Version 2 of WMPlus. Nobody except me ever saw version 1, but it relied on an MS WMP plugin. This new version is an all-in-one package! Written in Delphi, with the actual plugin being only 22 kb!



What is it?

WMPlus is a plugin for Messenger Plus! 2 which adds the '/xmp' command. This command will display the current playing song in an instant message. You can optionally add parameters which will be added to the first line, after the song title, duration and status, for example:


/xmp <-- cool song!


Would display:


The Offspring - Gone Away [4:28, playing] <-- cool song!
Rating:



The rating is displayed using smilies which vary, depending on the rating. In the future further customization will be added which will enable you to configure the way the song is displayed, which emoticons are used, etc.



How does it work?

WMPlus2.dll contains both the Messenger Plus! plugin as well as a Windows Media Player plugin. This plugin has only been tested on WMP 9, and I can not guarantee compatibility with previous versions.

Installation is easy: the setup will take care of this. You should see an icon in WMP on the right bottom side indicating there are background plugins loaded. If not, go to the Plugins options and enable the 'Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin'.


For developers: this WMP plugin is compatible with the Blogging plugin as provided by Microsoft. It writes it's data to the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\CurrentMetadata.



I've got a feature request!

This is only the first beta version, but it works. At least for me it does. If you've got a feature you'd like to see, you can send me an email at wmplus at x2software dot net. Or you can just reply on this thread of course.



Download

Update: information about the latest version plus download can now be found on this page...


Hope you like this plugin! If not, an uninstall is provided, you can find it in the "Add / Remove Software" control panel .

Getting an error, Sounds like a good plugin to.

also forgot

Windows Version: Windows XP, 5.01.2600
Messenger Client Version: 6.1.0114
Messenger Plus! Version: 2.21.0055
Windows Media Player: 9.00.00.3008

Doh, apparantly I compiled one of the programs with runtime packages... I'll fix it

Guess it wasn't that simple... none of the applications used the packages, so I built my own installer... but now my plugin won't respond to Plus anymore... I'm completely stunned... might take a while, sorry...

Ok, done. Note to Patchou: the Plugins menu fails to update after the broadcasted message, though the plugin itself is reloaded...

I tried to add the plugin to the menu, but couldn't get the commands to be listed. Error on my part I think, but since this is beta anyways it'll come later. Tested this on a non-Delphi computer, seems to work this time. You can download the new setup from the same location!

kewl - I need to check the plugins to see if there is one already for WinAMP.  I decided that the overhead of WiMP 9 was too much for my computer to have to deal with - especially since my music is all on a networked drive.  Hence, the (much) smaller footprint of WinAmp to play music files.

Man, thanks SOOOOOOO MUCH, i would really kiss you if i could

Thanks PsychoMark VERY VERY MUCH!!! I've been waiting for somethin' like this for a LONG LONG time, but nobody has done somethin' easy that actually worked! This is really really great

For some reason the installer wont run for me...plus it downloads as a 309k file...


EDIT: Never mind...I got it working...amazing Plugin...a lot quicker than the previous Windows Media Player Plugin I have...

@johngalt: then I've got a surprise for you... one of my friends already requested this one to be compatible with WinAmp as well (because (!WAT) is somewhat limited), so I've decided to integrate it . However, this'll be WinAmp 2 only at first, if anyone wants 3 or other media players I'd need to know how to interface with 'em... but for now, WMP and WA2 are my primary goals...

@SLim Shady: glad to hear to like it! It's only the first version I smacked together in a day (after struggling with the WMP interfaces in Delphi, seems nobody has done that before, not even an import available), but it'll be extended for sure!

@JaymachRalTir: the download is smaller and has no uninstaller for the simple reason that I wrote my own installer in 15 minutes because the first one would give the rtl60.bpl error. Trying to figure out what caused it so I can go back to the nicer installer again...


Thanks everyone for the positive feedback! I'll try to fix the plugins menu, add the (!WMP) tag (as requested per email by someone), add more customization and hopefully, make you all happy

I got same message as i got before, so i clicked ok on it. Then it said it installed successfully.

It's working fine but got error on install.

Thankyou very much PsychoMark for this great plugin.

Also is there meant to be a menu for it in the Plus! plugins menu?

Thanks again

Which of the two did you get? The rtl60.bpl error?


As for the menu: I tried putting that in yesterday, but I only got as far as displaying the "WMPlus 2" menu, no subitem for the command. Probably made an error somewhere in translating the C headers to Delphi, I'll have a look at it (and the posted conversion on this forum if I remember correctly). I decided the menu item wasn't urgent enough to stop the fixed version from being released... it's all about next version now if the plugin is stable for everyone...

Yes it was the rtl60 error.
After the message came up, I just clicked OK an it installed.

