djamp V2.3 can be found at---- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentcharactors/
in the PERMANENT files SMALL ONLY
folder. you must be a
member of the group
For Those
With Win7 op system, the msagents have been Removed from
the windows system files,
You Will need to go to msdownlads and find the msagent Sp
for win7 to get all the files to use agents in win7.
you might also need to find the sapi 4 file to use the
old agent voice engines if you find an old non microsoft
made msagent that you want to use.
or you
could look on line for the program called Double Agent it
is made to allow use of msagents on win 7 or later op
systems you still need the sapi 4 for using the older non
ms, msagents.
Or
how I have it working and found what
might
be considered work arounds.
by
roving cowboy / keith hall.
Ok. Here goes
first what is Djamp it is confusing as the old
version is found
on winamp's site
under plugin downloads. so is it a plug in?
the answer is
“No” it is a media player that works with
winamp only.
it will allow
you to start winamp when you start djamp or start
djamp
when you start
winamp.
 what
does it do then for real?
ok it does one
thing it connects the software for running msagents
with winamp by
way of controlling the winamp functions.
what good is it.?
it is a way of
enabling you to have a virtual DJ for your computer,
to use over your
shoutcast internet radio station or just for your
own enjoyment on
your computer.
what do we do to install it?
simple you need
to have ALL Msagent software installed and working
on your computer.
and winamp before you install Djamp.
then if you have
the older version 2.0a then you delete that folder
and clean up the
registry from what it loaded in to the registry.
then just unzip
the new v 2.3 in to the folder of your choice.
what else?
nothing for
using djamp as long as you have all the above
installed and
some agent acs
files to use your ready to use djamp with winamp.
what agent is needed?
which ever one
you want to use. However!
I knew there was a however someplace
what is this dreadful however?
it is just a
simple however as in you can use any msagent you want,
but the author
has shown how to do it with different text files for
each agent or one for all agents.
Which means if
you want to use lots of them all the time then they
must be ones that
support the standard msagent animations. more about
that later.
oh is that the only however?
yes.
good now am I ready to go if I use Merlin?
yes the djamp
will use peedy as its default agent but you are
allowed
to change it
after you start djamp. the default comments text now
uses multiple agents.
this and all other options will not be saved until
you close djamp and reopen it then they will be wrote
in to the ini file.
good now just how do I get it to say
what I want, like the names of the songs?
that is simple
the author of djamp has provided text files in the
program called
comments, and
triggers, first you should read the help file to see
what special
scripting can be
done...
oh good I thought you was going to tell me
now I got to read another file.
well ok
I’ll tell you some but NOT all.
in the comments you can make the agent of your choice
say
1. the name of the song ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #Title )
2. the name of the singer ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #Artist )
3. the name of the virtual radio
station ( this is done by this
varable in the comment line #Station )
4. the name of the DJ ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #DJname )
5. the vip person or persons of
the station ( this is done by this varable in
the comment line #VIP )
6. the time of day ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #Time )
7. the previous song name ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #PrevTitle )
8. the previous singer name. ( this is done by
this varable in the comment line #PrevArtist )
those are the
special codes you can use from the author there are
others you have to read his help file to find, but
they do not make the agent say anything they just
make the djamp,
do certian things.
there are only
some advanced speech tags from msagent you can use.
They are;
- 1. \Spd=##\
(
the numbers allowed to replace the number
signs are 50 - 250 )
- 2. \Pau=####\
(
the numbers allowed to replace the number
signs are 100 - 1000 )
- 3. \emp\ ( this is just for
making the words be stressed by the msagent
like WOW instead of wow )
- 4. \char=
normal\ ( this is used after you have used 5 or 6 below to change it back
to
normal tone )
- 5. \char=
monotone\ ( this is used mostly when making the
agents sing or to get very boreing )
- 6. \char=
whisper\ ( this is used when you need to make a
snyde comment as in back talking )
and you can
place one animation for the agent to do for each of
the comments you want the agent to say. the animation
is only good if your using this in an on screen power
point presentation or on a musical dance party shown
on an large thearter screen TV set.
Now in this new
verison you can use the looping animations of the
agents.
