Toaster 0.7

[vitalyb]

I am not sure what causes the Toaster to trigger when I listen to radio, however with Last.fm radio, it doesn't popup at all.

The only thing that changes in Last.fm is the "Current title". The stream name is always the same - I guess it might be the problem.

Can I do anything about it?

[shaneh]

@t0qer: I will probably leave that for a future update for Toaster.

@finnfma: Thats not very difficult acutally, and I wrote a plugin that did exactly that a while back. But its not really that useful, and messenger doesnt let you delete items from your local cache, so your list of images just keeps growing. The index file is encrypted so its a paint to work around.

@caliaa: hmm not sure, %dir%\\..\\image.jpg should work. I dont really have time to look into it any further.

@WanderingKnight: yes there are bugs with certain animation types and dynamic window sizing etc. The problem arises in that when the window slides in, it is changing in size - at the same time toaster has to take into account dynamic sizes, songs changing mid animation (and therefore size), animating in and out, whether to animate on change etc etc etc. Its not too simple.

@haleks: You need to uninstall any other messenger plugins you have installed.

@vitalyb: yes there seems to be some bugs either with the Last.FM stream or the way toaster detects changes in the title. Toaster uses events rather than crappy title polling like many others, so it gets tricky with dodgy input plugins.


Ive said it many times, but I think I may completely overhaul Toaster with proper skinning support etc, and probably drop backwards compatibility cause its all a bit legacy and dodgy now. I'd like to use DirectX cause it works quite well, but there is no per pixel or constant alpha blending with the desktop support, so thats crap.

[mesquita]

How does the "Reappear on hover" feature work?

Where am I supposed to hover the mouse to get the toast to reappear?

I'm using Toaster 0.7.5 on Winamp 5.093. Thanks for a really nice plugin.

[ValeraVi1]

@shaneh
About get_tips.dll: Is it possible to increase the length of configuration string in options (some long strings is truncated after i close options dialog) and increase the length of text in tooltip (in most cases the comments is truncated ). Also it will be useful (i think) if will be exist the options for show tips below the playlist window (TTF_CENTERTIP).

[jctcom]

Originally posted by mesquita
How does the "Reappear on hover" feature work?

Where am I supposed to hover the mouse to get the toast to reappear?

I'm using Toaster 0.7.5 on Winamp 5.093. Thanks for a really nice plugin.

Hey Mesquita I was also trying to figure out where to hover to make the toaster reappear. I have just figured out that it is if you move the mouse over the toaster before it dissapears it will come back. But not to bring it back if it is already gone. For that I have found the best way is just to touch the volume control.

TTUL.

Carl.

[jcei]

Hi shaneh! Fantastic plug in.

Is it possible to show the filename without the entire path name?

Exemple:

%filename% = d:/mp3/single tracks/Aerosmith-Crazy (Acoustic Version).mp3

I just want : Aerosmith-Crazy (Acoustic Version).mp3

Is it possible?

[winguy2003]

I want to allow MSN7 to show the album in the personal message. If a mp3 has no album tag filled in, then the personal message would show the parent directory. For example, I play an mp3 that has no album tag and is located in My Music folder, the output would be "My Music". I want to make an IF statement so that if there's no album tag, it will leave it blank. I tried using :tagln(:album=0), but it reads the :album as the output. Any ideas? Thanks!

And by the way, awesome plug-in!

[shaneh]

@..
You can use $filepart(%filename%).mp3 I guess. I dont think theres a way to get the extension included in the filename.

@..
Not too sure what you want exactly, but you are better off using $if statements or [..] than the tagln hacks.

ie,

$if2(%album%, no album) or
$if(%album%, has album - %album%, no album %parentdir%) or
[%album%]

etc.

[winguy2003]

Hmm... what does [%album%] do exactly?

Well, what I want is to have the personal message to show the album name as blank instead of the parent directory name when the album tag in the mp3 is blank.

I tried using the ones you've listed but it still shows as if it had an album when the mp3 does not.

