Non-Free SMG now playing 2.22

[Dan_of_Earth]

forgive me if this has been answered already. I'm looking for a way to display the now playing and album art for a few seconds upon track change or unpausing the song and then having the text and art disappear after a few seconds so it doesnt stay on screen all the time. Is there a way to do this?

 

[krios]

@Dan_of_Earth I think the developer stopped checking the forum. Probably better to go with a different piece of software

 

[Azeirah]

forgive me if this has been answered already. I'm looking for a way to display the now playing and album art for a few seconds upon track change or unpausing the song and then having the text and art disappear after a few seconds so it doesnt stay on screen all the time. Is there a way to do this?

Not right now, we're interested in heavily expanding the capabilities of our software, but right now we have to focus on fixing issues with existing players; SoundCloud, Tidal and others.

@Dan_of_Earth I think the developer stopped checking the forum. Probably better to go with a different piece of software

I understand the sentiment, communication has been detrimental over the past ~two months. I just rounded up my study, and have allocated a lot of time to work on SMG. The intention is to first fix all the open known issues, that is, the issues with crashes some people are experiencing, some music players that aren't currently working like Tidal and SoundCloud and other more obscure issues. Afterwards, I'd like to take a look at implementing more interesting features like album art, integrations and collaborations with layouts/layout makers, real output formatting features (ie: %songname by %artist) and more.

Not dead, far from it, just a little slow the past weeks. I'll be back with more detail in an upcoming blogpost, where I'll show a roadmap for fixes/features in the short-term.

 

[NicoCaldo]

Can I use it with Spotify app? And the plugin display cover arts?

 

[Azeirah]

Can I use it with Spotify app? And the plugin display cover arts?

SMG supports both the desktop Spotify application as well as the online one. We don't support showing cover art unfortunately, although this is a feature I'd like to add later.

 

[BDRMrTBag]

@Azeirah Was there a fix for the Foobar2000 bug that caused SMG to repeat the song name twice? Or is that still something you're working on?

 

[Azeirah]

@Azeirah Was there a fix for the Foobar2000 bug that caused SMG to repeat the song name twice? Or is that still something you're working on?

The fix is in our dev build, but it won't be released until we're ready to release a big update which takes care of many problems with the smg-web plugin..

 

[Holly Hunter]

Are you working on a fix for soundcloud? I can get the app to work but it repeats the song name twice and I can't put a space in between the name or anything so it's a bit of a pain.

 

[nbtc971]

Just updated my Windows 10 and now SMG won't start.

UPDATE:
Fixed this by deleting my config folder and restarting.

 

[Azeirah]

Just updated my Windows 10 and now SMG won't start.

UPDATE:
Fixed this by deleting my config folder and restarting.

To be honest, I'm kinda curious why SMG would break on a Windows update, it's written to be as independent of file structure and stuff as possible.. hm

Are you working on a fix for soundcloud? I can get the app to work but it repeats the song name twice and I can't put a space in between the name or anything so it's a bit of a pain.

I am, yes. I've got SoundCloud working locally. I'm getting closer and closer to getting the current release out. I really want to release the next version as soon as possible, but given my current situation I cannot promise anything.

The next release has lots and lots of upgrades for all kinds of things:

There's honestly too much to mention, but I'm mainly working toward making it completely effortless and pain-free for everybody to use this program. The intention here is to make it easier for myself to add support for new music players, maintain currently supported ones, reduce the amount of crashes, make the UI simpler. The biggest thing I've been researching and working on for the past two-ish months is to greatly reduce the friction between the web plugin and SMG.

In the upcoming release, working with web music players will be a lot easier. You don't have to have a specific tab open anymore, you can have as many browser windows open as you want, you don't have to "start" the plugin anymore, communication is a lot faster and more reliable, etc etc etc...

So what needs to be done at this point?

1. Communicate to all Groovemarklet users that it will be stopped from working in say.. a month or so, in favor of the newer plugin
2. Slowly bring out the new plugin together with the new SMG version, as the new SMG version as well as the improved plugin will not be compatible with older versions.

 

[Azeirah]

Yo all,

I'd like to let you know that the new release is coming this friday, the 8th. SMG v2.17 will break compatibility with the groovemarklet, the web-plugin will automatically update itself to the newer version.

Beware however, since we made a change in how SMG communicates with the web plugin, if you keep using the old SMG version, it won't connect to the updated web plugin, and the older plugin won't be available anymore


What do you need to do this friday to make sure SMG will keep working? Pick the instructions below that fit your use-case.



