by doing this topic and for the creator, I was searching for some plugin that shows the music a long time ago, thanks so much ;)
 
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integrabyte

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Thanks for the update. I am running some tests, so far the are promising. Will get back to you with a full debug log later down the week so you can troubleshoot anything out of the ordinary.
 
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aurrum

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I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

I have iTunes running (latest version) - Snip 4.3.0 and Obs V0.624b.

Ive created a Text Source - loaded the Snip.TXT and selected iTunes in the SNIP.EXE icon in the taskbar and nothings showing on my OBS. Any idea????
 
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Sean3789

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Every time i try to enter a text source for Snip it crashes and give me this:

OBS has encountered an unhandled exception and has terminated. If you are able to
reproduce this crash, please submit this crash report on the forums at
http://www.obsproject.com/ - include the contents of this crash log and the
minidump .dmp file (if available) as well as your regular OBS log files and
a description of what you were doing at the time of the crash.

This crash appears to have occured in the 'c:\windows\system32\twinapi.appcore.dll' module.

**** UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: c0000005
Fault address: 0FCA09DE (c:\windows\system32\twinapi.appcore.dll)
OBS version: Open Broadcaster Software v0.624b
Windows version: 6.2 (Build 9200)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz

Crashing thread stack trace:
Stack EIP Arg0 Arg1 Arg2 Arg3 Address
00C5CDB8 0FCA09DE 00C5CE1C 013DFF40 00000000 00C5CE58 twinapi.appcore.dll!Ordinal11+0x2cb
00C5CDF4 0FCA07B8 00C5CE5C 00110AC6 00000000 00C5CE60 twinapi.appcore.dll!Ordinal11+0xa5
00C5CE34 0FCA074E 00110AC6 0E5A79D0 00C5CE5C 00000000 twinapi.appcore.dll!Ordinal11+0x3b
00C5CE48 0FCA4EB7 00110AC6 00000272 0FC80000 0FCA5B72 twinapi.appcore.dll!Ordinal10+0x1c
00C5CE68 762B560A 76311280 00000001 013DFF40 00110AC6 user32.dll!0x762b560a
00C5CE80 762B55D3 013DFF40 00000000 00000000 00000000 user32.dll!0x762b55d3
00C5CEF4 762991E8 00110AC6 00000272 00000000 00000000 user32.dll!0x762991e8
00C5CF50 7629DCFF 013DFF40 00000000 00000272 00000000 user32.dll!0x7629dcff
00C5CF68 762AD29D 013DFF40 00000000 00000272 00000000 user32.dll!0x762ad29d
00C5CFC4 762AD3FA 00110AC6 00000272 00000000 00000000 user32.dll!0x762ad3fa
00C5CFE4 76297834 779BB860 00110AC6 00000272 00000000 user32.dll!0x76297834
00C5D010 76297A9A 779BB860 00000000 00000272 00000000 user32.dll!0x76297a9a
00C5D0A0 76297BED 013DFF40 00000000 00000272 00000000 user32.dll!0x76297bed
00C5D100 76297D81 00C5D148 00000000 00C5E3C0 779CF2A0 user32.dll!0x76297d81
00C5D138 779CF342 00000001 00000001 00150C6C 0B678BF0 ntdll.dll!0x779cf342
00C5D1B0 762B2F93 00150C6C 75802C64 0B67AAE0 00000001 user32.dll!0x762b2f93
00C5D1E4 762B3036 75800000 0B678BF0 00150C6C 75802C64 user32.dll!0x762b3036
00C5D1FC 762B2FFB 75800000 0B678BF0 00150C6C 75802C64 user32.dll!0x762b2ffb
00C5D21C 75803AF4 00000001 00000000 00000000 00C5D2C8 comdlg32.dll!0x75803af4
00C5D264 7581FAB0 00150C6C 00C5D2C8 00000000 00000000 comdlg32.dll!0x7581fab0
