Re: RE: Updated Win32/MingW Patch

On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:29:54 +0100, Thomas Kimpton =20
<[email protected]> wrote:
> More observations on the mingw windows version:
>
> 	1. If you select all the entries in a playlist, and press the
> 'Remove' button, it only removes several songs. It seems like it remove=
s
> the first song, and several from the end, a different amount each time,
> ranging from 2-4 songs total. Pressing the button again removes the
> rest.
> 	2. After the first part of the above, it starts playing the
> first song remaining.
> 	3. It would be GREAT if there were a right-click menu item that
> was 'Clear Playlist'.
> 	4. The icon used for the application is the GTK icon rather than
> the zinf icon.
> 	5. Somehow, two completely different albums were released for
> Johnny Mercer with the same name. Only the songs for one of them shows
> up in the music browser. I appended a '2' to one of them to disambiguat=
e
> them in the file system, and that's the one that shows up, but, it
> doesn't help in the music browser.
> 	6. Right click menu item 'Tip this Artist' seems to be obsolete.
> 	7. Right click on the playlist pane does not pop up the menu
> unless it is on an item. If you add 'Clear Playlist' it would be nice t=
o
> just have to click on the playlist pane, and not have to click on an
> item.
>
> Tom.

Hi,

Thanks for all this feedback. Most of these seem to be problems with the =
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music browser, which we are currently in the process of rewriting, along =
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with the whole metadata system. So, as the experimental code can now be =20
compiled with mingw I've uploaded the newer musicbrowsermm for you to pla=
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around with if you want. This should hopefully resolve quite a few issues=
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as well as present a whole host of new ones. There are still a number of =
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menu items that don't work for instance.

1,2 and 6 should hopefully be resolved. As to 3 and 7, it includes a clea=
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playlist toolbar button which should make life a lot easier (The location=
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of clear playlist in old browser always annoyed me as well ;))

Unfortunalty, I haven't had time to work on the issues you raised in your=
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last email, though the browser does seem to remember it's size now. So =20
this still does not include a build number, though just mention mingw and=
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browsermm and I'll know what you mean.

You can download the updated version here (~8.5MB):
http://www.thepriorities.com/zinf/zinf-browsermm.zip

By default it will still use the old musicbrowser, you need to update the=
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system registry to tell it to use the newer one.
Change
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Zinf\Zinf v2.3\Main\MusicbrowserUI from =20
"musicbrowser.ui" to "musicbrowsermm.ui"
You can also download the following file which should do this for you,
http://www.thepriorities.com/zinf/browsermm.reg

Also, as this uses a different database for music, you'll need to reimpor=
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any music you had in your database.

Cheers,
David
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