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Changing The Path To An Application

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I need to do this but I'm not sure how. Can anybody help? Thanks.
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Gregory2001 wrote: March 16th, 2020, 11:48 pm I need to do this but I'm not sure how. Can anybody help? Thanks.
I'm sorry, but this is nowhere near enough information to even begin to answer.
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JRiver Media Center went from Media Center 25 to 26 and now "CAD:::" no longer works for Now Playing skins. Thanks.
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Gregory2001 wrote: March 17th, 2020, 12:43 am JRiver Media Center went from Media Center 25 to 26 and now "CAD:::" no longer works for Now Playing skins. Thanks.
This has been discussed a few times before. Take a look please to the following discussions, especially to the second one:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34407#p170031
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=31909&start=10#p161141
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Re: Changing The Path To An Application

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I am aware of this but I don't know how to change the path from 25 to 26. Thanks.
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Gregory2001 wrote: March 17th, 2020, 1:21 pm I don't know how to change the path from 25 to 26.
What path? There is no path. Or is?
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Re: JRiver Media Center
Post by jsmorley » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:03 am

Gregory2001 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:44 am
Yes, something changed on the last upgrade but I still don't understand why it works for you and not here. Here on MC25, Soita (or any other skin) won't even open the player.
Well, that is likely just that you havn't changed the path to the application, which is different depending on the version.

"C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 25\Media Center 25.exe"
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Re: Changing The Path To An Application

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Gregory2001 wrote: March 17th, 2020, 2:23 pm Re: JRiver Media Center
Post by jsmorley » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:03 am

Gregory2001 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:44 am
Yes, something changed on the last upgrade but I still don't understand why it works for you and not here. Here on MC25, Soita (or any other skin) won't even open the player.
Well, that is likely just that you havn't changed the path to the application, which is different depending on the version.

"C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 25\Media Center 25.exe"
You can tell the NowPlaying measure where to find your media player, so the open command works, by setting the PlayerPath in the measure to the path to your player.

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[MeasurePlayer]
Measure=NowPlaying
Player=CAD
PlayerType=TITLE
PlayerPath=C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 26\Media Center 26.exe
I will not install J River Media Center 26 to find out what the correct path is, but with a little searching I am sure you can find the correct path value.
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Gregory2001 wrote: March 17th, 2020, 12:43 am JRiver Media Center went from Media Center 25 to 26 and now "CAD:::" no longer works for Now Playing skins. Thanks.
I try very hard not to recommend software on forums, but you have been looking for answers for a loooong time.

You could try installing CD Art Display 3.0 for Windows. According to some older post on the J River forum, it will work with older J River versions by setting the "Options", "Player", "Selected Player" to "Registered Player".
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It also has a skin editor that may help you design the style of interface you desire.
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Gregory2001 wrote: March 17th, 2020, 12:43 am JRiver Media Center went from Media Center 25 to 26 and now "CAD:::" no longer works for Now Playing skins. Thanks.
Just tried and found out that it does work for me. Installed JRiver Media Center 26.0.30 and tried the example code existing on the NowPlaying measure's help page. Works perfectly.
The installation path of my JRiver Media Center is c:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 26\Media Center 26.exe. I tried to add the PlayerPath=c:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 26\Media Center 26.exe option (having the previously posted path into the PlayerPath option as you can see) option to the parent NowPlaying measure. I also added a [MeterOpen] meter to the code:

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[MeterOpen]
Meter=String
X=20R
Y=5
FontColor=FFFF00
Text=Open
LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure "MeasurePlayer" "OpenPlayer"]
When clicking the above Open string, JRiver Media Center opens correctly. So everything seems to be working.
My thought is that in your case the PlayerPath option is either not set correctly (but probably it is correct), or most probably, the option is not added to the parent measure. In such a case, the OpenPlayer might not work.
In order to can take a look, please post the code of your skin. Thanks.