couple of sexy plugins

[shaneh]

A plugin which lets you set the playcount for items in the media library. Something which was bugging me during development where I would start winamp hundreds of times and have a song rack up the hits.

+ A plugin which lets you rate an item from the playlist in winamp rather through the media library. Pretty cool, and I guess where I would normally do it.

For some reason the media library has no ability to list the current playlist with the ability to rate items etc. Or even manipulate the current song playing, without going to 'most recently played' or whatever. I guess this could be done using plugins though.

If anyone knows how to hook the 'send to' feature of the playlist, Id love to know. Or at least a way of getting all the selected items. I could probably use a hack of some kind, but im sure there must be some way of hooking the 'send to' feature in a good way. As it is, the 'rate it' plugin will only let you rate one item at a time.

Both plugins will appear on the winamp plugins page one of these days.

[edit] See update posts here and here

[shaneh]

Preview of the 'Rate It' plugin.

[inthegray]

"+ A plugin which lets you rate an item from the playlist in winamp rather through the media library. Pretty cool, and I guess where I would normally do it."

awesome! that really is sexy...

[shaneh]

PS: I am planning on adding this functionality to my 'toaster' plugin.

ie. The popup window comes up, and you click or mousewheel on the window to adjust the rating. I could optionally have the window popup halfway through the song, or just keep it as coming up through the use of the utility (ie a keypress).

I will eventually have this plugin have global hot-keys to adjust the rating up/down of the current song - but I get the feeling Nullsoft will include something like this in the next release, so im reluctant to go to too much effort.

[inthegray]

i don't normally use Toast, but if i could rate through there, everytime a song begins, while i'm working on other stuff, i'd probably always run it.

in case you missed it, btw, i mentioned Toast here sometime last month.

[shaneh]

Hey thanks for the plug. The future plan for 'toaster' is to eventually become a little mini winamp/mikro amp type thing.

The difference is, it will fade in during song changes and let you do and show pretty much anything with a few simple mouse click combinations or with some little buttons on the window (eg change the rating by clicking, or skip the song by mousewheel etc). It will also fade in on hot-key or at a configured % through the song. Once you are done and your cursor leaves the window, it fades out again.

Well thats the vision anyway. I have already done the coding, and even implemented a bit in toaster, its just a matter of piecing all the snippets together. Its not a matter of how, but 'what' and 'when' :P

[inthegray]

plug in works great for me, but i found a possible minor bug. the option to rate the items in my playlist seems to be grayed out on songs that i haven't listened to yet and haven't added to the ML (songs i just downloaded and added to the playlist). like if i download a couple of songs, and drag them into the playlist. if i listen to one of the songs, i can rate it. the rest of the unlistened songs have the option grayed out. i'm not sure if you can make a workaround for this, but just thought i should report.

[shaneh]

There are a couple fixes I want to make to it, but wont yet cause I have a few other things to do. You wont be able to rate things not in your media library, add them to the library first. This makes sense if you think about it.

I could make it automatically add to the library before rating, but I imagine most people would want to manually add songs to their library because often downloaded songs aren't in the correct location etc when first listened to, and will lose their rating if they are moved and the library updated with the new location.

You can set the library to automatically scan for new items and they will be added if thats what you want.

[shaneh]

update:

Ive updated both plugins a bit, just bug fixes and now only 10% the size.

Ive also added 2 extra plugins to the mix:

An 'Explorer' context menu plugin, which gives you access to the 'Explorer right click menu' from within your playlist. See the properties, delete files, sent to and open with to your hearts content and more.

Also, my favourite, a 'Find in Library' plugin. Locate a song in your library that is in your playlist. You can find by Artist/Filename/Album and song title. Picture this: your listening to some random song which you think sounds good, just right click the song and you can quickly find all songs by that artist/album. Also works with internet radio - quickly check if the current song title is in your database!. uber cool.

[shaneh]

Note for the 'find in library' plugin, it will use your first item under 'Local Media' so rearrange it if you want to default to something else.

However, if the library window is already open, it will use whatever is currently selected, allowing you to search 'recent items' and whatnot.

[lukeprog]

Anyone thought of doing a Winamp plugin that allows you to rate items (in Playlist or Media Library) with the press of a key instead of going through a right-click menu? Like, just press a number 0-5 to instantly rate the song (0 for no rating)?

[torsius]

i'm sure global hotkeys could be tossed into the mix, like ctrl-alt-1 through 5 or something

[Dextro]

I think this might be a bug but when you open the rate menu in the playlist it doesn't show the current rating like it does in the media library :S

[shaneh]

"doesn't show the current rating"

Does for me... Make sure the song is actually in your library first.

[ilyag]

Thanks, playlist rating is great! Plsfind and explorer's context menu are wonderful!

ml_plscount, however, crashes winamp....