NowPlaying measure not picking up file path of song in iTunes

[2403dt]

Hi all,

I have been trying to make a plugin that changes the desktop background based on the song playing through iTunes. The code looks something like this:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
 
[measure]
Measure=NowPlaying
PlayerName=iTunes
PlayerType=Title

IfMatch=Song Name
IfMatchAction=[!SetWallpaper "#@#Background.jpg" Fit][!Update]

[render]
Meter=image
SolidColor=0,0,0,0
X=0
Y=0

Although tedious, this has been working fine for me. As I have multiple songs with the same name, however, I have been wanting to change the PlayerType from Title to Path so that the wrong wallpaper would not come on when a certain song plays:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
 
[measure]
Measure=NowPlaying
PlayerName=iTunes
PlayerType=Path

IfMatch="D:\Music\Song Name.mp3"
IfMatchAction=[!SetWallpaper "#@#Background.jpg" Fit][!Update]

[render]
Meter=image
SolidColor=0,0,0,0
X=0
Y=0

This hasn't been working since the plugin doesn't seem to pick up the path I have put in so I was wondering if I could get help from someone on this forum. Thanks in advance!

[eclectic-tech]

PlayerType=Path is not valid, it should be PlayerType=File to return the path to the playing media file.
Documentation: PlayerType

[2403dt]

PlayerType=Path is not valid, it should be PlayerType=File to return the path to the playing media file.
Documentation: PlayerType

Oh oops haha. Thanks for correcting me and helping.

It still doesn't seem to work.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
 
[measure]
Measure=NowPlaying
PlayerName=iTunes
PlayerType=File

IfMatch="D:\Music\Space Oddity.mp3"
IfMatchAction=[!SetWallpaper "#@#Bowie.png" Fit][!Update]

[render]
Meter=image
SolidColor=0,0,0,0
X=0
Y=0

Is there something wrong with how I wrote the file path?

[eclectic-tech]

I would suggest: IfMatch="(?i)D:\\Music\\Space Oddity.mp3"
The backslash is a reserved character in PCRE, so you need to escape it.
(?i) will make the match case insensitive, so capitalization is ignored.

[2403dt]

I would suggest: IfMatch="(?i)D:\\Music\\Space Oddity.mp3"
The backslash is a reserved character in PCRE, so you need to escape it.
(?i) will make the match case insensitive, so capitalization is ignored.

So that was it. This has been bugging me for the longest time. Thank you so much!

[eclectic-tech]

Happy to help!