Help to change the player

[Balok]

I believe OrangeCD itself manages the 'Last Time Played' field. I just tested a recording I haven't listened to for awhile, and when I clicked my play link it launched Winamp. The Last Played date updated immediately, but I did have to hit the refresh view button in OrangeCD to see it. (If you're not familiar with this button, it's the one where two curved white arrows nearly touch head to tail on a green circle, in the top toolbar.)

My custom theme only displays this field on the album page. It cannot be seen on the album property sheet dialog (tabbed collection of property pages). I haven't worked on themes in awhile; I don't remember if that field exists on a per track basis or not. It's also not in the track property sheet dialog.

I see no reason why you couldn't use Windows Media player, or any other player that offers a command line interface. Having never done it, I don't know what the command lines would be. To enter the commands, select View and the Preferences to open the preferences property sheet, then click the Media tab to open the Media property page. You'll need to use the arrows to the right of the tabs to scroll the tabs until you find the Media tab.

[Joebugs]

I believe OrangeCD itself manages the 'Last Time Played' field. I just tested a recording I haven't listened to for awhile, and when I clicked my play link it launched Winamp. The Last Played date updated immediately, but I did have to hit the refresh view button in OrangeCD to see it. (If you're not familiar with this button, it's the one where two curved white arrows nearly touch head to tail on a green circle, in the top toolbar.)

My custom theme only displays this field on the album page. It cannot be seen on the album property sheet dialog (tabbed collection of property pages). I haven't worked on themes in awhile; I don't remember if that field exists on a per track basis or not. It's also not in the track property sheet dialog.

I see no reason why you couldn't use Windows Media player, or any other player that offers a command line interface. Having never done it, I don't know what the command lines would be. To enter the commands, select View and the Preferences to open the preferences property sheet, then click the Media tab to open the Media property page. You'll need to use the arrows to the right of the tabs to scroll the tabs until you find the Media tab.

Balok,

Thanks for your reply. This is great since it appears that Andre is not updating the OrangeCD player. Maybe he can help with the commands for the most common players: Media Player, Real Player, etc. A drop down menu with the Player commands in the media menu will be great.

[andrei_c]

I will add that OrangeCD is better integrated with Windows Media Player than with any other player. You don't need to deal with command lines, just go to Preferences -> Media and select Media Player playback option (it's first in the list).

Andrei

[Joebugs]

I will add that OrangeCD is better integrated with Windows Media Player than with any other player. You don't need to deal with command lines, just go to Preferences -> Media and select Media Player playback option (it's first in the list).

Andrei

I have Windows Media Player selected in the playback option. However when I played a CD with Windows Media Player it did not update the Last Played/Total Time played fields. It only updates them when I use the OrangeCD player.

Please can you help?

[Jazz_North]

I have Windows Media Player selected in the playback option. However when I played a CD with Windows Media Player it did not update the Last Played/Total Time played fields. It only updates them when I use the OrangeCD player.

Please can you help?

I use iTunes as my media player (my command line is identical to balok's except, of course, I have itunes where he has winamp). OCD updates last played whenever I play a track or a full album through OCD. I cannot create a queue when I use iTunes but I think that is an iTunes issue, not an OCD issue. Last played is available on the Misc tab (page) of the album properties.

On the Media Preferences tab (View -> Preferences -> Media) there is a checkbox that controls whether OCD updates for single tracks. If this is checked, then playing a single track won't update. You might want to check that.

Just to check it out further I changed my media player to Windows Media Player using this command line

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" "%1"

OCD updated last played just fine both for a track and for an album.

I don't know anything about total time played. I don't get it for any track or album and can't think of a reason it would be of interest to me since it is mostly a function of track length and less of frequency of playing. I would be interested in number of plays, a bit of data that iTunes provides but doesn't seem available in OCD.

[Joebugs]

Just to check it out further I changed my media player to Windows Media Player using this command line

"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" "%1"

OCD updated last played just fine both for a track and for an album.

I copied the above in the command menu and played a CD. OrangeCD did not update the Last played field.

[Joebugs]

I will add that OrangeCD is better integrated with Windows Media Player than with any other player. You don't need to deal with command lines, just go to Preferences -> Media and select Media Player playback option (it's first in the list).

Andrei

Mine is set to the default as above; however when I played a CD with Windows Media player Last Time Played/Total Time Played fields were not updated.

[Jazz_North]

Mine is set to the default as above; however when I played a CD with Windows Media player Last Time Played/Total Time Played fields were not updated.

Where are you looking for the update?

All I can say is that last played updates just fine for me with either a filled-in command line like I used in the last message or with the automatic drop-down that Andrei suggested when I use Windows Media Player. So it isn't that OCD won't update, but you must have something set that doesn't let it do that. Unfortunately, I have no idea what that might be.

[Joebugs]

Where are you looking for the update?

The "Last Played" field does not update with or without the command line when I use the Windows Media Player. It updates fine when using OrangeCD. I must have or doing something
wrong if it works for you.

[andrei_c]

The "Last Played" field does not update with or without the command line when I use the Windows Media Player. It updates fine when using OrangeCD. I must have or doing something
wrong if it works for you.

You have to initiate playback from OrangeCD using Play or Queue commands, or the Last Played field will not be updated. There is no feedback from WMP to OrangeCD. If you start playing from WMP, OrangeCD doesn't know anything about it (how can it?)

Andrei