DerkPY Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 I saw a sig yesterday which showed what the person was listening to. I can't remember who it was. How is this done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the shrink Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 RedMak has it.. i don't know how though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 probably Redmak, this is what he had to say about it : I use the 'dosomthing' plugin for winamp. This plugin can send all sorts of info (about what's playing) to php file. This php file edits my sig accordingly. Unfortunately this way you need to have access to the vbulletin mysql database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Is php the only language that could do it? Javascript can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Originally posted by JediXAngel Is php the only language that could do it? Javascript can't? have no idea you have to ask Redmak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 http://www.oddsock.org/tools/dosomething/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 What script would I put under my sig in order to get this working? Which setting would I put the 'do something' on? *Run a URL *Generate a HTML Playlist *FTP a file *Run a command *Gather XML Statistics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 if someone knows/could write a plugin which saves the current song's name and artist i could write a little php-script which includes this info in your sig :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 Originally posted by Evil2000 if someone knows/could write a plugin which saves the current song's name and artist i could write a little php-script which includes this info in your sig :) In the Winamp file, the file called: 'winamp.m3u' is the current playlist, I think. If thats any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 You need something which reads that file in order for it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Originally posted by PigeonHead In the Winamp file, the file called: 'winamp.m3u' is the current playlist, I think. If thats any help. no, i need the current playing song's data ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 I think thats it. I never save my playlist, but when I double click on this file it brings up the last songs that I have played. Although this would mean that every song on your playlist would be stuck under your sig, so maybe theres a better way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 you know these mp3-scripts in irc which always 'say' the current song when it changes? i had one times ago, but i must have lost it :ermm: anyway, something like this, but only for writing it into a file, should be fairly easy to write. but since i'm not too familiar with C++ or the winamp plugin architcture someone else got to do that :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 I have put a thread in programing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted June 23, 2002 Author Share Posted June 23, 2002 ...Winamp plug-in thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Originally posted by PigeonHead I have put a thread in programing... ok thx, hopefully there's someone who can manage this :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tijiez Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 I can easily write that, however .. did you want it in Winamp plug in form? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Originally posted by Tijiez I can easily write that, however .. did you want it in Winamp plug in form? i don't care what format it is :) it can also be a executable which gets the current song data and dumps it into a textfile (unfortunately the w32 api in php doesn't work (at least for me :right:)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tijiez Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Don't you want it to update the text file everytime the song changes, or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 yup, every time a new song starts it should update the file with the current data. it would be nice if you could include a dialog for choosing where it saves the file :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tijiez Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Well, you don't want an executable file then. What you need is a winamp plugin, which I have never tried to make before. I've used its api for like you said, one of those IRC song displayers. I'll download the general plugin sdk for winamp and see what I can do. There are no promises, if anyone else wants a go at it -- have at it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[idkfa] Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 great, thx :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted June 25, 2002 Administrators Share Posted June 25, 2002 The 'dosomething' plugin does what you want. You can save the current song into a file (and much more) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Venom Posted June 25, 2002 Share Posted June 25, 2002 I incorporated the plugin to display winamp information on my AIM profile! I am using the program HyperInfo from wicon software ( http://www.ssnbc.com/wiz/index.htm ). Anyways, it's like a fake webserver on any customizeable port. I created the HTML template for the winamp plugin and set the task to save to a file in the directory that HyperInfo shares. Anyways, my screen name is "Alien Venom" if anyone wants to get info on me and check it out*. * Only real AIM client uses can see hyperlinks in the profile. Sorry Trillian newbies. :-P Edit: I think the plugin is great work by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted June 25, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 25, 2002 well, you can't have your sig on neowin change, redmak's only able to that becuase he knows our db password, and I don't think we'll be giving that out anytime soon.... Beyond that, putting it in an AIM profile is fairly easy. I have to redo the hyperlink, but my AIM profile linked to a webpage hosted on my computer than displayed stuff like that (along with stats and a guestbook and such). It's cool stuff, but don't be looking for some pre-packaged method to doing it, figure it out on your own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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