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<blockquote data-quote="Musikliebhaber" data-source="post: 1275520" data-attributes="member: 124086">Today I tried again to understand the error of the &quot;MediaSlayer Plugin&quot; better. Here are the results:- The Media Slayer problem is NOT a MediaPortal 1.25 problem, it is a basic problem of the &quot;Media Slayer Plugin&quot;, even under MediaPortal 1.22 the plugin does not work in online mode anymore!-If the network is switched off or the network cable is disconnected, the tool works without problems, but in this case you won't get any album information. This limits the usage of the plugin.- As a result, the music database (FreeDB) from which the album information comes is probably a little bit changed in the last time at the query log (API). This leads to the fact that no album information can be retrieved anymore, which causes the well-known error message.- MediaSlayer uses the (command line) program &quot;CD-Slayer by Carsten Haahr Larsen&quot; for ripping music. To fix the error it would probably be sufficient to change the command line tool &quot;CDSlayer&quot; from the plugin, unless the syntax of the program has changed.Unfortunately, the program CD Slayer is apparently no longer developed. Unfortunately I could not find an old version of the tool or the source code of the tool on the internet. The old homepage, where the tool was originally supposed to be found, is no longer online (sunbreeze.dk/cms).Another homepage of &quot;Carsten Haahr Larsen&quot; I have not found.To update the plugin MediaSlayer, Media Slayer would have to be adapted to another ripping tool or the program &quot;CD-Slayer&quot; would have to be decompiled and updated.Maybe some person will found more information to fix the problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Musikliebhaber, post: 1275520, member: 124086"] [B]Today I tried again to understand the error of the "MediaSlayer Plugin" better. Here are the results:[/B] - The Media Slayer problem is NOT a MediaPortal 1.25 problem, it is a basic problem of the "Media Slayer Plugin", even under MediaPortal 1.22 the plugin does not work in online mode anymore! -If the network is switched off or the network cable is disconnected, the tool works without problems, but in this case you won't get any album information. This limits the usage of the plugin. - As a result, the music database (FreeDB) from which the album information comes is probably a little bit changed in the last time at the query log (API). This leads to the fact that no album information can be retrieved anymore, which causes the well-known error message. - MediaSlayer uses the (command line) program "CD-Slayer by Carsten Haahr Larsen" for ripping music. To fix the error it would probably be sufficient to change the command line tool "CDSlayer" from the plugin, unless the syntax of the program has changed. Unfortunately, the program CD Slayer is apparently no longer developed. Unfortunately I could not find an old version of the tool or the source code of the tool on the internet. The old homepage, where the tool was originally supposed to be found, is no longer online (sunbreeze.dk/cms). Another homepage of "Carsten Haahr Larsen" I have not found. [U]To update the plugin MediaSlayer, Media Slayer would have to be adapted to another ripping tool or the program "CD-Slayer" would have to be decompiled and updated.[/U] Maybe some person will found more information to fix the problem. [/QUOTE]

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