Fizzle

Try to delete the saved files and start from scratch.

the songbook settings file
PluginData/AllServers/SongbookSettings.plugindata

and the Account Save Files :
[servername]/[accountname]/[charname]/SongbookSettings.plugindata

and the Music DB file :
PluginData/AllServers/SongbookData.plugindata

then rebuild the DB File.

This helped with me out since Master Chiran changes the file formats from time to time

cheers
Fizzle

Iollan

Mine's still broken Chiran, I've tried adding the new file but still recieve

...gs Online\Plugins\Chiran\Songbook\SongbookWindow.lua: 133: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'ToggleLeft' (a nil value)
...gs Online\Plugins\Chiran\Songbook\SongbookWindow.lua: 133: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'ToggleLeft' (a nil value)

(not a typo, it spits the same line up twice "
Any ideas? I had a really old version (2(?) years old, and it still sortof worked), pity I didn't back it up before updating. This is my favourite mod, bar none, so I hope I can get it running.

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Good to hear! And it should find the other account as well once you log in with it .

-Chiran

Thurallor

Hi Iollan,

It is a pretty simple bug to fix. A have made a corrected SongbookWindow.lua which you can download here.

Copy this file into your Plugins/Chiran/Songbook folder (overwriting the existing SongbookWindow.lua).

Best regards,
Thurallor

Iollan

Many thanks Thurallor, if you're ever on Silverlode, I'll buy you a beer

Thanks again

Iollan

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Hi Iollan,

It is a pretty simple bug to fix. A have made a corrected SongbookWindow.lua which you can download here.

Copy this file into your Plugins/Chiran/Songbook folder (overwriting the existing SongbookWindow.lua).

Best regards,
Thurallor

Bushidoo

Hello,
always when I'm getting startet lotro and join ingame from the charachters page in windowed fullscreen, I always have an uncoordinated icon of the songbook.
Look here, it is the icon on the bottom left side. Sorry for all the drawings but I used the pic also for other comments. Maybe someone can help and fix the bug.

Bye bye

Thurallor

What do you mean by "uncoordinated"?

Garan

This is due to a bug in the LotRO Lua API. To work around it, temporarily switch to full screen mode, set the game resolution to your desktop resolution, save settings, then switch back to windowed full screen and restart the game. The API will then report the correct display size and your plugins will function correctly - you will likely have to resize or reposition any plugin components but they should then correctly remember their size/position.

Jethpriel

When adding a new song in your music folder, how to update the list in the plugin? Do you have to unload plugin and load again or?
I used the songbook.hta - no problem, it found all my songs, but I dont see the new one on the list in game. Relog works too, but ....

Thurallor

1. Unload plugin
2. Run the .hta
3. Load the plugin

Piffinatour

Alright, I'm brand-spanking-new to this, and I have no idea what I'm doing. The link in the description there no longer leads to any site (the old fourms are long-gone and don't help me) and these instructions mean nothing to me.

Is there somewhere that can explain this so even I, an idiot, can understand it? I should also mention that the F.A.Q. from this website confuses me, as I don't understand how to even activate plugins, or if they're automatically activated, or whatever...

Chiran

I updated the link to point to new forums. I'm not sure if it's the same tutorial as before though, been a while. It's also good to check the wikis for some more material:
https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Plugins
http://www.lotrointerface.com/wiki/How_to_use_plugins

The latter has some unnecessary information for normal users though.

To be short, the key things are to place your plugin in the correct folder. Then use Turbine Plugin Manager or chat commands to load it. With Songbook there's an additional step where you have to use the additional utility program to make a catalog of your songs. This has to be done before loading the plugin. I recommend using songbook.exe (instead of songbook.hta).

Arminya

I can't seem to get the .hta to read my songs. I'm on a Mac. I can run it through the terminal just fine, but it doesn't see my songs which are in the music folder. What can I do to fix this?

Music files are located here and works fine in Lotro in all other cases accept when trying to use this plugin:
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Music

Your plugin is here and loads into the game, but no songs:
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran

When I run the .hta through terminal I get the following:

Myusername:~ Myusername$ /Users/Myusername/Library/Application\ Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta ; exit;
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 1: head: No such file or directory
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 2: title: No such file or directory
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chira: command not founde 3:
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 4: HTA:APPLICATION: No such file or directory
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chira: command not founde 12:
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 13: /head: No such file or directory
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 14: script: No such file or directory
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 15: Dim: command not found
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 16: Dim: command not found
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 17: Dim: command not found
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chiran/songbook.hta: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/Users/Myusername/Library/Application Support/com.turbine.lotroclient/Plugins/Chira'/songbook.hta: line 18: ` ReDim songArray(0), dirArray(0)
logout

[Process completed]


Is there something I can do to fix this? or use a work around? or is it because the plugin was designed for Windows, and if so could it be modified to work for Mac? I'd really like to use this plugin, so any help to fix this problem would be appreciated.

Chiran

Hi Arminya,

As you said it's made for Windows, and I don't really have an idea how Windows special directories are mapped in the script when running on a Mac. Probably very badly.. Maybe it could work if you run it (or the exe version) under Wine. But I have no way to test it at the moment.

-Chiran

Thurallor

Somebody should write a bash script for it. I'll do it if I have some spare time.

Arminya

Thanks Thurallor. That would be great. Anything to get it sorted would be much appreciated!

Thanks for the swift response Chiran. Looks like a good little plugin. I just wish I could get that .hta to read my music directory. I would run it under Wine as you suggest, but Wine doesn't work correctly on my Mac anymore. I have a rather old mac. I keep it running Lotro by the will of Eru.