Monkey Rok 4.1 - Updated 17/08/2009

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Sat May 26, 2007 3:44 pm

@Rojer: I think you'll have more accurate resluts if you use "Sinead O Connor".

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:17 am

I'd like to share with you a useful way to use MR with the AlbumArtistName field for Various Artists albums:

I have a lot of Various Artists albums, all named "VA" or "Various" in AlbumArtist name. When I began to use MR, I set in its options to use the AlbumArtistName as seed field instead of ArtistName. Then I realized that it was taking forever for MR to query the database each time I was selecting a VA track. I tried to put "VA" in [Exclude artists] options, but it did not work in my case, don't know why.

Anyway, it happens that all my VA albums has nothing in common in general, so I took advantage of MR possibilities and changed the AlbumArtistName field to correspond to the genre category:

VA-[Ambient Psy-Chill]
VA-[Chillout]
VA-[Metal]
VA-[Psytrance]
VA-[Pop]
VA-[Rock]
VA-[Techno]
VA-[Trance]
...

Now,each time I select a Various Artists track, MR is listing all other VA albums of the same genre in the [Albums By] panel. And I like that!

Eyal

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:16 am

@Rojer - sounds like an encoding bug, I'll take a look.

@Eyal - i'll take a look at why the exclude isn't working, but I'm glad you've found a suitable workaround for now!

trek · Post by **trek** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:57 pm

I dl'd MokeyRok, and Google Art Finder, and my friggin zone alarm keeps quarantining googleartfinder.vbs and then i get an error when the tracks change because it cant find the file....is there a way to get around this?

RedX · Post by **RedX** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:23 pm

trek wrote:I dl'd MokeyRok, and Google Art Finder, and my friggin zone alarm keeps quarantining googleartfinder.vbs and then i get an error when the tracks change because it cant find the file....is there a way to get around this?

w/o meaning to criticize, get a decent anti-virus and firewall combination

(jk afaik you can permanetnly set zone alarm to ignore certain scripts, search in the help files)

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:30 am

With respect to this problem found by gege and andryx where the statistics are remaining: I still can't replicate it but I think I know why it's happening. When you double click on the track to play it the OnStop and OnPlay events are fired, the OnStop shows the statistics and the OnPlay shows the rest, so if the timing is a little off then you get bits of each. I think this is a problem with the event firing and I've reported it to Jiri. Not really sure what I can do about it myself but I'll provide a workaround in the script if possible.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:57 am

New version (2.3) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...

- Added german translation (thanks to Mattisse, RedX and Powerpill-Pacman)
- Fixed french translation (thanks to Eyal and Rojer)
- Added swedish translation (thanks to Feppa)
- Added extra messaging when loading language files
- Fixed typos in Functions.js causing errors with context menus
- Fixed top tracks panel not showing artists
- Fixed encoding of apostrophe when querying Last.Fm
- Fixed current album not shown after showing statistics when player stopped
- Fixed statistics still showing after player stopped and new song played
- Fixed exclusion list so it now compares with seed field value

Let me know if you have any more translations, using the new english.txt!

Vyper · Post by **Vyper** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:04 am

Thanks!

gege · Post by **gege** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:06 pm

trixmoto wrote:With respect to this problem found by gege and andryx where the statistics are remaining: I still can't replicate it but I think I know why it's happening. When you double click on the track to play it the OnStop and OnPlay events are fired, the OnStop shows the statistics and the OnPlay shows the rest, so if the timing is a little off then you get bits of each. I think this is a problem with the event firing and I've reported it to Jiri. Not really sure what I can do about it myself but I'll provide a workaround in the script if possible.

trixmoto wrote:New version (2.3) is now available to download from my website. Changes include...
...
- Fixed statistics still showing after player stopped and new song played
...

I've made a few tests and it looks like it's really fixed. Thank you.

gege · Post by **gege** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:55 pm

Hi, trix
I have a little suggestion regarding the columns layout:
In various MonkeyRok's panels, the Artist column has a fixed width, no matter how wide MonkeyRok itself is, sometimes forcing rows to span across two lines of text unnecessarily. See (1) and (2) in image below:

I suggest you to change the table layout in skins, in order to make both Title AND Artist columns proportional to the MonkeyRok's width, like in (3). Did you understand what I mean? What do you think?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:29 am

Jiri has confirmed that it's not a bug, but it is incorrect behaviour, so the OnStop event will not be fired in this situation in the next version. I managed to find a workaround though which I'm glad is working for you.

I'll take a look at why this column is not resizing properly and try to get it sorted for the next version.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:14 pm

great script getting better and better trixmoto, just one thing i would like to see on next update dunno if its possible the addition of tabs that can connect to sites with info about the music like wikipedia, last fm, etc...

continue with the great work

gege · Post by **gege** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:21 pm

Anonymous wrote:great script getting better and better trixmoto, just one thing i would like to see on next update dunno if its possible the addition of tabs that can connect to sites with info about the music like wikipedia, last fm, etc...

Do you know the WebSearch Panels script?
I think it can provide the type of information you want. Here is the link:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11254

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:49 pm

yer i know them and use them but thought it would be a nice addition

powerpill-pacman · Post by **powerpill-pacman** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:54 am

The script works like a charm and gets better every time, but i get a little error. I don't know whether it's a bug in the script or on my side (whatever that means), but in the album overview i don't get album-artwork allthought it shows up in the artwork panel. Here's a screenshot:

I nearly forgot: Thanks very much for your continuous work.

Monkey Rok 4.1 - Updated 17/08/2009

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