thanks for taking on the update to this script it is very much wanted.

i've just got the script have not had time to check it maybe someone else has.
more input on it from others that use it would be great since i don't run mm 3 all day.

this by the way will be the first script i've tried in mm 3. just to let you know you hit the bullseye with
making me to try one.


nope not working either all it does is eat up cpu cycles in mm 3 so i uninstalled it.

This seems to work with MM3 but not sure if I broke it for MM2. If it only works for MM3 I will try and fix it for both

Download here
Requires MM to be restarted

I did notice that it dosen't reset the equaliser if the genre preset is not found. Perhaps this might be needed to be added?

just an update i no longer run this script it does not work for me anymore in the win 98 it just up and stopped the changing, i guess it caused one too many errors or something that made windows stop the program? not sure why but i know it did work on the short time but not all day use.

as in another message eyal has said this script does not work at all in mediamonkey version 3.

so a new one needs made. if anyone out there can make it work in mm 3 without crashing that would be great.

another update.

as you know if you seen my bug report of double songs playing.

that wma files load too fast. for my system

in line with the too small of files this loading speed of wma or other formated song files, could and does also trigger the eq dll error because
of the speed making work the same as the small 10 seconds or less wav and or ogg files.

and there is no way to correct this speed caused error atleast not in this script's coding.

so as long as you have slow loading files this script will work.

just wanted to let anyone using this to know incase they are getting
loading speed triggered eq dll errors and did not know why.

if you have short wav files like sound effects under 20 seconds and you want to block them there is a code to do that for this script but i can't remember it off hand.

but diddeleedoo knows it and where to place it in the script.

i am not able to play the jukebox computer with out this anymore it runs
all the time monkey is on.

some of the songs need the eq because i loaded them in the computer with a very bad and old sound card about 4 years ago so the eq needs to fix their sound. this script was a blessing for me in that respect

thanks again for diddeleedoo being able to take on this request and make this script.

As I do not really use the Equalizer at all, it's a bit out of my 'can do something' area.

This script simply do the shortcut keys that's needed to change EQ settings for each song.

If it's possible to do it with shortcuts, this script should be able to do it.

From what I understand, Roving Cowboy have had success with this script, however, for very short and rapid song changes, like when doing small sound clips, can push your luck. However, on 'normal songs' it seems to do things right.

I don't use a defaul equalizer, but Enhancer. I wonder if it's possible to make it switch the preset for different songs (according to genre, for example)?

i thought to come back and post an update to this error i found and some others found.

i now know that getting this equllizer dll error can be done by two things.

if media monkey toss's an " invalid floating point operation " error.

it can crash monkey or let monkey run but cause the eq dll error.

9 times out of 10 for me it crashed monkey.


the second thing that causes the eq dll error all the time is.

an option setting that might be used by you.

it is the direct sound plugin and the sound device that you told it to use.

for some reason the direct sound plug in does not like this eq script.?

or it is the device that it is told to use that causes the error.

don't use the direct sound plugin change to the wav plug in.

and don't tell them to use the microsoft sound mapper.

that is what makes the eq dll error when using this script.

you should have your options set like.

output plug in = wav output dll.

sound device option in the wav output dll should = "Your Sound Card "

i said your sound card beause i don't know what you have
so you have to look to see what you have if you don't
already know.

but that is how it should be set up.

if there is any thing else found to cause this error with using this script
please post here and let us know.

but this is all i found so far and both are not the script or monkey. but just something in windows that causes them.

i just shortened the word to eq for faster reading.

but i guess i should have spelled it out completly as it is the
equalize.dll that is listed in the alert. sorry about that

thanks for the kick up side the head



for some reason on Oct.2.nd 2006 i just had monkey crash. it is back
to weekly time limit but it did not say anything about the
eq...dll

so it just confirmed as i believed and diddeleedoo said it is not
this script that is causing the error. it is media monkey its self.

I don't use the script but I did a search of my WinXP system and couldn't find "eq.dll"
This may suggest that it is a Win98 library file??

The MM dll is (I think) equalize.dll

I need to make an update on the error of the time limit.

it is now accuring daily. if not hourly.

you other uses of this script

tell me if your having trouble with monkey and the eq.dll.

this is not related to the script as far as diddeleedoo knows.

but he said it is something with monkey. so i am only posting this here
because you that use this script are more likely the ones that will beable to help.

heres the trouble.

using this script all day and all night seems to bring up an alert for no reason at all just about in 48 hours to a week depending on something to make the time limits?

but the alert says monkey caused an error in the EQ.dll
that is on my win98 computer.

it did not do this with this script with the 2.5.4.971 beta version of monkey.

but this new release version is doing it.

so something changed between the two versions.

what i am asking for is to see if any of you that use this script are using it on winXp and can let it run all the time to see if it does have the same error as my win98.

again this is not the script it is monkey or something went bad in the win98. but the alert says monkey caused the error. the script is only needed to use the eq.dll a lot to see if heavy use is what the trouble is or if there is something on the win98 that causes it. or if monkey really is the cause. if monkey is the cause then you will get the alert on xp like i do on 98.
if 98 is the cause then you wont get the alert on xp.

That makes a lot of sense!
Often easy to get lost in the 'jungle' of options.

I found it easier to just add 2 or 3 special EQ sets per genre and call them as in this example.

• genere
  
  rock
  
  fixed rock
  
  fixed rock 1
  
  fixed rock 2

that allows me to rename the songs genere to one of the fixed ones.
which is set to where the song needs it. say a song has all the bass missing like an old 8 track tape that was left in the sun.
well one of the fixed sets would be adding all bass possible to make it sound good and just a little midrange and trible. with hardly no high hat.

that would re adjust the song back to sounding fairly good, i would then use the duplex sound card for what it is good at and start the wav editor up and record a new wav file while playing the song with the eq on.

making it a good sounding file. then i would do lots of editing on the song file to try and get it even better. when i had a copy i liked i would then convert it from wav and replace the messed up copy with the new one..

? why did i say i WOULD do that? i should have said I DO do that.

roving cowboy / keith hall.

Thank you for leaving some comments guys... Makes it all more fun

Somebody mentioned that they sometimes do special EQ settings for certain songs too, or if you want, Artists, Albums or whatever.

This script could be taken further by something like.....

If Song ID EQ settings exists, use it.
If Album Name EQ settings exist, use it
If Artist Name EQ settings exist, use it
If Genre EQ settings exist, use it.

That would take a lot of maintanance though, in form of having a LOT of equalizer settings. Might be worth while waiting to see what comes in MediaMonkey v3.0, to see if Equalizer settings can be set from the 'inside' instead of from the 'outside' like now.

Good one DiddeLeeDoo!