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RobbieRocketpants

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Thanks Monkee, this seems to have worked for me. The update literally just broke my SMG on stream! But now it's back up again. Hopefully no issues in the future.
 
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nick27

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how can i get this working on windows media player ... i've tried for hours no matter what i play it still says no songs playing :/
 
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LazyLazy

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Hey, I just got Groovemarklet in my browser and tried to click it while in Google play, but nothing happened. SMG didn't get my music. Am I doing it wrong?
 
ahotiK

ahotiK

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Azeirah said:
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SMG now playing - The best way to share your music with your viewers



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Hello!

Nice piece of software. Thanks so much!
I just want to let you know there are some issues. Would be really grateful if you could take a look at them :).
1. After updating Spotify it stopped working with Spotify. It doesn't get any information about the songs playing anymore.
2. The dialog for choosing the output directory to save the text file with song info doesnt work for me. I can choose another folder but upon clicking OK, it doesn't update in the gui and the files are not saved in the new location. I have also discovered that the chosen folder it always the directory from where the program is started. I use a batch script to start all the streaming software I use and my workaround for now is to CD into the SMG directory and start it from there.

Thanks so much for putting free effort into this! BTW is this an open source project if it is, what programming language do you use? I might be able to help.

Regards,
ahotiK

UPDATE: I found the code on sourceforge, glad is python :)
UPDATE2: I think I found the problem. With the latest update, spotify stopped showing the track and artist info in the window title. I think it should work with the web player though.
UPDATE3: The spotify webplayer at play.spotify.com still puts the track info in the title (As Artist - Trackname - Spotify). Although it doesn't work with your applications yet since Spotify in your application is defined as a stand-alone and not a webapp. Also the replace should be "- Spotify" instead of "Spotify - "
Just a tip: I would like to see a general player choice where we can put in the name of any window / browser tab we want to have displayed and then we could replace or filter out the unwanted extra stuff from the test using the Edit output options.
UPDATE4: I tried to add spotify as a web-app to the json file in the config and it didn't work. I couldn't find it in the list of players. So I then tried to modify one. I did modify Plug.dj since I don't use that and it was a web-app. I changed the modifier to "- Spotify" and it now works with the web player.
 
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angelsnypz

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ahotiK said:
Hello!

Nice piece of software. Thanks so much!
I just want to let you know there are some issues. Would be really grateful if you could take a look at them :).
1. After updating Spotify it stopped working with Spotify. It doesn't get any information about the songs playing anymore.
2. The dialog for choosing the output directory to save the text file with song info doesnt work for me. I can choose another folder but upon clicking OK, it doesn't update in the gui and the files are not saved in the new location. I have also discovered that the chosen folder it always the directory from where the program is started. I use a batch script to start all the streaming software I use and my workaround for now is to CD into the SMG directory and start it from there.

Thanks so much for putting free effort into this! BTW is this an open source project if it is, what programming language do you use? I might be able to help.

Regards,
ahotiK

UPDATE: I found the code on sourceforge, glad is python :)
UPDATE2: I think I found the problem. With the latest update, spotify stopped showing the track and artist info in the window title. I think it should work with the web player though.
UPDATE3: The spotify webplayer at play.spotify.com still puts the track info in the title (As Artist - Trackname - Spotify). Although it doesn't work with your applications yet since Spotify in your application is defined as a stand-alone and not a webapp. Also the replace should be "- Spotify" instead of "Spotify - "
Just a tip: I would like to see a general player choice where we can put in the name of any window / browser tab we want to have displayed and then we could replace or filter out the unwanted extra stuff from the test using the Edit output options.
UPDATE4: I tried to add spotify as a web-app to the json file in the config and it didn't work. I couldn't find it in the list of players. So I then tried to modify one. I did modify Plug.dj since I don't use that and it was a web-app. I changed the modifier to "- Spotify" and it now works with the web player.
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how did you managed to get it to work with the spotify web player? i tried editing the json file the same as you however nothing is showing up. can you post your json or something?
 
ahotiK

ahotiK

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angelsnypz said:
how did you managed to get it to work with the spotify web player? i tried editing the json file the same as you however nothing is showing up. can you post your json or something?
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Sure:
I changed the PLUGDJ part to:
"PLUGDJ": {
"name": "Plug.dj",
"apptype": "web_music_player",
"identifiers": ["- Spotify"]
},
When using the application you will have to choose PLUGDJ in the list and use the spotify webplayer. It will then show whatever the spotify web player is playing. Hope this hepls!
 
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Azeirah

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I've contacted Spotify, hoping they can help me out getting Spotify working again.
I will try my best to get support back.
 
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CMHN

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Azeirah said:
I've contacted Spotify, hoping they can help me out getting Spotify working again.
I will try my best to get support back.
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I was trying last night to get Spotify to work, glad it wasn't a problem on my end. I will keep watching for a solution. Thank you.
 
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Xelius

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I can't seem to get it to work with spotify. I'm still learning code so I haven't touched a thing. But it just isn't picking the web version or the downloaded version.
Any help? I would realy like to use this for some streams, but it just won't display.
 
ahotiK

ahotiK

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djharris27 said:
Is it possible to add support for http://www.twitch.tv/monstercat. They have a bot which outputs the song into the chat but i want it in my stream and I think it would be quite easy to implement.
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Well.. I have another work around for this one.
Step 1: get the now playing message sent by the bot in the chat up to the tab title with some JS as a bookmarklet or content script.
Step 2: Hijack some of the web-applications supported by SMG to look for the window title for Monstercat stream. The same as I did for the Spotify web player and Plug.dj[/I][/I][/I]
 
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Slegnor

Member
@Azeirah

This works great but I noticed something a little weird with the text output and certain characters.

I have a lot of music from Commodore 64 games (all are standard MP3's not SID files or anything special) and they all start with C64 at the front of the filename ie: "C64 - Boulder Dash (Funky Pebbles).mp3"

For some reason tho, SMG 1.63 beta is filtering out numbers so the output in current_song.txt is "C- Boulder Dash (Funky Pebbles)", the 64 just disappears and it does it woth other songs too ie:

"C64 - 36 Deadly Chambers of Antiriad.mp3" becomes "C- Deadly Chambers of Antiriad"
"C64 - International Karate (80's remix).mp3" becomes "C- International Karate (remix)"

Some songs though half work such as:
"C64 - Monty on the Run (Monty Gets Orchestrated 2011).mp3" becomes "C- Monty on the Run (Monty Gets Orchestrated 2011)" where the 2001 appears but not the 64??

I have done a workaround using the replace option to replace C- with C64 but its bugging me why it happens.

Cant see any filename issues, or ID3v1/v2 tag problems either
 
the9quad

the9quad

Member
How to fix spotify, without having to refix it all the time:

1.) grab old version of spotify from here: http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/

2.) go to C:/Users/<Name>/Appdata/Roaming/Spotify

  • A. Make a new empy text file
  • B. Name it Spotify_new.exe
  • C. Right click the file and make the file read only
  • D. Make a new empty text file
  • E. Name it Spotify_new.exe.sig
  • F. Right click the file and make the file read only

Spotify will not be able to update because it can't delete the files, because they are read only, all future upgrades will fail.

SMG will work again, Snip will work again, Equalify will work again etc...
 
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