Ztatus - Now Playing App for Zune Software

[Alan-]

Well I've been searching for a Zune Now Playing app so I can post something like "/me is now playing "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions from the album: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Scorpions" into IRC or IM or anywhere. After being unable to find one, I decided to make my own.

Now this is my first real project in C#, and I come basically from a Java background, so bare with me if there are any problems.

What I created was an application that prints out "is now playing "Song" by Artist from the album: Album" when you press F12 in whatever program you want to put it in. Also, you can view the song now playing in the window (Double Click on System Tray icon to get the window when it starts up) when you press "Update". If you press "Update and Get" or select that from the menu on the system tray then it will add the now playing info to the windows Clipboard.

Run ztatus.exe file so it starts up both the apps in the folder, and the Zune Software if it not already running. To make sure it works, you have to switch to at least one other song in Zune, otherwise you will get an unhandled exception. Thanks to http://znp.codeplex.com/ for providing the registry keys needed to gather the song info!

Download: http://www.inameri.ca/blindrabbit/Ztatus.zip

Known bugs:

( ) and sometimes & Signs aren't displayed.

Sometimes randomly crashes

Edited November 9, 2009 by MrEggsalad