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Name: Songbook   Updated less than 3 days ago!   Popular!
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Date: 05-21-2013 10:52 AM
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Version: 0.91
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Songbook window
 
Description
Overview

Songbook is a plugin for browsing your abc song files and playing them with a click of a button. The plugin consists of two parts, an in-game plugin which displays the song library, and an external windows program that generates a list of your abc song files in a format that the plugin can read. The external program is realized as a HTA file (VBScript) so that it's fairly easy to check for safety.

Features
  • Browse all your abc files in-game
  • Toggle music mode
  • Select and play a song just by clicking with your mouse
  • Support for starting synced play and making a ready check
  • Moveable and resizable window
  • Support for subdirectories
  • Support for songs with multiple parts
  • Display of actual song names and not just the filename
  • Complimentary multi part abc file, Oolannin sota!
  • Optional song parts display which can be used to view and directly select parts.
  • Support for German clients (big thanks to Thorsongori for translations and testing!)
  • Support for French clients (big thanks to Vevenalia for translations and testing!)
  • Search feature
  • Custom commands for pasting song information to a chat channel *experimental*
  • slots for instruments or other items/skills (which are saved per character)

Installation
  • If you haven't used plugins before it's good to read this post first
  • Unzip the plugin to your 'Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins' folder
  • If you have upgraded from a previous version, you probably have to run the songbook.hta file before your song library works again. See instructions below.

How to use
  • IMPORTANT - Before loading the plugin, use the supplied songbook.hta file (or this native windows application) to build your library. Double click the file to run it, or just make a shortcut to it and place it anywhere you want. Run it whenever you have made changes to your song library. You can also use a great tool by Arnhor, especially if you have problems with building being slow.
  • To load the plugin type /plugins load songbook.
  • Click M button to toggle music mode (make sure you have an instrument equipped).
  • Select a song by clicking it and then press play button to start playing. There's also buttons for synced play and making a ready check.
  • Click and drag from the bottom right corner of the window to resize it.
  • Click and drag the title bar to move the window.
  • Closing the window will save its position and size.
  • Drag the separator lines to scale the sizes of directory, song, and part lists.
  • If the song has multiple parts, you can click little arrows next to the part number ( marked X: ) to switch selected part.
  • Custom commands can be cycled with the mouse wheel when the mouse is over the "S" (short for Share) button
  • Answers to commonly asked questions can be found here.

Command line options
  • /songbook show - shows the Songbook window
  • /songbook hide - hides the Songbook window
  • /songbook toggle - toggles the Songbook window
  • /songbook - lists command line options

Known issues and comments
  • Songs with special characters, such as accents, in their file names will not play with the plugin. This seems to be a problem with the plugin API.

Future plans
  • Playlist/Favorites

Version history

0.91 (21/05/2013)
  • Fixed button opacity

0.90 (12/01/2013)
  • Added option to change button opacity
  • Added option to add or remove instrument slots
  • Added checks to keep window inside game window
  • Pressing enter on search field should start search
  • Fixed a crash with empty song list
  • Added localization fixes
  • Plugin outputs version on load
  • Added icon for plugin manager

0.83 (03/10/2011)
  • new setting for displaying song description first
  • localization fix for instrument slots
  • French and German text fixes, big thanks to Lya for helping out!

0.82 (27/06/2011)
  • Added German translations for instrument slots
  • Fixed a crash with slots and items that are no longer in inventory

0.81 (14/06/2011)
  • fixed error with loading instrument settings
  • fixed search and song description setting not saving correctly

0.80 (12/06/2011)
  • added 8 slots for instruments or other items/skills (saved per character)
  • added an option to show full description in the song list
  • songbook button can no longer be moved outside the screen

0.74 (05/06/2011)
  • fixed a nasty bug with directory list code
  • removed forced z-order setting

0.73 (02/06/2011)
  • now the directory list works more like a real directory browser
  • corrected sync keyword with French translation

0.72 (24/2/2011)
  • .ABC extension no longer shown in song list
  • fixed a problem with tracks that have multiple T: lines
  • tried to fix problems with string conversions of settings
  • settings are now saved on unload
  • made the launch button semi-transparent when not active
  • .hta file now finds files with .txt extension
  • window can be closed with esc (but it might still show game menu as well)

0.71 (29/11/2010)
  • button location is now saved with other settings

0.70 (29/11/2010)
  • new feature: Search
  • new feature: Custom commands *experimental*
  • support for Nov 29 patch
  • added a movable start button/icon
  • new settings window
  • list labels now display the number of list items
  • made song part arrow buttons larger
  • fixed hta parsing for songs with .ABC extension
  • made hta a bit clearer when username is not found
  • plugin now uses native ClearItems and CheckBox
  • plugin now hides when F12 is pressed

Rest of the version history is in the readme file for those interested.