BUT this is only advised to
do if you add the agents name in front of the
animation.
why because the looping animations are not standard
for all msagents.
more on that
when i show you how to type the comments.
here are the
standard animations you can use.
note this is the
standard ones used by microsoft's merlin and you don't need to use the
words Show Play or hide for the djamp just the words
in the quote marks.
Pick the shortest ones as they give the most room for
comments.
Also there are some that have sound effects that will
sound good on the radio.
well really
i think merlin, peedy, genie, robby. which are all
microsoft's do have sound on all the below animations.
the
ones i colored are the best for sound effects.
(unless
you use my roving cowboy agent he shoots at random
when he speaks, but he also shoots doing idle so he
could start shooting doing the playing of the song.)
now these are the
standard but remember some of merlins are only his
and the other agents have some that are only their
animations
Show
Hide
Play "Acknowledge"
Play "Alert"
Play "Announce"
Play "Blink"
Play "Confused"
Play "Congratulate"
Play "Congratulate_2"
Play "Decline"
Play "DoMagic1"
Play "DoMagic2"
Play "DontRecognize"
Play "Explain"
Play "GestureDown"
Play "GestureLeft"
Play "GestureRight"
Play "GestureUp"
Play "GetAttention"
Play "GetAttentionContinued"
Play "GetAttentionReturn"
Play "Greet"
Play "Idle1_1"
Play "Idle1_2"
Play "Idle1_3"
Play "Idle1_4"
Play "Idle2_1"
Play "Idle2_2"
Play "Idle3_1"
Play "LookDown"
Play "LookDownBlink"
Play "LookLeft" |
Play "LookDownReturn"
Play "LookLeftReturn"
Play "LookLeftBlink"
Play "LookRight"
Play "LookRightBlink"
Play "LookRightReturn"
Play "LookUp"
Play "LookUpBlink"
Play "LookUpReturn"
Play "MoveDown"
Play "MoveLeft"
Play "MoveRight"
Play "MoveUp"
Play "Pleased"
Play "Process"
Play "Read"
Play "ReadContinued"
Play "ReadReturn"
Play "RestPose"
Play "Sad"
Play "Search"
Play "StartListening"
Play "StopListening"
Play "Suggest"
Play "Surprised"
Play "Think"
Play "Uncertain"
Play "Wave"
Play "Write"
Play "WriteContinued"
Play "WriteReturn" |
oh wow that seems like a lot of work
for 3 or 5 comments?
no you’re
wrong it is a little work for 5000 comments.
now there is not
a however, it is a BUT this time.
as in but the number of comments I found depend on
the speed of your computer's cpu.
as it will need
to read all the comments and pick one before it plays
the song.
a slow cpu will take longer between the songs.
and could even mess up the comment if it takes very
long.
oh I see so this needs to be on a super
computer
then what good is it?
no it can be on
a small pent 2, 266hrz cpu with 224 mb's of ram.
as that is what I have it on and use it there more
then this fast xp. computer.
well i have had to change to a new xp system the old
win98 mother board toasted
been 2 years now since i changed but the 98 system
was the smallest i used it on.
oh that is better now what else is there to
know?
Okay now you need
to know that I have found that you need to use the
comments and triggers.
In random mode for best results and also that you can
not keep them in neat order.
Which is to say that instead of having the comments
start at the same tab after you put the animation in
the comment line.
It is best to stagger them or the msagent search in
the djamp program might possible get confused as to
what line it was reading after the pause.
Like you see all these lines start in the same tab
space but are staggerd on the end.
Well the comments can be all starting at the same
line on the left as long as there is an animation
listed first. But then don't hit the Tab key and line
up the comment to say, make them staggard you will
see when you open the authors comment text.
the above about
being kept neat at the same tab only seems to be
needed if you are using the notepad program for
saving the triggers and comments.
when you change to
saving the triggers and comments in the doc format
then the comments and triggers can be kept neatly at
one tab. .
what
are the triggers ?
the triggers are
just what you would rather the agent say or do when
it finds a special word.
like say Hiriam,
which is hank williams Sr's real first name.
the msagent can not say it so
you would make a
trigger that says when it see's hiriam it is to say
hank williams.
so triggers is
how you map out things like that.
as in when it
sees words like jingle that will be the station
jingle
so the agent
won’t say anything.
oh I see the triggers are a way to tell the
agent
to say this or shut up stupid..?
that
is one way of putting it.
good now is there any special way of coding
the comments or trigger text files?
well
I am glad you asked that.
oh great now we're really going to get it.?
not really it
just matters what is placed where and how.
