by Furexus » Sat Apr 02, 2022 6:40 am
Hey everybody,
I use MM for my complete music library, including my own songs and PD/CC0 songs that I play in the background when streaming on twitch.
Currently I use the Essential Now Playing plugin (can't post links here, but you can search in google and find it on github) for saving Artist and Title out of media monkey in a txt file, which I then import in OBS, so far so easy. It works for some time but after a certain time, the plugin just writes "Media Monkey not open" in the txt file. I could restart the program (non-MM side, separate exe) and it continues to work until it fails again.
Development for the plugin has stopped in 2017 and the spiritual successor (Universal Now Playing) doesn't support Media Monkey. I tried to contact the developer with a request to re-add MM support, but so far no success. I highly doubt that the project is still developed as the last github commit was done 2 years ago.
So I guess my best bet is to find something else that just reliably saves $Artist - $Title in an txt file, I could work with that and set up the OBS integration on my own. Is there any other way besides the plugin I mentioned to do that? I just want something reliable and want to continue to use MM. If there is another way to setup a now playing connection between MM and OBS I would gladly take that too.
Thanks!
Hey everybody,
I use MM for my complete music library, including my own songs and PD/CC0 songs that I play in the background when streaming on twitch.
Currently I use the Essential Now Playing plugin (can't post links here, but you can search in google and find it on github) for saving Artist and Title out of media monkey in a txt file, which I then import in OBS, so far so easy. It works for some time but after a certain time, the plugin just writes "Media Monkey not open" in the txt file. I could restart the program (non-MM side, separate exe) and it continues to work until it fails again.
Development for the plugin has stopped in 2017 and the spiritual successor (Universal Now Playing) doesn't support Media Monkey. I tried to contact the developer with a request to re-add MM support, but so far no success. I highly doubt that the project is still developed as the last github commit was done 2 years ago.
So I guess my best bet is to find something else that just reliably saves $Artist - $Title in an txt file, I could work with that and set up the OBS integration on my own. Is there any other way besides the plugin I mentioned to do that? I just want something reliable and want to continue to use MM. If there is another way to setup a now playing connection between MM and OBS I would gladly take that too.
Thanks!