Shoutbox

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.

quote:

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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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It still doesn't work!
And none off the (!xxxx) work!
They just send as text!!!

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Neksus

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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My window's title says:
Artist - Title .::: Tracknumber :: Album :::.

I use Columns_UI could this be it?
http://members.lycos.co.uk/musicf/

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Neksus

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

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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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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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I am a formatting string coder!
So I have coded my own window's title based on a person called upNorth's string:

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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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