00C5D290 7581FA04 0B67AAE4 00C5D320 00C5E490 00000001 comdlg32.dll!0x7581fa04
00C5D2B8 7581F95C 00C5E490 7583913D 00C5E490 00000000 comdlg32.dll!0x7581f95c
00C5D2EC 7581F851 00000000 00000800 00000001 00C5E490 comdlg32.dll!0x7581f851
00C5D318 758391AA 00C5E490 3FFF8EBE 00C5E908 0000041A comdlg32.dll!0x758391aa
00C5E39C 00338C06 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000 obs.exe!0x338c06
00C5E3D8 0037A2C1 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A 001B0A7E obs.exe!0x37a2c1
00C5E920 76297834 003785A0 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A user32.dll!0x76297834
00C5E94C 762AD375 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A 001B0A7E user32.dll!0x762ad375
00C5E9D0 762AD1EC 013C2900 00000000 00000111 0000041A user32.dll!0x762ad1ec
00C5EA2C 762AD3FA 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A 001B0A7E user32.dll!0x762ad3fa
00C5EA4C 76297834 779BB860 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A user32.dll!0x76297834
00C5EA78 76297A9A 779BB860 00000000 00000111 0000041A user32.dll!0x76297a9a
00C5EB08 76297BED 013C2900 00000000 00000111 0000041A user32.dll!0x76297bed
00C5EB68 76297D81 00C5EBB0 00000000 00C5EDD4 779CF2A0 user32.dll!0x76297d81
00C5EBA0 779CF342 013C2900 00000000 001B0A7E 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x779cf342
00C5EC38 7629D400 00150C6C 00000111 0000041A 001B0A7E user32.dll!0x7629d400
00C5EC68 7151A2E2 0014003D 71501F31 00000000 00000000 comctl32.dll!0x7151a2e2
00C5ECA0 7151A314 001B0A7E 00000202 00000000 0014003D comctl32.dll!0x7151a314
00C5ED30 76297834 71501F31 001B0A7E 00000202 00000000 user32.dll!0x76297834
00C5ED5C 76297A9A 71501F31 00000000 00000202 00000000 user32.dll!0x76297a9a
00C5EDEC 7629988E 00220872 00000000 00150C6C 00000000 user32.dll!0x7629988e
00C5EE58 762B2626 00150C6C 00C5EE9C 00000001 00220872 user32.dll!0x762b2626
00C5EE88 762B26A8 00000001 00000001 00310000 FFFFFFFF user32.dll!0x762b26a8
00C5EED0 762B2F93 00220872 003785A0 00C5EFE0 00000001 user32.dll!0x762b2f93
00C5EF00 762B3036 00310000 004426E0 00220872 003785A0 user32.dll!0x762b3036
00C5EF18 762E545A 00310000 0000008B 00220872 003785A0 user32.dll!0x762e545a
00C5EF3C 50393676 00220872 003785A0 00C5EFE0 02C64D00 obsapi.dll!0x50393676
00C5EF8C 50393B72 00310000 0000008B 00220872 003785A0 obsapi.dll!0x50393b72
00C5EFBC 0037A59E 02C64D00 00000001 00070894 00000002 obs.exe!0x37a59e
00C5F008 0037D312 7629D2D5 0037C67D 00000000 0000001F obs.exe!0x37d312
00C5F0A8 0037C67D 00070894 00000204 00000002 0023003B obs.exe!0x37c67d
00C5F158 76297834 0037BA90 00070894 00000204 00000002 user32.dll!0x76297834
00C5F184 76297A9A 0037BA90 00000000 00000204 00000002 user32.dll!0x76297a9a
00C5F214 7629988E 762998FB 7629955E 0BF30C21 00C5F344 user32.dll!0x7629988e
00C5F280 762B2626 00220872 00C5F344 00000000 00000001 user32.dll!0x762b2626
00C5F2B0 00356000 00310000 00000000 00EC1B9D 00000001 obs.exe!0x356000
00C5F778 0039E8AA FFA0C000 00C5F80C 779DA8CB FFA0C000 obs.exe!0x39e8aa
00C5F7C4 7605919F FFA0C000 4817CE4B 00000000 00000000 kernel32.dll!0x7605919f
00C5F7D0 779DA8CB FFFFFFFF 779CF65F 00000000 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x779da8cb
00C5F814 779DA8A1 0039E7A3 FFA0C000 00000000 00000000 ntdll.dll!0x779da8a1

A minidump was saved to C:\Users\Sean3789\AppData\Roaming\OBS\crashDumps\OBSCrashDump2014-06-15_9.dmp.
Please include this file when posting a crash report.

