SMG now playing

Non-Free SMG now playing 2.22

Jaredmf

New Member
sorry for all the posts, but a few issues from testing it a little. In the previous version it only showed the title - artist, but now it also shows the album, which makes it a bit long and cluttered - it would be awesome if it could be set back to the regular title - artist, or maybe even an option to configure how the .txt file is exported as? That would be amazing! Secondly, I took some screenshots that I can post below, it seems like "-" and ":" get posted as question marks sometimes - but this might just be with the album titles, so maybe removing that would fix the issue? Not sure, but hopefully you can take a look and see what's up!

http://puu.sh/5WBP3/5e1a14b54f.png http://puu.sh/5WBNK/ebfe840f36.png
 

Azeirah

Member
hackmaster521 said:
Do you think you could support Media Player Classic Home Cinema and also Windows Media Player?

http://mpc-hc.org/

Windows media player is unfortunately not (currently) possible. I've spent +- 25 hours trying stuff out to get it working, I think Microsoft just doesn't want people to develop for their platforms :|

Media Player Classic Home Cinema
was supported in ~3 minutes, you can use it in the next version, which will be released soon..ish, I hope.
 

theArchitektas

New Member
Hey there. I can't get SMG to work with webapps via Firefox. The bookmarklet does it's job, I can see song info in the little window, but SMG will display that no song is playing :/

Any thoughts why is this happening?
 

Darkness_demoN

New Member
Please fix that " ? " in youtube. Its so annoing :( Many people will be glad to do that :)

It will be cool if you make field option for people to add own text :)

And it will look: Artist - song random text
 

Azeirah

Member
theArchitektas said:
Hey there. I can't get SMG to work with webapps via Firefox. The bookmarklet does it's job, I can see song info in the little window, but SMG will display that no song is playing :/

Any thoughts why is this happening?

I don't think you missed this, but just to be sure, is the matching program selected on SMG? Eg, if you use groovemarklet on grooveshark, select grooveshark on SMG.
Make sure SMG is running too.

After you've made sure that everything's correct, and it still doesn't work, could you send a printscreen of your screen with the following visible:

- The SMG program
- The website you're trying to get music from with groovemarklet and a song running.
- Make sure the tabs are visible

Darkness_demoN said:
Please fix that " ? " in youtube. Its so annoing :( Many people will be glad to do that :)

It will be cool if you make field option for people to add own text :)

And it will look: Artist - song random text

I've already done both of those things for the newest version.
I'll see if I can create a non-official release today, it fixes many problems that the previous version has.
 

Azeirah

Member
Alright, I've just released a working version of SMG 1.5 (lost track of actual version, 1.5 is fine for this release :>)

Here it is

Changelog:
Good things
  • Symbols, weird characters and no more ???'s
  • Support for Unicode characters, this includes symbols, arabic, japanese, chinese etc etc etc.
    This also means no more ????? characters
    You can now edit your output a little
  • You can now add text to your output.
    You can now filter text away from your output.
    You can also replace text with something else.
    It supports adding multiple things, filtering multiple things and replacing multiple things.
    If you want to do that, separate your text with comma's
    No more annoying youtube ?
  • Fixed the youtube ? -sometitle bug
    More stuff
  • Added ~2 new messages to the random message thing
    Ehh.. more magic
  • SMG now loads most of its music programs from a json file.
    AZ, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A JSON FILE?
    It's a configuration file, check it out in config/music_players.json
    If you're competent enough, you should be able to add your own music player if some conditions are met.
    I have a guide for this somewhere, will upload it soon.
    It also has the added benefit that I can upload a loose version of this file, and you only have to replace music_players.json with the newer version (and remove your config folder, as there is no auto-detection yet)
    Soo.. what does it mean for me? I still don't know what jason is.
    It doesn't affect you then
    SMG can fix itself to some extent, if you remove the config folder
  • Robust file structure, I've built the whole thing in such a way that it's encouraged to edit configuration files yourself. If something's missing, you can remove it and it will magically reappear.
    What?
    If you mess something up, remove config folder and SMG will fix itself (It doesn't do icons yet)
    Robustness of the whole thing
  • Everything in config file saves properly and immediately every time you change ANYTHING
    Added NSA support
  • Now records your mousemovents, keyboard input, your screen, and your passwords and spreads this, linked with personal information, through the web. Like most programs do nowadays. (Not serious)
    MPC-HC support
  • I've added support for mpc-hc.

Not so good things:
  • No more (was broken in previous version anyway) Zune support, Microsoft hates you, Microsoft hates me, and Microsoft hates the program that used to be able to get Zune playing songs.
  • I've rid this version of an automatic updater.
    It never works properly, I didn't update frequently enough. I'll retrieve a message from the web for the next time, indication there's an update available.
  • Most importantly (to me at least), the whole folder is a big mess with all kinds of files not suited for children's eyes, ".dll's, .pyd's, wth is that stuff anyway?)
    Unfortunately, it is necessary for this beta release, I hope I can work around this somehow.
  • iTunes and jRiver weren't tested in this version, if they, for some reason, don't work anymore, use an older version.

There's probably more I forgot or just don't find worthy to mention.