For those who are still using the groovemarklet today:
Install our web plugin (click this), which will auto-update on friday, we won't support the groovemarklet anymore from this point onward. Afterwards, you'll also have to update to SMG v2.17

For those who are using the web plugin:
Update to SMG v2.17 version coming friday, if you don't, you won't be able to use web music players like YouTube and Soundcloud, you don't have to do anything else though.

For those who don't use the web plugin or the Groovemarklet
If you're content with your version of SMG, no worries, you can just keep using that. You can always update to a newer version later if you want to.
SMG v2.17 /does/ have better stability, and it has taken care of various bugs, like the Foobar2000 double title bug.

 

[mantazzo]

Question: Would it be possible for you to somehow add Windows 10 Music UWP app support for songs? I find myself using it more and more (since the design change was good) and I didn't find the option for it and I hope it's possible somehow.

 

[Azeirah]

Good (or bad, depending on your perspective) news. Smg's back to open source.

I've decided that running SMG as a business comes with way too much stress. You can read more about the why on the site: https://martijnbrekelmans.com/SMG/

https://github.com/OpenSMG

If anyone is interested in maintaining it, let me know

Have fun.

https://martijnbrekelmans.com/SMG/
Apologies for this post, I can get very emotional over small things sometimes.

Question: Would it be possible for you to somehow add Windows 10 Music UWP app support for songs? I find myself using it more and more (since the design change was good) and I didn't find the option for it and I hope it's possible somehow.

What music application is that precisely? Do you mean Groove music? When I use the Windows store app and search for "UWP", I find these kinds of applications

 

[Roshav]

I have this one question. When i try to load smg with plug.dj or youtube the song title shows on the browser plugin, but not on the smg itself. I am using the latest smg version of the program. I can provide my license e-mail if needed. Thanks in advance. (it does not work with groovemarklet anymore either)

 

[Azeirah]

I have this one question. When i try to load smg with plug.dj or youtube the song title shows on the browser plugin, but not on the smg itself. I am using the latest smg version of the program. I can provide my license e-mail if needed. Thanks in advance. (it does not work with groovemarklet anymore either)

Do you have any idea where that text "Custom Sound Mix (or nothing, i don't know...)" might be coming from? I just tried a few plug.dj rooms with both firefox and chrome, SMG version 2.17, it's working fine here.

 

[karpick99]

Same problem here but with YouTube x Chrome. It was working fine till YT dark mode makover I guess. I tried to reinstall both SMG and the browser plugin but it changed nothing.

PS: I'm so glad you're back, Man! Best of luck.

 

[mantazzo]

@Azeirah it's called Groove Music, it comes by default with Windows 10 I think... (UWP is a platform, Universal Windows Platform)

EDIT: Here's the link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/groove-music/9wzdncrfj3pt

 

[Roshav]

Do you have any idea where that text "Custom Sound Mix (or nothing, i don't know...)" might be coming from? I just tried a few plug.dj rooms with both firefox and chrome, SMG version 2.17, it's working fine here.

This is my text when the program/plugin is not working or when i don't play anything. I tried to reinstall chrome AND SMG but it didn't work...

 

[Azeirah]

Hi all, I'm currently in investigation-mode! Gathering some screenshots and logs from people so I can find out what's going on!

This is my text when the program/plugin is not working or when i don't play anything. I tried to reinstall chrome AND SMG but it didn't work...

Ah, I figured that was the case.
Can you please send me the following to our support email smg@martijnbrekelmans.com

1. A screenshot of your issue, showing as much information as possible, that is
1a. Your smg window
1b. The music player website you'd like to use
1c. The popup of the extension (click on the SMG icon in chrome)

AND, these are important
2. The two files in SMG's logs folder. Where you placed SMG, there should be a folder called 'logs', open that folder and send the two files exceptions.txt and logging.txt to me.

Please mention your OBS username 'roshav' in the mail.

@Azeirah it's called Groove Music, it comes by default with Windows 10 I think... (UWP is a platform, Universal Windows Platform)

EDIT: Here's the link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/groove-music/9wzdncrfj3pt

Ah ok, Groove music, I understand.
I'm afraid I won't be able to support Groove music as it currently stands, and probably not in the near future either.

My recommendation is that you use a music player that is definitely supported. Spotify is an absolutely fantastic music, and Groove Music includes an option to move your music to Spotify, see this gif I just made

 

[mantazzo]

Ah, okay, I hoped it was probably possible.
Also the exporting feature does not exist in my version, probably because the feature isn't available in my country (there was no Groove Pass service at all here), I plainly used it as a music player for local files since I feel it is lightweight and pretty simple.