Thanks again, James, this is brilliant!

VC has completely changed my routine when I get home from work, I just walk in the living room and say "rock me, computer", it opens a custom spotify radio within xbmc and starts playing. Now I'll also be asking what's new!

Quick side question: Does windows speech recognition training affect VC even when the WSPR program is not running?

Would this be feasible?
For example "what's new" could make the TTS read the titles of recently added episodes or movies.
Still pretty new to VC, but I imagine something involving regenerating the xbmc XML file and grabbing the recently added items for the TTS.. 

Ah, thanks, I couldn't find the command for the life of me!

Sorry for the delay, but yes, finding X-files works just fine with the newer version! Thanks!

Just bought the program, and a ps3 eye, works surprisingly well for the low budget!

One more question: If I want to use the volume commands with system volume instead of xbmc volume, is http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html the easiest way, or is there a better solution?

The xbmc forum thread is here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=67012

It's quite the chore to compile xbmc with libspotify, but I think somebody posted a downloadable binary towards the last pages of the thread. The author has begun working on a full official addon. Yes, it requires a premium account. The addon works very well, and if it could be integrated to the extent that artists, songs and albums works as the regular music database in xbmc, I'd hardly need any other music source. Currently they need to be starred to show up in the respective listings. Be sure to check out the downloadable backdrops option in the addon if you decide to test it, a great experience!


I haven't tested the new version yet, but I'll do it tomorrow, and have a look at your new method for searching shows.

It worked when I removed the quote marks.

This is brilliant, having most of the spotify functionality within xbmc, controllable by voice! 
Thanks a lot, James, you're really quick and helpful! Will be buying a license soon!

Thanks, I'll try that and other modifications.

Yet another question, I hope you don't mind:

I'm using Loquendo tts voices, which comes with the option to add stress marks, special effects, intonation and so on. If I for example write "my cat died \item=cry", the voice cries at the nd of the sentence. However, I can't seem to get these to work in VC, the tts only says the literal commands. Anything that can be done here?

Also, what is the best way to update the program without losing my commands and settings?

Actually, the favourite thing didn't work after all. Still pretty new to this, so I might be confused with the syntaxes.
I copied the string from the @show recently added tv" action, and modofied the window. I have successfully mapped a keyboard key with it in the keymap.xml of xbmc userdata.

I'm using:

xbmc.send                 execbuiltin(ActivateWindow(10502,"musicdb://3/spotify:radio:1/"))

The history just returns unknown command. 

Thanks a lot, and sorry for being vague in my description, but you figured it out. 

I actually figured out the last problem myself, in the favourites.xml each favourite is assigned a window id,which I can use with the ActivateWindow command.

I will test the new version and get back to you, but in the meantime, perhaps you can give me yet another tip about creating commands. I'm wondering if it's possible to create sort of a wait command, so that after an action is executed, VC waits for a certain amount of time before continuing performing the next one. What I'm trying to achieve is opening spotify radio within xbmc (which is a very experimental add on, but very,very awesome), which I have favourited, waiting until it is loaded, then using "go down" and "select" to start playing the spotify radio.

Hi, I just started using this magnificent program, and have discovered some pretty awesome possibilities already!  Thank you for this extremely well built program.

Now, I'm using this mainly with xbmc, Eden beta 1, and have a few problems.

I'm trying to assign a command to open the subtitle resync dialogue. The proper xbmc action is "subtitledelay". Neither the xbmc.execbuiltin or xbmc.send functions seem to work, when I put subtitledelay as the string. Any ideas?

Second, this might be a better fit for the xbmc forums, but what I'm trying to do is assign a command to open a favourite within xbmc. Neither activatewindow or playmedia seems to work. What can I use to identify the favourite?

Thirdly, a minor but weird issue is that using the "find tv show x-files" command shows the correct spelling in the notification, but only shows the show Weeds as a result! Searching for x-files normally in xbmc works fine. 

Thanks,