Essential Now Playing (MM to OBS/txt file) alternative?

[Furexus]

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!

[drakinite]

You're in luck. I actually wrote an addon for a friend about a year ago which does just that: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqHzUrf30uprqIxNKQCbrK464fB8Mg

There was someone on the forum who was working on something that not only outputs the track summary, but also outputs the album art to a file. I don't recall who it was, unfortunately.

[Furexus]

omg, drakinite! That is so, so cool! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Really appreciate the help!

[drakinite]

No problem, glad to help!

[Reservoir Dogz]

Yeah Gday.

Links not available anymore..

I used to use Snip in MM V4 but it doesnt work in V5...

Looking for new program to do this to text and obs.
thanks

[drakinite]

Sorry, I thought I made sure all my OneDrive links on the forum were still working when I was deleting/moving files in my OneDrive a few weeks ago. This one must have slipped through the cracks.

This link should work. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqHzUrf30uprqIxNkbm ... w?e=ygdDfJ Let me know if the addon doesn't still work with the most recent version of MM5; I haven't tested it in a while.

[SavoryGrits]

Hello Drakinite, it seems the addon is no longer working. I was using your plugin and recently upgraded to the newest version of MM. Now get an error when MM is launched. The error is directly related to the output now playing to file plugin. I would have copied the error prompt and pasted it here but I have no clue how to. Regardless, I await for your reply and thank you in advance.

[drakinite]

Hello Drakinite, it seems the addon is no longer working. I was using your plugin and recently upgraded to the newest version of MM. Now get an error when MM is launched. The error is directly related to the output now playing to file plugin. I would have copied the error prompt and pasted it here but I have no clue how to. Regardless, I await for your reply and thank you in advance.

Hi SavoryGrits,

This issue has been fixed and the addon has been uploaded to MM's addon repository. Please uninstall the addon (click Ignore on the error, then click Continue. Navigate to Tools > Addons, then first uninstall the version you have installed.)

Restart MM, then open Tools > Addons, search for Output Currently Playing Track to File and download & install the version that's been published to the site.

Apologies for the rigamaroll, but I didn't increment the version number when I uploaded the fixed version to the site.

[SavoryGrits]

Thanks for that amazingly fast reply sir