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Willem van der Marel

05 Jan, 2021 03:02 PM

Hi there.

I've been looking to export some data from my library and thought I could do it with one of the examples shown on the website. I have copied the contents of the library batch action (write data to log, copy it, process it further)

I have copied the example as shown on https://www.beatunes.com/en/beatlet-librarybatchaction.html#javascriptlibrarybatchaction to a file, name the file PrintEachNameInLibrary.js and saved it in the plug-ins directory. But somehow that's where I get stuck. I don't see the plugin under the available plugins in the preferences and can't find a menu item either. Am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated.

Kind regards
Willem
* beaTunes: 5.2.14-SNAPSHOT
* JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
* Version: 11.0.7+10-LTS
* Vendor: BellSoft
* OS: Mac OS X 10.15.7, x86_64
* Library: FileSystem
* Memory: 92m - 1664m
* Registered as: Willem van der Marel

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 05 Jan, 2021 07:23 PM

   

   Hi Willem,

   saved it in the plug-ins directory.

   What's the full path of the plugin directory you saved it in? Please also see this article.

   For good measure, please also upload your logs via the app's Help menu.

   Thanks,

   -hendrik

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2. 2 Posted by Willem van der ... on 07 Jan, 2021 03:25 PM

   

   Hi Hendrik,

   thanks for your swift reply: I saved the file to the following path:
   /Users/wvdmarel/Library/Application
   Support/beaTunes/Plug-Ins (on one accpo

   The logfiles are in the attached Zip file.

   Kind regards
   Willem

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 07 Jan, 2021 08:39 PM

   

   Thanks for the logs, Willem.

   It looks like starting with v5.2 a necessary module for JavaScript was not included in the distribution and nobody noticed. :-/

   Sorry about that.

   Could you please download and install the latest dev snapshot for Mac? It should at least try to load your beaTlet.

   Here's the link: https://www.beatunes.com/download/beaTunes-5-2-19-SNAPSHOT.dmg

   If it still does not work with that build, please upload your logs again. You might also want to look at them yourself. Any errors during loading a beaTlet will be logged there.

   -hendrik

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4. 4 Posted by Willem van der ... on 08 Jan, 2021 03:43 PM

   

   Downloaded the snapshot and it's working. Now comes the heavy part: coding what I want.... Thanks for the support!

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by hendrik on 08 Jan, 2021 07:58 PM

   

   Now comes the heavy part: coding what I want....

   Let me know, if you have any questions. I am happy to help (not with JavaScript, but with the API).

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by hendrik on 28 Jan, 2021 02:03 PM

   

   Hey Willem,

   I was just wondering... did you make any progress with your JavaScript beaTlet project? Anything I can help with?

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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7. 7 Posted by Willem van der ... on 28 Jan, 2021 04:29 PM

   

   Hi Hendrik,

   thanks for reaching out. Yeah, I got it working. I needed a script for the
   following:

   I DJ with Vinyl a lot, and wanted my 7" Singles labelled with BPM and Key
   Information. Beatunes does the hard work regarding analyses, but then I
   need something to send to my label printer. The exports that are already
   built in dont really fit my workflow or need a lot of manual work to get it
   in a format that my labelprinter understands.

   My workflow now sort of looks like this:

    - In the Album field I enter the Title of the Track on side A for both
   sides of the Single.
   - As tracknumber I use either 1 or 2
   In the export:
   - I gather all album titles, remove the duplicates and store them in an
   array.
   - I loop over this array to find Track 1 and Track 2.
   - Store that in a new array and construct an output string from that
   - write it to a CSV file that can be read by my labelwriter software.

   Works like a charm.

   The only thing I would like to get rid of is the popup/Question "Would you
   like to export relative paths (or something alike, behind a different
   computer at the moment).
   Is there a way to suppress this message? If not, I can live with it

   Thanks again for reaching out!
   regards
   Willem

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8. Support Staff 8 Posted by hendrik on 28 Jan, 2021 08:40 PM

   

   Nice! :-)
   Glad you got it to work.

   The only thing I would like to get rid of is the popup/Question "Would you like to export relative paths (or something alike, behind a different
   computer at the moment).
   Is there a way to suppress this message? If not, I can live with it

   Since you are using a playlistexporter, there is currently no way around that. Sorry.

   -hendrik

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