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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 08, 2020, 06:53 AM »
Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. <#
  2.   .\DiscoFile-MB3.ps1 <Uri>
  3.  
  4.   Given the URI from https://musicbrainz.org for an artist it will retrieve the
  5.   discography.
  6.  
  7.   eg.
  8.  
  9.   .\DiscoFile-MB3.ps1 https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66c662b6-6e2f-4930-8610-912e24c63ed1
  10.  
  11.   Will result in a file called 'AC_DC-MB - Discography.txt' in the same directory as
  12.   DiscoFile-MB3.ps1
  13.  
  14. #>
  15.  
  16. param (
  17.   [string]$Uri
  18. )
  19.  
  20. $web = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri).RawContent
  21.  
  22. $temp = $web -replace '[\s\S]+application\/ld\+json..([\s\S]+?)<\/script>[\s\S]*$', '$1'
  23.  
  24. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json
  25.  
  26. $outFile = ($json.name + "-MB - Discography.txt").Split([IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) -join '_'
  27. if (Test-Path $outFile) {
  28.   Remove-Item $outFile -Force
  29. }
  30.  
  31. for ($i = 0; $i -lt $json.album.Count; $i++) {
  32.   $temp = $json.album[$i].albumReleaseType
  33.   if ($temp -match 'AlbumRelease') {
  34.     $temp = $json.album[$i].albumProductionType
  35.     if (($temp -match '(LiveAlbum)|(StudioAlbum)') -and !($temp -match '(CompilationAlbum)|(SoundtrackAlbum)')) {
  36.       $albumUri = ($json.album[$i].'@id' + "?inc=releases&fmt=json") -replace '\.org\/', '.org/ws/2/'
  37.       $album = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($albumUri)") | ConvertFrom-Json
  38.       "$($album.releases[0].date.Substring(0,4)) - $($album.title)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  39.     }
  40.   }
  41. }
  42.  
  43. Get-Content $outFile | Sort-Object | Set-Content $outFile

Code: Text [Select]
  1. 1975 - High Voltage
  2. 1975 - T.N.T.
  3. 1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
  4. 1976 - High Voltage
  5. 1977 - Let There Be Rock
  6. 1978 - If You Want Blood You???ve Got It
  7. 1978 - Live from the Atlantic Studios
  8. 1978 - Powerage
  9. 1979 - Highway to Hell
  10. 1980 - Back in Black
  11. 1981 - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
  12. 1983 - Flick of the Switch
  13. 1985 - Fly on the Wall
  14. 1988 - Blow Up Your Video
  15. 1990 - The Razors Edge
  16. 1992 - Live at Donington
  17. 1995 - Ballbreaker
  18. 1996 - No Bull: Live - Plaza De Toros, Madrid
  19. 1996 - Westwood One Superstars In Concert Series
  20. 2000 - Stiff Upper Lip
  21. 2001 - Stiff Upper Lip: Live
  22. 2007 - Plug Me In
  23. 2008 - Black Ice
  24. 2011 - Live at River Plate
  25. 2014 - Rock or Bust
  26. 2018 - Legendary FM Broadcasts - The Paradise Theatre, Boston MA 21st August 1978
  27. 2018 - Live At Paradise Theatre Boston 1978
  28. 2019 - Live at the Apocalypse
  29. 2020 - AC/DC FM Broadcast Boston 1978
  30. 2020 - Power Up
252
General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 05:08 PM »
It was my external mouse
-Contro (November 07, 2020, 04:37 PM)

Time to apply S.O.P. #1.
253
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 04:57 PM »
Nice 4wd!
-Nod5 (November 07, 2020, 10:11 AM)

Thanks!

