Blaustein

Btw:
Is it possible to creat a copy funktion to paste the actually song into the chat.
Maybe only CTRL-C function?

Thx
Blaustein

PS: The folder option ist great!

Chiran

It's on my to-do list . The idea is that you could paste song filename or part name to the chat using configurable templates.

-Chiran

Achazia

Excellent plugin!!!

Very clever! thank you!
Will be in good use for me and The Shades

Achazia Songweaver

Chiran

Nice to hear! Looking forward to the next concert, and how the plugin pulls through .

-Chiran

Ceasta

Greetings all, this is my first time here and I wanted to try this out.

I'm having a problem with the songbook.hta file not reading or finding my .abc files. After I run the songbook.hta file I get this, "Generated song library. Found 0 song files in 1 directories."
All my songs are in my "Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\Music" so do I need to place them elsewhere for them to be read?

I've checked the Chiran's Portal : FAQ but it didn't say where my music files should be moved to if that's the case. Looking forward to getting this to work.

Thank you very much.

Chiran

The Music directory should be in the same directory where your LOTRO screenshots are saved. So the full path is usually c:\Users\<YourWindowsUsername>\Documents\The Lord of the Rings Online\Music\ (it's a bit different with Windows XP). Can you play the files with normal in-game music commands (for example, /play songname)?

The feedback you get seems to point that the script found your Music directory but that it found no abc files.

-Chiran

Ceasta

Hi Chiran, yes I can play them all just fine ingame.

They are located in the Music folder, inside the The Lord of the Rings Online folder where the screenshots are saved like you've stated.
The files are .abc too so I have no idea why it's not reading them. A head scratcher isn't it?

Thanks for helping with this mate.

Chiran

Hm yes, what it does is fairly straightforward at that point. It checks the location of user's Documents (or My Documents) folder and appends the path to to the Music folder. Then it recursively reads .abc files from there on. Has your Documents folder (or user profile) been relocated to another drive perhaps? Though, it 'should' be able to track that too. But who knows, sometimes things can get complicated. On the other hand, it clearly thinks that it found the correct music folder.

Also does it correctly determine your LOTRO user? Although it shouldn't matter at this point when it's reading the songs, only after it when it's writing the database.

-Chiran

Ceasta

It has my Lotro Username correctly selected. My Documents folder has been on the same drive as always.

It looks like it knows where it's at but for some strange reason it's not finding the songs.
I checked every song, they play ingame, it reads them all just fine.
I might just have to wait on this and see if it's from something else that's maybe confusing things.

I really appreciate your hard work on helping me with this though. I have quite a few plugins installed and they're working just fine too fyi.
I'll keep trying and letting you know on my end here.
Thanks again Chiran!

Chiran

No problem, I want to solve this too . You could try this version of the .hta. It should at least tell you where it thinks the Music directory is.

-Chiran

Achazia

Everyone in The Shades had the Plugin in use yesterday, when we did a performance in Mess Hall. And we can't praise enough the plugin. We saved a huge amount of time and it was easier to have control on our song.

Thank you Chiran!

Chiran

Whoa, splendid! Too bad I missed that one though :-(.

-Chiran

Ceasta

Problem solved Chiran!

It didn't like my abc files with all caps in their names. Like BWH.ABC instead of Bwh.abc.

I'm guessing it doesn't like to be yelled at, heehee. Not sure why I had them all saved like that in the first place.

Anyway, they all loaded up just fine. I went in with my Minstrel and wow, that is one sexy program you've made. I absolutely love this!
Thanks again for the feedback, looking forward to seeing what else you can come up with. Maybe have some sort of music bar timer which winds down as the song plays,
not sure if that is even possible. Again, many thanks with this.

Cheers!

Chiran

Oh, that's great! That you solved it I mean . It makes perfect sense now, the script does indeed look for .abc extension and it is case-sensitive, which weirdly enough hasn't come up yet. I guess that's actually something I should fix. So thanks for the bug report hehe.

The timer is actually a great idea. It's just a bit tricky to make since there's no concrete information about the length of a song. Some abc writers have written that in the song title though, but it's not something you can count on really. Still, there may be something that can be done with it .

-Chiran

Kalex

A possible suggestion/request for a future version: Put in an option to have the plugin load with the window hidden. I use the plugin manager to load it, but I don't always want the window showing. I t would be nice to have an option like Lotropad does and have the window hidden at startup.