NISRP

Introduction

The Non-Intrusive Song Rating Plugin is here to help you rate your songs, without the big distraction of switching applications.

It works with Winamp and iTunes.

Requirements

You must have the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 runtime installed (this includes the C, C++ and MFC runtime libraries/DLLs). If you don't have it installed (if you're not a developer, you probably don't) or are not sure, you can download it from here. It is only a small download, and there is no harm in installing it again.

Operation

When a song that has not been rated starts playing, the translucent NISRP window will appear and follow your mouse.

If you do not act, then it will disappear again after a moment.

If you wish to rate the song, click the stars/dots to select your rating.

If the song is a duplicate, then click Dupe (you will not be asked to rate this song again).

The rating is applied to the host application's music library.

If you wish to remove the rating, the click on the text to the immediate right of the rightmost star (where the number of stars is printed as text - this will say '0 stars').

The NISRP window is always positioned slightly to the right of your mouse cursor. Therefore you need to make a sudden movement to the right to prevent it from tracking (this will probably be no more sudden than one's average mouse movements though).

Keyboard focus is not taken away when NISRP appears, so you can continue typing as normal.

Extra Features

• If you set the input focus to the NISRP window (by clicking in it) then you can use your mouse's scroll wheel to seek/jog forward and backward in the song. If you seek back to the beginning of the current song, and then a little more, then the previous song will play. Scrolling to the end of the current song will cause the player to start the next song in your playlist.

Shortcuts

• Right-click: Hide the NISRP window
• Middle-click: Bring player (host application) to the foreground.
• Shift + Right-click: Play the next track
• Ctrl + Right-click: Play the previous track
• Ctrl + Shift + Windows + Z (the four keys in the bottom left of your keyboard): Show NISRP if it is hidden (e.g. if you want to change the rating, or cancel the Dupe flag)