One idea is to search for artist name and use the first match as artist page URL input into the rest of your program.
The URL format is
[Select]
https://www.discogs.com/search/?type=artist&title=ac+dc

I think that given the incomplete records on Discogs, time would be better spent on either MusicBrainz, (filtering their overly complete lists down to just the studio releases, or otherwise selecting what you want), or trying to parse allmusic's HTML, (that'll be fun but it is just one big table, so maybe it won't be that hard - PowerShell can get at elements within HTML, just never really looked at it).

eg. For MusicBrainz, pipe the output into a ListView with checkboxes, select the ones you want, output to a text file - if you want to use manual selection.

This could be a little NANY 2021 app.

... it might inspire someone ;)
-4wd (November 06, 2020, 09:41 PM)

 :P

Looking at AllMusic, their info is a little mixed up also, Live albums in amongst Studio albums whereas MusicBrainz splits Studio and Live.

Since MusicBrainz list the Studio albums first, we can prune everything down to just those easily enough:

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. <#
  2.   .\DiscoFile-MB3.ps1 <Uri>
  3.  
  4.   Given the URI from https://musicbrainz.org for an artist it will retrieve the
  5.   discography.
  6.  
  7.   eg.
  8.  
  9.   .\DiscoFile-MB3.ps1 https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66c662b6-6e2f-4930-8610-912e24c63ed1
  10.  
  11.   Will result in a file called 'AC_DC-MB - Discography.txt' in the same directory as
  12.   DiscoFile.ps1
  13.  
  14. #>
  15.  
  16. param (
  17.   [string]$Uri
  18. )
  19.  
  20. $web = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri).RawContent
  21.  
  22. $temp = $web -replace '[\s\S]+application\/ld\+json..([\s\S]+?)<\/script>[\s\S]*$', '$1'
  23.  
  24. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json
  25.  
  26. $outFile = ($json.name + "-MB - Discography.txt").Split([IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) -join '_'
  27. if (Test-Path $outFile) {
  28.   Remove-Item $outFile -Force
  29. }
  30.  
  31. $i = 0
  32. do {
  33.   if ($json.album[$i].albumProductionType -match 'StudioAlbum') {
  34.     $found = $true
  35.     $albumUri = ($json.album[$i].'@id' + "?inc=releases&fmt=json") -replace '\.org\/', '.org/ws/2/'
  36.     $album = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($albumUri)") | ConvertFrom-Json
  37.     "$($album.releases[0].date) - $($album.title)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  38.   } else {
  39.     $found = $false
  40.   }
  41.   $i++
  42. } while ($found)

Which makes it a little nicer:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 1975-02-17 - High Voltage
  2. 1975-12-01 - T.N.T.
  3. 1976-05-14 - High Voltage
  4. 1976-09-20 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
  5. 1977-03-21 - Let There Be Rock
  6. 1978-05-05 - Powerage
  7. 1979-07-27 - Highway to Hell
  8. 1980-07-25 - Back in Black
  9. 1981-11-23 - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
  10. 1983-08-15 - Flick of the Switch
  11. 1985-06-28 - Fly on the Wall
  12. 1988-01-18 - Blow Up Your Video
  13. 1990-09-21 - The Razors Edge
  14. 1995-09-22 - Ballbreaker
  15. 2000-02-25 - Stiff Upper Lip
  16. 2008-10-17 - Black Ice
  17. 2014-11-28 - Rock or Bust
  18. 2020-11-13 - Power Up

I guess AllMusic could be parsed using the HTML Agility Pack ... if I could work out how to use it ;D
254
Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 08:59 AM »
I always keep an old logitech corded standard mouse for those times I need to reinstall Windows or do some MBR building since Windows doesn't have USB support when booting
-mouse53 (October 29, 2020, 01:25 PM)

It doesn't?

I've used a wireless keyboard+trackpad the last couple of times I've installed Windows just fine, (Win 10 and WHS2011).
It also works in the BIOS without a problem, (mouse driven BIOS interface).