Have fun!

-Chiran, Laurelin (EU)
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Chiran
10-03-2011 02:01 PM
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Old Today, 12:27 AM  
MercedMike
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Exclamation Re: Re: Re: Issue

Ahh, ok that's a bit weird. I didn't notice this myself, so it does seem a bit random. Thanks for the heads up!

I suspect there's nothing I can do about it myself as the plugin is merely a user interface for the music system.

-Chiran

I tried all my different instruments on my minstrel. The wind instruments including pigborn and bagpipes play fine, but all the strings, from harp to theorbo are silent! Very strange!

My kinnie who was in fellowship and playing in sync had the same problem, her champ could play horn but not lute.
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Old Yesterday, 12:09 PM  
Paladinmanos
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Re: Re: Issue

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I'm not sure where it goes wrong, but it tries to find the turbine configuration file where the account names are located. So for some reason the new account cannot be found there.

The file it looks for is at:
<windows user dir>\AppData\Local\Turbine\The Lord of The Rings Online\Launcher\LauncherUserSettings.xml

<windows user dir> is for example c:\users\john

For Windows XP the path is slightly different. But that file should list all available accounts for turbine launcher. I'm not quite sure how it works out if there's, for example multiple installations of the game.

-Chiran
I was able to find the file you were talking about. I just changed two lines and your plugin now works like a charm !
Thank you.
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Old Yesterday, 10:45 AM  
Chiran
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Re: Opacity

Yep, that's an embarrasing and honest bug. I just wonder why I (or no one else, for that matter) didn't notice it :-/. I will make a new release.

-Chiran

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I have a strange problem with the opacity settings. When I choose 1 on the opacity slider and save the settings the button has a correct opacity, but when I put a cursor on the button it highlights and then the opacity changes back to the standard one.
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Old Yesterday, 10:34 AM  
Chiran
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Re: Issue

I'm not sure where it goes wrong, but it tries to find the turbine configuration file where the account names are located. So for some reason the new account cannot be found there.

The file it looks for is at:
<windows user dir>\AppData\Local\Turbine\The Lord of The Rings Online\Launcher\LauncherUserSettings.xml

<windows user dir> is for example c:\users\john

For Windows XP the path is slightly different. But that file should list all available accounts for turbine launcher. I'm not quite sure how it works out if there's, for example multiple installations of the game.

-Chiran

Quote:
When I launch "songbook.hta", the songbook music library generator appear. But, my ACTUAL username account do not appear in it. The only username choice I have is an old username from an old account I haven't used for years !
The plugin itself works very well if I cute/past "SongbookData.plugindata" into my actual account file but... Well...
I wanted to konw if this problem is solvable
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Old Yesterday, 06:53 AM  
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Opacity

I have a strange problem with the opacity settings. When I choose 1 on the opacity slider and save the settings the button has a correct opacity, but when I put a cursor on the button it highlights and then the opacity changes back to the standard one.

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Old 05-20-2013, 04:12 PM  
Paladinmanos
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Issue

Hi,
I found and downloaded this wonderful plugin since yesterday.
But... I don't know why... I have a weird problem.

When I launch "songbook.hta", the songbook music library generator appear. But, my ACTUAL username account do not appear in it. The only username choice I have is an old username from an old account I haven't used for years !
The plugin itself works very well if I cute/past "SongbookData.plugindata" into my actual account file but... Well...
I wanted to konw if this problem is solvable

Last edited by Paladinmanos : 05-20-2013 at 04:14 PM.
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Old 05-20-2013, 11:42 AM  
Chiran
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Re: Re: Issue

Ahh, ok that's a bit weird. I didn't notice this myself, so it does seem a bit random. Thanks for the heads up!

I suspect there's nothing I can do about it myself as the plugin is merely a user interface for the music system.

-Chiran

Quote:
"It seems that Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand has introduced some new bugs to the music system. Observers in this thread in the General Forum and this thread in the Music Forum found that, like the previous bug found after Update 10, there are new circumstance under which players are not able to hear music while playing."


That is the exact same thing that I am experiencing. It randomly worked for me one, but it does not work any more, and nothing is solving the issue. Even uninstalling everything and re-uploading had no effect on the program. Sucks to know that update 11 brought it about, but hopefully ithe issue can be resolved quickly.

Glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing this, and not totally crazy...
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Old 05-19-2013, 05:28 PM  
Tw1l1ghtSp4rkl30522
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Re: Issue

Not sure what is going on having been using Songbook for a long time its a great addon.

