Problems with My Music lists

[NorthernJohn]

Area: Media Portal Program - My Music
MP Version: 0.2 RC2
Skin: MCE
Windows Version: XP Pro sp2
CPU Type: AMD 3200
Memory: 1GB DDR400
Motherboard Chipset: MSI?
Video Card: Onboard ATi
Video Card Driver:
Video Card Resolution: 800x600
Video Render Type: VMR9
Video Codec Type & Version: NA
Audio Codec Type & Version: NA
TV Card: Hauppage 150
TV Card Type: hardware
TV Card Driver: NA
Optional Log: See below
Optional References:

Hi

First post here from a complete newbie. Shame it has to be about as Media Portal rocks imo. 8)

I'm having difficulty getting the lists (Artist, Album, Genre etc) to work in My Music. A list shows but with no text. Drilling into an Artist shows another list of directories with no text. If I drill into the Album then I do see the tracks.

I originally had the problem with v0.1.3 but I could do a scan of My Music share to sort it out. Digging around the forum I noticed that many people have had an issue around this but 0.2RC2 handled things much better. So I went ahead with the upgrade. Things have got worse. I've rebuilt the database but still don't see anything of use in My Music.

I had a look in Program Files and found the music database and the database explorer app. I work with dbs in my day job so thought I'd have a dig around and the datatbase appears to be populated correctly. SQL statements across the album, artist and tracks yields the results I would expect so I guess it has something to do with MP not displaying or reading the db correctly.

Below is a cut of the log from when I start looking at My Music. There are quite a few null refrerence exceptions in there.

Please help sort this out. My Music is why I've gone HTPC. I've reverted back to 0.1.3 but would like to have the latest and greatest. The features in 0.2 (mainly CD ripping) will help keep my wife on board :wink:

Cheers
John

07/02/2006 23:49:24 goto windowed:True
07/02/2006 23:49:24 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicFiles init
07/02/2006 23:49:24 Opening music database
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[artist]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[album]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[genre]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[path]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[albuminfo]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[artistinfo]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[song]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 music database opened
07/02/2006 23:49:24 open folderdatabase
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[path]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 AddTable:[setting]
07/02/2006 23:49:24 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicFiles deinit
07/02/2006 23:49:24 texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()
07/02/2006 23:49:24 Total Memory allocated:10.24 MB
07/02/2006 23:49:24 Recorder:disable dx9 exclusive mode
07/02/2006 23:49:24 goto windowed:True
07/02/2006 23:49:24 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres init
07/02/2006 23:49:24 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnPageLoad()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:30 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:30 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:33 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:33 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:44 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:44 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:47 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:47 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:50 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:50 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:52 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:52 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:49:53 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:49:53 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClick(Int32 iItem)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.OnClicked (Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnClicked(Int 32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)
07/02/2006 23:50:05 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:07 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:09 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:11 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:13 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:18 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:18 window:MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogMenu init
07/02/2006 23:50:22 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:22 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres deinit
07/02/2006 23:50:22 texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()
07/02/2006 23:50:22 Total Memory allocated:10.33 MB
07/02/2006 23:50:22 Recorder:disable dx9 exclusive mode
07/02/2006 23:50:22 goto windowed:True
07/02/2006 23:50:22 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicFiles init
07/02/2006 23:50:26 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:31 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicFiles deinit
07/02/2006 23:50:31 texturemanager:CleanupThumbs()
07/02/2006 23:50:31 Total Memory allocated:10.34 MB
07/02/2006 23:50:31 Recorder:disable dx9 exclusive mode
07/02/2006 23:50:31 goto windowed:True
07/02/2006 23:50:31 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Home.HomeWindow init
07/02/2006 23:50:37 key:13 0xD (2)
07/02/2006 23:50:37 Mediaportal.OnExit()
07/02/2006 23:50:37 TVCapture.Stop() Card:1
07/02/2006 23:50:37 PlugInManager.Stop()
07/02/2006 23:50:38 MediaPortal done
07/02/2006 23:50:38 dbs:close:musicdatabase4.db3
07/02/2006 23:50:38 dbs:close:FolderDatabase2.db3
07/02/2006 23:50:38 dbs:close:TVDatabaseV21.db3
07/02/2006 23:50:38 dbs:closerogramDatabaseV3.db3

[Nemulate]

Have you tried with a different skin? Just a thought!

[NorthernJohn]

Originally Posted by Nemulate

Have you tried with a different skin? Just a thought!

I was originally using the BlueTwo skin but had the same issue.

[Paranoid Delusion]

Try deleting music db and resetting the default folder for music to say My Music (which is mine) in setup and see if that pulls all the info in. found when using setup scan it shows 2717 mp3's but they don't appear in MP,
but they do this way. PS always use Blue Two Skin for latest cvs as it is updated first.

Ray 8)

[NorthernJohn]

Deleted the music db. Still no good.

I'm pretty sure the db isn't not the problem. I'm displaying the correct number of albums, just no text to go with them or with the artists (the tracks are ok). I can also browse the data in the db via the SQL Lite Database Browser and all looks good.

My amateur reading of the log when I click on My Music leads me to believe that it's a gui problem. All those null references.

08/02/2006 20:35:45 window:MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres init
08/02/2006 20:35:45 OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicBaseWindow.SetLabels ()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.SetLabels()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.LoadDirectory (String strNewDirectory)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicGenres.OnPageLoad()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMes sage message)

[Paranoid Delusion]

Chelsea vs Everton at moment will look afterwards 4 - 1 YES

[zombiepig]

try installing a later cvs... this bug was fixed a few days after rc2 was released

[Paranoid Delusion]

OK as above but don't go too far towards newer cvs as Directx9 required and usually onboard graphics do not support. Pre software support removed is the one to go for look for the date and go back a cvs or two.

8)

[NorthernJohn]

Awesome. Looking good now.

Thanks for the help.

Just got to work out how to import/rip a cd now :? Context menu doesn't give me the option. :evil:

But that's for another thread at another time.