Windows might not but your hardware can, you should check your BIOS, enable Legacy USB support.
255
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 04:46 AM »
That's one of the reasons I became fixated on the allmusic site.
-fred dred (November 07, 2020, 04:43 AM)

Yes, nicer format but unfortunately in HTML which can be a P.I.T.A to parse.

They might have an API which can be leveraged but I couldn't find one in a quick look at the site.

Addendum: Looks like there is an API through Rovi (TiVo) if you get an API key here - although a quick look seems to indicate no way to get a list of releases for an artist.
256
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 04:40 AM »
This'll just grab the first date in a release:

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. <#
  2.   .\DiscoFile-MB2.ps1 <Uri>
  3.  
  4.   Given the URI from https://musicbrainz.org for an artist it will retrieve the
  5.   discography.
  6.  
  7.   eg.
  8.  
  9.   .\DiscoFile-MB2.ps1 https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66c662b6-6e2f-4930-8610-912e24c63ed1
  10.  
  11.   Will result in a file called 'AC_DC-MB - Discography.txt' in the same directory as
  12.   DiscoFile.ps1
  13.  
  14. #>
  15.  
  16. param (
  17.   [string]$Uri
  18. )
  19.  
  20. $web = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri).RawContent
  21.  
  22. $temp = $web -replace '[\s\S]+application\/ld\+json..([\s\S]+?)<\/script>[\s\S]*$', '$1'
  23.  
  24. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json
  25.  
  26. $outFile = ($json.name + "-MB - Discography.txt").Split([IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) -join '_'
  27. if (Test-Path $outFile) {
  28.   Remove-Item $outFile -Force
  29. }
  30.  
  31. for ($i = 0; $i -lt $json.album.Count; $i++) {
  32.   $albumUri = ($json.album[$i].'@id' + "?inc=releases&fmt=json") -replace '\.org\/', '.org/ws/2/'
  33.   $album = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($albumUri)") | ConvertFrom-Json
  34.   "$($album.releases[0].date) - $($album.title)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  35. }

