Author Topic: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips (Read 306,888 times)

TT1 · « **Reply #150 on:** February 01, 2012, 03:36 PM »

It's terrific! Many thanks for adding the additional features.

BTW, are the column widths supposed to be settable and sticky? I see the width info in the ini file, but the columns seem to open as something different.

skwire · « **Reply #151 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:49 PM »

Website | Download v1.2.8 - 2012-02-01 + Added column sort indicators. (Thanks, Wayne) ! Filename column width wasn't being saved properly.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #152 on:** February 07, 2012, 12:22 AM »

I've been using 1.2.1 without any problem on Windows 7 32 bit. Seems like any version after that if I try to Add To PlayTime using the context menu or even drag and drop onto an open PlayTime Window, the entry never appears and I get the spinning circle mouse cursor. Only way to get rid of busy cursor is to kill PlayTime from the task manager.

1.2.1 does what I need fine. Just thought I'd let you know since I just tried the new Feb release. I even tried last Ansi only version 1.2.2 and got the same thing. Seems like it likes 1.2.1 and nothing later.

skwire · « **Reply #153 on:** February 08, 2012, 09:23 PM »

Thanks, MilesAhead. This is due to compiling it with the AHK_L build for Unicode. I'll take out the shell extension portion in the next build.

Curt · « **Reply #154 on:** February 08, 2012, 10:51 PM »

-I didn't think to test the context menu before reading the two previous posts. Mine is not working either! The reason I didn't test it before was, that I always use Send To > PlayTime, and it works.

skwire · « **Reply #155 on:** May 01, 2012, 10:39 PM »

Website | Download v1.3.1 - 2012-05-01 * Updated to v0.7.56.0 of MediaInfo.dll. ! CSV export didn't include the "Date Modified" column. (Thanks, J. Shao)

Curt · « **Reply #156 on:** July 13, 2012, 08:33 AM »

should it make any difference on a 64-bits Win 7 if PlayTime is placed in Program Files or in Program Files (x86) ?

Ath · « **Reply #157 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:07 AM »

Quote from: Curt on July 13, 2012, 08:33 AM

should it make any difference on a 64-bits Win 7 if PlayTime is placed in Program Files or in Program Files (x86) ?

Nope, it's just a location, PF/PFx86 has no extra special meaning, other than being more protected from modification by access rights, so you can't (shouldn't) store user-stuff there.

skwire · « **Reply #158 on:** July 13, 2012, 02:24 PM »

Quote from: Ath on July 13, 2012, 09:07 AM

Quote from: Curt on July 13, 2012, 08:33 AM
should it make any difference on a 64-bits Win 7 if PlayTime is placed in Program Files or in Program Files (x86) ?
Nope, it's just a location, PF/PFx86 has no extra special meaning, other than being more protected from modification by access rights, so you can't (shouldn't) store user-stuff there.

Ath is correct. So, if you run the default UAC settings on your computer, PlayTime is not going to be able to save any settings to its local config.ini file.

Curt · « **Reply #159 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:14 PM »

I always move such stand-alone program's folder from Downloads to PF(x86), and it will automatically be marked with the "ownership"-symbol. Anyway, I don't have UAC related problems.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #160 on:** July 13, 2012, 07:45 PM »

Small portable apps I stick under a folder I made directly under the OS drive. That way if I do a Custom Install they don't get wrapped up into Windows.old. They are still there to use with the new OS. I only have to make shortcuts. Works very well with apps that don't make registry changes.

But I disable UAC anyway.

MilesAhead · « **Reply #161 on:** July 23, 2012, 09:20 PM »

@skwire .. congrats on PlayTime being posted on SnapFiles. I just wrote a review with all categories maxed. Hopefully it will pass moderation to be posted in a couple of days.

