Cannot get SongInfo or NowPlaying to work

[fapezone]

I saw rainmeter on instagram and downloaded it just a few days ago, and I took the skin that seemed best to my eye. (Ageo by ApexXx-SenSei)

I first tried to get it to work with my Windows Media Player, I filled my music folder with mp3's just to be sure if it was the issue, still didn't work.

Downloaded MusicBee, enabled CD Art Display, played with the .ini file again, yet still no response from the player.

I'm using Win 11 with Wallpaper Engine, I'll attach my .ini file here just to make sure.

NOTE: There was no [MeasurePlayer] in my .ini file when I first edited it, so added in one and then removed it, didn't change anything.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
Author=Connect-R
BackgroundMode=2
SolidColor=0,0,0,1
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
MouseScrollUpAction=[!SetVariable Scale "(#Scale#+#ScrollMouseIncrement#)"][!WriteKeyValue Variables Scale "(#Scale#+#ScrollMouseIncrement#)"][!Refresh] 
MouseScrollDownAction=[!SetVariable Scale "(#Scale#-#ScrollMouseIncrement# < 0.2 ? 0.2 : #Scale#-#ScrollMouseIncrement#)"][!WriteKeyValue Variables Scale "(#Scale#-#ScrollMouseIncrement# < 0.2 ? 0.2 : #Scale#-#ScrollMouseIncrement#)"][!Refresh]


[Variables]
@include=#@#Variables.inc
@include2=#@#Language\#Language#.inc
Scale=0.5

;-------------------------------------------------------------
;-------------------------------------------------------------

[MeasureArtist]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=CAD
PlayerType=ARTIST
Substitue="":""

[MeasureTitle]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=#Player#
PlayerType=TITLE
Substitue="":""

[MeasureAlbum]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=#Player#
PlayerType=ALBUM
Substitue="":""

[MeasureDuration]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=#Player#
PlayerType=DURATION

[MeasurePosition]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=#Player#
PlayerType=POSITION

[MeasureMinutesRemaining]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Trunc((MeasureDuration - MeasurePosition)/60)
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^(.)$":"0\1"

[MeasureSecondsRemaining]
Measure=Calc
Formula=((MeasureDuration - MeasurePosition) % 60)
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="^(.)$":"0\1"

;-------------------------------------------------------------
;-------------------------------------------------------------

[MeterSign]
Meter=Image
ImageName=#@#Sign.png
X=(10*#Scale#)
Y=(40*#Scale#)
W=(100*#Scale#)
UpdateDivider=-1
ImageTint=#Color2#

[MeterSign2]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureArtist
StringAlign=Left
FontFace=Glacial Indifference
FontColor=#Color1#
FontSize=(60*#Scale#)
X=(0*#Scale#)
Y=(0*#Scale#)
Text="♫"
AntiAlias=1
UpdateDivider=-1

;-------------------------------------------------------------
;-------------------------------------------------------------

[MeterArtist]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureArtist
StringAlign=Left
StringCase=Upper
FontFace=Glacial Indifference
FontColor=#Color1#
FontSize=(38*#Scale#)
X=(120*#Scale#)
Y=(50*#Scale#)
Text="%1"
AntiAlias=1

[MeterTitle]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureTitle
StringAlign=Left
;StringCase=Upper
FontFace=Glacial Indifference
FontColor=#Color1#
FontSize=(20*#Scale#)
X=(65*#Scale#)
Y=(60*#Scale#)r
Text="%1"
AntiAlias=1

[MeterAlbum]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureAlbum
StringAlign=Left
;StringCase=Upper
FontFace=Glacial Indifference
FontColor=#Color1#
FontSize=(20*#Scale#)
X=(5*#Scale#)
Y=(30*#Scale#)r
Text="%1"
AntiAlias=1

[MeterRemaining]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureMinutesRemaining
MeasureName2=MeasureSecondsRemaining
StringAlign=Left
FontFace=Glacial Indifference
FontColor=#Color2#
FontSize=(20*#Scale#)
X=(5*#Scale#)
Y=(30*#Scale#)r
Text="- %1:%2"
AntiAlias=1

[eclectic-tech]

I saw rainmeter on instagram and downloaded it just a few days ago, and I took the skin that seemed best to my eye. (Ageo by ApexXx-SenSei)

I first tried to get it to work with my Windows Media Player, I filled my music folder with mp3's just to be sure if it was the issue, still didn't work.

Downloaded MusicBee, enabled CD Art Display, played with the .ini file again, yet still no response from the player.

I'm using Win 11 with Wallpaper Engine, I'll attach my .ini file here just to make sure.

NOTE: There was no [MeasurePlayer] in my .ini file when I first edited it, so added in one and then removed it, didn't change anything.

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Once you set MusicBee up and enable CD Art Display on startup, the skin will not see anything until you close MusicBee and RESTART MusicBee; then the skin will see the information.

This is most likely true any time you change the AGEO setting for the player type; restart the player.

[xenium]

I saw rainmeter on instagram and downloaded it just a few days ago, and I took the skin that seemed best to my eye. (Ageo by ApexXx-SenSei)

I first tried to get it to work with my Windows Media Player, I filled my music folder with mp3's just to be sure if it was the issue, still didn't work.

Downloaded MusicBee, enabled CD Art Display, played with the .ini file again, yet still no response from the player.

I'm using Win 11 with Wallpaper Engine, I'll attach my .ini file here just to make sure.

If you downloaded the skin from Deviantart, SongInfo works very well with both WMP and MusicBee.
https://www.deviantart.com/apexxx-sensei/art/Ageo-788359446
You don't have to edit the skin, just select the player you use in the settings menu.
I have Windows 10 but it should also work on Windows 11.

[Yincognito]

Downloaded MusicBee, enabled CD Art Display, played with the .ini file again, yet still no response from the player.

I'm using Win 11 with Wallpaper Engine, I'll attach my .ini file here just to make sure.

You could try what eclectic-tech and xenium mentioned, and see if it works. A somewhat similar issue with MusicBee here (spoiler: I couldn't make MusicBee to work for me either, during the brief time when I tried):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=42156&start=10#p220306

I would suggest to first try with some other fully supported player (good ol' Winamp will definitely work, for example) just to make sure it works, and only then attempt with other players like MusicBee or WMP. Normally, they should all work since they're fully supported players, but you need to have proper ID3 tags in your files with at least the artist and track names, and the player version to be a supported one (this one is at times tricky, since all these software make changes from version to version and if radical, such a change might break the compatibility with the plugin).

[fapezone]

Once you set MusicBee up and enable CD Art Display on startup, the skin will not see anything until you close MusicBee and RESTART MusicBee; then the skin will see the information.

This is most likely true any time you change the AGEO setting for the player type; restart the player.

About that, after I posted here, I booted up MusicBee again few hours later just to see that the SongInfo was working fine. Seems like a restart was everything it took, I've yet to try and get WMP to work though.

EDIT: My wallpaper engine has no sound now.

EDIT 2X: Somehow fixed that??

[KazukiGames82]

EDIT: My wallpaper engine has no sound now.

EDIT 2X: Somehow fixed that??

Check your Wallpaper Settings, maybe it mute itself when something is playing audio

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