I will give you
some examples each for the comments and triggers.
ok now you must
do this, and that is a MUST as it will cause errors
if you don’t.
oh and what is this Must do thing.?
"Correct
Spelling of the animations"
Djamp
has some over the default notepad limit errors
click here
COMMENTS
i had removed
these lines from the comments text.
#
AgentName=JAMES
DJname=That Big Mouth dee jay
Station=the butlers pantry station
Language=English US (409)
VIP=royal family members.
#
as they don't
seem to work with the new 2.3 version of djamp.
however in doing so all my comments were moved up 7
lines.
making my first 7 comments not be read.
so in order to fix it i tried to put the lines back
in to the comments text but doing that did not work
on my computer.
so
i had to make the 7 of them blanked out ones. like
"Read"
" #Blank- line -7"
"Read" " #Blank- line -6"
"Read" " #Blank- line -5"
"Read" " #Blank- line -4"
"Read" " #Blank- line -3"
"Read" " #Blank- line -2"
"Read" " #Blank- line -1"
Examples
"RestPose"
"That was #PrevTitle, by #PrevArtist, #Time, now
for\Pau=700\ #Title, by #Artist. "
"Merlin Alert"
"I am #DJName, \emp\Wow that was great now for #VIP,
of #Station, this is #Title. "
now look at that
VERY
CAREFULLY
notice the blank spaces and comma's and periods.
(note the
quote marks don't need to be spaced around the words
just the varibles.)
As you see there is
the agent name of merlin in front of the alert
animation.
that means when that comment is done it will be
merlin that does it.
putting the
name there is also how you get djamp to start up
different msagents.
now this is
also how you specifie the looping animations for
certian agents, by using their name and then put the $ in front of the looping
animation for that agent that you want to use.
This also is how
you use the animations that are not standard, you put
the agents name in front of the animation that only
they have.
you must make sure when using multiple agents in the
comments file that you put the agents name
of the agent in front of each animation and make sure
it is the proper agent for that animation.
because each agent
will do the comments they are told to plus the ones
that don't have any agent named to do.
which is why you
must make the speical and the looping animations have
their agent's name in front of them.
when your doing
both the previous song and artist and the next song
and artist it is best to put a pause code in between them to give
the server some time to check both of them.
If there is no pause in between the previous and next
variables then the agent could repeat the first
varible in the comment line.
For you that
don’t know msagent scripting, a second pause is
typed like \Pau=1000\ .
now even though in the authors help file he says his
Variables are not case sensitive I found them to be
just that and have had to make them all like I put
them in the examples.
New varibles , they are to work in both the triggers
and the comments.
there are a few
new varibles they are,
" #Break
" that one stops or disables djamp and winamp.
" Animation
name# " you put the name in place of the example
and it will play the hide animation for the agent and
then disable Djamp from talking and then allow winamp
to continue playing songs. like this.
"123"
"Pleased#" " #Blank - keep quite dj"
that will when
it sees the numbers 123 like that play the pleased
animation then the hide animation as is told to by
the # sign. the @ will make it just stop djamp but
not winamp
and then the dj wont say anything as the blank tells
it to shut up.
ok here is the
simplified way to add more or other msagents.
in the comments file you just need to do this.
"Merlin
Alert" "hello i am #DJName, and this is #Title,
by #Artist. "
"Robby
Alert" "hello i am #DJName, and this is #Title,
by #Artist. "
that will make merlin say that comment.
if you want another agent you just put their name
there and not merlin's.
if you
want to use a speical agent with an certian animation
then you will need to make sure you put that agents
name in front of their certian animation.
it is a good idea to have an msagents name in front
of each animation that they do.
also if you use multiple agents it is best to name an
msagent for each comment.
just to make sure you don't get any msagent that can
not do the animation for that
comment, trying to say do it because it will crash
djamp with an error saying.
