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RadioNow

Media controls, music players, video and animated visualizers
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jsmorley
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RadioNow

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This is a new skin, based on my previous RainRadio, that uses the great NowPlaying plugin from poiru, as well as the AutoIt addon I wrote to control VLC without loading its GUI interface. This skin needs the latest (2.1 r871 as of this writing) beta version of Rainmeter.

This skin REQUIRES that you have VLC installed on your system, and that the libcad.dll VLC plugin be installed. Instructions on where to get all that you need and how to install and configure things is included in the skin folder in HowTo.txt. Please read it after running the .rmskin so you can get things set up before you use the skin.

The skin will play any of 8 radio stations, which you can change to any of the thousands available on ShoutCast, and will allow you to play, pause, stop, control the volume and exit without ever needing to actually see or deal with the VLC application. The skin will do all that for you.

REALLY important note: Do not "close" the skin without pressing the "Stop" button or using the "X" to exit. If you close the skin while a station is playing, it will just keep right on doing so. Forever... You will need to use Task Manager to kill the invisible VLC.exe instance, or load the skin again and press "Stop".
Let me know if you run into any problems or need any help getting it working.

As with all my skins, you are welcome to take what I have done and expand or improve it for your own needs as you see fit!

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Edit: Now supports display of the Artist - Title of the currently playing song. This requires the latest libcad.dll to be installed in your VideoLan\VLC\Plugins folder. Get the dll HERE. The currently playing station is now highlighted instead of displaying in the viewport at the top.
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Re: RadioNow

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Very cool skin, jsmorley. I've been meaning to look into internet radio since I finally (FINALLY!) stepped up from dial-up access to a regional 3G connection. Perfect timing.
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Re: RadioNow

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Fixed a small image issue in the .rmskin in the first post...
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Re: RadioNow

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jsmorley wrote:Fixed a small image issue in the .rmskin in the first post...
My Comodo firewall blocked your player...found some unclassified malware.
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Re: RadioNow

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APG wrote: My Comodo firewall blocked your player...found some unclassified malware.
It doesn't like the RainRadio.exe I created with AutoIt. I forgot that was an old compile of that utility, using a "upx" compression method in AutoIt when compiling, that some antvirus apps don't like...

Get the new .rmskin I just put in the first post of this thread.
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Re: RadioNow

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jsmorley wrote: It doesn't like the RainRadio.exe I created with AutoIt. I forgot that was an old compile of that utility, using a "upx" compression method in AutoIt when compiling, that some antvirus apps don't like...

Get the new .rmskin I just put in the first post of this thread.
hmz ok thanks for the info...so everything is fine :D
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Re: RadioNow

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Thanks jsmorley. Perfect demonstration of how we should use your RainRadio. I like how vlc doesn't appear at all. :great:
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Re: RadioNow

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jsmorley wrote:Fixed a small image issue in the .rmskin in the first post...
I modded your skin a bit...added a transparent background.
Hope you like the result :D

Why I did that...well my whole desktop is minimal :D

Forgot to say...I removed the shoutcast link and png because I don't use it.
I added my own stations through VLC. It converted every stream into xspf.
Everything works fine :rofl:

Thanks for your hard work :great:
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Re: RadioNow

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Never used internet radio, but I tried it with RadioNow now.
and it's nice, when you don't know what you shall hear.
So thanks jsmorley :)
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Re: RadioNow

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APG wrote: I modded your skin a bit...added a transparent background.
Hope you like the result :D

Why I did that...well my whole desktop is minimal :D

Forgot to say...I removed the shoutcast link and png because I don't use it.
I added my own stations through VLC. It converted every stream into xspf.
Everything works fine :rofl:

Thanks for your hard work :great:
Looks good to me. I'm happy to have folks mod it for their own needs.

"I added my own stations through VLC. It converted every stream into xspf."
Can you expand a bit on this? Is there an easier or better way to get / add new stations than what I have in HowTo.txt?