Just an update to my foobar plugin, updated for the latest version of foobar
Nothing changed except for an entire recode I lost the original source lol and it now looks prettier

Try it out and let me know what you think

Oh and for anyone who doesn't know what this plugin does, it's just a basic NowPlaying plugin for Foobar (music player)

I can't make it work!
I ran the installer and rebooted!

But when writing /xfbs it just says
Sorry, this command is not recognized.

Using Plus! Menu announce current song it says
No song is being played

These give no output:
(!XFBA)(!XFBT)(!XFBAL)(!XFBTN)

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Neksus

lol well first of all the command is /xfbsong (sorry I changed it lol)
When I've been testing it it has done this and I'm not sure why.  If you change song it should work fine or atleast this fixed it for me on several occassions.

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Originally posted by wipey
lol well first of all the command is /xfbsong (sorry I changed it lol)
When I've been testing it it has done this and I'm not sure why.  If you change song it should work fine or atleast this fixed it for me on several occassions.

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okay that's really weird lol, I'll try and sort it out later I gotta go to college now sorry

okay could you give me a little more info so I can try and pinpoint what's going on?
What does the minimized foobar window's title say when a song is playing, as my plugin simply gets song info from that.  Whenever foobar simply says foobar 0.8.1 my plugin will report it as no song playing, and that's pretty much the only explanation I can give atm

edit:
The tags sending as text I've figured out, if the plugin doesn't recognise theres a song playing it will simply send the tags as they are typed, I'll fix that now

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Originally posted by wipey
okay could you give me a little more info so I can try and pinpoint what's going on?
What does the minimized foobar window's title say when a song is playing, as my plugin simply gets song info from that.  Whenever foobar simply says foobar 0.8.1 my plugin will report it as no song playing, and that's pretty much the only explanation I can give atm

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Originally posted by Neksus
My window's title says:
Artist - Title .::: Tracknumber :: Album :::.

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Originally posted by wipey
How does your window say that and not the ordinary
Artist - [Album #Trackno] Song
????
I fyou could explain that it would help an awful lot lol, that is why the plugin isn't working for you...although I might be able to make a fix

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code:

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//**************************************
// Variables
//**************************************
$puts(symb_start,'.::: ')
$puts(symb_sep,' :: ')
$puts(symb_end,' :::.')
$puts(spacer_symb,' ')
$puts(spacer_width,5)
$puts(text_artist,[%artist%])
$puts(text_title,[%title%])
$puts(text_filename,[%_filename_ext%])
$puts(text_tracknumber,[$num(%tracknumber%,2)])
$puts(text_album,[%album%])
$puts(text_disc,['Disc '%disc%])
$puts(spacer,$repeat($get(spacer_symb),$get(spacer_width)))
//**************************************
// artist
//**************************************
$puts(artist,
$if($and(%artist%,%title%),
$get(text_artist)' - ',
$if(%artist%,$get(text_artist))))
//**************************************
// title
//**************************************
$puts(title,
$if(%title%,
$get(text_title),
$get(text_filename)))
//**************************************
// tracknumber
//**************************************
$puts(tracknumber,
$if(%tracknumber%,$get(symb_start)$get(text_tracknumber))
$if($or(%album%,%disc%),
$if(%tracknumber%,$get(symb_sep)),
$if(%tracknumber%,$get(symb_end))))
//**************************************
// album
//**************************************
$puts(album,
$if(%tracknumber%,,$if(%album%,$get(symb_start)))
$if(%album%,$get(text_album))
$if(%disc%,$if(%album%,$get(symb_sep)),$if(%album%,$get(symb_end))))
//**************************************
// disc
//**************************************
$puts(disc,
$if($or(%tracknumber%,%album%),
$if(%disc%,$get(text_disc)$get(symb_end)),
$if(%disc%,$get(symb_start)$get(text_disc)$get(symb_end))))
// Output
$get(artist)
$get(title)
$get(spacer)$get(tracknumber)
$get(album)
$get(disc)

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aww man lol I didn't see that option, I didn't know you could change the window title lol, oh well

for now my plugin will only work if you have the default window title format:

code:

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[%artist% - ]$if(%title%,['['%album%[ #[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2)]'] ']%title%,%_filename_ext%)     '['%_foobar2000_version%']'

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Originally posted by wipey
aww man lol I didn't see that option, I didn't know you could change the window title lol, oh well

for now my plugin will only work if you have the default window title format:

code:

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[%artist% - ]$if(%title%,['['%album%[ #[%disc%/]$num(%tracknumber%,2)]'] ']%title%,%_filename_ext%)     '['%_foobar2000_version%']'

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Pasting that into the main window title's box in preferences will give you the default back if you want to change it back for now.

I'll start updating my plugin as soon as I can but I can't promise anything

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maybe this willl work with


foobar's text writter plugin?

Compiled with 0.8.1 final sdk on 2004.04.14

A simple plugin to output a text file with info about current playing song

Example of uses:

    * Samurize
    * Coolmon
    * Making some sort of log
    * Some other odd things

it seemed to stop working for me when i put on columsUI, so i had to go back to the crappy foo_winamp_spam, i really like this plugin so it would be nice for it to be fully working

okay sorry it's been a long wait, my comp really badly broke down lol I had to buy a new one, athlon 64 anyways...I'll try and sort this plugin out sometime soon!  It looks like the diskwriter plugin's a good idea but really I'd like to make it work without it, but I'll have a look into it

any update on this one?

it still works for me but i have another request
my foobartext.txt file now looks like:
/nick [Woußer] -  %Artist, %Title, %Album
so when i say /xfbsong my nick changes to song and stuff.
but now people must manually say that if they want it in their nick. so i thought, maybe you can make a function that when foobar changes song (mayby through foobartextwriter) the plugin automatically says /xfbsong.

well, tia,

Woußer

ps. it's like Wouter's plugin for winamp..

do note that I am using Columns UI, so are many others.... I think the solution using textwriter plugin is the best way to make FNP to work properly with any Foobar UI extensions.

okay lol, so basically you want a function which lets you put your current song in your name?
I'm going to have to completely rewrite this plugin lol sorry about the long wait (I really am lol) I've finally got my athlon64 and have everything back to normal (well sorta) so I'll start on this now!

Any other features people would like?
I'm thinking of adding a simple multi-user support thing, so depending on who signed in there could be different settings?

I still like the old feature... the classic old "/me is playing" or whatever...


but having current song in name would be nice....

thing about puttin the current song in name is, I'm not sure how to do it

THat's fine the original feature is good enough

any updates?

having a few hitches lol, I'm recoding it again (it's only a small plugin to code so don't worry) and it's not loading for some reason will sort it soon, probs just me being dumb

YAY! I hope you can work it around!! BTW, did you look at the text writter plugin?

yea I'm going to use it instead of using the window title

I like it, thanks... and keep up the good work (which means dont forget to undate it). 

anything Wipey?

this ain't happening?

anything yet?

HTH is it that I Should use the plugin ..??? I have installed... an nothing more happens ??
where should I enable and config ??

What are the commands..
HOW DO I USE IT???