Example output:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 1976-02-14 - Dreamboat Annie
  2. 1977-04-19 - Magazine
  3. 1977-05-15 - Little Queen
  4. 1978-10-07 - Dog & Butterfly
  5. 1980-02-14 - B??b?? le Strange
  6. 1982-06-05 - Private Audition
  7. 1983-08-20 - Passionworks
  8. 1985-07-06 - Heart
  9. 1987-06-05 - Bad Animals
  10. 1990-03-26 - Brigade
  11. 1993-10-30 - Desire Walks On
  12. 2004-06-22 - Jupiters Darling
  13. 2010-08-27 - Red Velvet Car
  14. 2012-09-28 - Fanatic
  15. 2016-07-08 - Beautiful Broken
  16. 1980-11-29 - Greatest Hits / Live
  17. 1981 - Heart: Best of the Early Years
  18. 1995-12-11 - Definitive Collection
  19. 1996-07-03 - Ballads: The Greatest Hits
  20. 1997-03-11 - These Dreams: Heart???s Greatest Hits
  21. 1998-08-25 - Greatest Hits
  22. 2000-06-27 - Greatest Hits: 1985???1995
  23. 2002-11-26 - The Essential Heart
  24. 2005-09-27 - Love Alive
  25. 2005-11-15 - The Collection
  26. 2006-01-10 - Love Songs
  27. 2008 - Playlist: The Very Best of Heart
  28. 2009 - Private Audition / Passionworks
  29. 2011-06-23 - Heart / Bad Animals
  30. 2012-06-01 - Strange Euphoria
  31. 2012 - Super Hits
  32. 2013-05-13 - Icon
  33. 2013 - Original Album Classics
  34. 2014-10-14 - The Box Set Series
  35. 1991-09-24 - Rock the House Live!
  36. 1995-08-09 - The Road Home
  37. 2003 - Alive in Seattle
  38. 2007-10-23 - Dreamboat Annie Live
  39. 2008-08-05 - Live
  40. 2014-02-21 - Fanatic Live From Caesars Colosseum
  41. 2014-11-07 - Heart & Friends: Home for the Holidays
  42. 2016-11-25 - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  43. 2019-01-25 - Live in Atlantic City
  44. 1975-06 - Magic Man
  45. 1975 - Crazy on You
  46. 1975 - How Deep It Goes
  47. 1976-12 - Dreamboat Annie
  48. 1976 - (Love Me Like Music) I???ll Be Your Song
  49. 1977 - Barracuda
  50. 1977 - Heartless
  51. 1977 - Kick It Out
  52. 1977 - Little Queen / Treat Me Well
  53. 1978 - Straight On
  54. 1978 - Without You
  55. 1985-09-14 - Never
  56. 1985 - Nothin??? at All
  57. 1986-01-18 - These Dreams
  58. 1986-07-19 - If Looks Could Kill
  59. 1987 - There???s the Girl
  60. 1987 - Who Will You Run To
  61. 1988-02 - Never / These Dreams
  62. 1990-03-28 - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You
  63. 1990-09 - Stranded
  64. 1990 - I Didn???t Want to Need You
  65. 1990 - Secret
  66. 1991 - You???re the Voice
  67. 1993-11 - Black on Black II
  68. 1993 - Will You Be There (In the Morning)
  69. 1994 - The Woman in Me
  70. 1998 - What About Love
  71. 2012-08-21 - Fanatic
  72. 2013-11-08 - Heart Christmas Single 2013
  73. 2017-11-03 - Band on the Run
  74. 2017-11-03 - Letting Go
  75. 2013-01-15 - Stairway to Heaven (live at the Kennedy Center Honors)
  76. 2018-10-23 - Lost Angel
  77. 2019-01-11 - B??b?? le Strange
  78. 2019-01-16 - Crazy on You
  79. 2012-11-12 - A Million Miles (Abe Clements remix)
  80. 1988 - If Looks Could Kill
  81. 2010-03-05 - WTF+4

You could add filtering to restrict it to certain types of releases by matching in the albumProductionType or albumReleaseType, eg.

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. for ($i = 0; $i -lt $json.album.Count; $i++) {
  2.   if ($json.album[$i].albumProductionType -match 'StudioAlbum') {
  3.     $albumUri = ($json.album[$i].'@id' + "?inc=releases&fmt=json") -replace '\.org\/', '.org/ws/2/'
  4.     $album = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($albumUri)") | ConvertFrom-Json
  5.     "$($album.releases[0].date) - $($album.title)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  6.   }
  7. }

So goes the theory :P
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 07, 2020, 03:21 AM »
Thank you very, very much for taking the time to do this !
-fred dred (November 07, 2020, 02:36 AM)

No problem, it was quite literally 20 minutes of playing around - working out the RegEx to remove everything I didn't want took the most time.

The MusicBrainz output is brilliant - but no dates means it's a pain to cross reference with my existing files.

You can get the dates, you just have to follow every album link but they do provide the info in JSON format without having to strip it out of the page.

For example, AC/DC's High Voltage:

XML
JSON

So it can be obtained, just grab the JSON and pull out the first date value, as an example:

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. $album = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/2b81e645-4586-4456-843a-9bc19a217470?inc=releases&fmt=json") | ConvertFrom-Json
  2. "$($album.releases[0].date) - $($album.title)"

The only problem being multiple release dates, eg. for that particular entry there are nine dates ... which one do you choose really?

