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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: March 02, 2011, 07:12:45 PM »

I think I'm making progress.  I restored a backup of my music, since many of my files were corrupt and 0 file length.  Have done lots of searched for 0 length files to remove them.  Still had problems and deleted some files that seemed to be corrupt (file info by looking at the source html from the generated file from yoru previous artist/albums links.

It now processed and ended up like this.  Is it normal for all three programs to have different counts?

I also have LOTS OF DUPLICATE files, since I had previously done searched for songs that had  (  and )  and removed them. Upon restoring my music backup
it's tossed dupe of all those files and has included the  ( and ) again in the dupes.   Any way to easily find dupes and remove in music.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 08, 2011, 04:11:29 PM »

the genXML - FORM (oh) nice.

Mmonkey (all worked)
Itunes all worked
XBMC = (    only  movies were found all others 0

That's worse then the previous VC version did (I could get songs and artists before).
Like I said - I can copy my MM files over - but I figured you'd want to track down any
bugs (if that's the case).  I know you said you were doing a new method this vers.

0.873  yes.
I'll - close and re-run as admin, to see if that makes any dif?  I have admin account, I hate it when win7 still wants permission....

Ran XBMC and VC as admin, no change - 0 for all except movies.
I can rename - and move the files to get it to work, but figured you'd want to hear back.
(It still doesn't like something in my library).

And doing it this way I scan scan TV channels or shows.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 08, 2011, 03:05:21 PM »

ok - trying again loading xmbc... waiting for it to load EPG n stuff...
it's done.

running VC

window opens -  says  "Error creating group: XBMC play music
-Voxcommando will continue to load, but commands in this group will not be available.

selected  "gem xml - xbmc".
I get the  notice in the history pane. genXML all XBMC...

Looking at files in the VC folder.
(I should see them dated today right?)  Movies is 2/8... 

Moving all the xbmc*.xml files to a temp dir... (removing) incase it doesn't re-gen if exsisting.

selecting  GENxml (XBMC) again - it should re-gen all the files?

It only generated  xbmcMovies.xml.  (Again) no others.

hopefully I was more clear this time.  Any ideas?  (I can copy MM generated file to xbmc and get it to work, but obviously I have something wrong).

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 07, 2011, 05:06:33 PM »

(minutes passing) and xbmc still says working....  since I clicked genXML on vc.
I have over 18,000 songs, maybe it will just take a while... I'll go take a break and come back later.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 04, 2011, 04:14:13 PM »

In new version (or can we now?)

set the volume of what ever is playing to fade down quickly - when the computer voice talks - then restore vol.

for example - asking  "What song is this"  I hear the voice, but can't understand it over the loud music.  ;-)

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 04, 2011, 03:42:53 PM »

Using m monkey - I got artists working.
NO albums yet - still searching and dumping odd character files.

Once I remove them in media monkey - must I  "clean" the music files in XBMC?
or just close and re-run it?  to get them out of xbmc.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 04, 2011, 01:15:28 PM »

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I dunno what's causing that - I can't find it.  (corrupt file or something)  I'm going to restore from a backup my entire music dir.
I did remove the <unknown>

how long before new update of voxc is out then?

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:01:02 AM »

Will go look and try that - thanks so much for the assistance. My music is a mess. I had HD problem a while back and I have a lot of  0 file length music files that won't play.
I'm going to restore from backup to clean things up.  I never really used the other tags (other than filename) but with vox commando and amulet - I really need them now
so I can play artist and browse albums. 

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 04, 2011, 10:52:21 AM »

I don't do much music managing...  itunes probably...

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 03, 2011, 08:51:18 PM »

I can't find any <>
Hard to search the code since  it's loaded with  <field> statements.  = )

You said to post them


http://www.ronkramer.net/temp.htm

or

http://www.ronkramer.net/ronslist.htm

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 03, 2011, 08:22:23 PM »

oops- you had said   < >   and not ( )  (my bad)

I'll search for those - in the tags.
I'll see how many there are first.

bbl

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 03, 2011, 08:20:03 PM »

Seemed to work  (it went through the actions) but I still have many...  I see them in your  "URL  view source" link.
so - is there a way to save - load into word of similar - do a find and replace (to remove them)
save the file and have it use that as the xml file it's generating?

Or some such.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 03, 2011, 04:00:22 PM »

That's a big help, and what a mess...  searching - I have  54763 files with a ( )
so much for manual rename.  (would be nice if you could add a search during that xml generation that would remove them. (hint hint).

Trying someting here...  Using renamer (by den4b)
hoping it allows me to add  54783 files... did a search - (win7 lists them) select all and drag and drop into renamer.

Making a rule  "remove  "(".")"

running - says it could take several minutes (no dah...)
waiting...

says not reponding, so I'll let it cook a while.  ;-)

bbl  to post results.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 01, 2011, 11:40:12 AM »

Also - I want to put some IR strings into vox commando.  Must I use eventghost, or can I call strings from vox as is?
I was thinking - I could make some .cmd files with IR calls to  IRBLAST.EXE  (I have some that I manually click on at present)
I could just launch these? via voice command?

___  UPDATE

I thought I'd just try it and it works fine.  = )  
unless you can think of a better way?  But seems pretty simplistic as is.

Oh which brings me to another question.   Is it better to enter the command like

launch tee vee
as oppose to
launch tv or t v ?

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: February 01, 2011, 11:37:21 AM »

Thanks - yeah - getting the xml in a text file would be great as I could search for strange characters.

Also - I have a question, I'd like to add commands like  view live tv etc.  I was looking at the xml code to see what I'd need to edit and it looks pretty straight forward. (I use to program  aLOT in pascal in the olden days).

anyway where do you get a list of all the XBMC strings... like

<cmdString>ExecBuiltin(ActivateWindow(MusicLibrary,Songs))</cmdString>

musiclibrary,songs ?   Appears there are some executables built in... is there a list of them that can be called?
I'd like to find the TV/channels built ins.  I could then edit your code to add my own vox commands.

________________________________  re: your....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--C:\Users\james\Downloads\VoxCommandoXBMC 0_825 EN\export\XBMC browse songs.xml-->
<VoiceCommands version="0.825">
    <commandGroup name="XBMC browse songs" enabled="True">
        <command name="Browse Songs" enabled="true" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0">
            <action>
                <cmdType>XBMC.Send</cmdType>
                <cmdString>ExecBuiltin(ActivateWindow(MusicLibrary,Songs))</cmdString>
                <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
            </action>
            <phrase>Browse Songs</phrase>
        </command>
    </commandGroup>
</VoiceCommands>