I created a Winamp music reporter plugin for DigitalPoint Forums

Greetings everyone!

I just published something awesome! It's a Winamp plugin that reports back to DPF what music you are listening to! It's 100% free and I even open-sourced it!

Perhaps many of you didn't know but DPF has had this feature for years. There is an entry in DPF FAQ on this feature - read it.

Here is how it looks on the forums:



Notice the "Listening to:". The plugin updates this field with your current track.

There are two ways to get the plugin:

1. download the precompiled plugin as .dll
2. build the plugin yourself from source code

-- Downloading And Installing Precompiled .DLL --

Grab the gen_digitalpoint.dll plugin.

Next, put the plugin in C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins directory.

Next, restart Winamp and navigate to general purpose plugin preferences. Take these steps to get to the preferences:

1. Right click on Winamp.
2. Select Options -> Preferences.
3. Find Plug-ins section.
4. Click on General Purpose label.

See this screenshot if you’re getting lost, it’s after step 2:



You will see all the installed general purpose plugins. Notice our new plugin "Winamp DPF Music Reporter v1.0". Now double click it! The configuration dialog will apear:



Enter your DPF username and the special authentication hash that can be found in your "Edit Profile" link on DPF.

You can also specify the format of how the track will be displayed. The default format is "%A - %T" which stands for "Artist - Track".

Here is how the About tab looks like:


Pretty, isn't it?

-- Compiling From Source --

I have put all the details on how to compile it from the source code in "compile.txt" file in the source package:

• winamp-plugin-digitalpoint-music-reporter.zip

I don't want to make this thread super long, so just take a look at "compile.txt" in the source tree, all the details are there.

Let me know what you think!!


PS. I have some more info about this plugin on my website at "Digital Point Forums Winamp Music Reporter" project page.

PPS. Given that it's open-source it can be easily modified and made to send what you are listening to to Twitter, etc. Let's get the hacking going! I also pushed the project to GitHub today so that you can join its development!

PPPS. Would love some reputation for my hard efforts. : )

 

That's an awesome thing man! Have you talked to Shawn about adding it to the FAQ page? Could be interesting

 

I have not talked yet. I just released it. The thing is I made it in 2006!!! And then I procrastinated for 3.5 years before finally publishing. What a shame.

I wonder how I could get in contact with Shawn. Through his blog perhaps? Or maybe PM?

 

And that's me up there in the avatar, still listening to that thing...
Well done friend, way to go.
Enjoy it everybody

 

Abuzant suggested me to make this in June of 2006.

Better late then never.

 

thats really great man!!

we have some real good coding geeks here

All the best!!

 

Awesome!!
A billion thanks.

 

If the plugin doesn't appear in Winamp, try installing the latest C++ DLLs from here: http://bit.ly/Bxl1

Anyone knows how to reach Shawn?

 

May be a PM to him..
Or, you can post a thread in Suggestion and Feedback.

 

Sorry to sound silly but what's his nick on DPF?

 

Here's the admin profile. Post a visitor message and he will contact you back.

 

Awesome, thanks!

 

I get this error -

"LibCURL failure: transfer closed with 1 bytes remaining to read"

 

TJ Coldstepper, and nothing happens?

What's your internet connection, OS, and Winamp version?

 

Am on a 3.1 mbps Wireless broadband connection, Using Windows XP SP2 and Winamp 5.56

 

TJ Coldstepper, did you install the latest C++ DLLs? They won't mess up your system, they are just latest possible DLLs for C++ apps.

And do you get that error every time? Can you restart Winamp and see if you get it this time?

 

Umm.. you lost me there!

Yes, the error stays there throughout. No matter how many times I restart Winamp.

 

Install this DLL file pack from Microsoft: http://bit.ly/Bxl1

Let me know if it works then.

 

Glad to see this at the FAQ Page.
Hope this will also work on all updated versions of Winamp.

 

I installed the concerned pack as well - still no luck

Is it got something to do with the fact that I have spaces in my username?