SwordOfWar

I'm not sure how to test if album art is embedded in the mp3 tag data or not. If not, can you add this feature and make it default (see no reason not to, really)? If I disable the download album art option, will it still embed the art, and just not store an external jpeg? That would be my preferred method. I ask because I notice a lot of music players or portable devices that play music and have picture galleries can be a mess. This is because external jpeg files can show up in the gallery, forcing me to scroll through tons of album art just to see my camera pictures. however, on my device I noticed deleting the album art from the gallery still left it in my music player somehow. But I ask because I'm not sure if it found an embedded version of the art, if it if secretly stored it elsewhere to retain the art in the music player. About open source..I don't really like the idea of it being open source. I don't want pandora checking out the code and circumventing it. Anything not related to how thats done is fine though, in my opinion. As long as you are actively developing it, I see no huge desire to make it open source. But thats my opinion.

I like the new interface changes your working on.

Alright then, I'll just stick to a no-ip with an updater. Do you know anyway to access the web interface with a single address? no-ip is only going to work from an external network its not going to work when im at home)... If I set it to my no-ip address in the settings, its going to redirect me to the no-ip address when i try to call it via the local ip, so I can't even manually specify this when im at home. It looks like the way this is set up I still have to sacrifice and choose between only local or only external. There must be a way around this.... what about having 2 server instances running? One running with a local address configured, and one running with an external domain (no-ip) configured? Then we could at least access both the local and external addresses without constant ServerName changes to SProxy when switching between them. Not sure why this is an issue because usually a web server will reply with the same ip/domain that was used to connect to it. For example, connecting to google.com with one of it's IP addresses will let me navigate the site with that IP, it doesn't force me back to google.com domain name when I click on something. Is there no way to get apache to act this way?

Hmm, I see what you mean about setting ServerName, but thats not exactly a great way to do it. If I set that my IP it would require constant updating, and also it would only work via non-local or only with local (without changing the setting between switching local vs non-local)... So, I still think my suggestion would be a better approach, as it just makes it consistent with the other page links that do work...but I suppose I could set up a static dns service like I talked about earlier...although thats a bit of a clunky way to do it and it wouldn't work if my internet service got interrupted. The issue doesn't happen when clicking other links (such as navigating from the status page to the pandora control/refresh page)... If we don't specifically reference a domain name, that portion should automatically be filled in.

Tested the player issue some more. The issue only happens when using my phone's browser. The link is "http://127.0.0.1:8888/pluginrpc/Pandora%20Client%20C1.0/index" It appears that it is redirecting me to a localhost ip, but since this is from my phone, this page obsiously doesn't exist there. Works fine if running from same pc with saver2. If it makes any difference, I used a direct internal ip to get to the page from my phone (192.168.1.***). I believe if you change the redirect link to just "/pluginrpc/Pandora%20Client%20C1.0/index" it will correct this issue. You should probably search the other web interface pages for a reference to 127.0.0.1 because they will also break when accessed via nonlocal. Well that explains why it worked on my pc, but not my phone (i suspect I would have the same issue if I tried from another pc or device other than than the one hosting saver2). Settings.exe opened and ran just fine, so no problems there. I did get an odd error when I came to the PC and closed Pandora after being paused for a long time while I watched a movie somewhere else. Screenshot: Log: http://www.mediafire.com/?mj4kyzigzgn Look forward to the update tonight, says I'm up to date so I'm guessing you haven't released it just yet.

I'll check settings.exe...and just to let you know, ever since I reinstalled I haven't had issues with the update feature anymore. Also, I noticed today that using the web interface for pandora controls (pause/play etc..) caused it to load a 404 immediately after (i think its calling a bad url after completing an action). It does issue the request though, and pressing back on the browserwill get me to the pandora control page again.

Suggestion (Saver Configuration): Move the hint about "%exnfo%" away from the Pandora tab to the advanced tab (where you actually set the save path structure). It seems odd to have that hint located in a tab where the option it describes isn't listed/configured there. I'm trying to allow nonlocal for web management. I'm guessing the configuration is under "File --> Options" from the SProxy Window. After navigating to that window there is a button for "Advanced Configuration" however when I click that button the program becomes non-responsive. I ended up navigating to the program's directory and manually editing the .config file with notepad. About to see if that works. Oh, I attached the logfile if you want to have a look (although after looking at it, I don't think it printed anything useful... probably locked up before it could log anything)... The issue happens 100% at least on my system, so you should be able to reproduce it. Ugh, this forum sucks... uploading to mediafire.com.... Here you go: http://www.mediafire.com/?b2kjmjxgm5g EDIT: Yep, got it to work by editing the config file, horray for basic computer skills :) You think you could integrate some DNS service to provide a static link for external web management? I know there are free services like DynDNS.com which use a downloadable client to continually update your ip to an address controlled by them (allowing you to connect with a static domain name instead of remembering a dynamic ip). The optimal solution would be fro you to have your own server, and let us create accounts on your server, which get updated with the computer's address (sproxy would have same login info configured, so it could update the server with the current address). Then we could use a pageo n your server to link us to the computer's local config page. EDIT2: Like the new minisite style.

