DVDSpy and Foobar2000

[erikt]

Hi,
I've switched to Foobar2000 from Winamp and I'm surprised to see that DVDSpy
doesn't support Foobar. Any plans to do so? Am I an idiot (yes) and there is already
a way to get current track info and feed it to my LCD?

Thanks for any help.
Erik

[peegee]

Hi.

I have never used foobar.

Mayby you could do it like this?


http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1936

[erikt]

Hi,

I'll use that for the time being, thanks! However I really like how DVDSpy
lets your scripts react to Foobar events (like the track changing), rather
than having to poll the application.

Erik

[erikt]

Anyone else have any suggestions? Any chance of getting Foobar supported
by DVDSpy sometime in the near future?

Let's say I wanted to take a crack at coding up Foobar support within DVDSpy. Any
pointers on how to get started? The SDK for foobar is downloadable, I can
use that and the source code for the DVDSpy Winamp plugin as a reference. Anything
else that could help?

Thanks,
Erik

[Promixis]

Erik,

The dvdspy source code in on sourceforge.

Do you know c?

Does foobar expose a com object?

[erikt]

Hi Mike,

I'll apologize ahead of time for my lack of knowledge regarding coding in the Windows
environment. I do know C pretty well, so I'm going through the DVDSpy source
and some Foobar plugin source to see what I can accomplish. I'm not sure what
a com object is, however I do know that it is possible (actually easy) to register
a callback class in a Foobar component (plug-in) which contains functions which will be
called everytime Foobar has a state change. These functions are passed appropriate
arguments such as the track name, etc.

I'm going to take a kick at writing the Foobar component, just to see if I can. I'll start
by "borrowing" the Winamp calls so that I don't have to modify any DVDSpy code. If
I have any success, I'll let you know.

Erik

[Promixis]

Cool,

Sounds fairly straight forward if you can work it along the lines of the winamp dvdspy plugin. If I remember right, it uses sendmessage?

Good luck, if you need any help, post here.

[erikt]

Success! I've got it working. The only change I had to make to DVDSpy was
the registry script. Foobar's and DVDSpy's architectures made this project
amazingly easy.

I'm going to test this out for a few days, and I've asked a Foobar expert to do a
quick code review to make sure I haven't broken any of their rules. I'll send you the
final code as soon as this is done. Please let me know how I should upload this
to you.

Thanks,
Erik

[Promixis]

Great job. Congrats. I would PM MMcM and see if he wants to integrate the source as part of the dvdspy project. If not, we can host it here.

Mike