A to Z Playlist Manager Download

[Drekon]

just downloaded it.. and it detects it only when i click on the "A to Z Playlist Manager_1_2_36_1268" icon. like i said it detects it but no folders. but i do have wmp 11.. so i have no clue as to what the problem is.. more work for you!! and i appreciate all that you have coded for us! i was in a programing class for java.. we used blu j.. i think thats what it was called.. only thing i really made was a uber calculator that would do most algebra 2 problems and some trig.. dont ask me for it cause it was over a year ago.. and that was the last thing i did with java and it took me around 3 weeks to do it with a java genius....

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[Simon]

Hey eddie, I got the program working, it had a problem finding my plater on the first go, but i closed it down and found it no problem on the second go. The only thing I was able to do was manually create a playlist, none of the auto playlists worked. I noticed a couple little things, the Playlist Wizard on the Tools menu didn't give there message that the Playlist Wizard on the File menu gave me when i selected it, also there was a typo in the message I received by clicking Playlist Wizard under the File Menu.
Other than that, it looks good
thanks again for the time you've put into these programs.

[eddie74]

I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE !!!!!!! THAT AFTER 4 WEEKS OF STRUGGLING I finally discovered how to load Portable Device Object Data when it is of VT_UNKOWN type. What does this mean you say? It means we can now EDIT playlists from the player, create new ones, and have access to META DATA only Windows media player had access to !!!!! Not only that, but the program loads all types of portable media players correctly now. AND FAST to. Another added bonus. I CAN LET YOU CREATE CUSTOM ALBUMS FROM MY APPLICATION!!!!!!! You can now send a playlist to another playlist, split one playlist into as many as you want, auto update playlists (YAY!!!!!!!!) and I can also let you RESET PLAY COUNTS TO ZERO if you want. YAY I am so happy!!!! You don't know how much time I spent on this.!!!!!!! Give me a couple of afternoons and this playlist generator will work excellant!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! The second BETA version will also allow you to make VIDEO PLAYLISTS as well!

[Lawrence]

Originally Posted by eddie74

I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE !!!!!!! THAT AFTER 4 WEEKS OF STRUGGLING I finally discovered how to load Portable Device Object Data when it is of VT_UNKOWN type. What does this mean you say? It means we can now EDIT playlists from the player, create new ones, and have access to META DATA only Windows media player had access to !!!!! Not only that, but the program loads all types of portable media players correctly now. AND FAST to. Another added bonus. I CAN LET YOU CREATE CUSTOM ALBUMS FROM MY APPLICATION!!!!!!! You can now send a playlist to another playlist, split one playlist into as many as you want, auto update playlists (YAY!!!!!!!!) and I can also let you RESET PLAY COUNTS TO ZERO if you want. YAY I am so happy!!!! You don't know how much time I spent on this.!!!!!!! Give me a couple of afternoons and this playlist generator will work excellant!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! The second BETA version will also allow you to make VIDEO PLAYLISTS as well!

this sounds really good to me

but does the zvm accept video playlists?

[ZenChick]

Originally Posted by Lawrence

this sounds really good to me

but does the zvm accept video playlists?

Doubtful. This would have to be a firmware change; however, I think the real problem is that no video playlist standard exists. We have .pls and .m3u standards for audio playlists, but with the possible exception of the .ifo files on DVD's, no such standard exists for video.

Of course, you could modify a .pls playlist file to reference video files instead of audio, but there's still the matter of getting the firmware to recognize this.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by eddie74

I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE !!!!!!! THAT AFTER 4 WEEKS OF STRUGGLING I finally discovered how to load Portable Device Object Data when it is of VT_UNKOWN type. What does this mean you say? It means we can now EDIT playlists from the player, create new ones, and have access to META DATA only Windows media player had access to !!!!! Not only that, but the program loads all types of portable media players correctly now. AND FAST to. Another added bonus. I CAN LET YOU CREATE CUSTOM ALBUMS FROM MY APPLICATION!!!!!!! You can now send a playlist to another playlist, split one playlist into as many as you want, auto update playlists (YAY!!!!!!!!) and I can also let you RESET PLAY COUNTS TO ZERO if you want. YAY I am so happy!!!! You don't know how much time I spent on this.!!!!!!! Give me a couple of afternoons and this playlist generator will work excellant!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! The second BETA version will also allow you to make VIDEO PLAYLISTS as well!

Congrats, I can't wait to test it out

[ThaDemon]

Originally Posted by ZenChick

Doubtful. This would have to be a firmware change; however, I think the real problem is that no video playlist standard exists. We have .pls and .m3u standards for audio playlists, but with the possible exception of the .ifo files on DVD's, no such standard exists for video.

Of course, you could modify a .pls playlist file to reference video files instead of audio, but there's still the matter of getting the firmware to recognize this.

Well Eddie can makes it all possible it seems
Can't wait for the next beta!

[eddie74]

Video playlists might not be supported right now, but they must have plans for them becuase Microsoft included the object type in their API's. Also, in the second beta of this program, you will be able to make picture playlists (better known as "photo albums") and mixed content albums (also known as "Slide Shows").