[zombinate]

Haven't seen this adressed yet. Toaster works great for pulling the info from tags created by iTunes for m4a files, however it doesn't pull the embedded album art. any plans for this, or am I just missing something in the setup?

[elislider]

Originally posted by winguy2003
Hmm... what does [%album%] do exactly?

Well, what I want is to have the personal message to show the album name as blank instead of the parent directory name when the album tag in the mp3 is blank.

I tried using the ones you've listed but it still shows as if it had an album when the mp3 does not.

try

$if(%cmp(:tagln(:album)>0)%,%album%,)

this checks to see if the album is larger than 0 in character length, if not it doesnt display anything, otherwise it displays the album

cheers

ps. this is my first post!

[c0utta]

Hey shaneh,

Excellent plug-in - I've used it for many years with great success.

BTW - we're getting lonely over at the Hydrogenaudio Toaster thread Reckon you could drop by ?

Cheers,

c0utta

[shaneh]

Its a nice thought, but unfortuantly I am busy beyond ridiculous at the moment, and replying to forums posts and emails really sucks up the time I need for other things... perhaps in a couple weeks I will see to it.

Ive said it numerous times, but this plugin really needs to be re-written. Probably what I'll do if I ever get the time is make a nice .dll/.lib version with .xml config files etc, and then a seperate plugin to actually use the .dll. This will make porting to other players and applications much easier. Its actually kind of seperated like that already internally, but jsut the configuration stuff is a bit of a mess. But its just a pipe dream for the moment, simply due to lack of time.

[D&B]

Originally posted by billyvnilly
try it again, i got 7 on my first try.

if you do neeed alternate dl site...i uploaded a 7 final. if you want me to remove it shane, just let me know.

toaster .7

Woohoo, glad that link still works, shaneh's site is down at the moment.

[shaneh]

It actually hot links from my site to the Winamp plugins download anyway. You can access the published plugins from here:

http://www.winamp.com/user/view.php?...ow=submissions

The site being down is cause I was tight on bandwidth as it is for this month, and Google just hotlinked some 150kb file from their desktop search sidebar plugin page, so its a bit of a mess. The host was supposed to add on some extra bandwidth but hadnlt, Im trying to get it sorted.

[D&B]

Yea, figured it was temporary. The reason I used that link is their was some discussion earlier that the official winamp was giving 0.6 instead of 0.7, which is probably fixed.

I just recently returned to Winamp so didn't feel like reading the whole thread But thanks again for your plugins shaneh, especially the uber sexy ml_tree!

[Erki der Loony]

Hallo!

This really is a great plugin! I really like it. But when I change the font of my message every time I restart Winamp the font is reset to Arial. Why does that happen and how can I fix it?

Thanks for help!

Erki

PS: I hope my English is not too bad! ;-)

[klowndes]

Hello:

I have a question. My goal is to make it so that if there is folder.jpg in a folder, that file is displayed as the cover art. If a folder doesn't have that file, NOTHING is displayed. I'd rather have an empty area than the llama or any other placeholder.
Sorry if this is super easy/already been addressed, but I read the whole thread and didn't find this addressed.

Ideas?

Thanks so much,
Ryan

[d3x7r0]

use a 1x1 px transparent file in the place of the llama

[jmelhus]

Hi!

Want to say it's a great plugin. But I've not been able to suit this plugin to my needs. Maybe someone can help?

I'm streaming songs from a http-server, with this stream, is album image, and song information. But Toaster shows the information before winamp have read the stream. It looks like this: [Connecting] http://xxxx.xxxx/xxx.php?streamsid=615&c=35xxx ending with.mp3

After two seconds winamp shows the correct information. How do i configure the toaster to suit my needs?

Please help

[snakekiller]

It should be a great plugin! The only problem is, that since I installed it, my winamp (I'm using the latest) crashes. No bsod, no error mesage, no constant hdd-led-flashing just "no response" according to the task manager, and inavaible "toaster preferences" window. I tried to uninstall toaster; as the manual said, the only thing what happened, is that the toaster configuration window dissappaered, and winamp crashes on it's own. What should i do, instead of reinstalling WA? Thanks for your help! Oh; and sorry, for my horrible english!

