SMG now playing

Non-Free SMG now playing 2.22

TheBird956

New Member
Hey!

I just downloaded the lastest version and I am using iTunes but SMG is not updating the .txt file. It does detect the song that is playing in the GUI but I checked the .txt file manually and it is always empty :(

P.S. If you need a website for your tool and/or your other projects, I can do it for you. I need stuff to put in my portfolio ;)

EDIT: nevermind, I found why it wasnt working. I placed it in Program Files and he needed admin rights to write the file. I moved it and its now working :D
 
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deshthewraith

New Member
Not sure if there is a way to do this yet, but so far I have to have the window playing the music up on my second monitor for it to detect what's playing when I'm using Youtube/Grooveshark. I don't know how it is with the other music players but those are my preferred sources right now. I'll test WMP next chance I get.

It's not a deal breaker, just slightly inconvenient. You don't have to KEEP the window up, just flip to it for it to detect the new song. Thoughts?
 

Azeirah

Member
Hey!

I just downloaded the lastest version and I am using iTunes but SMG is not updating the .txt file. It does detect the song that is playing in the GUI but I checked the .txt file manually and it is always empty :(

P.S. If you need a website for your tool and/or your other projects, I can do it for you. I need stuff to put in my portfolio ;)

EDIT: nevermind, I found why it wasnt working. I placed it in Program Files and he needed admin rights to write the file. I moved it and its now working :D

Hah, I'll add a message to the random messages bar not to do that x)

My website could use an update, I'll contact you later.

Not sure if there is a way to do this yet, but so far I have to have the window playing the music up on my second monitor for it to detect what's playing when I'm using Youtube/Grooveshark. I don't know how it is with the other music players but those are my preferred sources right now. I'll test WMP next chance I get.

It's not a deal breaker, just slightly inconvenient. You don't have to KEEP the window up, just flip to it for it to detect the new song. Thoughts?

The window doesn't have to be opened, it's only that the tab has to be the selected tab.

What I usually do, and what others do, is to open another window of your browser, and minimize that window.
 

RocK3ru

New Member
For some reason groovemarklet does not want to detect neither of my music in my browser. I used Youtube, Plug.dj. Neither work. Tried to put them in separate browser windows, in the same windows and different tabs still does not work. It does not want to detect it.
 

deshthewraith

New Member
Hah, I'll add a message to the random messages bar not to do that x)

My website could use an update, I'll contact you later.



The window doesn't have to be opened, it's only that the tab has to be the selected tab.

What I usually do, and what others do, is to open another window of your browser, and minimize that window.

Ah, okay. That helsp a ton, thanks a lot.
 

iyfBrainBug

New Member
Don't know if this has already been suggested but theres a minor fix you could do: Whenever i let the smg write "Currently playing: " before the songname it works like a charm but it will delete the space when i restart smg. Resulting in:
Code:
"Currently playing:Darude Sandstorm"
instead of:
Code:
"Currently playing: Darude Sandstorm"
Would be nice if you could fix that. Otherwise works like a charm.
 

Bullchiton

New Member
Azeirah by chance is your groovemarklet site down? I use it for the Pandora functionality, specially since the new Chrome is limiting extensions. Any reply would be nice thanks.
 

Azeirah

Member
Azeirah by chance is your groovemarklet site down? I use it for the Pandora functionality, specially since the new Chrome is limiting extensions. Any reply would be nice thanks.

My Groovemarklet site has indeed been taken down, however it should have no impact on the functionality of the Groovemarklet (ironically, it does impact SMG's functionality, pressing update crashes SMG).

I just ran Groovemarklet on Pandora with the newest version of Chrome, and it's working fine.

I ran into another problem though, my temporary Groovemarklet site had an error.
Remove your current Groovemarklet, and get the fixed version here.

Edit:
Someone else reported a problem with Pandora specifically too, are you maybe running Windows 8(.1)?
 

Helixia

Member
I don't know if it is reported yet, but if i start a song in Foobar2000.
It will output Melee - Build to last Melee - Build to last instead of Melee - Build to last.
I didn't mess with the output format.

Besides that i have another note for the plugin.
Can you make your plugin when you close your media player (or Osu!) that the plugin will empty the .txt file?

EDIT: I tested the plugin with Windows Media Player, Youtube and Osu! and this works all fine.
But i didn't get VLC to work.
 
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KaienSP

New Member
Currently with Aimp3 and SMG, both the artist and the song title is jammed together. In example: Weird Al YankovicHardware Store instead of Weird Al Yankovic - Hardware Store.

Sadly, same problem here with Aimp3. Hope there's a fix soon.
 

Azeirah

Member
Hello, when SMG will be support Clementine player?
Will take a look.
Edit: Took a look, won't be hard to support. Will be added for the next version (if I don't forget about it :D)
Edit 50 seconds later: Support added, will be shipped with the next version (will cost you 50 us dollars though)

I don't know if it is reported yet, but if i start a song in Foobar2000.
It will output Melee - Build to last Melee - Build to last instead of Melee - Build to last.
I didn't mess with the output format.