Considering MusicBrainz provide album data in JSON, I'm kind of surprised that the artist page doesn't provide the same, (I mean including the album details, ie. combined artist+releases).
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Create a text doc of an artists discography.
« Last post by 4wd on November 06, 2020, 09:41 PM »
I'm not going to offer an all encompassing solution but here's something simple in PowerShell that uses Discogs - it might inspire someone ;)

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. <#
  2.   .\DiscoFile.ps1 <Uri>
  3.  
  4.   Given the URI from https://www.discogs.com for an artist it will retrieve the
  5.   discography.
  6.  
  7.   eg.
  8.  
  9.   .\DiscoFile.ps1 https://www.discogs.com/artist/84752-ACDC
  10.  
  11.   Will result in a file called 'AC_DC - Discography.txt' in the same directory as
  12.   DiscoFile.ps1
  13.  
  14. #>
  15.  
  16. param (
  17.   [string]$Uri
  18. )
  19.  
  20. $web = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri).RawContent
  21.  
  22. $temp = $web -replace '[\s\S]+artist_schema..([\s\S]+?)<\/script>[\s\S]*$', '$1'
  23.  
  24. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json
  25.  
  26. $outFile = ($json.name + " - Discography.txt").Split([IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) -join '_'
  27.  
  28. for ($i = 0; $i -lt $json.album.Count; $i++) {
  29.   "$($json.album[$i].datePublished) - $($json.album[$i].name)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  30. }

Using the example above, output will be to 'AC_DC - Discography.txt' and look like:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. 1975 - T.N.T.
  2. 1975 - High Voltage
  3. 1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
  4. 1976 - High Voltage
  5. 1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
  6. 1977 - Let There Be Rock
  7. 1978 - Powerage
  8. 1978 - If You Want Blood You've Got It
  9. 1979 - Highway To Hell
  10. 1980 - In Concert-215
  11. 1980 - Back In Black
  12. 1981 - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
  13. 1983 - Special Radio Interview Disc
  14. 1983 - Flick Of The Switch
  15. 1985 - Fly On The Wall
  16. 1988 - Blow Up Your Video
  17. 1990 - AC/DC Interview
  18. 1990 - The Razors Edge
  19. 1992 - Live

Why did I choose Discogs even though the album data is incomplete?

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json

Album data is available in JSON format which makes retrieving it trivial.

Having a quick look at MusicBrainz, it appears to also be in JSON format - maybe I'll devote an extra 30 5 mins to this ;)

MusicBrainz version, they don't appear to include the year in the JSON data though:

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. <#
  2.   .\DiscoFile-MB.ps1 <Uri>
  3.  
  4.   Given the URI from https://musicbrainz.org for an artist it will retrieve the
  5.   discography.
  6.  
  7.   eg.
  8.  
  9.   .\DiscoFile-MB.ps1 https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66c662b6-6e2f-4930-8610-912e24c63ed1
  10.  
  11.   Will result in a file called 'AC_DC-MB - Discography.txt' in the same directory as
  12.   DiscoFile.ps1
  13.  
  14. #>
  15.  
  16. param (
  17.   [string]$Uri
  18. )
  19.  
  20. $web = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Uri).RawContent
  21.  
  22. $temp = $web -replace '[\s\S]+application\/ld\+json..([\s\S]+?)<\/script>[\s\S]*$', '$1'
  23.  
  24. $json = $temp | ConvertFrom-Json
  25.  
  26. $outFile = ($json.name + "-MB - Discography.txt").Split([IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars()) -join '_'
  27.  
  28. for ($i = 0; $i -lt $json.album.Count; $i++) {
  29.   "$($json.album[$i].name)" | Out-File -FilePath $outFile -Append
  30. }
259
Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by 4wd on November 05, 2020, 01:57 PM »
I'll just leave this here:

260
Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by 4wd on November 01, 2020, 04:09 PM »
B+D together is bigger than C.
-panzer (November 01, 2020, 11:18 AM)

Nah, the station logo is overlaying part of column C, you'd need A+B+D to beat it.

I heard that in Japan audience always chose the wrong answer on purpose so the producers decided to end the show.