With the 1st version i downloaded, I got that error but when i clicked OK i got the 2nd message in my 2nd post.

It's working fine now.

I uninstalled the plugin just now an installed it again, No errors came up. Maybe i forgot to uninstall the other version an this is why i got error again. What do you think?

An about it being in the Plus! plugins menu, i don't really mind if it's not. I just thought it might of not been put in there from the error.

I have used it alot already an it's working great.
Thanks again PsychoMark.

Doh, yeah, it was the first version giving the error. The new installer (which doesn't have an uninstall for now, sorry) unregistered the old DLL first, which means Delphi code in that DLL is called, thus the error occured...


Glad to hear the new one works better, with all the positive feedback I'm definitely gonna update this!

cool plugin man, but how can i get the rating: to come up?

You mean it doesn't show any rating in the message or how to configure the ratings for each song? In the media library you can select up to 5 stars for each song (just click on 'em)... in the "Now Playing" list you can right-click on an item and select "Rate" (or something like that, I've got the dutch version so I'm not sure )


If that's not what you mean, please explain

i know you can give each song a rating, but there are already set ratings for each song, i thought they'd be displayed instead of just certain ones u set one for

If you don't rate a song it has a default rating... I think I might need to intercept that and leave out the rating in such cases...

nah, ive just tried it after actually rating a song, and it still doesnt appear...maybe I have to restart msn/wmp...

After rating the song, make sure you switch to another song and back, otherwise it doesn't detect the new settings (did that on purpose, but I might disable the check-if-changed code)

ok, cool. Its sorted then....thanks Psycho!

When will you release new vesion with (!WMP) tag?

I have absolutely no idea, got a fulltime job and everything, but I'll try to finish it as soon as possible

Brilliant Plugin 1 problem though, after a day or so of working it suddenly stopped finding anything and it just says :

(no song currently playing)

even though wmp 9 is playing...dont know what could have cause it but i have tried reinstalling

Make sure that plugin is running in background of Windows Media Player.

You can see it at:

Windows Media Player > Tools > Options > Plug-ins > Background > Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin

It should be ON. If it's not -- check it ON


Hope that will help

so it was that simple cheers man!

You're welcome!

And cheers to Obie, not me

Great work . I think I can make some friends of me very happy with this plugin

Great pluging.

Is it possible to have it change your name to the song playing?

Maybe in a future version, but it's not on the priority list, and I don't even know if I'll ever implement it. The reason is simple: I absolutely hate it when people do that to their nicknames

PsychoMark: I'm intrigued as to how you did this.  I have the code you can use to detect when the song changes, so if you message me, I can send it over to you
(Although it uses Remoting, not a WMP plugin, didn't think of doing it that way )

I tried accessing the player remotely before, but failed to do so. For that reason I created a plugin, as it allows me to send basically anything to WMPlus. Right now I think I'll keep it that way. I can respond to basically anything in the plugin, from song position changes to swapping CDs (although you can also do that without WMP, but that's besides the point) or accessing the complete media library, as well as basically everything else in the player...


But if you want to send me details on how to access WMP remotely, I'm always interested... never know when it might come in handy

I have a history lesson now, so I'm gonna try it again.
I had forgotten about my plugin because you needed to open a window for it to work, but it may be time to resurrect it...
If I can get it working, I'll post it here in a few hours, along with the source, otherwise i'll just post a remoting .exe.

No need to hurry, it'd be just a fun thing to see, not something I really need at the moment


Just a quick update: I've fixed the header translation (partially thanks to the Delphi template posted on this forum, stupid little mistake), added the menu items and working on the general player framework so I can easily add more media players which'll use the same configurable output... so far that means WMP 9, Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 (last one will only work if you have a Winamp 2 compatibility plugin running, not planning on fixing that either, don't particularly like the Wasabi API)

We are waiting for new version!!!

I need (!WMP) tag

Do it yourself then . No, seriously... I've got a fulltime job and not a lot of free time, so you'll just have to wait...

Oh, small update: since a friend asked for it, Sonique support will also be added... it has a pretty easy interface anyways...

Oww, oke....

Too bad you're a busy man

Wtf is Sonique?

http://www.sonique.com/

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Is it possible to have it change your name to the song playing?

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The problem is: the Plus! plugin is triggered when you type a command or use a special tag. Those are the times I can return /nick commands for example... however, the other way around: updating the name when the media player changes it's song, is another story... then there's also the support for multiple media players, two of which don't require a plugin to get song information (so I don't plan on making plugins either)... all in all it wouldn't quite fit into the purpose of this plugin...


Oh, and the before-mentioned argument still counts of course. If there's anything I hate it's changing nicknames, people doing that get an instant Block & RemoveTM in my list... so it would be a bit ironic if I was to implement that function in my own plugin

Well, i dont see any problem in displayin' the song you're playin'...

