[release] Itunes 4 For Windows Media Player 9

[CRUZAR]

my WMP 9 with iTunes.wmz looks bad on win2000 prof.

[Tobbz]

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Sep 18 2003, 11:49 AM

Could you load the debug version up, and tell me the first status message that it shows before you do anything...  That's the one I'm interested in.  If I can get that (or, more likely, those), I can probably solve the problems...

It says: Status: Setting view mode succeeded

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by CRUZAR@Sep 18 2003, 12:51 PM

my WMP 9 with iTunes.wmz looks bad on win2000 prof.

Yeah, it will.

It's not designed for anything other than WMP9 on XP or Win2K3, I'm afraid - Win2K/WMP9 doesn't handle alpha properly.

[localhost]

Originally posted by CRUZAR@Sep 18 2003, 02:51 PM

my WMP 9 with iTunes.wmz looks bad on win2000 prof.

i think you should put GdiPlus.dll in your c:\windows\system32 folder

that's the DLL that handles alpha transparancy...

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by Tobbz@Sep 18 2003, 12:55 PM

It says: Status: Setting view mode succeeded

New debug version: iTunesDebug

Download only if you are having problems!

Please download this and report the status message displayed after the skin has finished loading and before you do anything...

Cheers all.

[Tobbz]

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Sep 18 2003, 12:02 PM

New debug version: iTunesDebug

Please download this and report the status message displayed after the skin has finished loading and before you do anything...

Cheers all.

Status: Refreshing sources

[Stevie BM]

Another New debug version!

iTunesDebug

Download only if you are having problems!

Please download this and report the status message displayed after the skin has finished loading and before you do anything...

[th0re]

yep, the greatest wmp9 itunes skin i ever saw in this forum. respect stevie bm (Y)

[hispanicboy]

i have downloaded the latest debug version and the message i get is "Status: Loading Playlist Collection" i still hve the white boxes and they still alternate from brushed to white depending on mouse click. i mentioned earlier that i had a lot of mp3s i have roughly...800 cds totalling 40 gigs all with proper genra, artist, and such. i don't mean to be a bother and really do appreciate what you have already done. if i can do anything to help you toruble shoot this let me know. i have camtasia and can do video sceen captuers if those would help you see how it's responding.

[quaff]

"Status: Setting Visualisation State"

[CRUZAR]

where can i find GdiPlus.dll?

[hispanicboy]

what the heck i have nothing else to do... i went ahead and did a video capture to show you what's happening you can view it here:

http://www.video-guy.com/downloads/itunes.html

let me know if i can do anything else. i really appreciate all the work you are putting forth.

[Stevie BM]

"Status: Loading Playlist Collection" is being worked on, in conjunction with Tobbz.

I'll let people know what's happening as it happens on here.

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by hispanicboy@Sep 18 2003, 01:26 PM

what the heck i have nothing else to do... i went ahead and did a video capture to show you what's happening you can view it here:

http://www.video-guy.com/downloads/itunes.html

let me know if i can do anything else.  i really appreciate all the work you are putting forth.

I know that's what you're seeing, from the status message you posted...

[CRUZAR]

Originally posted by localhost@Sep 18 2003, 03:32 PM

i think you should put GdiPlus.dll in your c:\windows\system32 folder

that's the DLL that handles alpha transparancy...

where can I find GdiPlus.dll?

[Stevie BM]

Broken source/browse panes solution

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, my fellow Aqua-Softians, I have a solution, of sorts...

After much investigation, with the help of Tobbz, I've discovered that the reason that the browse and source panes aren't being populated is that you have some broken playlists in WMP...

The solution for this is as follows:

• Go to WMP Full Mode
  
• Select the Media Library tab
  
• Select "My Playlists", and delete all playlists in there
  
• Select Auto Playlists, and delete all the playlists in there.
  
• Problem solved.
  

If you want to mess about trying to find which of your playlists are broken, then by all means do, but this is the quick and dirty solution.

In short, my skin tries to read the names of all your playlists, so that it can add them to the source pane, and if you have a broken playlist, this fails, and stops the rest of the playlist loading correctly.

I knew my code was OK!

NEXT!

[&#124JuiceZ&#124]

sweet fix man thx (Y)

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by quaff@Sep 18 2003, 01:18 PM

"Status: Setting Visualisation State"

I think I have a solution for this...

It's a silly typo on my part

Any other errors, guys?

[hispanicboy]

thanks for the great find.

thanks for the great skin.

thanks for going above and beyond the call of duty.

[&#124JuiceZ&#124]

Originally posted by CRUZAR@Sep 18 2003, 07:20 AM

where can i find GdiPlus.dll?

You can find the redist vers here man.

[b0se]

Amazing stuff Stevo, props on an excellent skin

[quaff]

Originally posted by Stevie BM@Sep 18 2003, 06:02 AM

I think I have a solution for this...

It's a silly typo on my part 

Any other errors, guys?

Its all good, we're all human

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by b0se@Sep 18 2003, 02:08 PM

Amazing stuff Stevo, props on an excellent skin

Bah!

What would you know about skinning, boyo?

I mean, it's not as if you've done visual styles or anything

Where've you been matey? Not heard from you in ages!

[FatAxl]

I still have a problem of when I click on the Playlist side, in the white area, everything in the list disappears. I don't have a ny playlists at all, I deleated all of them, but the problem still persists. The debug skin says nothing. Thanks for any help.

FatAxl :own:

[Stevie BM]

Originally posted by FatAxl@Sep 18 2003, 02:15 PM

I still have a problem of when I click on the Playlist side, in the white area, everything in the list disappears.  I don't have a ny playlists at all, I deleated all of them, but the problem still persists.  The debug skin says nothing.    Thanks for any help.

FatAxl :own:

I know you do. Everyone does. Microsoft do.

Basically (as I've said on numerous occasions both in this thread and in the preview thread), there's a problem with the Windows Media Player listboxes whereby if you click on an area of the box with no entries, the box disappears. Microsoft are aware of the problem and have told me that they don't intend to fix this problem until the next major release of Windows Media Player (read: the one in Longhorn), if they fix it at all...

I could write an inelegant fix for this, but it would take about 3 days to write, let alone test... I, however, don't see the need for this, when there's a perfectly good solution available already: Don't click in empty areas of the listboxes.