BUG: Some legacy plugins do not have settings saved when WACUP is closed

[kylejcrb]

Hello,

I've encountered a bug with WACUP build #6800 (and earlier) when using some legacy plugins, in particular the NSF player NotSo Fatso (I prefer this plugin to NSFPlay because of its "Shadow to Playlist" feature.) The plugin itself has proper functionality as expected, but any changes made to the settings within the plugin are not persistent and will reset whenever WACUP is closed. This seems to affect any plugins that would normally save to the plugin.ini file in the C:\Program Files (x86)\WACUP\Plugins directory. Modifying this file manually does not change these settings in WACUP, either.

[Abhijit A]

some of the old plugins have path hardcoded to winamp directory.

for NotSo Fatso, please check the thread in winamp where DrO has replied to the post. (way back in 2012).

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=343374

[Eris Lund]

NSFplug has this feature.


"New" will overwrite your current playlist with the subsongs of the NSF, "Append" will, as it suggests, appends the subsongs into your current playlist.

Edit: I'm not sure how NSFplug saves it's config, but I'd have to suspect it saves it in the plugins folder instead of the Settings folder (despite being updated regularly)

[dro]

I'm going to say that this isn't a WACUP issue & is all down to the plug-in(s) that haven't been updated to support the Winamp 2.9x settings api which was added in 2002 & far far far too many plug-ins (even those created afterwards) were never updated to make use of it (as old me said per the link note above).

Depending on the plug-in it often requires running WACUP with the plug-in as an administrator once so the settings can be saved. I do however attempt to hook the plug-ins & depending on how it's trying to read/save its settings redirect things to a more appropriate location as part of making things more portable compatible.

Though as NotSoFatso is specifically noted, what version is being used? As my intention is to add an NSFplug based plug-in to WACUP rather than NotSoFatso but depending on the version & if the code is out there (I assume it is from memory for some revisions) I could at least provide a basic update to make it save it's settings in a compatible manner.

-dro

[kylejcrb]

After some more experimenting, I found that it does save its settings, kind of. The plugin saves and reads its settings from the plugins.ini file in the %APPDATA%/Roaming/WACUP/Plugins folder, but it doesn't seem to recognize all of the settings between sessions. For example, even with "Loop Forever=1" present in the .ini, the plugin won't maintain keeping it toggled on when closing and reopening WACUP.

The version I'm using is the last official release 0.851. The source is is still up on the plugin's website: https://disch.zophar.net/notsofatso.php

Thanks Gordon Freeman for pointing that out with NSFPlug. I tried it with both the latest stable and beta versions and while it technically works, the .m3u playlists are formatted incorrectly and only populate using the plugin's Title Format settings rather than the tag information present in NSFe files. I've submitted a report to the NSFPlug dev about it, so hopefully they can correct that eventually.