Considering some of the Japanese game shows I saw years ago, they probably decided it was too tame.
261
General Software Discussion / Re: How to manually set clock in Windows 10 Pro?
« Last post by 4wd on October 30, 2020, 10:04 AM »
Most of the rest of the world use the change of seasons to implement DST.
-Shades (October 30, 2020, 09:02 AM)

Except Australia where we made it easier by just making it the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April.

... but only in the southern/eastern states/territories, the northern/western states/territories don't bother with DST at all 😆
262
General Software Discussion / Re: How to manually set clock in Windows 10 Pro?
« Last post by 4wd on October 30, 2020, 07:29 AM »
Try changing the time server to something other than Microsoft.

The public servers at NTP.org have always been better for me, for the UK try: uk.pool.ntp.org

The above will round-robin through, currently, 329 NTP servers in the UK, (split 213 IPv4/116 IPv6).

And yes, to change the system time requires admin.

If it still won't sync then the usual culprits: firewall, service, etc, Event log may give more info.
263
Living Room / Re: When rubber (computer mouse) gets old and sticky, what can you do
« Last post by 4wd on October 28, 2020, 07:19 PM »
My experience is that once the external of the mouse is (severely) deteriorated, than the internals aren't that good as well.
-Ath (October 28, 2020, 11:19 AM)

After 11 years, my CM Sentinel Advance still works well, coating fully wore off about 5 years ago.

Apart from the coating about the only problems with it is that some of the OLED segments are a little dim and the coating they had on the metal mesh inserts started wearing off - so I removed them, cleaned to bare metal, then applied gun blue about 6 or 7 years ago.

IIRC, the removal of the metal mesh to gun blue it has been the only time I've had it apart to clean it ... must be time to give it another surprise 😬
264
Living Room / Re: When rubber (computer mouse) gets old and sticky, what can you do
« Last post by 4wd on October 28, 2020, 05:14 AM »
A light dusting of talcum powder well rubbed in over the surface?

Removed the stickiness for me, usually comes back after awhile though since the rubber coating is still deteriorating.

In the end the coating completely wore away which fixed the problem.
265
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by 4wd on October 26, 2020, 09:51 AM »
Meh, their crappy updates don't work on my system, only way I can update to the next versions are by reinstalling Windows, (probably not a bad thing).

Main computer is still sitting at 1909, won't update to 2004 or 20H2 using whatever means. Keep getting the same useless error messages that involve trying the same useless fixes.
266
General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual desktop tools?
« Last post by 4wd on October 25, 2020, 06:27 AM »
Yeah, I've considered going multi-monitor in the past, but couldn't justify it (yet?): hardware cost, desk space, energy usage...
-brotherS (October 25, 2020, 05:36 AM)

Normally don't even have to buy them if you're happy with monitors that are a few years old, I've been given monitors that are left over from upgrades that still work perfectly well.  They might not be FHD but they're still useful, don't even have them turned on most of the time.
267
General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on October 25, 2020, 06:23 AM »
The problem with other display off utilities is that they are reactivated...
-Contro (October 25, 2020, 04:04 AM)

If you're saying that the display turns on after getting it to turn off then one more thing to try that may, (or may not), show something:

  • Safe boot,
  • Run nircmd: nircmd.exe monitor off
  • When the display turns on again, (assuming you haven't used the keyboard or knocked the mouse), try powercfg -requests again, see if it shows a reason it turned on.

BTW, what happens if you set the Screen Saver to Blank after a minute?
Does it work?

4wd is right (as per usual), ...
-Shades (October 24, 2020, 08:55 PM)

Thanks but I think my wife would like to have words with you :P ;D
268
General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on October 24, 2020, 07:28 PM »
Tried.

The display don't display off after the minute of inactivity.
-Contro (October 24, 2020, 05:12 PM)

Which still points to a problem within Windows itself so your only probable solutions, (that won't require installing Windows from scratch or otherwise trying to locate the fault), is Kodezwerg's software, (or similar), or an In-place Upgrade.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual desktop tools?
« Last post by 4wd on October 24, 2020, 04:06 PM »
There's also Desktops from SysInternals, (Microsoft), haven't used it in awhile, might be a bit minimalist though.

https://docs.microso...s/downloads/desktops

So far this has been quite a frustrating experience. Did everyone more or less give up working on software in this category when Windows 10 came around?