[winguy2003]

Originally posted by elislider
try

$if(%cmp(:tagln(:album)>0)%,%album%,)

this checks to see if the album is larger than 0 in character length, if not it doesnt display anything, otherwise it displays the album

cheers

ps. this is my first post!

I think I tried that already. It doesn't work for me. I'm not sure if it's just me though. I tried thinking of different ways but the code gets confusing.

Originally posted by shaneh
Ive said it numerous times, but this plugin really needs to be re-written. Probably what I'll do if I ever get the time is make a nice .dll/.lib version with .xml config files etc, and then a seperate plugin to actually use the .dll. This will make porting to other players and applications much easier. Its actually kind of seperated like that already internally, but jsut the configuration stuff is a bit of a mess. But its just a pipe dream for the moment, simply due to lack of time.

I hope you'll have good time to work on this. This plugin really rocks!

[Cyber_Ninja]

Can anyone tell me...

When the song title pops up in the bottom corner, does the pop up window run from a skin? what i mean is, should i download a skin i like to make the pop up uise it?



also how can i get my music covers to show

Thanks

[Cyber_Ninja]

roget the music covers, i figured it, as long as i put a cover ibn the folder. its just the ID3 i cant get to work.
and i like the winXP baloon pop up..any idea where i can get that?

[Lion12]

Originally posted by Cyber_Ninja
and i like the winXP baloon pop up..any idea where i can get that?

click

[Cyber_Ninja]

Dude you rock

so is there someplace on this forum that has a load of presets posted or something?

[schmitter5]

Whenever I have winamp minimized to the start menu, a folder or program maximized on the screen, and use a hot key it won't show the toast.

Works normally if folder is not maximized or if winamp is not minimized

it really is a pretty small glitch for me but I pretty much always have winamp minimized and firefox or whatnot maximized and change songs often using hot keys so I notice it often

I've already uninstalled winamp and all the plug-ins and reinstalled to default settings but I still have the problem, any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks and awesome program too!

[klowndes]

I have a similar problem to above.

Sometimes toaster just stops working and I have to re-import my settings. The settings haven't changed, and even if I fiddle around and re-apply, it doesn't work until I re-import. I can't figure out what causes it to stop working. Anyone experience similar problems? Schmitter5's situation doesn't seem to be my problem.

Thanks,
Ryan

[MystikTK]

First, how can I configure Toaster so that it stays on the screen as long as the song is playing and only switches when the next song plays or is changed?


Second, I play alot of FLAC files and I can't figure out how to get the title to format right as the %title% syntax doesn't show what I have formatted in Winamp (the FLAC file's tag). i.e. I play alot of bootlegs (Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews etc.) and the files are named like so: pj2003-05-30d2t04.mp3. So Toaster reads the artist as pj2003 instead of Pearl Jam like Winamp displays and so forth. Any suggestions?


Thanks.

[Tiikuri]

How do I properly remove the "Internet Radio" -string when displaying in messenger the radio stream I'm listening to?

[SwVictor]

Hi!
I have spent most of my days after christmas reading about and testing out a bunch of wonderful winamp 5 plugins as well as winamp 5 in general (i didn't like winamp3 so last version i used was 2.9 or similair). GREAT JOB! (especially you Shaneh)

Well, my question here is: does toaster save rating to id3 as well? If it doesnt, can anybody tell me the advantage of using shortcut key->toaster->rate instead of shortcut->rate nowadays?

I am very positively surprised of all fetures in ML/ml-tree and such, but i must say i am a bit disappointed that ml doesnt use the ID3v2 possibilities. After reading many posts in the "wishlist" etc forums i came to the conclusion that the development of winamp is... Well... Pretty slow to say the least. So, if it doesn't exist I have two requests:

- Save rating to ID3
- Increase ID3 playcount

I realize that this would be a bit of work, but I guess ID3-lib or similair would do the job wonderfully with a minimum of extra coding on your part.


