Spotify Plugin Released! Now with less bugs!

[LewaBolt]

I may have something for you! I combined the skin you posted with a colour EQ from alatsombath, Fountains of Color. So there is a colour EQ now, here's a pic:



The pic doesn't do it justice actually, it was hard to screencap it because the colours change too fast. Lots of tweakability here with alatsombath's code!

There's a small formatting problem I'm not smart enough to figure out - the EQ bar starts 4 pixels off to the right, maybe some of the smart people here can figure out how to set it to 0,0?

Thanks and credit to both Milan and alatsombath for their brilliant code! Zip attached as there are a couple of file dependencies.

This should help it. replace the WriteBands with it.

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[mr.derek]

Hey thanks man! That worked! Looks much better when it's all aligned =) Did you manage to get it to work with your skin?

I was actually tweaking in the meantime and figured one way to get rid of the gap would be to reduce x - so since the progress bar is 346 wide, I increased the number of bands to 173 and reduced the width to 1 and gap between to 1:

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BarWidth=1
BarHeight=50
BarGapX=1R
BarGapY=0
BarOrientation=Vertical
Bands=173
BandsOut=173

It runs at about 2% CPU, so I'm pretty happy with that =) Thanks for your help!

EDIT: Sorry I was wrong about the below comments, see next post.

Giebat: I tested that particular song with a bunch of different plugins I've been playing around with, and they all display the same as you, so it must be an incompatibility with the SpotifyPlugin.dll plugin itself and not the font, as these all used a variety of fonts, and one pro ttf. This one's something for razer when he has time. =)

For testing the artist is Völund Smed and the album Gör Om Gör Rätt.

[Giebat]

Hey thanks man! That worked! Looks much better when it's all aligned =) Did you manage to get it to work with your skin?

I was actually tweaking in the meantime and figured one way to get rid of the gap would be to reduce x - so since the progress bar is 346 wide, I increased the number of bands to 173 and reduced the width to 1 and gap between to 1:

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BarWidth=1
BarHeight=50
BarGapX=1R
BarGapY=0
BarOrientation=Vertical
Bands=173
BandsOut=173

It runs at about 2% CPU, so I'm pretty happy with that =) Thanks for your help!

EDIT:

Giebat: I tested that particular song with a bunch of different plugins I've been playing around with, and they all display the same as you, so it must be an incompatibility with the SpotifyPlugin.dll plugin itself and not the font, as these all used a variety of fonts, and one pro ttf. This one's something for razer when he has time. =)

For testing the artist is Völund Smed and the album Gör Om Gör Rätt.

How did you manage to get more bars? :O I tried but couldn't quite get it to work. Tried off yours and made a Test.Inc in @Resources:

[Variables]
BarWidth=1
BarHeight=50
BarGapX=1R
BarGapY=0
BarOrientation=Vertical
Bands=173
BandsOut=173

And and added this:

ContextTitle="Edit Test"
ContextAction=["#@#Test.inc"]
@Include=#@#Test.inc

To the original Compagne.ini.

Oh really? Mr.derek, A thousand thanks to you for being so helpful, I Hope there will be a fix in a near future

[LewaBolt]

Yea, I was able to use that. Love the colors, but can you set them?

[Kaz28100]

I'm sorry to tell you guys but i tried to play the same song and this works.

Have you updated rainmeter to the latest version?
Have you installed the latest plugin from the first page?
Also do you put the plugin inside this folder? (C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Plugins) and not (C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Defaults\Plugins)

Do you have a 32 bit or 64 bit system? because if you use a 64 bit system rainmeter must not be installed inside (C:\Program Files (x86))

[Giebat]

Hello Kaz! Thanks for the response,
I have version 3.2.1 r2386 64-bit (Mar 24 2015) (Last version)
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (build 9600)
Path: C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\
And the plugin is in C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Plugins
I actually downloaded the Spotifyplugin.dll again and replaced it, and ended up with this result: Better, But still not quite right.

[mr.derek]

Oh man, I'm so sorry! Thanks Kaz for setting this straight!

I removed all copies of the SpotifyPlugin.dll and reinstalled it and just as Kaz has said:



The plugin must have been accidentally updated with a skin installer at some stage, so sorry again!

My plugin location is only in "Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Plugins\SpotifyPlugin.dll" though? Is there a reason to also put it in Program Files?

Giebat, with that particular font, the accents are not displayed in the uppercase characters. So I just commented the two lines ;StringCase=Upper to get it back to lower case. =)

[Giebat]

Mr.derek! My Saviour!

I changed it to StringCase=Proper and it is now working fine! Thank you so much Ofcourse big thanks to everyone else

[mr.derek]

Glad it's working now man! =D

I'm attaching my latest copy of the colour EQ skin with 173 bars. Unfortunately it won't work very well with the default La Compagnie des Ombres skin, because this one uses recursion to create the EQ bars - which is why you can have as few or as many as your CPU can handle =)

I've also added a few colour playlists in there LewaBolt. The colours are selected through the variable:

ColorPlaylist=DerekColorPlaylist

And the corresponding playlist:

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[DerekColorPlaylist]
Measure=String

Shuffle=0

1=39,174,96|46,204,113
2=41,12,185|52,152,219
3=142,68,173|155,89,182
4=243,156,18|241,196,15
5=211,84,0|230,126,34
6=192,57,43|231,76,60

These are RGB values of the colours:



In 1=39,174,96|46,204,113 for example, 39,174,96 is dark green, the next set is light green and so on. The sets on the left are the bar colours at normal volume, the right number are colours at loud volumes.

Shuffle is set to 0 so it cycles through the colours sequentially - set to 1 to make random.

I added another playlist which is just 3 colours to further illustrate; just use:

ColorPlaylist=BluePurplePinkPlaylist

[.raptor]

My plugin location is only in "Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Plugins\SpotifyPlugin.dll" though? Is there a reason to also put it in Program Files?

To be perfectly honest, this was the only location i knew about when writing the guide .

Will update with an rmskin package instead later today.