Plugin: Tag parser & media player for DRM Windows Media

[ukmgranger]

I may be wrong here.

I thought that if I am using SageTV as a service, it is the SageClient.properties file that controls everything. I didn't think that the Sage.properties effected anything.

If this is that case - the sagetv_0.txt would have the last entry from November because that was probably the last time that I accidentally started Sage without the service.

As I said I could be very wrong here and correct me if I am.

I'll get the files posted up as soon as poss.

[ukmgranger]

OK, here are the files:

I will also send you a private message with more info regarding the wma's.

[ukmgranger]

Update.

I just tried ripping in and album without 'copy protection' and this seems to import into Sage fine.

It would seem that it is the DRM side of things that is causing the problem in terms of reading the tag info.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by ukmgranger

I may be wrong here.

I thought that if I am using SageTV as a service, it is the SageClient.properties file that controls everything. I didn't think that the Sage.properties effected anything.

If you're using the SageTV service, Sage.properties controls the service, and SageClient.properties controls the UI. Two processes, two properties files. You need to configure them both.

Here's the relevant sections of your Sage.properties:

SageWMP/debug=true
SageWMP/parser/all_artists=false
SageWMP/parser/file_types=cda,wma,mp3
SageWMP/parser/raw_tags=false
mediafile_metadata_parser_plugins=
seeker/music_library_import_filename_extensions=.mp3,.wav,.wma
media_player_plugin_class/669=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/aac=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/aif=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/aiff=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/amf=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/apl=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/au=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/cda=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/far=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/it=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/itz=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/kar=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/m4a=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mdz=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mid=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/midi=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/miz=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mod=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mp1=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mp2=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mp3=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/mtm=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/nsa=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/nst=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/ogg=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/okt=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/ptm=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/rmi=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/s3m=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/s3z=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/snd=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/stm=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/stz=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/ult=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/vlb=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/voc=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/wav=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/wma=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/xm=WinampPlugin
media_player_plugin_class/xmz=WinampPlugin

The first problem is that the SageWMP tag parser is not enabled. Since it's the service that handles media import, this explains why your DRM files aren't getting parsed.

Another minor weirdness is that you have all those different files types configured for playback through Winamp (even though the SageTV service doesn't do any playback), but not for import. If you really want to import all those file types, you need to add them to the seeker line. Otherwise my advice would be to delete the properties for the file types you're not using.

Here's the corresponding settings from your SageClient.properties:

SageWMP/debug=true
SageWMP/parser/all_artists=false
SageWMP/parser/file_types=cda,wma,mp3
SageWMP/parser/raw_tags=false
mediafile_metadata_parser_plugins=SageWMP.Parser
seeker/music_library_import_filename_extensions=.cda,.mid,.midi,.rmi,.kar,.miz,.mod,.mdz,.nst,.stm,.stz,.s3 m,.s3z,.it,.itz,.xm,.xmz,.mtm,.ult,.669,.far,.amf,.okt,.ptm,.mp3,.mp2,.mp1,.aac,.apl,.vlb,.m4a,.nsa, .ogg,.wav,.voc,.au,.snd,.aif,.aiff,.wma.cda
media_player_plugin_class=
media_player_plugin_class/cda=SageWMP.Player
media_player_plugin_class/dvd=
media_player_plugin_class/mp3=SageWMP.Player
media_player_plugin_class/mpg=
media_player_plugin_class/mpgbuf=
media_player_plugin_class/wma=SageWMP.Player

Here you have a bazillion types set up for import, but not for playback. Again, for troubleshooting purposes you probably want to pare this down to just the ones you need. Also you've got .cda in there twice, extraneous spaces in .s3m and .ogg, and a missing comma between .wma and .cda.

Fix these issues in both files and try your import again.

[ukmgranger]

You were spot on Greg!

I just happened to get a new motherboard today, so I did a full clean install of everything.

Having a clean .properties made it much easier to see what was going on. I have now installed it successfully and all works (even the DRM files).

Thanks for your help - and patients.

[mikesm]

Flachbar, did you try the new version, and did ir parse FLAC files and import them adequately?

Thanks,
Mike

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mikesm

Flachbar, did you try the new version, and did ir parse FLAC files and import them adequately?

