Winamp3 plug-in

[MMcM]

I have a first cut of a plug-in for Winamp 3.0. It has both a Girder plug-in and a Winamp component. They communicate back and forth to pass events to Girder and to allow Girder to control Winamp.

Anyone interested in testing this out, let me know.

The use cases for the event stuff are pretty well understood. I have only done the basics in the other direction, though. Since all of Wasabi is available, it's pretty open ended. But since a message format and code must be added on both sides to accomplish anything in particular, the implementation is limiting.

I am particularly interested in what should be exposed about playlist manipulation. Also, there is provision for handling more than one instance of Winamp running at the same time. So, I'm looking to hear whether that is sufficient as well.

[MMcM]

No takers on the pre-release. :cry:

So, you can now get what there is from the regular download page.

Still looking for feedback.

[desmo]

Just a quick response to say thanks for all your work.
It took a little fidling before it sprang into life, but all seems perfect now.

I agree the playlist manipulation is the tricky part.
My 2p worth: my collection is a fairly standard /artist/album/track.mp3 structure, and - call me old fashioned - but I still tend to think in terms of Albums. In Winamp2 I used the AlbumList plugin, now I use the Media Library rather than the Playlist editor. I dont have any playlists as such other than the root folder of my mp3 collection. The closest to a working interface Ive found for my needs is Musicbox (http://www.squareeight.com/software/development/musicbox.shtml) - Just a shame I never got it to actually work.

[siwilson]

Mike,

Just got around to playing with this. Some nice features. I partularly like the way you can now split up album, artist, title and track info. It makes for a nicer display on the VFD.

One thing I did notice is that the "length" item that should shows you how many items are in the playlist only appears when you load a new playlist, not when you load winamp. THe other thing with this is that i see a "/' in front of the number. Is this intended as a spacer? The reason I ask is that using Winamp2 and the old DVDspy method I used to use a seperate spacer character between position in the playlist and the number of tracks in the playlist. Using a seperate spacer looks nicer when you have playlists with different numbers of songs (10, 100 or 1000) in them.

Do you have a brief descriptioj of the new features. No worries if you don't, I'll experiment. It would just save a little time.

Really nice work though.

Simon