QCD Plug-Ins

[matty28carter]

Hi,
When i download plug-ins from the plug-ins section most of them install to the wrong place the install to ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\ instead of ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\Plugins\
which is a bit annoying and means I have to go and move it, its not really a problem though if you know what your doing but for some people they may not figure out whats happened and just think it hasn't worked if you see what i mean. I'm on a clean install of QCD so its not the fact that i've upgraded thats causeing it.

[Tokelil]

All plugins I have tried installs to the plugin folder as they should. Could you give an example of a plugin that doesn't install to the right folder?

[matty28carter]

the wma one i know didnt the lame one didn't the midi one didn't... its not really a problem for me as when QCD doesn't find it I know whats happened its just friends of mine who have started using QCD have said plug-ins arn't working when in fact its just installed to the ...\program files\quintessential player\ folder instead of ...\program files\quintessential player\plugins\ so QCD doesn't see that its there.

[acozz]

I used the installer from the Devzone for the midi plugin so there must be something wrong with that installer.

[Tokelil]

I used the installer from the Devzone for the midi plugin so there must be something wrong with that installer.
I used that to and it installs to the correct folder on my computer.

matty28carter : Could you try installing my QueueIt plugin (or QBlog when its accepted by Paul or Matt...) ? Does that install to the correct folder on your machine?

[matty28carter]

Right i've installed QueueIt before and that also installs to the wrong directory (nice plug-in btw). I made some print screens of what it does so you know, but its not just my machine on other friends of mine machines on clean installs it puts it in the wrong directory.

[Zayoos]

Few people emailed me about that problem in my Polish Language Plugin. I checked it on my computer and few other friend's, and everything was OK. So I think this problem is in system settings maybe. I'm not sure.

[Tokelil]

Weird... Something must be wrong with the path in the regdb or something. I havent had such problems with any plugin.

[matty28carter]

i'm pritty sure all the systems its done it on are WinXP systems. I have a windows 98se system i can play around with see if it does it on that. My installation on WinXP Pro is a multiple user install, i don't know if when i install it from another user if it would do the same (i've only installed plug-ins from my account which was the acount i installed QCD with in the first place). I'm pritty sure though some of my friends arn't using the multiple user install though and are getting the same problems.

[Todd The Kiwi]

Hi,
When i download plug-ins from the plug-ins section most of them install to the wrong place the install to ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\ instead of ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\Plugins\
which is a bit annoying and means I have to go and move it, its not really a problem though if you know what your doing but for some people they may not figure out whats happened and just think it hasn't worked if you see what i mean. I'm on a clean install of QCD so its not the fact that i've upgraded thats causeing it.

i looked at the pics man and i'm in the same boat , when i try to browse to the plugin folder the install button is greyed out so i have to put them into the qcd folder then try and move them :confused: incidentially i can't get the flac plugin to work at all ?

[Tokelil]

The path in the installer should not point to the plugin directory but to the QCD main folder. It puts the plugin in the plugins directory on my machine...

[Todd The Kiwi]

The path in the installer should not point to the plugin directory but to the QCD main folder. It puts the plugin in the plugins directory on my machine...

it appears to do that here too , it's just interesting that i can't choose for it to go there , the flac thing still won't come to the party either :confused:

[arw2004]

I am a Windows 98 SE user who tried the Modplug Player input plug-in for Quinnestial Player 4.11 build 69, and the Modplug Player input plug-in does not play music files at all even though the path in correct. Can anybody duplicate this problem on Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000, or Windows XP?

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Hi,
When i download plug-ins from the plug-ins section most of them install to the wrong place the install to ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\ instead of ...\Program Files\Quintessential Player\Plugins\
which is a bit annoying and means I have to go and move it, its not really a problem though if you know what your doing but for some people they may not figure out whats happened and just think it hasn't worked if you see what i mean. I'm on a clean install of QCD so its not the fact that i've upgraded thats causeing it.

Exactly the same problem as is appearing here. The only install directory that works is the main program directory, NOT the plugins directory, and it does then end up installing the plugin into that directory which, obviously, QCD can't see unless the files are moved. This is a real PITA.

As somebody posted I've also got a multi-user install on XP. Maybe that's the root cause of the problem?

[acozz]

Multi user installs installs the ini files that QCD uses to Documents and Settings instead of in the QCD root folder. So the installer looks in the QCD folder, sees no ini file, and it just drops the plugin there to avoid an error message or failed install.

That's what I've gathered from the install issue. I seem to recall Paul figuring this out in another thread.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Multi user installs installs the ini files that QCD uses to Documents and Settings instead of in the QCD root folder. So the installer looks in the QCD folder, sees no ini file, and it just drops the plugin there to avoid an error message or failed install.

Doing a single user reinstall has sorted the problem, which backs up what you've said here. Thanks.

[zapatta]

Yeah - I am in the same boat witht he installation of plugins - so i kept uninstalling them and reinstalling them again - great idea, eh? Nope - QCD didn't like this - the QCD installer thingy I downloaded never ever worked [no not once] hence I ended up with plugins popping up all over the QCD folder [in my 'icons file' 'skins files' 'Gain folder' etc] - like easter bunnies on acid!!! :bandit:
So I ripped out QCD because the Icon problem had become a 'freezing to crash' problem - see 'Englishman's' postings and the 'Icon manager' saga ...
I have reinstalled the whole sheebang and am reinstalling all my add-ons [not plugins but everything else ... :cry:

I run XP home edition thru a Packard Bell PB 9750 mcp 750mhz RAM 64 20 gb harddisk athen amotherbaord with creative ES11373 sound chip - hey, stop laughing, it was the best I could affords as an impoverished
student in 2001 :cross-eye

QCD 'rocks' - if it was a woman I would happily marry it :biggrin:

[dm1030]

What I found works is this...
After running the plugin install program, a dialog box asks you for QCD's install folder. On my system it is ..
C:\Program Files\Quintessential Player

If you add a back slash to the end of the line so it reads..

C:\Program Files\Quintessential Player\

The plugin will install in the plugin folder just fine. I don't know if it will work on all systems or if it is a bug in the installer, but it has worked every time for me.
Hope this helps.

[Shadowraven]

I don't know if this would fix it also or not.

If you go to QCD>Preferences>Plug-Ins>Settings you will find two buttons that let you set your default QCD and DSP Plug-In folders. I've never had trouble getting Plug-Ins to install properly even after changing these settings. You may want to see if this has been changed on your machine.

Just a thought, I don't know what else in QCD might do it.