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Jul 18, 2005, 4:10pm

I need a bot to cycle a midi playlist. Preston tends to "break" after a
long period of time, typically less than 24 hours, in which case you need to
manually restart it. And xelagot will sometimes create duplicate speakers
if there was a crash or disconnection, causing you to manually go around
deleting all the duplicate speakers. What other alternatives are out there?

- Com

Jul 20, 2005, 7:00pm

Hiya!

Magsbot can cycle a .mid playlist, and -- from what I hear -- is quite
reliable. And, as an added bonus, Magine provides better-than-average tech
support for her bot.

http://www.turtleflight.com/mbh/mh_quick.htm#midi

=o)
Coree

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Jul 21, 2005, 12:09am

Can it work outside of the bots range like xelagot, or does it rely on
surveying the surrounding area?

I liked Xelagot because it can handle the midi speakers globally, because it
didn't rely on surveying. It relied on object ID I think. Such a system
would allow you to make a city-wide DJ system, vs just DJ'ing in one area.
Unfortunantly I find myself having to clean up duplicate speakers almost
every other day, typically due to Alphaworld's flakey server...just not
worth it X_X

Thanks for the reply though, I'll check it out later.

- Com

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Jul 21, 2005, 10:31am

SW,

I will have a look to see if I can add code or make a script to fix
the xelagot's double-speakers problem. It's long overdue on my to-do
list. The DJ code is very old and I completely forgot how it was
made, so it may take a while to clean it up :)

Alex

[View Quote] >Can it work outside of the bots range like xelagot, or does it rely on
>surveying the surrounding area?
>
>I liked Xelagot because it can handle the midi speakers globally, because it
>didn't rely on surveying. It relied on object ID I think. Such a system
>would allow you to make a city-wide DJ system, vs just DJ'ing in one area.
>Unfortunantly I find myself having to clean up duplicate speakers almost
>every other day, typically due to Alphaworld's flakey server...just not
>worth it X_X
>
>Thanks for the reply though, I'll check it out later.
>
>- Com
>
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Jul 22, 2005, 1:48am

Cool...although that issue has not been a big problem for me, it would be a
great patch addition to the X1. I still say it's by far the best overall bot
a world owner could have! : )

~Ewasx~


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Jul 22, 2005, 2:37am

Cool, thanks Xelag. Eagerly looking forward to it :D

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Jul 22, 2005, 1:41pm

There is a new script at
http://www.imatowns.com/xelagot/deletespeakers.zip
to delete speaker duplicates. Links to it will be added later to the
help pages.

It requires xelagot 3.607 or higher (current version is 3.612). It
works like this:

The bot must be DJ-ing already. The script saves the speakers list to
a temporary file. Then it reloads it in a string list, gets the
speaker model and position, queries the cell of that speaker, and
deletes all objects in that cell that have the same model name and
position as the speaker. It repeats the action for each speaker.

This will of course, delete the good speakers too, but the bot will
rebuild them at the next midi.

Alex

[View Quote] >SW,
>
>I will have a look to see if I can add code or make a script to fix
>the xelagot's double-speakers problem. It's long overdue on my to-do
>list. The DJ code is very old and I completely forgot how it was
>made, so it may take a while to clean it up :)
>
>Alex
>
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