About

The fist question you might have is: Why should I use this musicplayer and not one of the other music players? I can't answer that for you. But will tell you why I did create this one instead of using one of the others.

Usability:

You can chance the on click behaviour (fubar/titan/minimap) to your liking. Music to silent? Just use the scroll wheel over the fubar, titan, minimap button or the gui text. No need to bring up any menu and sliders.

Adding new files:

When I already have created a playlist and just want to add 5 tracks I don't want to wait till the playlist creator scans all of my files again... With EMP you can just drag the new files into the playlist manager and it will add them to the list and even copy the files to the wow music folder.

Sorting:

I did want multiple playlists so I can have lists with different genres or move songs I dislike to a special list to remove them from the disk later.

If you just want to try the addon you don't have to use the playlist manger to create a playlist. There is an small list of game music included in the addon. Just install it with the curse client or copy the addon to your Interface folder and check it out:)

Features

• Multiple playlist support
• Add/Remove playlists ingame.
• Move songs between playlists ingame
• Search for a song
• Link a song to guild/party/say/raid (with youtube link)
• Playlist with all original wow game music included
• Easy add your music with drag and drop. (with included playlist manager)
• Add mp3 or ogg music files.
• Supports all characters in id3tags (Unicode) No need to rename any of your files.
• Songs with no title in the tag will be added with the file name as title.
• Fast adding new files. (The playlist manager will not replace your last created list but add the new music to your old list.)

Extras

Separate addons included in the package:

• Fubar plugin
• Lib data broker plugin (will show on titan panel version 4)
• Epicmusicdancer a fancy little 3d model which will play/dance to your music (optional addon) Currently featuring Sid Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'Kyl and Chief Thunder-Skins of The Tauren Chieftains. I first hat the idea to add a dancing ogre but unfortunately this (and most other models) won't display or dance as they should with the wow addon api *cry*

Usage

You can even chance the on click behaviour to your liking. The default setting is:

• left click - play next song
• middle click - play/stop
• right click - show options
• use scroll wheel - adjust music volume
• Ctrl use scroll wheel - adjust effects volume
• alt use scroll wheel - fine adjust volume
• alt click - show playlist
• shift click - play last song
• ctrl click - Write artist and title to default chat. (guild,party etc.)

All of these work on the mini map button, the 3dmodel, the gui text and the fubar/titan panel text/icon. You don't need the gui visible at all.

Slash commands

• /emp (show the options dialog)
• /emp ctr (list control options)
• /emp op (list other options)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add music to the player?

1. Exit Wow if running!
   Double click the "create_playlist.bat" in the Playlistmanger folder.
   (or "EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar")
   
   
2. Click File > Add Music Folder, select a folder with your music and click open.
   OR
   Just drag and drop some mp3 music files/folders into the Playlist-Manager.
   
   
3. Close EMP-Playlist-Manager (be sure to click "Yes" Save Playlist.)
   Start WoW and enjoy your music while farming:)

Do I have to copy all of my music files to the wow folder?

No. The Playlist Manager can create links (inside the wow folder) that point to your original music folder. That way wow thinks the files are in the wow folder.

You can enable this by:
Windows Vista:
Just go to "Tools > Options" and change copy to create links.

Windows XP:
Download junction.exe from microsoft: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx and put it into the junction folder of the playlist manager.

You should also install "ntfslink" (http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink ) To make the use of the links (junctions) save with windos xp. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point#Windows_XP_Professional for more information.

And now go to "Tools > Options" and change copy to create links.

Can I use the music folder of an other addon e.g. soundtrack?

Yes, you can set any folder within the wow folder as your music folder. I use "..\World of Warcraft\mymusic" as my music folder.

Where the hell is the playlist?

"..\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\SavedVariables\EpicMusicPlayer.lua"

Why is the model not moving more to the edge of the screen?

The model frame is larger than the model and a frame with a model can't be moved off screen.

Troubleshooting

music stops in fight

The music sometimes stops or the wow music starts playing. This is a wow bug. Try to set your sound channels to maximum. Options > Sound & Voice > Sound Channels > High (Maximum) Also try to enable/disable hardware sound. But when lots of sounds are played (raid instance fights) the problem still may occur.

music plays from beginning

The song stops playing and starts from the beginning after a loading screen (e.g. entering an instance or /console reloadui) This is a new wow bug since patch 2.4.3. I only could fix this so far that the song starts from start instead playing the game music. I have reported this in the eu forums but unless someone with an us account finally reports this in the us ui-forum blizzard developers will never know of this because they are not interested in any thing from the eu community.

And it's not the zone change because this was not a problem before 2.4.3 and the music also stops if you try to enter a low level instance in heroic mode. That of course is not possible but you get an loading screen for less than a second and the music played by the game itself or by an addon stops but a zone change event is not fired.

playlist manager not starting

You need java version 1.6 installed, sry. http:\\java.com

If you have more than one java version installed (see C:\Program Files\Java\) it could be that the playlist manager will not use your latest (1.6) java version. Edit the batch file start_pm.bat (right click -> edit) and change the line: java.exe -jar EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar to the full path of your java 1.6 version. For instance to something like: "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\java.exe" -jar EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar

playlist manager error

I get the following error with the playlist manager "Could not Find Main Class.Program Will Exit" You get this error when the lib folder is not in the same folder as EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar You can't run the EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar from the zip file, you have to extract the whole zip first.

Known bugs

• The 3dmodel disappears sometimes especially when you hide the ui (alt+y).

You miss a feature, don't like something about the player or have a problem to set it up? Please let me know. I look forward to your feedback.