by JoePublic » Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:03 pm
In response to Jiri's question from 2-plus years ago, I find that I have installed a lot of add-ons. The one I use the most is glided.mmip (which I know is a skin, not an add-on per se). Glided doesn't seem to get much love from the Ventis staff. I find it to be the most functional and easiest to read BY FAR of any of the other skins I've seen. I know it isn't pretty. I don't care about pretty. I care about useful. I hope we users who like it can keep it.
Of the regular add-ons, I do use UpdatePlayStats on occasion - usually when I delete a track from a playlist I have made and replace it with a better version of the same song. I use UpdatePlayStats on the new track to show when the old track was last played. Usually I'm deleting the old track from my computer altogether. I will say, UpdatePlayStats doesn't always work properly. It sometimes puts in the wrong month.
Critically, I have used the UpdateLocationOfFiles when I transferred my library to a new PC and hard drive. As a Gold user, that was SO much easier than the other tools available. I have over 360,000 tracks. It would have taken days.
Also critically, I use the Advanced mIRC Integration Plug-In (AMIP) written for Winamp that writes selected fields of the Now Playing song to a text file. This lets me do a video stream and include the title, artist, composer, and year of the song my viewers are hearing without having to do a kludgy screen cap that wouldn't have all the info I want in it anyway.
CustomReport is a valuable tool to generate a report or file of desired data for selected tracks. I wish it were more flexible but it serves the purpose.
I have installed but rarely used RegExp Find and Replace, and SQL-Viewer. One of the huge frustrations I have with the MM.DB is that you can't access it with regular SQL Lite tools due to the customization MM utilizes.
I've installed some other add-ons that I didn't end up using, sometimes because they don't work as expected, sometimes because I didn't have the need.
I hope this feedback helps.
In response to Jiri's question from 2-plus years ago, I find that I have installed a lot of add-ons. The one I use the most is glided.mmip (which I know is a skin, not an add-on per se). Glided doesn't seem to get much love from the Ventis staff. I find it to be the most functional and easiest to read BY FAR of any of the other skins I've seen. I know it isn't pretty. I don't care about pretty. I care about useful. I hope we users who like it can keep it.
Of the regular add-ons, I do use UpdatePlayStats on occasion - usually when I delete a track from a playlist I have made and replace it with a better version of the same song. I use UpdatePlayStats on the new track to show when the old track was last played. Usually I'm deleting the old track from my computer altogether. I will say, UpdatePlayStats doesn't always work properly. It sometimes puts in the wrong month.
Critically, I have used the UpdateLocationOfFiles when I transferred my library to a new PC and hard drive. As a Gold user, that was SO much easier than the other tools available. I have over 360,000 tracks. It would have taken days.
Also critically, I use the Advanced mIRC Integration Plug-In (AMIP) written for Winamp that writes selected fields of the Now Playing song to a text file. This lets me do a video stream and include the title, artist, composer, and year of the song my viewers are hearing without having to do a kludgy screen cap that wouldn't have all the info I want in it anyway.
CustomReport is a valuable tool to generate a report or file of desired data for selected tracks. I wish it were more flexible but it serves the purpose.
I have installed but rarely used RegExp Find and Replace, and SQL-Viewer. One of the huge frustrations I have with the MM.DB is that you can't access it with regular SQL Lite tools due to the customization MM utilizes.
I've installed some other add-ons that I didn't end up using, sometimes because they don't work as expected, sometimes because I didn't have the need.
I hope this feedback helps.