Thanks,
Mike

No, I tried it with the new version and this time I got some different java exceptions in the parser.

Well, it is not really that important to me (honestly, even if I would get it working I probably still wouldnt use it because of the crippled Music Library in Sage), so I didn't want to bother Greg to spend time on something which wont be used anyway. Now, if others are also interested in FLAC parsing, I could post the errors here for Greg to have a look at ...

Dirk

[ukmgranger]

Will this work with WMP vsn. 11?

[GKusnick]

If it doesn't, that would be a bug in WMP 11. COM components (like WMP) are required to maintain backward compatibility with existing apps.

[coppit]

I assume that Windows Media Player is not supposed to appear over SageTV when I play a CD, right? Did I miss some installation step to prevent this? Or do I need a different version of WMP? If you need a window-less way to interact with WMP, here's a little app I wrote a while ago, in case it helps: http://www.coppit.org/code/runquiet10.zip

[Morgan111]

Greg,

Do you know if the the code here has the potential to play windows streaming audio??? Shoutcast is great, but there is alot out there in wsa.

I hadn't looked too much at this plugin before but I am interested in the CD playing capability. I had imported it into my SageMC STV and thought about doing some screen changes but found that I was running into major problems because of my Java version (and I'm too scared to upgrade right now ).

Does this look for an inserted CD regardless of the screen you are on?

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by coppit

I assume that Windows Media Player is not supposed to appear over SageTV when I play a CD, right? Did I miss some installation step to prevent this? Or do I need a different version of WMP? If you need a window-less way to interact with WMP, here's a little app I wrote a while ago, in case it helps: http://www.coppit.org/code/runquiet10.zip

SageWMP does not create any WMP windows. It just instantiates the ActiveX object. If you're getting a WMP window, it may be because you have Windows configured to auto-launch WMP whenever you insert a disc. In My Computer, right-click your CD drive, choose Properties, click the AutoPlay tab, select Music CD from the dropdown, and choose "Take no action".

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Morgan111

Do you know if the the code here has the potential to play windows streaming audio??? Shoutcast is great, but there is alot out there in wsa.

I haven't tried it, but by editing properties you should be able to enable SageWMP for any audio file type that WMP supports. Try adding wsa to your seeker/music_library_import_filename_extensions, SageWMP/parser/file_types, and media_player_plugin_class properties and see what happens.

Does this look for an inserted CD regardless of the screen you are on?

No, only when you're at the Music CD screen.

[mkanet]

Does this mean that the next version of SageTV will have the funnctionality of this plugin builtn?

Originally Posted by Narflex

This is on the list to update in the core. We'll be adding an Album Artist role type so you can independently specify the Song Artist vs. the Album Artist. More info will be available when it's out. An FYI for any planning you're doing.

[Morgan111]

It would be nice if the core also added a hook that is triggered by insertion of a CD!

[wheelrandolph]

Hi All,
I installed this TagParser WMP plugin and nothing shows under Music menu. I use Neilm's Dynamic Menu and have stvi's for a long time. I unzipped all the folders to my SageTv/SageTv folder except for the Jar files which went into Jar folder. Any ideas.
Thanks for any help.

Randy

[GKusnick]

Did you reimport your music after installing the plugin? Are you running SageTV as a service? If so, check to make sure that both Sage.properties and SageClient.properties got modified appropriately, and that the service got restarted with the new properties.

[wheelrandolph]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

Did you reimport your music after installing the plugin? Are you running SageTV as a service? If so, check to make sure that both Sage.properties and SageClient.properties got modified appropriately, and that the service got restarted with the new properties.

Hi Greg and thanks for the reply--I am running Service and I removed my import dir and re-added it.

I read your instructions again just now and realize I have Java 1.42 and you state 1.5 or higher. So, that is probably the problem, right?

I don't get the CD (?) menu in the Music menu.

I will install a Java update as soon as a current recording is finished.




Randy

[wheelrandolph]

I guess the Java was the problem--updated Java to 1.5 and now I have the Music CD option in the Music menu.

Randy

[bcjenkins]

Greg,

Given the recent stance on Java 1.5 with Sage, can anything be done to make it work with 1.4?

TIA

B