Like... My name is often [color=3896B0]SL[/color]im Sh[color=3896B0]a[/color][color=46A42C]dy[/color]


I dont think it will be that terrible if it will be

[color=3896B0]SL[/color]im Sh[color=3896B0]a[/color][color=46A42C]dy[/color] [Lose Yourself]


You know... I think thats OK... At least i dont expct anyone in my list to block'n'delete me for that, you know

Well, that's your opinion, and you have all right to have one... but I've got mine, and mine's telling me to not implement this feature . Sorry, but this one won't make it... requires too much effort for something I don't want anyways... I'm sure there are other applications available to do it though, as it probably wouldn't work as a Plus! plugin anyways due to the technical difficulties I explained before...

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due to the technical difficulties

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when i type /xmp
i get this
{MY NAME} says:
(no song currently playing)

when im playing a song....

Yeah, noticed that too for some songs. It only does that when the song contains a "-" character it seems. I added a workaround for a friend who edited the title of his songs to include the artist (so it would display that in the "Now Playing" list)... otherwise he'd get Artist - Artist - Title... but of course that workaround sucks, and it'll be fixed with the all new WYSIWYG editor where you can determine the output yourself...

i tryed puttin the - in it, but still no workin..

No, the - is what is causing it in the first place . Either remove it or live with it for now, the next version won't have this problem...

Now that I've read it again: the bug I was talking about adds "(no song currently playing)" in front of the actual song name... but I see you don't even get the song name, correct?

If so, make sure you have the WMP 9 plugin (something like Tools -> Plugins -> WMPlus in WMP)... might also need to change the current song to activate it... then try again...

I am listenin' to Party Up - DMX (from here) right now

If i type /xmp it displays Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes to Worst [03:36, playing]
Rating:

Worst Comes To Worst is indeed 3:36 minutes long and has a rating: 4 and exists in my library... but why the fuck does that song show up?

*The name of the song does not include any special characters, its just Party Up

Don't know, were you playing that song before Party Up perhaps? It seems it didn't update itself. The other possibility is that it's got the wrong media, but since it's using WMP's "CurrentMedia" property that doesn't seem likely. The updating will be fixed in the next version, I'll just remove the is-same-media check or add some is-same-media-but-did-title-or-stuff-like-that-change-since-last-check code...


On the bright side, I made quite some progress today! All code for WMP 9, Winamp 2 and Sonique is implemented, it now uses a customizable format string (which looks something like "{artist} - {title} [{length}]" per media player (and for each media player it uses a different format for the tag and the command, since you mostly want the tag to be a single line while the command may provide more info). For each rating (1 to 5 stars) you can customize the text being sent, which includes emoticons of course. It's got a WYSIWYG editor where the only non-WYSIWYG part are the actual tags, but to get an idea of how it'll look a preview pane is automatically updated directly below that. But things like color and font style (bold, italic) are directly editable.

There's still some stuff to do, mainly the RichText -> Plus conversion and back. It takes some code, but it's not difficult at all... nothing I haven't done before...

Aight

Is the new version already online or did you only finish the code?

well done looks good

Btw... I saved a song and added it to media library

Played some numbers other than Worst Comes To Worst before Party Up, switched Party Up again, and it STILL shows Now Playing: Worst Comes To Worst

WTF!

Weird, but we'll see if that problem persists. The new version is not online yet as it simply isn't finished, but as soon as I do I'll wrap it up and post it of course

Yeah, thanks

I'm sorry for posting a "bug", it was very simple -- WMP9 Plugin was simply disabled

But I even didnt think about checkin for that, because:
- The WMP didnt give any messages like: "Media Player was not closed on a propper way. A fucked up plugin might have caused that. As a result all 3rd party plugins will be disabled"
- The /xmp command worked as well for most of other songs


But yo... So simple was it
I'm waitin' for new version! Keep makin' good shit

While I'm at it, I might as well implement something to check if the WMP plugin is actually loaded... so instead of "no song currently playing" maybe it can display "WMP not running or plugin not loaded"...

GREAT idea

The not-running check is now working for all players, for WMP it'll even tell you when it seems you're running WMP but the plugin hasn't been loaded...


However, got a kind of a poll for you all regarding the way you edit the formatting. Right now I've been working on a WYSIWYG editor, but it turns out this is not quite as good as I wanted it to be. Since we already know how to do formatting with Plus, I had an idea which is both easier to build and will always provide the full range of Plus options. The idea is to use special commands to set these options, for example:

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/xwmpcommand {artist} - {title} [{rating}]
/xwmptag {artist} - {title}

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I think this is good enough for begining

The new version is online, along with a new installer/uninstaller (thanks to the person who suggested to use NSIS ). You can find the download along with a simple manual on the new commands here...


