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jitterjames

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Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2011, 08:55:28 PM »
the latest version on the forum supports this but it still requires a bit of set up and that requires documentation.  You are welcome to try to figure it out for yourself, otherwise it will have to wait until after my next release which is coming soon.  It is a bit of a complicated subject unfortunately.  If you have a large library you have new issues that can crop up.

I will try to inform you better when I have a chance, but I'm doing family stuff this weekend for Easter so I don't have much free time at the moment.

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Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2011, 11:36:48 PM »
first you need to update to version 0.885 or later. (I'll release 0.887 soon I hope)

run genXML for iTunes and then import this command (attached).

you then have to say  "play song ...A... by ...B..."

you can't just say "play song A" or it won't work.  You could keep the command "play song A" as well, but then you are talking about loading 11,000 songs twice.  Also this command takes even more resources because it is a more complex command.  We basically have to store in advance all the things you might say for each song.  So a long song name, followed by a long artist name could result in about 100 or more different sentences that you could say just to ask for that one song.

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Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2011, 11:40:26 PM »
hmmmm, if the song or the artist contains the word "by" we are going to run into trouble...  :-\

I am going to need to change the way this works in the next version to account for this possibility.
« Last Edit: April 24, 2011, 08:03:09 AM by jitterjames »

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Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2011, 01:58:42 PM »
No worries man thanks for the efforts thus far--get back to your Easter stuff!

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Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2011, 04:17:25 PM »
everything you need now should be working in 0.887

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=474

view the 3rd post for more info specific to "play song by artist" in iTunes.