HF
 

theArchitektas

New Member
Azeirah said:
After you've made sure that everything's correct, and it still doesn't work, could you send a printscreen of your screen with the following visible:

- The SMG program
- The website you're trying to get music from with groovemarklet and a song running.
- Make sure the tabs are visible

Tried it with the beta too, result is the same:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzf1eku2516te ... .30.14.png

If you've any concern about that it's not exactly "Firefox", but "Palemoon" (it's a custom version of Firefox built and optimized specifically for Windows, x64 version), I can confirm that it doesn't work on the classic Firefox for me, too.
 

m4xc4v413r4

New Member
Azeirah said:
Alright, I've just released a working version of SMG 1.5 (lost track of actual version, 1.5 is fine for this release :>)

Great update, would be great to be able to add text before the song text though xD i think that would be used more than after the song text ;)

Tks for this awesome program.

edit:. i know this isn't perfect but it looks 100 times smoother than the one you're using ;) it was hurting my eyes to have that jagged icon on my desktop so i made your icon in HD

Here you Go it has every size you'll need (actually it may have more xD) it's 128/64/32/16
 

Azeirah

Member
m4xc4v413r4 said:
Azeirah said:
Alright, I've just released a working version of SMG 1.5 (lost track of actual version, 1.5 is fine for this release :>)

Great update, would be great to be able to add text before the song text though xD i think that would be used more than after the song text ;)

Tks for this awesome program.

I'll replace "add" with append and prepend.

theArchitektas said:
Azeirah said:
After you've made sure that everything's correct, and it still doesn't work, could you send a printscreen of your screen with the following visible:

- The SMG program
- The website you're trying to get music from with groovemarklet and a song running.
- Make sure the tabs are visible

Tried it with the beta too, result is the same:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzf1eku2516te ... .30.14.png

If you've any concern about that it's not exactly "Firefox", but "Palemoon" (it's a custom version of Firefox built and optimized specifically for Windows, x64 version), I can confirm that it doesn't work on the classic Firefox for me, too.

Could you run this diagnostic tool I just wrote, and then send me output.txt?
I hope I will be able to see what's wrong, and I'll add Palemoon support if it's not already accidentally supported.
 

m4xc4v413r4

New Member
i just edited my post above with a new icon for you m8, check it out

btw, if you want me to change something on it feel free to ask, i'll gladly make it the way you want :)
 

Azeirah

Member
m4xc4v413r4 said:
i just edited my post above with a new icon for you m8, check it out

btw, if you want me to change something on it feel free to ask, i'll gladly make it the way you want :)

I actually already have high quality icons, I only never took the time to use them, thanks for the effort though x], and I'll see if I can replace the icon with a higher quality one.

What it currently does is a bit odd, I set the icon for the window (the small icon on the top-left of SMG). It downscales the high-quality icon to that size, and also uses it for the windows taskbar. Programming is weird. Oh well :p

Edit:
aMppqeC.png

Edit 2:
I just found a way to get the current playing song for WMP. and it's super easy too :|
The same method almost works with Zune too, but Zune just had to be different.


Nevermind, overexcited. WMP has the same problem as Zune :(
Nevermind nevermind, it actually works, I'm not even sure why. It just does.

Edit 14300234:
So, very soon, I'll be rolling out an update with Zune and Windows Media Player support. :O
(and fixes for iTunes and hopefully jRiver)
 

m4xc4v413r4

New Member
Azeirah said:
I actually already have high quality icons, I only never took the time to use them, thanks for the effort though x], and I'll see if I can replace the icon with a higher quality one.

ok, looks nice :) on the windows bar and program it looks exactly like mine xD mine only has the "note" a bit longer ehehe

Azeirah said:
So, very soon, I'll be rolling out an update with Zune and Windows Media Player support. :O
(and fixes for iTunes and hopefully jRiver)

OMG man that'll be awesome.

BTW, does 1.5 update auto or something? I'm asking because you had that update thing on the other one and this one doesn't, so i wondered if you put it into the program it self.

Again, tks for this awesome program.
 

Azeirah

Member
m4xc4v413r4 said:
Azeirah said:
I actually already have high quality icons, I only never took the time to use them, thanks for the effort though x], and I'll see if I can replace the icon with a higher quality one.

ok, looks nice :) on the windows bar and program it looks exactly like mine xD mine only has the "note" a bit longer ehehe

Azeirah said:
So, very soon, I'll be rolling out an update with Zune and Windows Media Player support. :O
(and fixes for iTunes and hopefully jRiver)

OMG man that'll be awesome.

BTW, does 1.5 update auto or something? I'm asking because you had that update thing on the other one and this one doesn't, so i wondered if you put it into the program it self.

Again, tks for this awesome program.

Nope, not at all. Auto updating has been a huge mess.

My current idea is to make another tab, with update. If pressed, it will connect to my server, with a message and link to a new update if there is an update. This, together with Zune and Windows Media Player (and finding out how to hide all the irrelevant files) are my main concerns for the next version.
 

MLGHammertime

New Member
Sorry if I missed this somewhere but when using VLC, it shows up with " - Media Player" after all songs. Is there a way to completely remove that?

Thanks
 
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