Even though Windows Seven has some of the features in Explorer for total times and sizes, I still use PlayTime. Right clicking on a folder full of media files really makes it.

skwire · « **Reply #162 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:35 AM »

Thanks, MilesAhead. I appreciate your kind words.

skwire · « **Reply #163 on:** November 05, 2012, 02:07 AM »

Website | Download v1.3.4 - 2012-11-04 + Added "Always on Top" option to the toolbar. * Updated to v0.7.61.0 of MediaInfo.dll. * Minor GUI changes.

skwire · « **Reply #164 on:** May 04, 2013, 03:00 PM »

Website | Download v1.3.5 - 2013-05-03 + Added channels column. (Thanks, P. Loshuk)

skwire · « **Reply #165 on:** May 06, 2013, 05:24 PM »

Website | Download v1.3.6 - 2013-05-06 * Changed it so that all timestamps in the list are in hh:mm:ss format. This is to get around some silly Excel auto-formatting issues when importing an exported CSV file into Excel and having Excel think that mm:ss timestamps are hh:mm:00 format. (Thanks, P. Loshuk) ! The selected time field wasn't cleared when clearing the list.

skwire · « **Reply #166 on:** June 17, 2013, 07:58 PM »

Website | Download v1.3.7 - 2013-06-17 * Non-contiguous listview selections are now movable with the Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down hotkeys.

skwire · « **Reply #167 on:** December 03, 2013, 10:31 PM »

Website | Download v1.3.9 - 2013-12-03 ! Small cosmetic fix. v1.3.8 - 2013-12-01 + Drag & drop reordering of the listview is now possible. * Updated to v0.7.65.0 of MediaInfo.dll.

skwire · « **Reply #168 on:** February 24, 2014, 06:59 AM »

Website | Download v1.4.0 - 2014-02-23 + Added ability to allow only audio files, only video files, or, like before, both types of files. (Thanks, Wayne) + Added option to set listview font. (Thanks, Wayne) + Added "Include subfolders" toolbar button. (Thanks, Wayne) * Updated to v0.7.67.0 of MediaInfo.dll. ! Playlist export was broken. (Thanks, Wayne) ! DPI was borked on the Choose Columns dialog. ! Not all columns were displayed in the Column Chooser.

skwire · « **Reply #169 on:** February 27, 2014, 06:40 PM »

Website | Download v1.4.3 - 2014-02-27 * Tooltips are now shown for partially visible items in the listview. On some OSs, this may not work properly if the window is set to always on top. (Thanks, Wayne) * Changed "Parse playlist files" to "Include playlist files when scanning" to avoid confusion. v1.4.2 - 2014-02-26 + Added Parse Playlist toggle button to the toolbar. (Thanks, Wayne) + Added a new time format: Seconds (Thanks, noda) * Time format setting now affects the Length column in the list. (Thanks, Wayne) v1.4.1 - 2014-02-25 ! Time format setting wasn't saved. (Thanks, Wayne)

skwire · « **Reply #170 on:** March 01, 2014, 03:25 AM »

Website | Download v1.4.4 - 2014-02-28 ! Double-clicking a row stopped working if there were too many items in the list. (Thanks, Wayne)

skwire · « **Reply #171 on:** December 24, 2016, 10:54 PM »

Website | Download v1.4.7 - 2016-12-24 + Added option to write the UTF-8 BOM to exported CSV files. (Thanks, Gada) * Updated to v0.7.91.0 of MediaInfo.dll.

Guido76 · « **Reply #172 on:** December 25, 2016, 04:26 PM »

Hi everybody,
many thanks for this software.
I begin to used it, and it could be very useful ... if it was possible to change the separator in the csv file.
Why ? simply because I have in my car, an usb key with a very long list of audio files, and some of them have a comma in their name: so, some confusion occurs with the separator when I import the csv file in Excel.
Could it be possible ?
Best regards, and apologies if my english is not very good.

Ath · « **Reply #173 on:** December 26, 2016, 09:47 AM »

In those cases the names/titles with a comma (aka the separator character) should be quoted (") and Excel (or any csv import) will handle it properly.

Curt · « **Reply #174 on:** December 26, 2016, 12:29 PM »

Quote from: Ath on December 26, 2016, 09:47 AM

the names/titles with a comma should be quoted (")

-which is why it is a wrong procedure. He just told that the list is very long, and now he is being told to edit it!

Is it possible to "replace all commas with something else"?