"animation
not supported" which is just that agent that tried to
say it did not support it.
all the above is only if you use multiple agents in
the one comments file.
if you
want to make a comments file for one of your other
agents and use only that agent then you will need to
rename the main comments file to something else.
and then put all
the info in the new text file for your one agent you
want to use.
and make sure you remove any animations that agent
can not do. and then
name that text file comments.txt so it will be the
one to get used.
just make sure
you do not use any other agent's names in your
speical msagents comment file or that agent will also
load when it's comment shows up.
UPDATE
october 2010, i have found that i've forgot a simple
error in typing that you need
to know about.
when
making the comments in the comment file or the
triggers in the trigger file
you need to turn off word wrap.
this is because doing that will allow you to see if
you had pressed
the enter button and made a new line in a long
comment,
if you
did you need to put that line back as one with the
backspace button so when you turn
off word wrap you see "the msagents name "
what ever name it is all lined up in single rows
on the left of the file like this.
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
"the msagents name "
or djamp won't
start also missing " marks might make him not
start.
also
make sure you have the exact animation name for that
msagent or it will crash djamp.
now for the
triggers.
TRIGGERS
Examples
( they must be
done this way.)
"jingle"
"Alert"
" #Blank "
"hiriam"
"Think"
" #Time, now for Hank Williams Sr and #Title.
"
"blank fill"
"Alert@"
" #Blank
"
"blank fill"
"Alert#"
" #Blank "
"blank fill"
"Alert"
" #Break "
the author says
that the variables he gives for use can not be used
as trigger words.
the triggers also must be staggard like the comments.
only the trigger words can line up.
and there must be one space between the quote marks
for the animations and the comments. also looking
above you see the use of @ and # and Break. in order
they do this.
play the alert
then do the hide animation then stop djamp and let
winamp play the
next song and stop if it is the last song or continue
by itself.
play the alert
then do the hide animation then stop djamp and winamp
.
play the alert
then do the hide animation then then stop djamp and
winamp.
note the
quote marks don't need to be spaced around the
trigger words or the animations just the variables.
oh okay so that is how you code all them
and now just how do we make the text file really
work.?
simple go in to
the folder for djamp in the program files area of
your computer make a back up copy of the
comments and triggers files that the author provided,
now you see there are different ones he made one for
each of the four agents from Microsoft.
just make a copy
of the ones that say comments and triggers.
not the ones
that have the agents names on unless you want too.
also while there
make a short cut for the djamp.exe and put it on your
desktop or in your start menu so you can get to it
easier.
now when you
open the comments the author provided you will see he
says not to edit the top comment lines as they are
needed.
BELIEVE HIM and don’t
edit them.
you will be making more copies from your backed up
files if you do.
if your not
running djamp at the time you can open the text files
and edit them when in this folder, the author said it wont
cause any error now and then you can also edit them
by the buttons on the tabs for triggers, or comments
in the program.
Ok
you make that sound really simple
is there any updates to it??
Well now that you mention
it and I have had time to play with it more.
I
knew it I just knew it.
You that also go in to the ini files like
i do and change things will NEED to know.
that the limit
on the
number of times that djamp uses agent-less
transations for songs is
5 songs any more and djamp will not start.
Now one last very important item I also
found out.
DO NOT! Make the djamp files read only.
That also causes some troubles as it can
not write the new
Modified date to its record list then.
That’s it for this update I hope I
don’t find any thing else but I like to monkey
around with things so?
well i
found out more with the next section.
