by bmilner » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:12 pm
@Judas: Thanks, that actually worked as I was able to get the Scrobbler installed.
Annoyingly, the following also happened:
1. Though tracks were being communicated to last.fm, there was no UI in the Last FM application showing tracks being scrobbled. (they just appeared on the website). Weird, and very annoying as I rather liked that ability to see additional data about tracks currently playing in the last.fm app. It always looked like it was broken... so I quit the app, dragged the DLL out of the plug-in directory and dragged the old Winamp Scrobbler DLL back in.
that's when the trouble started...
2. Now re-launching the program threw a "Problem during player installation" error. It seemed to see my tracks DB ok, but it reset my .INI file and lost all my prefs (grrr... there are LOT of prefs to set in this app from encoding prefs to column prefs etc.). Also, it could no longer see my 3rd party SKin I had installed. It defaulted to the default skin and didn't show my desired skin in the menu to choose from.
3. I QUIT again, and manually dragged a backup up of my INI file to the AppData folder. Restarted and voila, everything was back. So, no idea what was up. I guess you can't just manually drag a DLL in or out without some corruption happening.
By the way, I'm still livid I had disable UAC on my entire PC just to install a plug-in. This is SO not ready for prime time.
@Judas: Thanks, that actually worked as I was able to get the Scrobbler installed.
Annoyingly, the following also happened:
1. Though tracks were being communicated to last.fm, there was no UI in the Last FM application showing tracks being scrobbled. (they just appeared on the website). Weird, and very annoying as I rather liked that ability to see additional data about tracks currently playing in the last.fm app. It always looked like it was broken... so I quit the app, dragged the DLL out of the plug-in directory and dragged the old Winamp Scrobbler DLL back in.
that's when the trouble started...
2. Now re-launching the program threw a "Problem during player installation" error. It seemed to see my tracks DB ok, but it reset my .INI file and lost all my prefs (grrr... there are LOT of prefs to set in this app from encoding prefs to column prefs etc.). Also, it could no longer see my 3rd party SKin I had installed. It defaulted to the default skin and didn't show my desired skin in the menu to choose from.
3. I QUIT again, and manually dragged a backup up of my INI file to the AppData folder. Restarted and voila, everything was back. So, no idea what was up. I guess you can't just manually drag a DLL in or out without some corruption happening.
By the way, I'm still livid I had disable UAC on my entire PC just to install a plug-in. This is SO not ready for prime time.