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Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

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Hi All

Have been using Sysdash Media for several years now and no issues - However recently upgraded my MediaMonkey Player from v4 to v5 and now the Media plugin still plays and opens MM but does display any info/covers and the controls do not work. Is there a fix for this? Images shows MM playing but no content in the plugin

Many thanks
Brian

V 4.5.0.3518 of Rainmeter

Edit* Just noticed that MM is no longer a supported player? https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/measures/nowplaying/#playerlist

However I did find a MediaMonkey dll https://github.com/mmuffins/rainmeter-mediamonkey/tree/dev for V5 designed to work with NowPlaying.

The instructions I assume are very easy but I don't understand where to "....create a measure with settings Plugin=MediaMonkey." In which file is this done?
Is it in the existing MeasureNowPlaying.inc, or a variables file? Have attached the text files but if you can help let me know what else i need to upload

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I couldnt find any reference at all for MM to be supported, in this current evolution of rainmeter. Pretty sure however, the page you linked to shows where to put the player type;

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[MeasurePlayer]
Measure=NowPlaying
; The main measure specifies the media player on PlayerName.
PlayerName=iTunes
PlayerType=TITLE
; PlayerPath, TrackChangeAction, and DisableLeadingZero are valid here on
; the main measure only.
Try setting the PlayerName=CAD. That is sort of a fall through for most partially or nil supported players for rainmeter to accept commands and pass then to your MM.

Also, you mightnt like the notion of reverting MM versions - I have no idea if that is actually impossible and still use MM or not.
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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

Post by dsotm44 »

Hi

The download page has the V5 details - https://github.com/mmuffins/rainmeter-mediamonkey/releases/tag/v1.2

Many thanks for the CAD tip

However the page does not specify which file the code has to go into - can you help?
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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

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dsotm44 wrote: September 3rd, 2021, 8:13 am
Get the plugin from releases.

Extract and copy the 64bit plugin to %apppdata%\Rainmeter\Plugins.
Screenshot 2021-09-03 170148.png
Next, format the player measure as:

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[MMParent]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=MediaMonkey
PlayerPath=path\to\mediamonkey
StartupDelay=900

[MMChild]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=MediaMonkey
PlayerName=[MMParent]

; for more player types refer to https://github.com/mmuffins/rainmeter-mediamonkey/tree/dev#measures
PlayerType=Title
The bangs are same as NowPlaying, and should be directed to MMParent, or whatever the parent measure is.
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And if you have a portable version, Plugins folder should be here:

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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

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Many thanks

I do have the plugin placed correctly but I am still not understanding WHERE to change

"Next, format the player measure as:"

Which file do I enter/change the code in?

Apologies in advance for the confusion
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dsotm44 wrote: September 3rd, 2021, 11:51 am Many thanks

I do have the plugin placed correctly but I am still not understanding WHERE to change

"Next, format the player measure as:"

Which file do I enter/change the code in?

Apologies in advance for the confusion
I made the changes in MeasureNowPlaying.inc, and Media (big).ini.
MediaMonkey.zip
Tell me if it works or not. I don't have MediaMonkey to test with. I will download it if the need arises.
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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

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Aha!

Many thanks! Will experiment and report back

Regards
Brian
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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

Post by dsotm44 »

Hi

Sadly - no change lol

I see the dll author has a sample skin code here - https://github.com/mmuffins/rainmeter-mediamonkey/blob/dev/SampleSkin.ini - not sure if this helps.

Please do not go to the trouble of installing MM on my behalf - it won't kill me to maximise the MM window if I need to change tracks :)

Many thanks for the help

Edit - did a quick skin export of my Sysdash setup - see attached
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Re: Media Player controls and cover art stopped working

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dsotm44 wrote: September 3rd, 2021, 12:06 pm
Okay, the plugin is outdated. The dev branch was active but there are no releases. And due to missing dependencies, I can't build it.

So I guess the only thing you can do is open an issue in the repository and request a build or just wait. :(
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