Besides that i have another note for the plugin.
Can you make your plugin when you close your media player (or Osu!) that the plugin will empty the .txt file?

EDIT: I tested the plugin with Windows Media Player, Youtube and Osu! and this works all fine.
But i didn't get VLC to work.

Foobar2k works fine for me, what version of Foobar2k are you running?
For the emptying of the text file, I'll make the no song playing text editable, so you can choose whatever text you want.
I'll have to take another look at VLC, that program has been problematic pretty often :(

Sadly, same problem here with Aimp3. Hope there's a fix soon.
Go to config/music_players.json, open it with a text editor (NOT MICROSOFT WORD, use notepad or wordpad)

Look for

"AIMP3": {
"name": "Aimp3",
"apptype": "music_player",
"identifiers": [" - "],
"window_class_name": "TApplication",
"replace_title": true
},

replace the bolded text with false.

Or just copy and paste this.

"AIMP3": {
"name": "Aimp3",
"apptype": "music_player",
"identifiers": [" - "],
"window_class_name": "TApplication",
"replace_title": false
},

This is obviously a temporary fix, I have fixed this for in the next version, I'll upload it somewhere this week probably.
 
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Helixia

Member
@Azeirah I'm using Foobar2000 v.1.3.2 (the last stable version out there).
First i ran a beta of Foobaar2000, but i reinstalled completly incl. appdata/foobar2000.
Tried to remove some components which may be comflicting the plugin (Logitech LCD plugin and Foobar2000 deskabnd).
But the result is the same in both cases.
 

Snaert

Member
Hey, i just updated to 1.63 and when i try to start it i get this error
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Ohh and will Youtify be supported again? it's the only thing i use because it has both youtube, soundcloud and last.fm so it's a nice website to use if you ask me =)

//Andy
 

FloatyPineapple

New Member
Hi, for some reason it stopped working for me. I'm using the most recent version, and it worked the last time I used it, but when I launched it today it won't detect that foobar2000 is playing a song.
 

Pyrocide

New Member
Hello, Groovemarklet has stopped recognising Youtube, I have no idea why but this has rendered SMG pretty useless for me :(
Any chance of a quick fix?
 

Krxz

Member
Hello, Groovemarklet has stopped recognising Youtube, I have no idea why but this has rendered SMG pretty useless for me :(
Any chance of a quick fix?

Hi there,

So you will want to double check a few things to make sure everything is working and you have setup the tool properly.

1: Download the latest version of SMG. You can find the download link at the top of this page on the right.
2: Get the new working Groovemarklet

My Groovemarklet site has indeed been taken down, however it should have no impact on the functionality of the Groovemarklet (ironically, it does impact SMG's functionality, pressing update crashes SMG).

I just ran Groovemarklet on Pandora with the newest version of Chrome, and it's working fine.

I ran into another problem though, my temporary Groovemarklet site had an error.
Remove your current Groovemarklet, and get the fixed version here.

Edit:
Someone else reported a problem with Pandora specifically too, are you maybe running Windows 8(.1)?

3: Once you have SMG installed, and the new Groovemarklet on you Bookmarks Bar:
- Launch SMG, select Youtube, Start
- Go to youtube.com, Play any song you want
- While song is playing, Click the Groovemarklet link and it should now work.

Reminder:

The youtube TAB must stay selected for SMG to pick up the song.

Hope that helped.
 

Wolf68k

New Member
Would it at all be possible to turn the Groovemarklet script into a userscript so that it can be used with browser addons/extensions like GreaseMonkey?
I'm fairly certain it just be a matter of taking something from the URL and adding it to the beginning of the script itself. If I knew enough about javascript I would have done it already. I tried a few things but it didn't work.
 

Azeirah

Member
Would it at all be possible to turn the Groovemarklet script into a userscript so that it can be used with browser addons/extensions like GreaseMonkey?
I'm fairly certain it just be a matter of taking something from the URL and adding it to the beginning of the script itself. If I knew enough about javascript I would have done it already. I tried a few things but it didn't work.

You can try this yourself, I personally don't use extensions like those, and I like bookmarklets since they work universally on all browsers and require almost no effort to install.

Go to my github page for the groovemarklet, https://github.com/Azeirah/azeirah.github.io/blob/master/groovemarklet2.js and copy that script to your extension, for example, GreaseMonkey.

I also have a non-minified version of the groovemarklet if you want to take a look at the code.
https://github.com/Azeirah/azeirah.github.io/blob/master/groovemarklet2dev.js

I'm not sure how GreaseMonkey works, but I believe that should just work. Since copying and pasting the same code into your browser console simply starts the groovemarklet without any problems. I think that's pretty much what GreaseMonkey does.
 
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