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bigparty
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Windows Now Playing

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Hello. I was looking for a skin to display the music information and all skin needed to inform a music player (spotify, wpm, foobar2000 ...). My idea was to display the information of any player or browser that was playing any music or video, as well as in the "now playing" of Windows.

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As today I only use the browser to listen music, the WebNowPlaying plugin would be enough for me. However, it was not compatible with my browser. So I decided to make a program myself to get this information directly from Windows.

The software I made takes information about the title, artist, album name and thumbnail. As in windows, it works with any program and takes information from everything that plays some type of media. If it is useful for someone, I am making a skin available with the example of use. It has some bugs, but I currently use it to get the title and name of the artist and it works well.

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bigparty
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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How to use:

Through the RunCommand plugin.

Abstract example:

Parameter = WindowsNowPlaying [title|artist|album] [truncate at] [add at end of truncated string]

or

Parameter = WindowsNowPlaying thumb

Real example:

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[MeasureTitle]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
Parameter=WindowsNowPlaying title 32 ...
DynamicVariables=1
OutputType=ANSI
OutputFile=#CURRENTPATH#title.txt
The output of [MeasureTitle] will be the title of the song / video or whatever is playing. If it is longer than 32 characters, it will be truncated to the 32nd character and "..." will be added to the end.

The [truncate at] and [add at end of truncated string] parameters cannot be used with the thumb parameter.

When calling "WindowsNowPlaying thumb" a file named "thumbnail.png" will be saved in the same location as the .ini, if something is playing. For the example I used the QuotePlugin plugin to display the image.

The output of "WindowsNowPlaying thumb" can be two values ​​(150/84). These values ​​represent the height of the image resolution. The file can be in the format of 150x150 or 150x84 (youtube thumnails generally).

When there is nothing playing or paused, the output will be null / empty and the thumbnail will be deleted.

And I believe that is all.
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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Really useful! Thank you buddy! :thumbup:
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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Excellent work here. Question, would it be possible for you to recompile the addon to remove new lines from the output?

When using WriteKeyValue to save the output, it creates unneeded/unwanted newlines below the variable.

Using RegExpSubstitute=1 and Substitute="\r\n":"" doesn't appear to work with RunCommand measures?

Also if exceptions could return no text. Maybe move the exception to the Rainmeter log instead of a returning it as the measure's value.

Also would be good to have some way of automatically triggering the RunCommand bangs when some sort of other trigger identifies that a song name has changed.


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Re: Windows Now Playing

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Cariboudjan wrote: June 29th, 2021, 6:11 pm Excellent work here. Question, would it be possible for you to recompile the addon to remove new lines from the output?

When using WriteKeyValue to save the output, it creates unneeded/unwanted newlines below the variable.

Using RegExpSubstitute=1 and Substitute="\r\n":"" doesn't appear to work with RunCommand measures?

Also if exceptions could return no text. Maybe move the exception to the Rainmeter log instead of a returning it as the measure's value.



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Don't use Substitute="\r\n":"". Use Substitute="#CRLF#":"" instead.
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Cariboudjan
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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Huh. Never considered that.
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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jsmorley wrote: June 29th, 2021, 6:41 pm Don't use Substitute="\r\n":"". Use Substitute="#CRLF#":"" instead.
\R or \r?\n should work as well, shouldn't they? If it's just \n used as CR/LF instead of the \r\n, that is...

I'm successfully substituting in RunCommand outputs using \n, by the way, so I'm guessing that's the problem.
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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Yincognito wrote: June 29th, 2021, 10:06 pm \R or \r?\n should work as well, shouldn't they? If it's just \n used as CR/LF instead of the \r\n, that is...

I'm successfully substituting in RunCommand outputs using \n, by the way, so I'm guessing that's the problem.
Sure, but #CRLF# will match either way. If the file has \r\n (Windows) EOL characters, or \n (Unix) EOL character. So it seems a lot simpler, or at least more reliable, to me.

I suspect that #CRLF# actually just matches on the \n, but if you remove the \n from the \r\n EOL, it has the same effect. I think a \r by itself has no effect at all. The whole Carriage Return deal is a prehensile tail in any case, that Windows just kept so older code won't fail. Not that many "carriages" out there to "return"...

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Re: Windows Now Playing

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jsmorley wrote: June 29th, 2021, 10:15 pm Sure, but #CRLF# will match either way. If the file has \r\n (Windows) EOL characters, or \n (Unix) EOL characters. So it seems a lot simpler, or at least more reliable, to me.
Of course - just wanted to be sure it's not something else than that. :thumbup:
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Re: Windows Now Playing

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A perfect good morning song lol... I am glad I didn't just mark the forums read and paid a visit here
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