Next song / next preset
 

I was sure that this feature is implemented: Select the next preset (also randomly with possible randomly chosen transitions) whenever a new song starts.
I searched here but could not find how to enable it. (Just how to switch presets after n seconds).
I still believe it must be there somewhere since it is not in the wishlist.

Do you know where it is?

gee....there is such an option? i did'nt know either :weird:

this smells...like potential flaming! :D

Look at the date
now don't tell me you searched the forums before you posted
in other words, no it is not possible

Thanks for the link.
I did search, but the thread does not include the keywords I was looking for. Believe me, I'd rather have found a quick answer to my problem instead of opening a new thread and wait a few days for the answer.
It seems to be popular to answer every question that was asked before with eyes-rolling and "you should have searched", while I'm confinced that most people did so and would prefer to find the answer in the fist way or the FAQ.
And if I've found the link, I would still have asked if it has been implemented, since the request is three years old.
So I propose to put it on the wishlist, could one of the admins please move this thread there? (I don't want to next dude flaming me for cross-posting :rolleyes: )

isn't that possible with hotlist and/or avs playlister? i never used any of them, but i think they can probably do what you are looking.

Thanks for your info.
I checked avs playlister and lost expectation of my life. This program is unusable, horribly designed, and crashed two times in 15 minutes.
Hotlist is stucked in a beta version with no further active development.

You lost expectation of your life?

I think so. I should have measured my blood pressure when evaluating this program to be sure, though.

i have'nt tried AVS playlister......i have used hotlist once....altho i dont require these programs:p winamp is enough for me :D ;)

Next song / next preset
 

This would require a general purpose plugin.

Note: I first made Playlister for my personal use and it does what I want :)

Why does it require a plugin?
AVS already knows when a new song starts, you can see this in the beat detection section: There you can choose how to detect the beats when a new song starts (adapt or learn new).
So the trigger ist there.
All what it needs is to connect it to the switch preset section.

This cannot be done by an APE so it require a general purpose plugin. I'm currently making one, please stand by.

if its that easy... make your own.

wrong. it can even be done by pure avs code (with some tricks of course :))

here's an example :)

was that what was asked in the begining? i think that preset just displays the list of songs played.

I suppose the main topic of the thread was something else. He wanted a new preset for every new song.

APE's cannot do that i think.

they can't since the ape is a part of the preset. the first preset without the .ape wouldn't cycle to the next preset

That's true. I'm male and I want a new preset for every new song.

don't think so narrow :)
APEs can (and do!) run while not added to a preset, too.
here is an example http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7800156 :)
they can even compile code and do other nice things without being ever added to a preset

Hm.
I don't understand everything said here, about APEs and whatsoever.
I understood that some people say it would be possible to program it. But I don't see that my problem was solved, or did I miss something?

no your problem isn`t solved yet. You should wait until one of those ape-freaks solved it ;)
I don't get that idea, that an ape can work, while it's not in the current preset. But it might be possible...

Re: Next song / next preset
 

here it is: Auto preset cycler
uncompress it in your winamp/plugins directory.
it's a general purpose plugin, simple to config:
http://goebish.free.fr/vfx/aps_config.jpg

random preset must be disabled in AVS config, transitions can be enabled, just configure your avs editor as there:
http://goebish.free.fr/vfx/avs%20preset%20switcher.jpg

Hope you won't lose expectation of your life just another time ;)

I'd like some peoples to test it before publishing ...

At first it worked without problems, i tested many differnet settings (transitions etc) and everything was fine, but after a while it showed a bug: evertime a new song starts or i forward to the next one i get that windows *dong* sound.. Any idea why?

I can't reproduce it :(
More details ?

edit: got it,I've to go for now but I'll try to fix it tonight :)

i have no idea why i get that! Suddenly it was there and i cannot remove it again! So i can't reproduce it either, im still having it... :( I reinstalled your plugin but i still get this win-notifications sound when it loads a new preset...
At first i thought it's because of the prompt-box you get when you made changes to a preset. But since i reinstalled the plugin and loaded an untouched preset the problem shouldn't be there anymore... :confused:

No, I did not lose anything again. It did not crash. Thanks.

But:
It seemed to work the first few minutes, but than there was a transition in the middle of a song. Than I rememebered you wanted the random preset change disabled (why?) so I did and from that time I never had a preset change again.
I tried de-activating and activating again, re-started winamp.
No change. I did not even get the windows ding that ^..^ gets.

it seems that only i am getting that ding, so it's not that bad. (Also i don't really need this plugin). However it seems that it doesn't have anything to do with the "save changes" box. Cause i still get that sound when this feature is disabled. Any idea why it could be? btw "random preset advance" is disabled.

"Ding" problem should be fixed now.
Download it from the same location.
Thank for testing :)

I downloaded and installed it.
Still it does nothing.
I'm watching the same preset over and over now.
Getting bored.
Losing expectations of life now...

Is there something I can do for debugging?

Try classic & modern skin, attached & detached visualization window ...
Strange as it seemed to work first ...

hey, no annoying "ding" anymore! It works fine now! Great job!
What was the problem with that sound anyways?

Nothing. Not even a "ding".
In classic/modern/detached/attached
with "Random" on/off,
with "randomly switch presets" off/on and 10/30/100/1000 seconds

At least my bloodpressure did not go up, so I assume the program does not do any harm.

Problem with sound was because I sent a WM_SYSKEYDOWN message to the avs window instead of WM_KEYDOWN followed by WM_KEYUP.
Titule I really don't know what's wrong with you. Can some more people give it a try ?

edit:

I'm just looking at the include files of the new SDK and I see:

code:
#define IPC_SETVISWND 611 // param is hwnd, setting this allows you to receive ID_VIS_NEXT/PREVOUS/RANDOM/FS wm_commands

#define ID_VIS_NEXT                     40382

#define ID_VIS_PREV                     40383

#define ID_VIS_RANDOM                   40384

#define ID_VIS_FS                       40389

#define ID_VIS_CFG                      40390

#define ID_VIS_MENU                     40391



#define IPC_GETVISWND 612 // returns the vis cmd handler hwnd

#define IPC_ISVISRUNNING 613

#define IPC_CB_VISRANDOM 628 // param is status of random

So I think I can code it a proper way than sending keydown/keyup messages to the avs window after retrieving his handle with FindWindow/FindWindowEx
Time to go to work now, I'll update it this evening.

sorry can't really follow. Actually i have no idea about real coding things. However the plugin works fine for me, although i found another bug: it seems as if you cannot deactivate it permanently. Everytime i deactivate it and restart winamp it is activated again. Is it supposed to be this way or is it really a bug?

I just came back home... let's have a look

Updated
This one should even work for Titule (?)
Config loading/saving works fine here.

Seems you never give up? Good, I appreciate that, but, sorry to say that:
No.
The configuration window and the version number has changed. (nice work, though :))
But nothing else.
I think now that it never worked and the first transitions I observed were the random transitions every 10 secs.
I got so unsure that I even pressed the "next" button to see if there are ANY preset changes (it worked).

How can I help? Maybe you implement to write debug-output to a file that I can send you?

well, here it works fine now, without re-enabling on winamp restart and without ding. Dunno, perhaps it's a matter of different winamp versions, that it doesn't work for you titule?

It's winamp 5.08e
Is there any newer?

or older: im using 5.07, perhaps that's the problem?