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General Discussion / Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 16, 2023, 06:31:56 PM »

Using latest release and can't get rid of a "ghost bar" which just appeared under the main window.
see gray bar below between player and playlist
other windows will dock around it like if it was part of the window.

I've tried just about everything to get rid of it, restarting, changing skins and options, opening/closing drawers, etc.
It won't go away....


Using modern-Christmas does work so it's directly related to the standard Winamp modern skin parameters.


Any advice on how to get rid of it or troubleshoot?





Thx.

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General Discussion / WACUP Home automation integration - Homeseer

« on: March 14, 2021, 11:20:46 PM »

For anyone interested in home automation:


I integrated WACUP to my HA platform ( Homeseer ) so I can control it via my wall mounted tablets (along with lighting/appliances control and other HA features)

Have a look at the demo below and feel free to share questions, suggestions or comments.
Thanks to DrO for helping out and Jon00 for the HS plugin;


There are still some hurdles to a perfect integration, especially with the Media Library polling ( would love to get rid of the Ajaxamp/Ampwifi dependancy) but I'm hopeful a revamped API is somewhere in DrO's already quite long todo list =)


Demo:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmrjs61nahwrlgd/WACUP-HOMESEER-JON00.mp4?dl=0

https://youtu.be/VorDGKNzUOQ (other copy on Youtube but seems to be blocked in some countries due to the music contents)


Homeseer forum discussion:
https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3rd-party-developer-area/general-developer-discussion/jon00/94458-jon00-winamp-wacup-controller-for-homeseer-3-and-homeseer-4?p=1462904#post1462904


Cheers,

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Retrieve artwork from ID3

« on: July 17, 2020, 04:42:15 PM »

Hi dro, just quoting our latest PM discussion for easier follow up; let us know if you have a chance to look into it;
IE: remove the locking with taglib or add the option to save the current artwork to file via (prefs -> playback -> play tracking -> now playing) + command line control. Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

Me: 

"In order to retrieve artwork from ID3, the WACUP/Homeseer plugin has to access the currently playing file in the first few seconds; seems like this was possible with 5.666 but now the file would be in and out of a "lock" or "in use" state which sometimes prevents the plugin from showing the associated artwork.
Can you think of a workaround to accomplish this without impacting your platform? Or a different way to access ID3 embedded artwork?
I'm preparing a short demo for the Homeseer forum users to promote WACUP and Jon's plugin but I'd like to get rid of this bug so things look as smooth and bug free as possible Appreciate all your help and commitment to the WACUP project."

dro:

"Alas I'm aware of the issue from a thread by aminifu & a few others from a while back.

It's not intended behaviour as reading should be possible in a shareable state if it's just due to tag reading (which under 5.666 is using in_mp3 whilst wacup uses taglib to resolve crash issues that in_mp3 has) but I've yet to fully dig into the issue as my initial tests at the time couldn't consistently replicate the issue.

It might also not be related to that tag reading & could instead be something else as there's a number of aspects that depending on the skin & plug-ins installed that can be accessing the file.

The only obvious workaround would be try & add a command-line tag / artwork dump but that spawned instance could also then hit the same issue & if Homeseer is already processing the file metadata then that might not be the ideal &/or welcome solution to process something else.

Really I just need to allocate the time to look into what's causing the locking & remove that so there's no need for workarounds

[edit]
Just remembered something from a tweet I'd replied to a few days back, the option to log what's currently playing to a file (prefs -> playback -> play tracking -> now playing) also needs a complimentary option to save the current artwork if it exists to file. Maybe that's something which can be leveraged along with the ETSAMAN_ON/ETSAMAN_OFF handling to force it on/off as needed to simplify the handling. "

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Resolved Issues / [FIXED] WACUP crashes on JTFE queue

« on: May 10, 2020, 10:59:48 PM »

WACUP started crashing on adding file to JTFE queue; (with Q or any other way)
tried resinstalling over existing install, no luck.
Deleted gen_jumpex.m3u8 (it's empty), no luck.
crash report attached.

Thx

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General Discussion / Auto Video Fullscreen

« on: May 10, 2020, 10:39:28 PM »

Hi Darren, "Auto Video Fullscreen" plugin freezes WACUP whenever a video is started;
Everything, inluding videos, works perfectly when the plugin is disabled.
Since it is an important feature, would you mind checking if you can reproduce on your end and/or fix it?
I only use it to ensure videos are opened full screen and optionally close Milkdrop. If integrating these features to the existing Video preferences menu is simpler I wouldn't mind using it this way either.

Just for reference, I am using Directshow for all video formats + LAV decoder/audio/video encoders (Klite codec pack).

Thanks

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General Discussion / What's Playing plugin

« on: April 29, 2020, 06:32:13 PM »

Hi Darren, for some reason, the What's Playing V2.2. plugin doesn't seem to work anymore on WACUP (works on 5.666);  https://winampheritage.com/plugin/whats-playing-v2-dot-2/141842
The plugin is used to feed basic data (Artist, Title etc) to the Homeseer3 Winamp plugin developped by Jon00 ( see previous thread on JTFE & line commands)
Any way to restore compatibility or workarounds?

Thanks for your continued support,

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General Discussion / Queuing with JTFE from media library

« on: January 20, 2020, 04:43:06 PM »

Hi DrO,

1st question : is there a way to "queue" to JTFE directly from the media library or via a command line?

What I'm trying to accomplish here is to "queue" a song that is contained within my file structure but not present in the current playlist.
Since I'm calling this from an external program (home automation - Homeseer), it has to be as simple as possible.

My current workaround, is to "add to playlist", monitor the number of entries in the playlist and once it detects a new entry, it emulates keystrokes ("End" then a bunch of "down") so the focus is on the last line of the playlist and press "Q"; not the most elegant way to do it, but it's the only way I found so far.

The current behavior in the media library:

"Enqueue"=add to playlist
"Send to" / "add to queue" = add to playlist

would essentially need something like "add to JTFE" instead; or a way to do it via a command line call.

2- Can you confirm where JTFE stores its queue list so we could potentially access it from Homeseer for external display purposes?
(found gen_jumpex.m3u8 in the C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Winamp folder but seems empty)

3- Are there WMcommands or other ways to interact with JTFE externally? (queue to JTFE, access the Queue, move entries up/down, etc)

Thanks for your help!

Yann