Note that this version has had very limited testing. We're currently upgrading my room a bit so I can't test it on WMP (as it constantly crashes on this computer, which is not WMPlus' fault because it does it without it too) and don't have enough time to test it enough with Winamp and Sonique. But at least you all got something to play with now, and if there are any bugs I'll fix them ASAP...



Have fun!

It's not working for me
I try the commands from the Plus! plugins menu /xwmp (!XWMP), nothing happens. So i try /xmp i got message (Windows Media Player appears to be running, but the WMPlus 2 plugin is not loaded) But it says it's running in the background of Media Player.
The only thing that is working is the about box.

I'll just have to use old version for now.
Could you please post old version for me, as i erased it when i got new version. Thought new version would be just as great as old version.

Doh, the menu is a stupid little mistake, sorry about that...

As for the plugin-detection-failing, I heard about that from a friend as well . I'll remove that part for now until I can get back to a computer with WMP... sorry about the inconvenience...


The new version has been uploaded, note that you'll have to check if the plugin is loaded yourself, it will either display old data or "WMP not running" if the plugin isn't active (as the old version did, only this one does detect if WMP isn't running at all by searching for it's window)... I'll try to fix this as soon as possible, but at least you should now have a version that works...


Click here!



[Edit]

The old version should be downloadable here btw if the new one still doesn't work...

Bugnote to self: when the rating text is not set, it uses one too much by default... I'd expected Delphi to start counting at 0 with sets, but apparantly it starts with 1...


This also means it'll probably detect the wrong rating (so if you rated it 4, it'll use the /xrating 5 if you set that before)...


Will be fixed when I get home, just got news that my computer is hooked up again so I can test it all...

Only 1 small problem with the latest version...it has the same tag as an old Windows Media Player Plugin which I have...(!XWMP) and so that just didn't work at all...it just tried to load the old plugin for it...could you change it? Possibley to (!XMP)?

The tag is (!XMP), it's just that I made a small typo in the Plugins menu . If you downloaded the latest version (after xsRush' bugreport) it should've been corrected... but only after you re-open the chat window, Plus! doesn't update the menu otherwise...

Ah right...thanx

The {position} thing does not work for me

It shows up like this:

Superman > The Eminem Show >> Dina Rae, Eminem [0:-01/5:50, Playing]

Doh. Small bug in the WMP code, it works fine for Winamp. Only 20 minutes left before I can go home, I'll fix and test these things there and release another version this evening

PsychoMark, everything is working great once again
I have tested everything for Windows Media Player (9), an everything is working very nice once again
i didn't test anything to do with the other players, because i don't use them. I'll says they are working great also (good guess hehe)
So thankyou very much once again PsychoMark.

[EDIT] Forgot to say tested for Windows Media Player 9 only.

Good to hear it's working again!


Uploaded another new version, fixed the rating-bug and the position-bug...

Aight

Now your plug-in is really the best

I can TOTALLY customoze the way i want things to appear, even add my own words and smilies and everything to it

Aaah man, THANKS SOOOO MUCH

Glad you're happy with it!


The next step would be purely user-friendliness, a nice editor for the tags and commands for example. But for now at least it works, and once it's truly been marked "stable" for a while I'll look further into it... for now, keep testing it and don't hesitate to post bugs, even really minor ones

This runs great for me.

Keep up the great work.

Fantastic plugin! the most useful ive used. brilliant job!!

yea
* Ramoonus thinks the same

GOOD WORK
keep it up

Nice...
Can't wait to see what more you produce

I know that your not wanting to do it, but I'm just wanting to know if there's any way of making MSN Messenger react to the Blogging Plugin for Windows Media Player (it adds whatever your playing into the bar for Windows Media Player) and make MSN change your name every time it changes...just aother way of getting an auto-nick changer...of course you would have to have the Blogging Plugin installed and running for it to work...

FYI: WMPlus is fully compatible with the MS Blogging plugin, just adds some extra information as well. However, I will not build this nickname-change-feature, it has nothing to do with a Plus! plugin and I have no interest in adding such functionality to the WMP plugin (plus it would require me to call specific MSN interface which could differ per version)...


...I know, not a really nice response, but that's the way I feel, nothing personal

Lol I know your not making it I just wanna know if it's possible...I'm assuming that the answer to that question is yes though?

Well, as far as the monitoring is concerned, there's an API to monitor a certain registry key for changes... and of course you can do a lot more if you'd write a WMP plugin, but that's another area...

Yet another update! You can now use the new {remaining} tag to display the time remaining for the current song...


For those who hopped directly to the last page: The WMPlus page (+ download)

hey man this is rad but i noticed it doesnt apply to cd's. is there a way you could do it?

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Originally posted by ling_vob
hey man this is rad but i noticed it doesnt apply to cd's. is there a way you could do it?

