Monkey Rok 6.2 - Updated 06/07/2014

[fizzjob]

trix,

When I was looking into the hiding of that section, I figured out a minor improvement that could be made.

As written, when I have a track that was added on, say, "5/6/2008 8:48 AM", the panel displays it as "5/6/2008 8". That's because you're trimming to 10 characters, so that leaves me with the "8" being displayed on the end.

Splitting the cursong.DateAdded value seems to work a bit better:

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Dim tempDateAdded : tempDateAdded = split(cursong.DateAdded)
ps = Translate("Added ")&tempDateAdded(0)

...and now it appears without the first character of the time.

[trixmoto]

I didn't realise this was an issue - I'll get this sorted in the next version.

[rrfpacker]

I have just begun to dig into this script...thank you for an amazing, complicated, information-packed script.

I started playing with the external panels last night, starting with Playlists. When the playlists show up in MR there is this between multiple playlists; <br />

So for example if a track is in three playlists, MR displays as Top 40 1969<br />Favorite Singles<br />Favorite CCR

Is this normal?

[gpzbc]

I started playing with the external panels last night, starting with Playlists. When the playlists show up in MR there is this between multiple playlists; <br />
So for example if a track is in three playlists, MR displays as Top 40 1969<br />Favorite Singles<br />Favorite CCR

Yes, MonkeyRok is a lot of fun to have running.
This issue with multiple playlists has been reported to Trixmoto (see p. 17 of this forum) and he has stated that the fix will be in the next version.

[rrfpacker]

Thanks for that. I didn't get to page 17 before asking my question. Oops.

[gpzbc]

No worries. If you scan the pages before page 17, you will see that I did the same thing as you!

[gpzbc]

@gpzbc - You can also hide it by commenting out the following block of text in the Functions.vbs file (lines 465-474, or thereabouts) :

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  Set ele = document.getElementById("info_added")
  If Not (ele Is Nothing) Then
    If SDB.IniFile.BoolValue("MonkeyRok","ShowAddedWords") Then
      p = cursong.DateAdded
      ps = Replace(Translate("Added % ago"),"%",DateDiffString(p))
    Else
      ps = Translate("Added ")&Left(cursong.DateAdded,10)
    End If
    ele.innerHTML = ps
  End If  

That should hide it regardless of which skin you're using.

@fizzjob - By the way, this worked great for me. Thanks.

@ Trixmoto - it might be nice to be able to turn off "date last played" too. I haven't commented out that block yet, but someone might not care for that info either. Just a thought

Thanks again.

[Raffhell]

monkeyrok 5.1 doesn't work anymore to me
it shows the internet explorer error "impossible to display the page" but mediamonkey.exe it's allowed in firewall rules (comodo).

[richiefinger]

I've noticed in the settings that the options for the text panel include "Album Comment" and "Artist Comment"
Where are these comments stored? I didn't know about these and would like to use them.

[Eyal]

monkeyrok 5.1 doesn't work anymore to me
it shows the internet explorer error "impossible to display the page" but mediamonkey.exe it's allowed in firewall rules (comodo).

Have you tried with other skins? Maybe the current skin you use has been deleted/uninstalled? Check in folder

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C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\Scripts\MonkeyRok\skins

to see if skin's folder is empty.

I've noticed in the settings that the options for the text panel include "Album Comment" and "Artist Comment"
Where are these comments stored? I didn't know about these and would like to use them.

These comments are stored in Albums and Artists properties;
Select any album or artist in the tree, and edit its properties (Shift-Enter).

[richiefinger]

Oh dear! This is exactly what I've been looking for, didn't even know they were there. Search on the forum comes up blank.
Thanks
As all mine are empty at the moment now is the perfect time to run some sort of batch execution and not worry.
Will any of your script's do something like this?..
..Automatically copy all of the information from an artsist page on wikipedia into the artist comment box .
I'm not worried if it copies all the fluff at the top and bottom of the page.
Or if when going to "Queen" for example I puts in the relevant info for dear old Liz.
I can cope with that.
and again the same for wikipedia artist/album to artist/album comment.

[trixmoto]

As far as I'm aware there is no script to do this automatically, no. But I can add it to my list!

[fizzjob]

trix,

Another little thing you may want to include is displaying the bitrate of the playing track. I just cobbled it in with the playcounter like so:

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  If Not (ele Is Nothing) Then
    bitr = Round(cursong.Bitrate / 1000)
    If cursong.VBR then
       cvbr = "VBR"
    Else
       cvbr = "CBR"
    End If
    p = cursong.PlayCounter
    If p = 0 Then
      ps = Translate("First play!")
    Else 
      If p = 1 Then
        ps = Translate("Played once before")
      Else
        ps = Replace(Translate("Played % times"),"%",p)
      End If
    End If
    ele.innerHTML = cvbr & " @ " & bitr & " kb/s<br> " & ps
  End If 

...and while it works, it's not a particularly elegant method...but it only took ten minutes this way .

Perhaps you could code that in (in a less crude manner) in a future version?

[antiduplicity]

Greetings,
After installing Mediamonkey on my new laptop, I notice that using ANY skin other than the default included skins shows missing ratings stars. This is the MacMaster's skin, but I have tried over 15 skins. Every skin that is on the web has this problem. The default skins that are included in Moneky Rok works fine. Any ideas?

[Mizery_Made]

A lot of the skins available for this extension were done for the 4.x version, and 5.x was a major redesign. Thus, only skins marked as working with 5.x will work properly. It may be a case that the 15/"All" you've come across are 4.x versions.

Try some of the skins listed on Trix's site for Monkey Rok, as they should be ones written for 5.x: Here.