Monkey Rok 4.1 - Updated 17/08/2009

[Eyal]

I have reported before about the problem with MR using resources and making MediaMonkey unresponsive. I find that the amount of time that MediaMonkey is unresponsive is directly related to the number of albums you have of the artist that is currently playing.
Some artists I have over 20-25 albums of. When I play them, MediaMonkey goes into "Not Responding" mode for well over a minute.

Yes that's true. The more albums it has, the more time it takes MR to iterate through the database. It's also directly related to your computer speed. On mine, 25 albums takes about 4-10 seconds.
You may want to reduce the albums number in the options to speed the script a bit. Tip: set "Album by order" to Random in that case.

Eyal :~)

[Eyal]

I would like to add a "Playlist" line to the Extra Info box. And I would like for it to list each playlist that includes the the now playing track. Is there a way to do this?

No, not at the moment, but I've added it to my list.

Gpzbc, actually you can list 'playing track' playlists with SongInfoPanel script. And it's quite fast.

[gpzbc]

No, not at the moment, but I've added it to my list.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it.

Gpzbc, actually you can list 'playing track' playlists with SongInfoPanel script. And it's quite fast.

I have the SongInfo Panel installed, but I never considered using both SI and MR. There would be a bit of redundancy in their displays, but that could work nicely. Thanks.

[dypsis]

I have reported before about the problem with MR using resources and making MediaMonkey unresponsive. I find that the amount of time that MediaMonkey is unresponsive is directly related to the number of albums you have of the artist that is currently playing.
Some artists I have over 20-25 albums of. When I play them, MediaMonkey goes into "Not Responding" mode for well over a minute.

Yes that's true. The more albums it has, the more time it takes MR to iterate through the database. It's also directly related to your computer speed. On mine, 25 albums takes about 4-10 seconds.
You may want to reduce the albums number in the options to speed the script a bit. Tip: set "Album by order" to Random in that case.

Eyal :~)

I have a fairly new quad core computer with 4GB RAM, so I don't think it is computer related.
But I do have the order set to alphabetical (which I prefer). But I will try random order.

[gpzbc]

For some reason, the <Year> field fails to show zeros in the date.

In the Extra Info Line I have "Year: <Year>" But albums with a date of "2006" show up as "Year: 26" in Monkey Rok. This seems to happen with all years that have zero in the date. So if it is "1990" it shows up as "Year: 199" in Monkey Rok.

Am I missing something? Thanks!

[dypsis]

I have reported before about the problem with MR using resources and making MediaMonkey unresponsive. I find that the amount of time that MediaMonkey is unresponsive is directly related to the number of albums you have of the artist that is currently playing.
Some artists I have over 20-25 albums of. When I play them, MediaMonkey goes into "Not Responding" mode for well over a minute.

Yes that's true. The more albums it has, the more time it takes MR to iterate through the database. It's also directly related to your computer speed. On mine, 25 albums takes about 4-10 seconds.
You may want to reduce the albums number in the options to speed the script a bit. Tip: set "Album by order" to Random in that case.

Eyal :~)

I tried changing the sort orders to Random, but I didn't notice any improvement at all.

But thanks for offering the tip.

I am thinking that maybe the processes could be somehow split to avoid this problem when a user has a number of albums.

[gpzbc]

For some reason, the <Year> field fails to show zeros in the date.

In the Extra Info Line I have "Year: <Year>" But albums with a date of "2006" show up as "Year: 26" in Monkey Rok. This seems to happen with all years that have zero in the date. So if it is "1990" it shows up as "Year: 199" in Monkey Rok.

Am I missing something? Thanks!

Nevermind. I see where this has already been acknowledged and slated to be fixed in next release.
Thanks!

[Guest]

Hey, wonderful scrips! Thanks a lot for it. Just one question: is it possible to hide the "now playing" section - i mean the first panel in monkey rok, where the album art and the play, pause, next etc. buttons appear - but still have the panel right below it, where the playlist of the current album is displayed?
I quite like it to have rapid access to other songs on the same album but don't use the now playing panel with extra player plus it shows album art again. Would be fine if thats possible though its just an asthetic-thing and not really necessary.

Thanks anyway!

[Vyper]

Try one of these css file edits:

In that case you can try these two to see which works best for you...

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#info_content table { 
  display : none ; 
}

#info_left, #info_right { 
  display : none ; 
}

[Guest]

Thanks vyper, for posting this. As I am not really into scripting: where exactly do I need to copy those line in? In the function.vbs or the MonkeyRok.vbs? Just copy them in or in a specific line?
I'd be glad for a short answer.

Thanks alot.

[Vyper]

Neither one, actually. Go to whatever MonkeyRok skin you're using, open the skin.css file and either change the #info_right and left to the above or just add the #info_content one.

[Guest]

Wunderful, that's just perfect.
Thanks a lot!

[Vyper]

On behalf of trixmoto, you're welcome.

[Lord86]

when i start mediamonkey i always get an error message that says "monkeyrok - language file "german.txt" hast extra string on line 186." when i click ok everything is working fine. could you please look at this, thanks.

[trixmoto]

Open the file and delete line 186 - it's probably a blank line at the end.