Thanks again for some wonderful plugins!
/SweVictor





**Heading over to ml-tree forum to make another request (sorry shaneh, i just cant help these, hopefully small, ehr ... suggestions! ... )**

[alexweber]

i tried many if statements, including some from the toaster readme and none seem to work... what am i doing wrong?

ex:

$if(%cmp(:artist=:album)%, Self Titled, %album%)

always displays "Self Titled" even when there's an album name that's different from the artist...


what i was originally trying to do is simple:

show the album name if available or instead of showing nothing show "no album" for no album tracks

ideally, it would also display the track# if there was an album but before i make it too complex i wanna get the basic functionality working...

here is what i got:

$if(%cmp(:tagln(:album)>0)%,%album%,no album)

it just always displays a % sign though...

please someone help!

[Will82]

hi! thx for the great plugin, shane!

how do i make long track/album titles display over two lines?
can i add a 5th line wwith track info?

thx!

[TRIFORCE89]

I have since changed the album art for some of my files. However, Toaster still shows the old album art.

Any suggestions?

(Album art are through ID3v2)

[CircleSquare]

hey, awesome plugin you've developed, using it all the time. do you know when an update will be made that stops the popup appearing on top of everything, and makes it just stay on the desktop?

Thanks

[beerslayer]

shaneh, thanks for your work on this plugin! It seems to work pretty well for the most part, but I have a few questions and/or suggestions:

1) This works great on one PC running Winamp 5.12, but I have a second one that I use far more often for playing music that is only running Winamp 2.91. I know the latest versions of Toaster aren't compatible with 2.91, but is there any possibility you can post a link to the latest version of Toaster known to work with 2.91? This is an old machine and although Winamp 5.x will run on it (sorta), the playback sucks because it's just too slow and begins to sound like a worn-out and stretched cassette tape. But I miss Toaster on this machine.
2) Any possibility of an option in Toaster to automatically "bevel" the edges (make them look 3-D) of whatever rectangular image I provide for a "custom skin"? I'm not a creative type and editing pictures to get that effect just doesn't seem worth the effort, but if Toaster could (optionally) apply that effect automatically, that would be cool.
3) The cover art downloaders out there that I've tried either suck or require .NET. Any chance we'll ever see even a rudimentary cover art downloading capability in Toaster?

Thanks for reading this far and thanks again for a great plugin!

[dennisbinkhorst]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone would be able to produce some kind of Toaster 0.7 Add-On that displays the album cover image of the current song playing as the MSN 'Display Picture'...

That would (in my humble opinion) be the last piece of development that would complete Toaster :P

Besides that, my favorite Winamp plugin!

[d3x7r0]

lol that would be kind of neat lool :P

Btw is there any way to get toaster telling me which song is next in the playlist (or jtfe)? it would be kind of neat

[onkelandy]

I like Toaster, it's quite configurable. It just seems to have some probs with internet radio. Mostly it displays the IP as the artist...

Another great feature would be to kill everything in () as long as the text is longer than xxx characters [or some kind of list of text to be deleted], so the Radio Station info gets kicked out of the toast.

[shaneh]

@d3x7r0: You can use hot keys to display the next and previous songs in your playlist. It ignores shuffle and jtfe however. I personnally use the playlist as the list of songs to play, and the media library as the library of media to put into the queue/playlist. And just write a plugin if I want random songs enqueue from my entire collection.

@dennisbinkhorst: Ive written such a plugin, but there is no way to clear the cache of display images used by messenger, so it just keeps building up. Someone may have reverse engineered the encryption used in the index file by now though, but I dont think so.

@onkelandy: That may not be the IP address. Winamp is hell to try and work with, every input plugin behaves differently and the API is shite. There is the $cut() function which should trim text.

Sorry I cant reply to everyone, I really dont have the time anymore. I do however intend to do a major revamp of the plugin. With the new release of Winamp coming soon, it will possibly break a few things with Toaster so this will be a bit more incentive to get it done. I intend to drop the overdone configuration screens and just use something like XML to allow packaged skins. I have a lot of ideas, but I wont go into them as they arent fully thought out yet.