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You're right, names are NOT stored on the CD (unless it is MP3 CD), the're taken from the Internet (if your CD is legal, or perfect match of legal one)

But... For me it works even on CD's... Maybe because i have them in media library anyways

Found bug:

The Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet is not working! Everything shows up as ????, ???? ???? ????

Yeah, neither Unicode nor MBCS (multi-byte character sets) are supported. In fact, I don't have any experience with it either. It'll be a Good Thing™ to learn though, so I'll start looking into it... can't promise when I get it done though

I just installed the plugin and i find it just excellent

congratz man!!

i think its better is ya put a version, changelog and date on the site
so we know when theres a new version out

I'll do that for the next version... so if nothing changes now, there's no new version

this plug in kicks ass, ive always been waiting for a plugin for WMP, cuz i dont really like using winamp, and now there is a plugin out! thanks a billion

the plugin does not word on my pc, i have windows 98, and msn plus  and msn 6.1(official version) and my version of windows media player is 7.01.00.3055.
can the creator talk dutch, if yes can he send me a dutch email with how i must get it working thnx in advance
P.S.: my email adres is walterebbers@hotmail.com.

Greetzzzzzz Walter.

Media player 7 doesnt support plugins, get version 9

Already sent him an email before he edited his post. Anyways, as far as I know WMP 7 does support plugins (it says so in the docs, 6 didn't), but I don't know how compatible it is... best is to upgrade to 9 anyways, as there have been many improvements in speed as well...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Already sent him an email before he edited his post. Anyways, as far as I know WMP 7 does support plugins (it says so in the docs, 6 didn't), but I don't know how compatible it is... best is to upgrade to 9 anyways, as there have been many improvements in speed as well...

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I get a "(no song currently playing)" message, and i AM playing something...

If you get "no song playing", make sure the plugin is enabled. Look under the Tools menu, there should be something like "Plugins" or "Extensions" (I have a Dutch WMP so I can't really tell)... make sure "Messenger Plus WMP Plugin" is selected... a green icon should appear in the bottom right...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
If you get "no song playing", make sure the plugin is enabled. Look under the Tools menu, there should be something like "Plugins" or "Extensions" (I have a Dutch WMP so I can't really tell)... make sure "Messenger Plus WMP Plugin" is selected... a green icon should appear in the bottom right...

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In Dutch: Extra -> Invoegtoepassingen -> Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin (which made me realise my previous statement about Tools was probably incorrect ). However, the "Media player not running" might also be caused by a pre-check I do on the WMP window... I don't know if WMP 7 has another classname, if anybody knows it please let me know

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
In Dutch: Extra -> Invoegtoepassingen -> Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin (which made me realise my previous statement about Tools was probably incorrect ). However, the "Media player not running" might also be caused by a pre-check I do on the WMP window... I don't know if WMP 7 has another classname, if anybody knows it please let me know

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There's nothing in Extra -> Opties under a tab "Invoegtoepassingen" either?

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
There's nothing in Extra -> Opties under a tab "Invoegtoepassingen" either?

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Then it appears WMP 7 does indeed lack plugin support... or at least on Windows 98... sorry, nothing I can do about that, either upgrade or live with it / use another media player

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Then it appears WMP 7 does indeed lack plugin support... or at least on Windows 98... sorry, nothing I can do about that, either upgrade or live with it / use another media player

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It's in your control panel -> Software (Add / Remove for english users) under the name "WMPlus 2 (remove only)"...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
It's in your control panel -> Software (Add / Remove for english users) under the name "WMPlus 2 (remove only)"...

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Originally posted by Walter
okeey thnx.
P.S.: i realy hope version 9.0 will be out for windows 98,

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Originally posted by SyPhEr

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Originally posted by Walter
okeey thnx.
P.S.: i realy hope version 9.0 will be out for windows 98,

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It IS out:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/2/0/920b...5be270/MPSetup.exe

That's for 98 SE, ME and 2000...

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Originally posted by Walter
i dont have the 98 se version but the normal 98 version.

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Originally posted by SyPhEr

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Originally posted by Walter
i dont have the 98 se version but the normal 98 version.

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For The First Edition there will be no WMP I'm afraid..

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Originally posted by Walter
so no upgrade for wmp 7.1+ because i have 7.1+.

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You cán try upgrading to SE...

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Originally posted by SyPhEr
You cán try upgrading to SE...

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Originally posted by Walter
how i dont have the cd of se, and this is my parents pc.

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To see if you have WMPlus running click:
Tools >> Plug-ins >> Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin
or
Tools >> Options >> Plug-ins >> Background >> Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin
or


(for Windows Media Player 9)

ouhaaaa... thats cool!
* Patchou installs the plugin

this doesn't work in nicknames?