Most probably started going to multi-monitor, monitors became cheaper, which increased screen real estate allowing you to see it all at once rather than cycle through virtual desktops to the one you wanted.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on October 22, 2020, 08:33 PM »
I also don't understand why we can't do the proofs in safe mode.
Even in safe mode the display off fails...
-Contro (October 22, 2020, 06:53 PM)

You can, try it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on October 20, 2020, 06:33 PM »
It would seem to indicate that Windows itself is the problem, no software has made any requests to keep the system awake or the display on, (if the output is to be believed).

Try again but wait for a longer period, say an hour or two.

There's always the option to try an In-place Upgrade as a last resort.
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Living Room / Re: What, if anything, has IMPROVED for you as a result of the pandemic?
« Last post by 4wd on October 20, 2020, 04:50 PM »
Less people around ... but unfortunately the good times are coming to an end as we get closer to exiting Stage 4 lockdown.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Manage the display in the laptop
« Last post by 4wd on October 20, 2020, 04:44 PM »
Try this:
  • Set the screen timeout to a minute,
  • Reboot and wait a few minutes to see if the display turns off,
  • If it doesn't, enter 'powercfg -requests' in an admin CLI.

What does it say?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Show IP Address from domain name
« Last post by 4wd on October 15, 2020, 06:26 PM »
Not if you just output it to a grid :P
-wraith808 (October 15, 2020, 02:28 PM)

True, but I was thinking of a simple updating textbox, (possibly frameless? - haven't really looked), rather than a scrolling console, (though you could clear it between updates).
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Show IP Address from domain name
« Last post by 4wd on October 15, 2020, 02:17 AM »
test.txt
Code: Text [Select]
  1. google.com
  2. cloudflare.com
  3. microsoft.com
  4. georgebloggs.org

Code: Text [Select]
  1. C:\> for /f %a in (test.txt) do ping -n 1 %a

Result:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. C:\>ping -n 1 google.com
  2.  
  3. Pinging google.com [216.58.200.110] with 32 bytes of data:
  4. General failure.
  5.  
  6. Ping statistics for 216.58.200.110:
  7.     Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
  8.  
  9. C:\>ping -n 1 cloudflare.com
  10.  
  11. Pinging cloudflare.com [104.17.176.85] with 32 bytes of data:
  12. General failure.
  13.  
  14. Ping statistics for 104.17.176.85:
  15.     Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
  16.  
  17. C:\>ping -n 1 microsoft.com
  18.  
  19. Pinging microsoft.com [13.77.161.179] with 32 bytes of data:
  20. General failure.
  21.  
  22. Ping statistics for 13.77.161.179:
  23.     Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
  24.  
  25. C:\>ping -n 1 georgebloggs.org
  26. Ping request could not find host georgebloggs.org. Please check the name and try again.

If you want to get fancy you could parse the reply for the IP only.

Or some PowerShell, this will loop every 60 seconds until it's killed:

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. $a = get-content ".\test.txt"
  2.  
  3. do {
  4.   foreach ($i in $a ) {
  5.     try {
  6.       $i + " -> " + [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($i)[0]
  7.     }
  8.     catch {
  9.       $i + " -> Does not resolve"
  10.     }
  11.   }
  12.   Start-Sleep -Seconds 60
  13. } while ($true)

Result:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. google.com -> 216.58.200.110
  2. cloudflare.com -> 104.17.175.85
  3. microsoft.com -> 104.215.148.63
  4. georgebloggs.org -> Does not resolve

You could make a simple GUI for it, (see PoshGUI), but the code will blow out past 13 lines :P
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