Guide: WMP9 Now Playing

[Alan]

Bman,

your ftp address should look like this, pointing to the directory you have the files stored in

ftp://username:password@ftp.yourdomainname/public_html/dir/

some servers wont allow access unless its like this..[well mine wont ]

dir/ at the end is the folder/directory where you placed the nowplaying.php and nowplayingimg.php

and obviously the username and password boxes should be filled in accordingly

Hope this helps
Alan

P.S. Dont give up....it cracked me up for 4 hrs till the penny dropped


Damm smilies ftp://username : password@ftp.yourdomainname/public_html/dir/

without the spaces between username : Password

 

[Not Bman]

i'v never seen it like that, i usually have it setup like this, for example mine...http://members.rogers.com/username/foldername/file name

 

[Alan]

That might be ok for your sever then.....

I just looked at your sig and noticed its pointing to

http://members.rogers.com/bman_work/Files/nowplayingimg.php


mine points to

http://argyleparktaxis.co.uk//song/nowplaying.php

 

[Not Bman]

thats what I have now and I have that uploaded, that also what I put in the WMP9 thing and still nothing..

 

[Alan]

Hmmm does yor sever support .php ?

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Originally posted by Alan
Hmmm does yor sever support .php ?

Seems that way

 

[Not Bman]

uh yea

 

[Alan]

it seems to me that the songout.txt is not being created

http://members.rogers.com/bman_work/Files/songout.txt

When you browse to that url its a 404 and you should get the song title and artist

For whatever reason I dont know....... maybe NetRyder will come back in on this.....I'm to tired now....if I can think of anything else I'll post back

Later
Alan

 

[NetRyder]

bman: How do you usually upload files to your webspace? I'm sure it has an FTP address, right? That's the one you need to enter into the SongWriter configuration dialog.
For example, if someone's URL is http://members.cox.net/someuser, their FTP server would be ftp.members.cox.net

I think you might need to enter ftp://members.rogers.com/bman_work/files as your FTP path.

 

[Not Bman]

ok, i put that as my ftp path now...still not working..anything else

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by bman™
ok, i put that as my ftp path now...still not working..anything else

Ok, again...lets make sure the plugin is working properly.
Remove the FTP path, username, and password, and leave those fields blank.

Then read this post:http://www.ntfs.org/forum/showthread.php?postid=346265#post346265
Let me know if songout.txt was created in C:\ and what it contains.

I'm quite sure it's just a problem of the wrong FTP path...

 

[Not Bman]

ok, songout.txt is not getting created. Whats with everybody putting "public_html" in there ftp address?

 

[NetRyder]

Well, looks like the plugin itself isn't functioning properly then. Are you sure you've checked the box next to SongWriter in your WMP Plugin options? You should see a little green plug icon at the bottom right of your WMP9 window when the song is playing if the plugin has been loaded correctly. Do you see it?

 

[Not Bman]

yea I see it.

 

[Not Bman]

Maybe its because of what I put in my signature details... What am I soppose to have in there??

 

[NetRyder]

Well, you just put the link to your nowplaying.php or nowplayingimg.php file within [img ] tags. But it's going to work only after you figure out why songout.txt isn't getting created.
I really have no idea what might be the problem at this stage.

 

[Not Bman]

Ok, i redid everything and made sure everything is how its soppose to be, and I checked my server and now there is a songout.txt being made, but still nothing showing up on the forums!!??!!?..

 

[Not Bman]

just remembered, do I need something like php installed on my computer??

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Originally posted by bman™
just remembered, do I need something like php installed on my computer??

No... but you do need it installed on the server.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by bman™
Ok, i redid everything and made sure everything is how its soppose to be, and I checked my server and now there is a songout.txt being made, but still nothing showing up on the forums!!??!!?..

Great to see you got that problem solved.
Did you upload nowplaying.php and nowplayingimg.php to the same folder as the one containing songout.txt?

If so, you just need to add the whole URL to nowplayingimg.php between [img ] tags to your sig.
For example, [img ]http://www.sitenamehere.net/path_to_file/nowplayingimg.php[ /img]