The (!XMP) tag should work in the /nick command (just tried it)... but no automatic changing of nicknames, explained that earlier in the thread...

ohh... thats cool tho... but i'd have to type /nick (!XMP) all the time

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Originally posted by lylesback
ohh... thats cool tho... but i'd have to type /nick (!XMP) all the time

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already did... it's /mynick lol... i seen it somewhere on the forum i'll create a /mynick2 but i'll get lazy one day and not type it anymore lol

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Originally posted by lylesback
already did... it's /mynick lol... i seen it somewhere on the forum i'll create a /mynick2 but i'll get lazy one day and not type it anymore lol

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I'm not supposed to say this, but you guys are the best


Nothing's official yet, but a friend of mine was interested in this nickname project. We've discussed it a bit, and the best way would be for WMPlus to have an extra interface which applications can use to query it for media information. This enables his application to watch for changes and automatically update your nickname. Once this is working and stable I'll write some documentation so anyone is able to use the WMPlus "engine"...


Best of both worlds, I don't have to spend my time on features I don't like, and you get a nickname changer

Great

Although it would be nothing for me, but oke... Still great

Someone will do this one day

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Nothing's official yet, but a friend of mine was interested in this nickname project.

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Is there anyway that WMPlus will be able to detect the auto rating on WMP and transfer that into the little thumbs because all my songs use the media player 9 auto rating thing thanks alot

Hmmz... I dont actually get how auto-rating thing works... why does WMP9 rate one file 4, and another one -- 2??

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Originally posted by Fukafly
Is there anyway that WMPlus will be able to detect the auto rating on WMP and transfer that into the little thumbs because all my songs use the media player 9 auto rating thing thanks alot

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Hmmz... I dont actually get how auto-rating thing works... why does WMP9 rate one file 4, and another one -- 2??

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Originally posted by BooGhost
i don't gete it neither but i use it

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
LOL!!!!

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Originally posted by slang123
The auto rating system works on the number of times u play a song i think, if u quickly switch to the next song its gets a low rating etc.

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absolutely correct but i still want it to work on WMPlus

Any news, about the nick changer ?

Some suggestion:
[*] make the Rating work with autorating
[*] make an option to stop sending the "Rating:" (!WMPnr) or i don't know

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Originally posted by BooGhost
Some suggestion:
[*] make the Rating work with autorating
[*] make an option to stop sending the "Rating:" (!WMPnr) or i don't know

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Originally posted by xsRush
You could always just make quick texts to have ratings on an off. Just change your (!XMP) tag format to not show the ratings by default. Then you can turn them back on with the quick texts if you wanted to.
Goto the commands page to see how to change them.

I like changing the format
This is the format i'm using right now

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Yeah, this plug-in really kicks ass

when is it going to be updated?

Dunno... At least the features already got to the top of what you can wish i think... At least i cant understand what more should you want from such a plug-in

Well, the only thing that can be improoved, is to have a better interface for all the formathing, but yo, you do that only 1 time, and than you just enjoy the perfect plug-in

Other question is... When is the source gonna be released?!

i think we should start this thread over so n00bs don't have to read through it al and then post shitey comments. anyway hope a new version is released soon

yeah... I'm going to post a FAQ or something like that on the website, then place a nice big link on the first post in this thread... that should be a nice place of information without having to read 14 pages

thanks alot. Any news on WMPlus 2 or 3?

Yesterday I picked up WMPlus 2.1, which features some minor bug fixes, mostly in regard to the WMP plugin and updating the current song. The other major change won't affect many people, COM support. As I mentioned before in this thread, it will enable people (and in particular a friend of mine) to use WMPlus' features for other purposes, such as nickname changers. I can not yet say when it will be released, but if anyone has any more feature requests or players they'd like to see supported, now would be a good time to suggest those

I think you should add more tags, like (!XMPartist), (!XMPalbum), etc.... It will be fun in a QuickText

And yeah... To have a better interface for customizing command and tags of course

Excellent idea! It means a whole lot of tags will be available for each player, but who cares

haha, i'm glad you like it

yeah i still not sure how to edit them please help me i read your site but i couldn't figure it out. you probably think i am a dumbass. Any help would be great thanks like a tutorial on your webpage with pictures (like the one a page or 2 back) and the code to get it to work like that.

I'll note down to use pictures in the FAQ . I'm probably going to introduce an editor for the settings, though I'll step away from using WYSIWYG and just use an instant preview window...

ok cool thanks alot mark. any idea on the release date because this plug in kicks official ass!

No, no idea... got little spare time so I've given up on setting release dates a long time ago . I am however actively working on it, so I'm hoping to release it soon...

And... Any news about updates so far?

