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posted on 9-12-2007 at 04:44 PM
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eJukebox is totally disoriented with multiple winamps on vista
Audiosoft,
Since I've installed a second winamp (beta version in a different folder..) eJukebox can't synchronise with this second winamp install (It displays
some album covers but not the right ones..) I've tried to change the winamp folder in eJukebox.ini but that doesn't work. I currently use ejukebox
in "slave" mode while winamp play a long playlist generated by the musicip mixer or the Playlist Generator plugin (gracenote). I test both.. but
musicip seems to be the best!
How could I force eJukebox to synchronise with this second winamp install?
Thanks.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 9-12-2007 at 08:18 PM
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Make sure you only have 1 winamp instance running at the same time. Make sure that the ejukebox.ini path is to where that winamp.exe is installed.
on Vista the path to winamp in the ejukebox.ini does not get used for playlist synchronization like on XP. The path in the ejukebox.ini is only used
to start winamp on Vista.
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\winamp.m3u is what eJukebox always reads in to syncronize the playlist on Vista since that is where
windows moves the data. I am not sure...maybe that path changes when you install and use a winamp from a different folder than C:\Program
Files\Winamp on Vista. Browse to your winamp install folder and click compatibility files and let me know if sends you somewhere different than
"AppData\Roaming\Winamp\"
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posted on 9-13-2007 at 12:12 PM
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The winamp.m3u file for my second winamp install is in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Winamp_5.36Beta. And I've installed this beta version
of winamp in C:\Program Files\Winamp_5.36Beta. So vista uses as playlist folder name the same name I've used for the install folder: The paths are
differents, but the final folder name is the same! Maybe you could make so that eJukebox search the winamp.m3u using the target folder name specified
in ejukebox.ini. In this way if I want to force eJ to synchronise with a third install (it's just a example..), it will always use the right
playlist.
Also I've noticed that ejukebox always change the winamp path in ejukebox.ini to "Dir=C:\Program Files\Winamp\". So in fact it's impossible to
use with ejukebox a winamp installed elsewhere than in the default winamp path. Maybe could you add a button in the options, or maybe better, a new
choice in the playlist Menu: "Synchronise with winamp" (while winamp is running), and after that ejukebox would always use this install and the
corresponding playlist.m3u, until the next manual synchronization? I say that because the MusicIP Mixer works like that with winamp: it find the
running winamp, and it sends its song selections in the right playlist too!
Thanks.
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