What happens now (after I updated it) is that no music is heard, I can select any song and play and see the notes comming off the instrument but no sound. If I stop it and manually play (hitting one of the note keys I bound in key bindings) I can hear that note being played.

I am not seeing any errors and have completed removed and reinstalled the pluging, tried manually loading, not sure what going on - any suggestions?


***Apparently the music system is broken according to this post and people are experiencing the same thing, seeing the music playing but not hearing it....
"It seems that Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand has introduced some new bugs to the music system. Observers in this thread in the General Forum and this thread in the Music Forum found that, like the previous bug found after Update 10, there are new circumstance under which players are not able to hear music while playing."


That is the exact same thing that I am experiencing. It randomly worked for me one, but it does not work any more, and nothing is solving the issue. Even uninstalling everything and re-uploading had no effect on the program. Sucks to know that update 11 brought it about, but hopefully ithe issue can be resolved quickly.

Glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing this, and not totally crazy...
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Old 05-18-2013, 06:27 PM  
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Issue

Not sure what is going on having been using Songbook for a long time its a great addon.

What happens now (after I updated it) is that no music is heard, I can select any song and play and see the notes comming off the instrument but no sound. If I stop it and manually play (hitting one of the note keys I bound in key bindings) I can hear that note being played.

I am not seeing any errors and have completed removed and reinstalled the pluging, tried manually loading, not sure what going on - any suggestions?


***Apparently the music system is broken according to this post and people are experiencing the same thing, seeing the music playing but not hearing it....
"It seems that Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand has introduced some new bugs to the music system. Observers in this thread in the General Forum and this thread in the Music Forum found that, like the previous bug found after Update 10, there are new circumstance under which players are not able to hear music while playing."

Last edited by Tovad : 05-18-2013 at 07:30 PM.
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Old 05-18-2013, 11:20 AM  
Chiran
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Re: Songbook Error

Hm, I must admit that I'm not sure what's going on, considering that the plugin has worked for you before. I applied the update and didn't change anything and it still works. It may be good to recheck file locations. There's couple of tips here http://chiran.lotrointerface.com/por...a=faq&faqid=15. That's a bit mystifying if there's no audio. I do know though that player music has a different audio slider in the options.

-Chiran

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I have been using your add-on for a while now, and I have no problems, until the Update 11 took effect. Now I do not know what happened to it, and I have followed all the given instructions exactly as given, yet whenever I try to upload the add on, it keeps saying 'unable to load songbook'. Before I re-installed everything, it would pop up, but whenever I tried to have it play music, no audio would follow. I hope that the reason for this can be discovered soon, and the issue fixed, thank you for giving us the add-on.
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Old 05-18-2013, 10:15 AM  
Tw1l1ghtSp4rkl30522
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Songbook Error

I have been using your add-on for a while now, and I have no problems, until the Update 11 took effect. Now I do not know what happened to it, and I have followed all the given instructions exactly as given, yet whenever I try to upload the add on, it keeps saying 'unable to load songbook'. Before I re-installed everything, it would pop up, but whenever I tried to have it play music, no audio would follow. I hope that the reason for this can be discovered soon, and the issue fixed, thank you for giving us the add-on.
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Old 05-02-2013, 08:16 PM  
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Update on Euro Cliebt FileFix

Hi there...

Did some more work on the filefix for euro client.

Version 1.0.3.1
- automatic gathering of all chars, on all accounts / server
- inifile autocreation
- included a settings section
- no editing the ini file manually anymore
- added timer function for auto fix
- included savefile template into program
- reset function for screwed up save files
- program drops now into trayicon when minimized


Since i can't post images...a link :
PREVIEW GUI

If someone wants it... do not use PM. For some reason I get no notification.
So sadly I missed a few. I will check once in a while, bur better send an email.

Again, thx to Master Chiran for this cool plugin *bow*


take care..
Fizzle the Brave
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Old 05-01-2013, 03:19 PM  
Chiran
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Re: any word?

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Just wondering if there was any news on when the 'Favorites' update is coming, even if it is just a rough estimate, sooo tired of writing down where all my favorite songs are
Heh, I don't know when or how to be honest.. sorry. Been busy with other things. But you could make a special subfolder for all your favorites .

-Chiran
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Old 04-30-2013, 05:06 AM  
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any word?

Just wondering if there was any news on when the 'Favorites' update is coming, even if it is just a rough estimate, sooo tired of writing down where all my favorite songs are
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Old 04-03-2013, 08:52 AM  
Chiran
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Re: Running Songbook on a Mac

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With a bit of creativity, I hope to be able to circumvent that typo and create a Songbook compiler that will work properly and allow us to play music under the OSX client soon.

I'll post here if/when I manage to get this working.
Great news, thanks for the effort so far .

-Chiran
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