Chiran

Good to hear . And I'll add some detection to the next version.

-Chiran

TNaismith

Wonderful success! Opened the file in notepad (SongbookSettings.plugindata in the \PluginData\<lotrouser>\AllServers directory) and figured out which numbers to change. I browsed to the section called ["Top"] = "20", and the number previously was -36, so I changed this to 20, basically assuming anything slightly above 0 would do the trick, and viola, it worked!

SongbookSettings.plugindata

Code:

return 
{
	["WindowVisible"] = "yes",
	["DescriptionVisible"] = "yes",
	["DefaultCommand"] = "1",
	["Commands"] = 
	{
		["1"] = 
		{
			["Title"] = "Now playing",
			["Command"] = "/e is now playing %name"
		},
		["3"] = 
		{
			["Title"] = "Paste filename",
			["Command"] = "/f %file"
		},
		["2"] = 
		{
			["Title"] = "Sync command to /f",
			["Command"] = "/f /play %file sync %part"
		}
	},
	["ToggleLeft"] = "0",
	["TracksHeight"] = "50",
	["WindowOpacity"] = "0.9",
	["WindowPosition"] = 
	{
		["Top"] = "20",
		["Height"] = "200",
		["Left"] = "409",
		["Width"] = "342"
	},
	["DescriptionFirst"] = "no",
	["ToggleTop"] = "1",
	["SearchVisible"] = "yes",
	["ToggleVisible"] = "yes",
	["TracksVisible"] = "yes",
	["DirHeight"] = "40"
}

Thanks mate, I'll be able to fix this problem if it happens again without deleting any files. It helps a lot!

Too bad about the playlist feature, but we'll see how things turn out. =] Cheers and appreciate the help.

Greenlander

I made a nice song compilation that works pretty well with this plugin.
It includes 97 popular songs. I will update it sometimes when I have enough time, but its a good source for an instant songpackage. Have fun ;-)

Music.rar

(just unrar the .abc files from the archive and put them into your Music folder)

Greenlander

PS: its my interlectual property xD

Eili

Working fine for me too
WIN xp

Cennwyn

I didn't have any rollback points (for some reason), but I did try rolling back to an earlier version of .net (well, by which I mean I uninstalled .NET 4 Framework). Same error pops up. It's maddening.

EDIT: Someone suggested trying an older version of Songbook, but I can't seem to find one via Google. Is there one available?

keli

Its fine for me so I guess its a change on Cennwyn's computer - maybe Windows updated something but without knowing exactly what, it's difficult to roll it back.
You might try checking your windows logs or the Updates history for last couple of days to see if any clues there.

Cennwyn

It's been a wonderful tool for me until now, so thank you for creating it and maintaining it! I'll keep tinkering, and if anything changes I'll post it.

Chiran

Can try that, but I believe it's a more fundamental issue with the libraries the tool uses. For some reason, a change in security settings or something else, stopped it from working. I just wish I could provide you with a fix, but I do have some ideas about doing things completely differently. I'm not sure what else you could tell me really. It's sometimes hard to pinpoint a small thing that could have changed.

-Chiran

Cennwyn

I can tell you what I've tried so far:

-Deleting Songbook, and the PluginsData folder, then re-installing Songbook (this didn't work).
-Updating Windows (this also didn't work).


...I'm about to try removing my music folder and adding the ABC files back one folder at a time, to see if a corrupted ABC file is the problem. Is there anything else I could tell you that would be helpful? I don't know much about this stuff.

Chiran

Hi, thanks for the report. The error is pretty vague, so at the moment I have no idea about the cause. The line number could indicate it's a call where I try to determine Windows version. I wish I knew more about this. :-/

-Chiran

Cennwyn

I have used songbook for ages without a problem, never had any trouble updating the library--when one day, I attempted to run the .hta file and received an error pop-up. Screenshot here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sg3mfg6m2hgvd4w

Any ideas? Oh, I forgot to add: I tried using SongbookFiller.exe and get THIS error:


http://www.mediafire.com/?5sawpgajda9adrv

Chiran

Hey, thanks for all the kind comments and suggestiongs. More about those below:

Yes, playlist has been in there for a long while. It just wouldn't be as useful as that. Playing a song always requires a button press from the user so it cannot act as a jukebox. It might still have some use, so I'll keep it in mind.

Oh I imagine this can happen. The simplest way to fix this is to just unload the plugin and delete SongbookSettings.plugindata in the \PluginData\<lotrouser>\AllServers directory. Or you could even open the file and change the window position coordinates in it with a text editor. Then reload the plugin. Thanks for bringing this up though. I can have a look at possible fixes for this.

Finally I just wanted to apologize for lack of updates lately. I'm not currently playing lotro actively, so it has negatively affected the development of this plugin. However, I do still have plans for it and I hopefully will get back to them soon.

-Chiran

Chiran

Did the songbook.hta work for you? Did it find your music files or report any errors? The .exe version could work better too.

-Chiran

TNaismith

Hi there Chiran.

Been using SongBook for a good 3-4 months now, love it for it's in-game interface and ability to see the song titles/names right there in a list. I just need to browse my library, pick a song for the occasion, and let it play without scrambling my memory to remember the exact filename to type in.

The only thing I felt was missing was an playlist feature -- but I see that's already coming up next on your TODO list! It would be wonderful to queue up several songs and let them play automatically for friends and kin-mates, especially for those random encounters when questing or exploring Middle-Earth and you sit-down by a ol' campfire to chat and enjoy a trail meal!

Thought I would let you know of one possible bug that I encountered -- it has to do with resizing and positioning the Songbook interface window. At some point in the last 3-4 months I was switching the resolution for the game, from 800x600 to 1024x768, and also between windowed and fullscreen mode. During one of these changes, the top part of the Songbook window got permanently moved above the viewing area of the monitor. I wasn't able to access the play/sync/music mode buttons any more. See the screenshot below for detail:


Look at the area where you see the text "Search" and "Clear", anything above that was actually out of my game window -- and the problem was that no amount of changing the resolution or fullscreen/windowed options would bring it back to normal. The only thing I could do was resize the window, but because the top part was out of the screen, I couldn't get around to moving the window back within the game screen at all.

I re-installed the plugin and now it's working fine again, but it would be handy to have a fix for this in-game without having to remove and re-install the plugin.

My suggestions would be to consider adding an option under 'Settings' to reset the position of the window back to default, or to make the right or left borders of the window click-able for moving the window around as well, and not just the top bar.

Just dropping by to let you know about that. Don't think many people are as clumsy as myself to get into that sort 'o trouble though, so I wouldn't worry about it. Great work and hope to check back for a new version with a auto-playlist feature soon!

~ TNaismith
Naismithea (Captain), Withywindle Server
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ducnscc

I'm not sure what the problem is but for some reason the library is not created correctly I believe. Is there a SongbookData.plugindata file in your
\PluginData\<lotrouser>\AllServers\ folder under the Lotro folder where screenshots folder is as well? Could you send it to me to chiran[at]theroadgoeson.org?

-Chiran

Thanks for your reply but there is no SongbookData.plugindata file in my
\PluginData\<lotrouser>\AllServers\ folder but there are some file .plugindata of others plugin