List of loaded modules:
Base Address Module
 
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Dopefish

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@theOperator Any crash log of any kind would help.

@aurrum When you select iTunes within Snip it should automatically launch iTunes for you. When you play a song and you move your mouse over the Snip icon it should show the title of the song playing and the artist. I just tested with iTunes v11.1.5.5 and it worked with that just fine. Maybe you just have the text source incorrectly configured?

@Sean3789 That crash is related to OBS and not Snip. Snip is a separate program entirely and does not interact with OBS. Any program that can read a text file can do that. Perhaps it's just a bug in the 32-bit version of OBS.
 
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Hail4Gaming

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I created this account because I am having a problem I cannot seem to figure out. When I extract the file, I assume that it is ready to run. So I double-click the .exe. It says "Would you like to run as admin?" I click OK. However, it does not open. I look down in my taskbar, and see the icon. It says its using spotify. I right-click on it, nothing. I left-click on it, nothing. I wait a little bit, then mouse over the icon again and it disappears. It is a silent crash. I seriously am wondering why this is? I would like to use Snip for streaming. I have Win7 64bit. Help Pls?

Also, it immediately opens WerFault.exe -- the crash troubleshoot program.

EDIT: I tried to download versions: 4.0.0, 4.1.0, and 4.3.0 -- 4.1 and 4.3 failed to open, yet 4.0 worked fine.

H4G
 
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Dopefish

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Could you look in the event viewer and see if it lists any kind of crash information?

Snip will ultimately catch all exceptions and at least display an error message of some kind.
 
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wordian

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I am having issues using SNIP with Windows 8.1.
I've tried the different versions and 4.0.3 works but any newer versions after that it just shuts down instantly after I start it.
On my other computer with Windows 7 everything works great with the new versions.

I do not get any error and even trying setting compability mode to Windows 7 and even Vista same thing happens it just shuts down instantly.
It seems some change that happened with 4.1.0 and forward doesn't want to work correctly with Windows 8.1 for me anyways.
 
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Dopefish

Member
I released a new version.
https://github.com/dlrudie/Snip/releases/latest

I have a feeling a lot of peoples silent crashes or crashes were related to the global hotkey registering. I added a message that will pop up if it can't register the hotkey and then skip it so it will continue running. You can optionally disable hotkeys afterwards to hide the message entirely.

I will add the ability to customize the hotkeys in the future.

There are also other changes/fixes/additions so check out the changes on GitHub.
 
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QuackyCrack

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Whenever I launch WinAmp, it always shows the song playing with Snip. Just today I keep getting "WinAmp is Currently not Running." when I play a song.
 
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Rooster128

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AndreasA said:
@KaienSP
I'm using a scroll text to display the name of the music I'm listening to, on stream. But the track and artist name is not separated.
Let's say that the title is something like "Iron Maiden - Powerslave"
When it scrolls it will look like this: "Iron Maiden - PowerslaveIron Maiden - Powerslave"
I tried the space before and after track format in output format options but it didn't work.
Any solutions? Thanks in advance!
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Dopefish said:
That might be an issue with the scroll display you use. If you look at the text file saved there should definitely be spaces in it. If they're not displayed when it scrolls then that plugin may be trimming spaces.
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I'm having this problem too, and I've tried formatting Winamp various ways and I believe I noticed something.

If you use a hyphen in your formatting as opposed to an En Dash, no spaces are added to the formatting in the Snip.txt - as well, other ATF commands from Winamp work when you use a dash too. It's almost like it's deciding to just show however you have your ATF set up in Winamp- minus the spaces.

But when you use the en dash in Winamp as opposed to a hyphen, (so %artist% – %title%) the artist and the title fields seem to be swapped in the Snip.txt

Maybe I'm wrong, but that is how I am seeing it. Good work btw Dopefish- this helps thousands of streamers every day I bet!
 
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