Rockstar - the ultimate online music plugin (Spotify&Grooveshark&Rdio) (6 Viewers)

[Entdecker]

Dear all,
I have a problem whis the last "Rockstar 2.54" Plugin and spotify.

I can install "Rockstar " at MediaPortal 1.17 ore 1.18 pre whisout problem and no error messages. After the install an adding my Login information at Rockstar. I can not open Rockstar Plugin because "MediaPortal 1.17 and 1.18 pre" given and me a error Message ( skin file not found)

After this message I looking for the Skin File "rockstar.xml" and I can see that the file "rockstar.xml" is in the Mediaportal Skin folder. So I do not understand this message.

Currently I use "Rockstar 2.54" whis whis MediaPortal 1.12 whisout problem.

My question is
- Have someone install "Rockstar 2.54" at a new Mediaportal 1.17 ore 1.18 pre installation?
- What can I do to fix this problem?

Logfile is attached. Thank you for your help.

Entdecker

 

[Ministerk]

Rockstar is not compatible with MediaPortal since MP 1.17Pre. The developers of MP have not bumped the compatibility version for plugins using the External Bass player subsystem. If this had been done when upgrading Bass Player in MediaPortal, Rockstar would have been marked as incompatible until the plugin is updated to the new version of Bass.

@Developers update CompatibilityInfo or don't use it and remove it completely.

 

[Entdecker]

Dear Ministerk,
thank you for your answert. That is very pity. I have used "Rockstar" Plugin since I use MediaPortal and it was very usfull for me

I hope realy it will be find a Developer that will be looking after "Rockstar" .

 

[DutchAdept]

Hi All,

I took the liberty of (partly) reverse engineering this plugin to get it working with 1.17/1.18.
An exception catch has been added to the playlist routine to prevent a crash to desktop, but the playlist functionality is still broken (I need the original source code for that)
Local default playlist works o.k.

 

[Edalex]

Hi All,

I took the liberty of (partly) reverse engineering this plugin to get it working with 1.17/1.18.
An exception catch has been added to the playlist routine to prevent a crash to desktop, but the playlist functionality is still broken (I need the original source code for that)
Local default playlist works o.k.

Why source is not full after decompiling? C# is known to be very reversible...
What soft did you use?

 

[DutchAdept]

Why source is not full after decompiling? C# is known to be very reversible...
What soft did you use?

I use RedGate .NET Reflector, among other tools.
The reversibility of compiled code is (obviously) hugely dependent on the complexity of said code. In the case of this plugin, the programmer has made things quite complex by incorporating the complete source code of the libraries he used into his program (Torshify, NLog, RdioSharp,NewtonSoft Json and he even mirrored some native windows system libraries like system.collections).

 

[Sebastiii]

Why not adso @seco to publish the source ?

 

[Sebastiii]

Hi @seco
Thanks for this i think it will be really appreciate from the community

 

[Entdecker]

Hello @DutchAdept

thank you for continus development from "Rockstar" for MediaPortal.

I am very happy that "Rockstar" is back to MediaPortal. Currently I use "Rockstar " since 1 Weeks without problems, only the Playlist function I misst a little bit

I hope you find time to fix the "Playlist " Function from "rockstar" too! When you need help for testing "rockstar", please feel free to send me a messagge.

Best regards,

Entdecker

p.s.: @se Thank you for share the Source Code from Rockstar

 

[DutchAdept]

Hi Seco,
Thanks for publishing the source (any change to the code will of course be done by proper pull and/or merge request).
I noticed though that the source-code in the repository does not match with the latest binary supplied (2.5.4.0), in particular regarding calls to RdioSharp.RdioManager. Did you add custom methods (like ResolvePlayback) or is there an other source available online for RdioSharp except for the one on GitHub?
I understand that most of these methods/functions are depreciated or even downright fail due to changes in the GrooveShark API and Rdio being discontinued, but it would be of great if I can start out just compiling the source and focus on Spotify functionality instead of having to clear out all calls to these non-available methods and functions (I'm not a great coder to begin with).