[Sombra]

I'm also eagerly awaiting the next beta.

Perhaps you have mentioned this earlier, don't know, but will there be the ability to scrobble to Last.fm from any of the software you are developing?

[eddie74]

Well, I was thinking about that. Before I do that I will have to ask Daryl his permission if I want to use any of his code. Hmmmmmmmm......However, if I developed my own code, I guess that would be OK. we will see....

[FrododorF]

Originally Posted by eddie74

I AM EXTREMELY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE !!!!!!! THAT AFTER 4 WEEKS OF STRUGGLING I finally discovered how to load Portable Device Object Data when it is of VT_UNKOWN type. What does this mean you say? It means we can now EDIT playlists from the player, create new ones, and have access to META DATA only Windows media player had access to !!!!! Not only that, but the program loads all types of portable media players correctly now. AND FAST to. Another added bonus. I CAN LET YOU CREATE CUSTOM ALBUMS FROM MY APPLICATION!!!!!!! You can now send a playlist to another playlist, split one playlist into as many as you want, auto update playlists (YAY!!!!!!!!) and I can also let you RESET PLAY COUNTS TO ZERO if you want. YAY I am so happy!!!! You don't know how much time I spent on this.!!!!!!! Give me a couple of afternoons and this playlist generator will work excellant!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! The second BETA version will also allow you to make VIDEO PLAYLISTS as well!

sounds most awesome!

[FrododorF]

Ok so i downloaded the file and un zipped it, ran the install process and tried to start it, I immediately get a "A to Z Playlist Manager has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." here is the info got out of it
"EventType : clr20r3 P1 : a to z playlist manager.exe P2 : 1.0.1.57
P3 : 463f7866 P4 : a to z playlist manager P5 : 1.0.1.57
P6 : 463f7866 P7 : 14 P8 : e9 P9 : system.invalidoperationexception"

so i tryed everything i know to try, ie. redownload, restart the computer, I repaired the microsoft .NET framework 2.0 but that did not help either, I tried the version 2 build but it gives the same error
anyone know what is wrong?
BTW i am on a win2k machine

[Echoes]

Originally Posted by lordfrodo88

anyone know what is wrong?
BTW i am on a win2k machine

Does your Creative software work on the Windows 2000 machine? I thought it only works on XP and Vista. I thing MTP either doesn't work or is very unreliable on W2K.

[FrododorF]

No the creative software does not work...or atleast i dont think it does i never tried to install it, but I do have WMP9.5 and i can manage my ZVM through it, and media monkey aswell

[eddie74]

Hey every one. Have you ever had a problem in your life that just consumed you with trying to find the solution? Well, that is the problem I was having trying to transfer content to and from a portable device with the Windows Portable Device API Library. I finally figured out today how to do it. It was so easy that I can not believe I did'nt find the solution sooner. So infintely simple that it eluded me for two months! If anybody want to know how, just ask me. You will laugh your arse off when you see it done. Man. I just can't believe it.

On the good side, this puts a real boost into the playlist manager release. I am working on it now and hope to release it today or tommorrow. By the way, We had a long weekend here in Canada because it was the Queens birthday. (whopty doo...)

BTW: My program will work on xp and vista.

[Ricci]

well I'm looking forward to the release.

I understand a bit about programming and I know the situation when you sit there and the solution is right in front of you but you don't see it. So if you have time you can try to tell me the story of the simple solution

btw: you are doin great work

[ThaDemon]

Allright eddie. i'm patiently waiting for the next release

[eddie74]

Well gones, I am not gonna release it today cause I was up late working on it and then had to come to work today, and I am a little touchy today. I attached a screen shot of the player with loaded multiple playlists, oh yeah, I forgot to mentio you can creaste/edit multiple playlists at the same time, includeding dragging and dropping from one to the other(s). Also, I created a wizard which will convert your albums directly to a playlist, and create custom albums in the works as well. I will release it soon don't worry. I am just tired. As you can see you can edit the playlist titles in place by double clicking the tab. There are not any entries in the playlists cause I am on my out the door.

[eddie74]

Hey everbody. I am almost ready to post the Beta Version 1. I just have a couple of little things left to do. I am including some screen shots again .The first set show conversion of an album to a playlist, the second set show auto playlist generation by year (in this case "The 90's"), the third set shows auto playlist generation by genre (in this case "Rock"). Hopefully I will be able to post it tommorrow before I leave work. I like it. It works good. Enumeration still takes a bit of time, but no where near as much time as it origionally did. This problem has to do with the Interop that microsoft generates during the importing of the dlls into visual studio IDE. I am going to manually fix them after I release the BEta Version 2. But for now it still works quite well. As you can see it is nearing completion. I fixed alot of stupid logic errors and spelling mistakes (as you all know I suck at spelling. Ha Ha Ha Ha!) Converting playlists to albums take a bit more time so it will not be available until beta version 2. I am also planning on including a designer for slide shows, video playlists and mixed content playlists. Until tomorrow, have fun!

[eddie74]

Here are the remaining three images showing playlist generation by genre (I could only post 5 images at a time.)