Clear Now Playing 3.1 - Updated 09/07/2012

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:05 am

No critisism taken. Thanks!

pietzke · Post by **pietzke** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:36 pm

Hi, its a nice sript so I wanted to try it, but that's my problem:

I installed the script, and tried to run it with an extra long playlist at default settings. But then, MM hang on startup with full CPU usage. So I killed the process and uninstalled the script with 'System Control' -> 'Software'. I wanted to restart MM, but it was gone! Well, reinstalled MM (latest Gold vesion) (and damn, vergot to save the .ini file). Set all settig new, went fine.

After installing the script again, it was the same thing. So I had another look at System Control' -> 'Software', but there were only the scripts, and not MM itselve. When clicking on remove script... Iwas asked if I was shure to remove MM and all of its components, didn't recognize that before. The other scripts behave normally. Any idea how that could happen?

Anyway, thanx for that great scripting work.

Greetz
pietzke

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:35 pm

I'm on my way out the door so can't comment on the crashing itself. This script is rather a blast-from-the-past, one of my first. Unfortunately the installer has not been corrected an it attaches itself to the MM installation, so when you uninstall it, it uninstalls MM. To uninstall the script you only need to delete "Scripts\Auto\ClearNowPlaying.vbs" and that's it. Hopefully we can sort out the crashing soon.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:00 pm

I have now fixed all of the installers on my website (took over 2 hours to go through all my old scripts!) so if you download the new version now, the installer will work correctly.

I'm a little concerned about the 100% CPU as this script is supposed to prevent that! How large is your Now Playing list? I've tried this script with 6000+ tracks and it's worked fine for me.

pietzke · Post by **pietzke** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:23 pm

Installation works properly seperated from MM main application now, but script doesn't work for me yet. even tried to manually put the .vbs file into the Auto folder. MM hangs up with 100 % CPU at the startup picture with more than 1000 files. Without the script MM can start with all my 15.000 files very quickly (although it takes a very long time to read the now playing then). Well, manually cleaning works for me too.

good night
pietzke

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:02 am

I'm not sure why this is. If you are willing I will create a debug version for you to run which will hopefully allow me to find the problem. PM/email me if you are interested.

pietzke · Post by **pietzke** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 4:37 pm

Well, no need for me anymore, as I just realized, that TweakMonkey can do it aswell. Thanx anyway.

paulmt · Post by **paulmt** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:12 am

I have ClearNowPlaying 2.0 setup as below

limit = 100
clearall = 1
clearplayed = 0
clearextra = 0

However I am still getting 100 songs loaded on startup in the now playing node.

I would like to start up with now playing cleared.

Any suggestions? Should the "limit =" be edited also?

Thanks

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:20 am

The "limit" is the number that are allowed to remain. If you wish to clear the entire list, set the limit to 0.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:06 pm

An MM3 installation package is now available from my website for this script.

MusicBringer · Post by **MusicBringer** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:25 am

Hey the search function works..!!

I wanted to clear the Now Playing. Did a search and here I am.
Thanks for the script.

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:34 am

Trixmoto:

Due to this bug I've had to implement using the Clear Now Playing script. However, it is very annoying to have to figure out what tracks were in the NP list when I closed MM. Would it be possible or easy to add a feature to this script that would put all the tracks back into the NP list after MM starts? Or maybe have it create a Now Playing playlist which I could use to reopen myself? Does it already store the tracks in a list somewhere??

Nyn

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:35 pm

This script clears the tracks as it's starting up, so is completely the reverse of what you are after.

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:44 pm

trixmoto wrote:This script clears the tracks as it's starting up, so is completely the reverse of what you are after.

If that is the case, it is clearing it before MM has the option to change the track id to -1. I've tested it and I have not run into the problem with CNP active, but it happens again when my now playing list has a track highlighted when MM completes it opening sequences.

But either way, I have a "workaround", I am just sending all my tracks in the NP list to a static playlist before I close MM. This doesn't help me when MM crashes but I can just manually take the tracks from the Mediamonkey.m3u and reimport them into MM if I want to still listen to random tracks.

Nyn

MusicBringer · Post by **MusicBringer** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:29 am

I use XP pro and I have setup MM3 and .DB on an ext hard drive. The setup works well

However, I cannot get this Clear Now Playing 2.0 script to work.
It does reduce the NP list (from 100+) to the default 100.
However, I cannot get it to retain just 10 tracks, or even fully clear the NP list.