Ill Chechen the log when I get a chance. I noticed a small prompt but everything closed out so fast I couldn't even read it. Anyway, hope I'm not annoying you too much.

Hmm, after attempting to use the update button, everything closed out (tried it again with same result). This might be a bug related to the "close sproxy when pandora closed and vice versa" options which i enabled. Perhaps you should avoid this during the update check? Thanks for the tip about configuring to save only positive songs. I didn't realize the extra options under pandora that worked in combination with the manual approval option of Sproxy. It seems the settings are all spread out in different places, which is a bit confusing unless you are familiar with where they all are (I've just begun using the thing so please don't be too hard on me here :P ). You might want to build a single GUI that can manage all the settings of both pandora and sproxy, just to make it more user friendly. I probably wouldnt have ever noticed how to do that if you hadn't explained it just then. I suppose I'll have to go clean out my undecided songs I downloaded then, but atleast now I won't have to worry about them in the future. About the deleting negative songs, I was thinking about how negative songs are downloaded (streamed) but not actually saved in my music folder. I was thinking of it as "cacheing" the song but tossing it away after the next song started loading. About the blog site, umm... anything would be great at this point. Just something where we can exchange feedback in a more streamlined less cluttered way. How about a blog and forum? You can use one of the pre-made services like blogspot, or if possible (have your own hosting) you could setup something similar to PHP-Nuke where there is a forum and "portal/news" area integrated into one package. I've been meaning to try out the web interface feature some more, but was disappointed when I opened it in my browser and all i found was "you are using auto mode" (was expecting a web interface for skip, pause, thumbs down, thumbs up so I could manage the player via browser using portable devices)... I'll play with the web interface via wifi when I have a chance, and see if there is anything like this that I just haven't seen yet (as I just downloaded this thing yesterday). I appreciate the reply. Your mini size looks fine to me. My only complaint is lack of some feedback system where I can leave comments etc... but its simple and to the point, so horray for that! And just use regular old Notepad :P Its not very fancy, but hey it saves and opens files all the time for me. Your changelog doesn't exactly have any fancy formatting anyway...this isn't microsoft word quality work xD EDIT: I just noticed what I would consider a bug. I have sproxy to start minimized, and to go to the tray. When starting it up, it minimizes to the taskbar, but a manual minimize slaps it to the tray beside the clock. Might wanna fix that. Disabled close sproxy when pandora closed but got same result, decided to reinstall. EDIT AGAIN: your minisite download link is incorrect, causing it to not be found. you had it listed as s2\s2 i believe, where its just /s2/file.exe This is probably related to the song detection you reported earlier, but I noticed the "save" button is displayed when on manual approval and playing a song already checked as thumbs up. Since due to the configuration, it will automatically be saved, so its odd to display the save button (making me think i must manually approve it). Might I suggest using these settings default? file name format: %artist% - %title% folder structure: %exnfo%\ I think it provides the best logical structure. Having songs sorted by station, with the artist and song name in the file. Why not name the "exnfo" to "station"? Since thats the output, seems like a more obvious name.

I'd like the ability to separate where my "undecided" and "thumbs up/good" songs are stored. This way I can immediately know which downloads I like, and which ones need review. Also, it would need to move files from the undecided folder to the good/thumbs up one if I check it on the pandora player that I like it. But any method of easily identifying between both types (undecided and good) will be fine. Maybe this can be done with the folder/filename variables? And how about an option to only save songs we have checked as thumbs up? I noticed you already support deleting negative songs (and looks like an option for manual approval of all songs?), so it should be easy to just delete ones we have not decided on as well. I'd also like a fullscreen version of the player with very large icons/buttons so when im using a wireless device (like wireless mouse) I can easily navigate. I actually have a wireless app on my Motorola DROID to control my computer's mouse from a distance, but I still have to look at the computer screen, so you can see the problem there with the player interface being so small and no ability to enlarge it. How about some official site/blog for this program? Even some cheap site or blog would do fine, just some dedicated place for only the community of this program. Fix these issues and I don't think I would ever need anything else added, really :P I'm very pleased with the performance and stability of everything. It tags songs correctly, and the built in player uses few resources. Thats just excellent. I'll definitely consider donating once I know the project will get continued support. I'd love to hear a personal response via my email, which is SwordOfWar *at* gmail *dot* com! Really don't know anything about this forum, I just went through the pain of registering so I could leave a comment about this wonderful program I found via google search :)