Winamp plugin

[Jan3A1r]

Hi everyone!

While I was writing my own rainmeter config, at one moment I realized, that I actually need a good winamp plugin with ability to display album, track, time, COVER, etc... Ofc, there is a trick to invoke WebParser and web control for winamp, but I found it, uhm, not a very good way :)

So, I coded a small plugin, that has an ability to parse album, artist, ... and download and display covers. Right now I use seekacover.com & google images, but this can be easily changed via sources.

My plugin has only one setting that is called "Retrieve".

Retrieve = 0 will result in downloading cover and therefore you can make it in a way like

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Meter = IMAGE, ImageName = [MeasureCover]

Retrieve = 1,2,3 means getting an Artist, Album and Track captions accordingly. I capture these via window caption, so you should change winamp song captioning option to [%artist% - ][%album% - ]$if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%)) '['%filename%']'

Retrieve = 4,5 means getting elapsed time and total track time in format 'x.xx' (can be changed via sources).

Here is a part of my config that uses winamp plugin:

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; Measures
; --------
[MeasureCover]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 0

[MeasureArtist]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 1

[MeasureAlbum]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 2

[MeasureTrack]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 3

[MeasurePos]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 4

[MeasureLen]
Measure = Plugin
Plugin = Plugins\WinampPlugin.dll
Retrieve = 5

; Meters
; ------
[Line]
Meter = IMAGE
SolidColor = #ColorBorder#
X = 0
Y = 0
W = 180
H = 1

[MeterCover]
Meter = IMAGE
ImageName = [MeasureCover]
DynamicVariables = 1
LeftMouseDownAction=!RainmeterRefresh
AntiAlias = 1
X = 50
Y = 10
H = 80
W = 80

[Title]
Meter = STRING
MeasureName = MeasureTrack
Text = "%1"
FontFace = #Font#
FontColor = #Color1#
FontSize = 8
AntiAlias = 1
ClipString = 1
X = 5
Y = 90r
W = 180
H = 15

[Artist]
Meter = STRING
MeasureName = MeasureArtist
MeasureName2 = MeasureAlbum
Text = "%1 - %2"
FontFace = #Font#
FontColor = #Color2#
StringStyle = Italic
FontSize = 8
AntiAlias = 1
ClipString = 1
X = 5
Y = 15r
W = 180
H = 15

[Time]
Meter = STRING
MeasureName = MeasurePos
MeasureName2 = MeasureLen
Text = "%1 | %2"
Substitute = "0.00 | ":""
FontFace = #Font#
FontColor = #Color2#
FontSize = 7
AntiAlias = 1
ClipString = 1
X = 5
Y = 15r
W = 200
H = 15

The plugin and its sources come in attachment. Any feelings/ideas appreciated :)
Note that you have to put libcurl.dll in your Rainmeter program folder for this plugin to work.

Updated once again - Found one stupid bug with song name parsing, now it's ok...

Updated - added Retrieve = 4, 5 to get song time
Now this plugin works as CD Art display does (first search the file folder for cover, if there are no covers, download one).

[Digi]

itsound good mate but how u get it to work? itsnt a skin is it? how to get to work with a skin?

[Jan3A1r]

It's a plugin, same as WebParser or WindowMessage are.

Just take a look at the sample config provided... You use it in Measures, where Measure = Plugin, and Plugin = WinampPlugin.dll. You also provide Retrieve = X, where X = 0 - 5 as described above.

The only thing you have to do after is bind it to a Meter = Image if you have Retrieve = 0 or Meter = String for others. Cheers :)

[Digi]

It's a plugin, same as WebParser or WindowMessage are.

Just take a look at the sample config provided... You use it in Measures, where Measure = Plugin, and Plugin = WinampPlugin.dll. You also provide Retrieve = X, where X = 0 - 5 as described above.

The only thing you have to do after is bind it to a Meter = Image if you have Retrieve = 0 or Meter = String for others. Cheers

thanks alot mate..well see how i get on :thanks:

[sinicure]

I would love more information on this. I put the dll's in the plugin folder, and then copied your config and made an .ini file to load up (maybe this is wrong) but anyways I get an error that the WinampPlugin.dll is not found although the path it looks in is where I have it. Any chance you could make a simple ini file that works and then I could customize it from there?

[jsmorley]

I would love more information on this. I put the dll's in the plugin folder, and then copied your config and made an .ini file to load up (maybe this is wrong) but anyways I get an error that the WinampPlugin.dll is not found although the path it looks in is where I have it. Any chance you could make a simple ini file that works and then I could customize it from there?

That error means you are using a 32bit plugin on a 64bit system or visa versa. Not going to work if the plugin is not compiled for the same OS you are using.

[sinicure]

That error means you are using a 32bit plugin on a 64bit system or visa versa. Not going to work if the plugin is not compiled for the same OS you are using.

Bummer!... I'm running x64.

[jsmorley]

Bummer!... I'm running x64.

You can run 32bit Rainmeter on 64bit Windows, but it must be all one or the other. You can't mix 32bit plugins with 64bit Rainmeter.

[Sylvane]

This plugin is doing odd things for me. First of all, I had the same problem that sinicure had, so I decided I'd just upgrade my 1.1 64bit version of Rainmeter to 1.2 32bit. That seemed to fail to work, so I went back to 1.1 32bit, now I can open the plugin and use the code attached in the first post...but only until I open a track in Winamp. That causes Rainmeter to immediately crash with the following error:

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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe



This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.


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OK
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Has this problem been seen before? I'm running Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.

[Rawr]

Works great... but I keep getting the same error - no problem until I run winamp. I'm using 32-bit windows and everything and the plug-ins are all in the right place. Any help? Means I can't make a winamp skin now! It was working fine up until recently.