WINDOW'S
DEFAULT NOTEPAD ERRORS
Okay
here is what i found out on the windows default notepad
limit caused errors.
this happens in both triggers and comments and is not caused
by djamp it is caused by windows.
if you add more then the set data storage limit of
notepad windows will save it
but
the next time you try and open the file it will ask
to open with Wordpad,
because
it is too big for notepad.
when
that happens to you close djamp and the comments or
triggers file
and then go in to the folder for djamp and open the
file you just tried to edit.
it
will still ask you to open with wordpad because it is
windows that needs to fix the error, now what you
need to do is check all the comments or triggers
that you entered the last time for errors and fix
them.
this
time when you save the file save it as a plain text .Doc file which is the
default format for wordpad.
now
after you have saved it to a doc format you need to
close wordpad
and then open the djamp ini file with notepad,
and look in the file for the command to open the comments.txt
or triggers.txt file and change that to
make it open the comments.doc or triggers.doc
file.
which ever you were editing, now click save and close
the ini file.
now
reopen djamp and it should load the doc file and all
errors are gone.
the
reason i said to check your previous editing for
errors is
Because
when you over save the data limit in window's default
notepad
it will mess up the text at the limit marker.
the
reason you change it to a doc format is
Because
the doc format has no data limit or atleast it is a
very large limit.
now for the troubles for
windows 98.
there is major trouble in win98 it will crash when
trying to change multiple agents in the comments it
just wont do it.
no matter what i have tried.
the trouble is an error in the software of either
winamp or djamp?
but both keep giving me error alerts when i use
multiple agents.
djamp will give me an error for the runtime 91 error.
and winamp gives me the winamp invalid access error.
both give me this at the
same time or they mix up and tell me each others
error alert?
so something is not liked some where.
but that is only with multiple agents.
if i use one agent it seems to work for a short time
but it will soon give me the runtime 91 error.
but that is in win98 only.
not sure what is causing that, i have checked all the
comments and triggers
for the above mentioned typo's, but found none.
so it seems win98 is not getting something it wants.
and every time the author
has fixed it either one of the companys updates and
breaks
his fixed code.
I was wondering if there was anything that
would not work in way of msagent speaking codes.
I did use the
stop bar for the msagents advanced speech tag that
means to randomly speak one of the two comments in
the same speak line?
it worked for
about 3 times then the agent was messing up so the
random comment msagent does in its own scripting does
not work in djamp.
you know it is
this one.
merlin.speak
" hello I am Merlin | Hello are you my new
student "
that | for that random stuff is
what will not work in djamp for more then once or
twice with out messing up the agent. so
don’t use it.
is there anything else that was left out
or you did not see in the help files
from the author?
why yes there is
just one thing I can think of, ?
I knew it I just knew it.
oh it is not
that bad here they are.
when you change
the station name or the name of the DJ or the
VIP persons you should double click on the icon image
of the cdrom with the treble clef on it.
that is beside
the text areas for the names you just changed.
the agent will
appear and say hello goodbye and then disappear again.
that will save the changes you just made.
Can there possible be any way to
run this program on timer system .
NO
It keeps messing up when i try it.
but
i might be trying the wrong way also?
so
You try this way.
or
find out how to do it and let me know?
if
you use djamp and winamp on timers by the task
scheduler.
then
it is best to start winamp first
you then start djamp one minute later,
make the
settings in the properties for the task that starts
djamp
set to run djamp for the whole time you want to use
it as in say 2 hours. then have the task close djamp
at one hour and 57 minutes.
and in the
task properties for the task, you use to start the
playlist in winamp.
you
want to play it for say 2 hours and stop it. then set
the time you want to stop it one hour and 57 minutes.
this will close winamp first then close djamp and not
cause any crash by either of them.
this
allows you 3 minutes for closeing and restarting of
djamp and winamp,.
It also allows you 3 minutes to do your
advert's or station jingle or give news
and weather updates if your using djamp on an
internet radio station.
as you can see you
need to close winamp first this will disconnect all
the djamp controls to winamp
and then you can close djamp and the controls for
djamp using msagent need two minutes to
completely close before you restart djamp with the
new playlist.
now your wondering
why it has to be that way. and why you can not just
let djamp run when
you change playlists.
REASON
is that winamp will close the player when changing
playlists,
causing djamp to deactivate and that will cause a
crash or
it will then require you to sit there and re
activeate djamp.