I'll make sure new version will appear on Mess.be

Sorry, not really. I've been caught up in work mostly, don't have many days off either... but after this project is over I'll have some more time to spare... mess.be sounds good though

Hmm, if new version will not come very soon, i can also put this version to mess.be... What you think?

Be my guest

http://www.mess.be

Nice! Thanks!

looks cool at the top of the page aswell i believe WMPlus is the best plugin...(the only plugin i have actually) because i use it every day i just wanna know how to make it like it was on that picture posted in this thread whats the code/s to make that work?

To Fukafly: Huh? What do you mean?

to PsychoMark: thank yourself, your plugin deserves that
Btw, what about this icon as logo for your program?



I was bored so made it for you, maybe you like it, hehe

is there a command for putting what your wp is playing it into your nick?

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Originally posted by Fukafly
i just wanna know how to make it like it was on that picture posted in this thread whats the code/s to make that work?

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/xmpcommand 10{artist}
2{title}
14{length}, 3{status} {params}
5Rating: {rating}

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
Btw, what about this icon as logo for your program?



I was bored so made it for you, maybe you like it, hehe

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thanks again rush i was looking for a 'CD' emoticon because i remember there being a picture of an open cd case somewhere which woulda been perfect for the job. i am liking the new logo by the way keep up the hard work.

Thanks for the code i finally got the idea now before i had it like

/xmpcommand /xmpc
blah-blah-blah

because i thought you made your own shortcut things

Awesome slim! I believe we got ourselves a new logo! I will put it in the next version, and at least mention you in the about box...

Thanks rush now my /xmp command looks well cool i used a few custom emoticons in it aswell. Take a look at it if you want to thanks man have one on me

how do you do that?
When I choose the "Currently Playing Song" thingie it just writes what I have copied eg: Curently Playing: MartinKapserosv" but I am actually playing Alizee - Moi Lolita?!
Also when I choose: Playing song 2 nick it just makes my nick to "Bragging"?
Whats wrong here?

"Playing song 2 nick" ? There's no such option in WMPlus...


To configure it the way he has it:

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/xmpcommand :wmp: I am currently listening to :wmp:

Artist - {artist}
Title - {title}
Album - {album}
Current Status - {status}
Current Position - {position}/{length}
:clock: Time Remaining - {remaining}
Rating - {rating}

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I ment Nick 2 Playing Song?
But when I copy and paste the code you said It just says: This command is unknown, is the text not a command please remove the /
What am I doing wrong?

I think you've fallen into the wrong thread here . First of all, the only nickname stuff currently available is by using something like "/nick (!XMP)" manually. Secondly, it seems you haven't got WMPlus installed, otherwise you wouldn't get that error...

I was wrong... you were right...
now its installed and running.. Just the problem is when i write /xmp it just writes: (no song currently playing) even that I have a song playing!?

First of all ensure the plugin is active in WMP, meaning the green icon will appear in the bottom lower corner. Secondly, there are times when it won't update the current song correctly, mostly when the plugin is loaded when a song is already playing. When that happens and you're sure everything else is correct, select another song and go back to the one you were playing, that'll solve it...

What icon? And can it have something to do with that it said "Windows Media Player was shut down by accident so it has removed all 3rd party programs" ?
Yes I am stupid

Yeah, when WMP crashes it closes all plugins and points the finger to them . Seriously though, not a bad idea. But in this case it's not likely WMPlus caused the crash, so turn it back on... on this page you can see a screenshot which shows how to do it...

Wow, it seems I missed some posts as well. That's what you get for big-ass threads... so to set things straight:


Slim Shady asked when the source will be released, my answer is: not. I'm willing to help people out if they have specific programming questions or provide my version of the MsgPlus plugin for Delphi, but I don't want anybody messing with the WMPlus source

good i wouldn't want that either

Animefan is happy now that the plug-in works! Thanks! PsykoMark!

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Yeah, when WMP crashes it closes all plugins and points the finger to them . Seriously though, not a bad idea. But in this case it's not likely WMPlus caused the crash, so turn it back on... on this page you can see a screenshot which shows how to do it...

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Goto Help >> About  Windows Media Player.
It will say what version you have in there.

You can also go to the Options, select the Plug-ins tab and select WMPlus in the Background list...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
You can also go to the Options, select the Plug-ins tab and select WMPlus in the Background list...

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To BlackHoriZoN, who said he couldn't find the menu I'll use the quote feature next time

That doean't show any version though....
Please tell me if i'm wrong.
I'f i'm wrong i'm sorry.

Also if i missed something i'm also sorry.
(It's christmas, so i might be..........) something

Well, he said he had WMP9, so I just offered a solution not involving the popup menu at the bottom... had nothing to do with version numbers, if you need that it is in the About dialog indeed, so you were right

Ok Mark.
Sorry, just got lost i think, my bad.

hey mark have you got any ideas as to what new commands you will add???

