Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

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Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by MikeGahrns » Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:26 pm

re: aag Is there a comparable add-on for MM5?
I have not found one, and not having this functionality is one of the main things keeping me on MM4.

I too would appreciate if anyone knows how to get similar functionality in MM5.

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by aag » Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:40 pm

Is there a comparable Add-On for MM5?

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by themgnt » Sat Mar 11, 2017 5:54 pm

Thanks for this. One minor issue I always had a problem with was accidentally adding multiple versions of the same song in a playlist. Like when you have the original release of an album, the 25th anniversary remaster, then a greatest hits collection, etc. There's no quick, visual way to determine if a song was in a playlist without checking either each playlist, or copy of the song. This allows me to easily see which copy of the song is in the playlist. That it can show a playlist count, and list which playlists it's in is an added bonus.

It only just occurred to me last night to check if there was some custom script that helped with this. So, thanks! This is a much needed feature!

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Twister » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:15 am

Thank you for this script.
It works lovely. Thank you.

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Guest » Sun Jun 30, 2013 2:03 pm

I have media monkey 4 and I don´t get the box with "information". When I go on library -> tags and playlists I get a different box
I´ve copied the script to the /auto/ folder and tried to run it but I just get a message saying VBSScript can´t be found, and when I load media monkey it says a script value for the specified language cannot be found. I don´t know if this has anything to do with the fact that i´m trying to do this on a spanish computer, or that I have portable MediaMonkey? I Installed MM in English. (I have no access to an english computer)
I don´t really know anything about installing a script. I did this once before last year, but am having to do it again due to my laptop being stolen.
Many thanks,
Beth
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Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Tikshadow » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:28 pm

Awesome Script! Thanks!

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by wutzin » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:56 am

Bex - thanks again for this wonderful script!

I'm reverting to MM3 (runs better in a virtual machine - which is what I have to do since I'm on OSX) and saw that this gem received an update - and that you even included my suggested feature... Wow!

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Bex » Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:19 am

Yes, it's all explained in the information including a tip on how to do it faster!

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Kostarena » Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:55 am

Thank you Bex.

Your script has worked fantastically so far... there hasn't been a need yet
to view the help file. I will take a look.

If I understand your answer above, there is no way to remove entries in
a Custom1 field after your script is activate/updated, and must be done
in MM via another method ?

Take care.

Best regards,
Kostarena

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Bex » Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:41 am

Well, if you change which playlists are excluded the script certainly reflect that in the chosen column. The key here though is to press the Activate/Update button. But you are not allowed to exclude all playlists. Btw, did you read the information within the options? (I.e. press the information button.)

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Kostarena » Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:26 am

Thank you Bex.

Is there a way to 'undo' the tags your script has created (COMM) via the
script itself ? It seems once the Custom1 is populated, updating with all
playlists 'checked' doesn't remove all entries from the Custom1 field.

Regards,
Kostarena.

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Bex » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:43 am

The function should look like this to only get a space as delimiter.

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Function GetSELECTSql(NameOrCount)
  If NameOrCount=1 Then GetSELECTSql="GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,' ')" 'Name
  If NameOrCount=2 Then GetSELECTSql="COUNT(*)" 'Count
  If NameOrCount=3 Then GetSELECTSql="'('||COUNT(*)||') '||GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,' ')" 'Both
End Function
You also need to Activate/Update the script. I.e. press that button in the options

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Kostarena » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:55 pm

Hi Bex,

I've copied and pasted the changes exactly at line 400.
I've substituted the DELIMITER with a space.
I've restarted MM and updated the playlists.

No effect.

Could I have done something different ?

Thank you.
Kostarena

Bex wrote:Yes, Change line 400.
From:

Code: Select all

Function GetSELECTSql(NameOrCount)
  If NameOrCount=1 Then GetSELECTSql="GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,'; ')" 'Name
  If NameOrCount=2 Then GetSELECTSql="COUNT(*)" 'Count
  If NameOrCount=3 Then GetSELECTSql="'('||COUNT(*)||') '||GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,'; ')" 'Both
End Function
To:

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Function GetSELECTSql(NameOrCount)
  If NameOrCount=1 Then GetSELECTSql="GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,'DELIMITER ')" 'Name <----------------
  If NameOrCount=2 Then GetSELECTSql="COUNT(*)" 'Count
  If NameOrCount=3 Then GetSELECTSql="'('||COUNT(*)||') '||GROUP_CONCAT(tmpPlaylistName,'DELIMITER ')" 'Both <----------------------
End Function

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Bex » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:54 pm

1. Not from the scripts point of view but if you want to split up the playlists in another program or similar, it can be impossible if your playlists names contan spaces.

2. Yes

3. Not sure what you've done here. The script should definitely not create duplicates, unless a track exists multiple times within a playlist.

Re: Playlist in Main Window 2.0.0 (2012-08-05)

by Kostarena » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:13 am

Thanks again Bex.

Your script has saved me many hours of mucking about with having to do this
in a linux bash script for each file..., worrying about commas, punctuation, encodings that
choke filenames/paths. Thank you for enabling me to escape awk/grep/sed hell!

Lastly,
1. Could there be related problems that might occur if I change the delimiter from
a semi-colon to a space ? I'm trying to seperate multiple playlists entries with a space only.

2. Are the playlist entries always going to be sorted alphabetically ?

3. if I've accidentally done this twice, they will appear twice with the same playlist name.
Is it possible to disallow duplicate entries ?

Best Regards,
Kostarena

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