(something you
dont want to do if your using timers to control them.)
if you
start djamp as said above one minute after you start
winamp then set it to close with 3 minutes before you
set it to restart djamp that will be closing the same
time winamp is
which it seems to want to be set up that way
and winamp will close first then djamp or both at the
same time.
but being done so with different timers as it seemed
to mess up using one timer for both,
So you are
just starting the playlist in winamp and using task
scheduler for stopping it.
then your starting djamp and then closing winamp
before you close djamp.
as long as it is done like that you can start and
stop playlists all day.
Now
you’re wondering why there are some people that
say to turn off the task scheduler service when I say
use it.
That is because they don’t use it or Need to use
it.
But if you’re using winamp and djamp on shout
cast broadcast's you need to use task scheduler so
run it.
Is there any other Players to use djamp with.
Yes
you can
use media monkey and djamp.
djamp is working with both winamp and Mediamonkey.
how ever aside from the above errors in win 98 and
win Xp
when used with meida monkey there are others.
here is what to do when using djamp with media monkey.
1.
make a comment file for using only one msagent.
as it will still crash while using more then one
msagent, that crash is because of lack of
ram and high cpu cycles, so doing more then one on
small system is not good.
2. start media monkey first and have it use the media
monkey player not winamp.
and then start djamp 2.3 if you want to see djamps
panel or start it first and when
mediamonkey starts after it monkey will cover up
djamps panel but leave it on the screen.
3. make sure you set the option in both media monkey
and winamp to
" not allow more then one instance of the player
" either player
4. now start playing songs in media monkey by
starting the playlist script with a timer
and then you can change playlists all day with that
timer script from Peke in the
Mediamonkey dot com forum.
as long as you dont click on anything else dealing
with winamp when using djamp with media monkey it
works fine, if you click on anything that starts
winamp then djamp,
will toss monkey's player out and use winamps but
wont play monkeys playlists.
then
after so long if you change playlists in media monkey
by use of the windows scheduler script that was wrote
for media monkey,
when it changes the playlist that will cause djamp to
mess up
as it was all ready for one song but that was not
played because of the change of playlists.
there is no problem with that it is just mediamonkey
switched files before djamp seen it.
which
makes it stop the playlist and annouce the other song
as if it was just finished being played.
then annouce the song it just stopped and restart it.
the
above playlist switching errors seem to happen all
the time and causes more errors later,
but there seems to be a way to stop it from messing
up later,
this is the workaround.
make
a playlist and call it something like program switch
and change the main playlist 2 minutes before the
time you want to play a new list.
but change it to the program switch list you just
made and in that switch list have it
play a short blank song file say 10 seconds or so,
then set a trigger for that song so that djamp would
do it when that song shows up and make that trigger
the one for break so it disables djamp.
the
varible won't disable monkey.
it also goes then that you must have djamp set to be auto activated that should allow
djamp to start up when the next playlist starts. but
it seems to be in need of a few minutes
before it restarts, i've added several short minute
long jingle playlists before i change
to the next genera of music playlist,.
on
a side note here.
if you
do not have the above error when using
monkey and the task scheduler script from peke,
then
you can forget about it because i use the orgianl
script by peke for monkey.
but i
beileve you will have it as the error happened before
i used the script.
I have
been able to get djamp to use the djamp setting for
having the msagent speak below the other suggested
amount on this page of 70%.
here is how i
did that;
I
opened mash, made several msh files and vbs scripts
for windows scripts where i used different msagents.
by
doing that i mean that i use;
script
1 to start and run by task scheduler all day just as
long as i use djamp. it uses an msagent that has lots
of different animations and i made it do them all and
repeat them. so it is running,
i made
the other 2 scripts with one of the beach ball
msagents.
and i have that script tossing the ball all around
the screen were it goes complete out of site all the
time and it runs in timed intervials by task
scheduler like a screensaver,
i did the other scripts the same as this one just
made the ball bounce in different places, and start
at different times.
doing
the scripts makes the msagent server keep working and
makes it stay aviable for the djamp agent to use so
it does not crash when you set the djamp's percentage
below 70, i am now using it
sat to 30% chance of djamp speaking, it might even
work on lower amounts,
i have not found i need that lower of them though as
now it speaks once or twice every 50 minutes, but i
am using it with media monkey also.
so i am unsure if that has anything to do with it.?
the
other way i get more slient time is use the blank
variable and put it at random number lines in the
comment text like this;
"Read"
" #Blank
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
400"
that
way i get a chance of more then 5 in a row of the
agent not talking.
and it tells me the number of the comment line so i
can find one if it is messed up or just needs changed.
