Media Library Browser popups

[cwaugh]

The setting to prevent media from switching to 'Now Playing' is NOT preventing AOL XM channels from launching a browser popup. Known 5.1 bug?

[DJ Egg]

The two features/settings aren't connected.
Now Playing is Now Playing in the Media Library.
The XM Radio Browser only appears when listening to XM Radio.

[cwaugh]

Hmmm...but playing the AOL XM Radio is via the the Online Media section of the Media Library. And, in the past, in these forums, it has been claimed that preventing the switch to Now Playing prevented browser popups. It just doesn't seem to work anymore...

Unless the XM Radio browser is something new, and unrelated to the normal browser. In which case, how does one disable it?

[DJ Egg]

"Do not allow media to switch to Now Playing" does what it says.
The AOL XM Radio browser is NOT Now Playing.


"Unless the XM Radio browser is something new, and unrelated to the normal browser."

Correct.


"In which case, how does one disable it?"

Alas, you don't. Sorry :/

[Edit]

As from Winamp 5.11x and later...
Winamp > Prefs > Station Info
Uncheck: Automatically show info on station tune-in

:-)

[valiot]

Browser still pops up oon shoutcast.

"In which case, how does one disable it?"

Alas, you don't. Sorry :/

I would disagree. I just came to this forum for the first time in years. I've been using Winamp since version 2 and have never needed support. This new feature is driving me nuts.

This browser popup occurs with all shoutcast media as well. How do we turn it off for the Shoutcast Streams?

[valiot]

Sorry, I only now found the following link to an answer for this:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....ibrary+Browser

I guess I'll just wait for a pop killer or something...

[DJ Egg]

Yup, it's only started also happening for SHOUTcast streams as from yesterday. Up until then the browser only popped up for AOL XM Radio streams. And yes, everyone please refer to the thread linked to in valiot's post above.

Again, I reiterate that "Now Playing" and the browser are two entirely different things/features. "Now Playing" is the view found at the top of the left pane in the Media Library. The (Online Media) browser is a separate window entirely.

We now have an internal RC2 of the gen_diebrowserdie plugin, and it's working well. The browser no longer pops up, and it also gets rid of the "browser" entry in Winamp's main menu. The plugin should hopefully be publically released very soon.

Sorry again dudes, heh.


[Edit]

As from Winamp 5.11x and later...
Winamp > Prefs > Station Info
Uncheck: Automatically show info on station tune-in

[ujay]

Personally, I like this very much and would be pleased to see it extended to 'Bookmarked' streams as well.
Presumable this originates from the shoutcast servers and can't be implemented with direct links ?

Couple of points -

Resize info for the window is saved OK (studio.xnf), but always restores to default size when opening (position is kept OK).
Is this a serverside setting ??

Empty playlist saved on close.

UJ

[DrO]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
We now have an internal RC2 of the gen_diebrowserdie plugin, and it's working well. The browser no longer pops up, and it also gets rid of the "browser" entry in Winamp's main menu. The plugin should hopefully be publically released very soon.

DBD 1.0 RC2

i'm putting the link up to this as it stands since i'm at work (cos i have to pay the bills somehow... so i can't make this a 1.0 final ) but if egg's said it's working then apart from one known glitch i have with the colour themes sub menu being duplicated i think this is safe to get some more 'public' testing (die browser die damnit!! ) enjoy

-daz

[ujay]

Can't see any probs here.

Any plans for a die/resurrect switch ??

UJ

[DrO]

yeah, i was wondering about something like that since i guess for some cases it may be useful to have it available. i may add some manual config options/something in the installer which would allow for that, dunno yet

-daz

[ujay]

Something along the same lines as the little menu you did with 'OneforNunz' would be good

UJ

[DrO]

heh, i'd forgotten about doing it that way since it's not as much of a dll resource size increase doing it that way. i'll see what i can get finalised over the next day or so (since i'm doing a rare bit of socialising tonight )

-daz

[ujay]

Have fun

UJ

[jim2664258]

Works good for me - sometimes you see the browser window pop up momentarily before it's killed, but this does the trick

Thanks!