(don't forget
to count that line number or you will be messed up.
later on.)
Also
the variables for the previous artist and previous
titles
are not used properly when using djamp with media
monkey they mess up and say the wrong names when used.
The reason for that is because media monkey is faster
at changing songs then djamp.
making djamp play catchup to it.
Causing
monkey's choice to play next, to be replaced by
djamps choice, this makes the
choice that was made by monkey to be listed as the
previous artist or title,
even though it never played.
djamp
also because of that will when playing songs in
sequence not do so in media monkey
but it will skip ever other one because that was the
one monkey had choose and changed in
the players current song list making djamp change to
the next one and skip every other song.
the
above does make for some rather strange comments by
the djamp, some are funny.
the
above seems to be caused by small buffers on the
output plugin used so adjust them to about 2 seconds.
if you can adjust them.
also
it seems you can make it do the messed up previous
variables
by going in to the ini file for djamp and changing
the history number for it to remember from the
default of 15 to only 2.
this
will make it not know who to annouce so it does grab
any name that is scanned in fast. but putting the
number back to default value of 15 seems to give it a
better chance of not messing up.
the
above speed error looks like it can be controled with
the buffers and the history value, however this speed
error just might also be the cause
for the changing playlists error in monkey.
but using djamp with media monkey and with one
msagent does work just not perfectly
if
you want to run djamp on timer also with its own task
job in scheduler make it run
for the length of time you want it to run and then
stop like maybe 12 hours?
djamp
will start and close with the task scheduler timer
job but it requires that
djamp's gui be on screen and not in system tray other
wise it will not close.
the gui does not have to be on top of the other
windows on the screen
it can be behind the others and it will still close.
and if you try using winamp to send the media monkey
playlists to and play them
it will work with winamp as it is made to.
but
if your using scripting to control media monkey
then you will confuse everything because media monkey
scripting only works
with the media monkey player so you will have 2
players trying to play songs.
winamp
will use the playlist it started and the monkey will
use the one it restarted.
djamp will try to annouce for both of them and
constantly change the songs
and not let any of them play on the monkey.
but keep restarting that player with new songs.
and
then continue to play the winamp player while
announcing the songs on the monkey player.
so using multiple players will confuse the heck out
of djamp.
one
more thing. this is new and is an update. mediamonkey
version 3.2.0.1300 is the latest
one how ever it is having troubles with its shuffle
button, so when you use djamp and
shuffle on that versioin of mediamonkey djamp will go
spastic on you, and change songs
every 2 seconds and anouce any number of songs in one
comment.
making it sound like djamp is a drunk dj. so turn off
the shuffle button in mediamonkey
doing that will also fix some other errors that
shuffle causes in mediamonkey,.
i
know your wondering what else? sure i just found an
issue of mediamonkeys that will mess with djamp. in
mediamonkey there is an option for auto dj. this
shows up on a pane with two sections one is for auto
dj the other is for the now playing playlist. Auto dj
just picks songs from a playlist at random and can
mess up djamp.
using
the now playing playlist option it gives you the
choice of how many songs to keep in the list. if you
set it to anything other then all it will cause djamp
to do the above errors of announcing the wrong songs.
So
i suggest leaving it set to show All songs in the now
playing playlist.
Is that all NOW.
Yes. enjoy
and have fun with your virtual dj and radio station.
Here is some information for winamp now.
If your
using the plugin for winamp called playlist autogain,
you will notice on some songs that there is a loud
burst of noise before or after the music.
That seems to be, because the plugin will
boost,
all sound to the 89% level of the WINAMP’s
volume slider including the muted sound.
( At least it did on my windows 98 computer. )
I found that on my computer with the
sound blaster live card,
the old plugin wide & dynamix was best in keeping the sound
to a
percent level of winamp’s volume slider and not have the muted
sound boosted.
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