I wouldn't mind

{genre} {playlist} {type} {autorating/rating} {status + emoticon}

(Type for Video, Online Radio or Audio if thats possible)

(Status + Emoticon so that if it was playing i could have 'playing |>' or 'paused ||' or 'stopped |_|' and the emoticon could be anything you wanted like you set it somehow i dunno how to but i am sure you would know . so i duno a customiseable bit like 'IF {status= playing} = 'text green' Playing |>' and you could edit what colour and what you wanted the wording to be)

also if you need BETA testers i am offering my services to you

*EDIT* Would anyone like WMP emoticons?

They would all have transparant backgrounds and would include

(WMP) - The windows media player logo
(band) - The 'artist image'
(cd) - The 'album image'
(genre) - The 'genre image'
(video) - The 'video image'
(vgen) - The 'video genre image'
(play) - The 'play' |>
(pause) - The 'pause' ||
(stop) - The 'stop' [_]
(plist) - The 'playlist image'
(radio) - The 'radio image'
(pserv) - The 'premium services image'
(audio) - this would be the <)) loudspeaker image used for sound recorder [I use this at the begining of my status command]

Any offers??? thanks alot

      Nile

I could do the emoticons..

But... You can only send 5 of them in 1 message

lay off slim they are mine, i already made most of them and its my idea

BUT good point o well i would just use them when i felt like it and release it like any other emoticon pack

eek i am already using 5/5 custom emos in my /xmp command

Fukafly, nice ideas. Since WMP supports a lot more than other players I'll rewrite my code a bit to support anything for any player (which is one of the reasons for the update, the internals are way too hardcoded). I'll make all text customizable, including the status (which includes the color codes of course), so you can use any custom emoticon you want. While the two of you fight over who gets to make those neat emoticons , if you've got a package of 'em I'd be willing to include them in the setup so people don't have to search for it... with all credits of course...

lol hehe ok mark

I didnt fight... O_o

I thought he asked for someone who can do it... So I said i could... that's it...

sorry mate its ok have a beer would you prefer to have Green stop & pause or Orange Pause and Red Stop?

Orange pause / red stop of course

hmmm i made them in green and they look good in green. I shall try them in orange and red though if i can't decide i include them both green and the alternative

'The Windows Media Icons Pack'

Is complete take a look at what you get

Its good, only cut in rather "sharp" way, make edges a bit "softer"... And as for play / stop / pause, it'll be much nicer to have WMP buttons, like these:

ok updated play pause and stop. I had a bit of trouble with the pause but it looks ok when actually used in messenger

Mark and SLim could you PM me your E-mail addy's i want to send you the images in a .ZIP file in private.

I don't want to soften the images because that is how WMP shows them and also all of my test subjects said that they were really good and asked if i got them off of www.mess.be

I have gotten rid of the old play pause stop buttons and the alternate coloured ones so if you liked them. tough. ~LoL~

And here is another preview for you lot

well what do you guys think now???

yea, i like new plya/pause/stop buttons!

i finally figured out how to add downloads to my site so i put these in a zip file on it. I made it V0.5 because i wanted to know if we (Mark, Slim & msgplus guys) liked it if we do and make it official it will be renamed to Version 1

here you go then if no one has been onto my website ( http://www.fukafly.tk ) [recently the .tk service has been dodgey so sorry if it doesn't work].

Enjoy WMIset V0.5

i wish there was away to get rid of the rating in your nickname..

If you are to add the emoticon pack, Could you please make it an option to install it or not. Because i myself wouldn't use them.

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Originally posted by lylesback2
i wish there was away to get rid of the rating in your nickname..

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as far as i know the emoticon pack is just going to come with the new WMPlus in a seperate folder of the .ZIP package so that people can add the emoticons themselves if they wish.

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Originally posted by Fukafly
as far as i know the emoticon pack is just going to come with the new WMPlus in a seperate folder of the .ZIP package so that people can add the emoticons themselves if they wish.

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no problem i think it is just going to be added so that people don't have to go hunting for them online. As long as something reminds you that they are there when your installing, to stop speed clickers installing and just being n00bs really

Fukafly, they look good, only one problem: you've used single-color transparency. Most obvious ones are the play/pause/stop buttons. They look good on a white background, but with black you can see it aliasing clearly... I know, you shouldn't use a black background , but since MSN can do full alpha PNGs (while IE still can't, grmbl) it would be nice to use it and look great no matter what the settings are...

That aside, my plan is to install the images to My Documents\WMPlus Icons\ by default (I don't think it would be wise to tell newbies to look in Program Files\Messenger Plus! 2\Plugins\WMPlus\), though it should be customizable of course, and turned off if you don't want it. Along with that I will mention it on the website.

I'm also thinking about having a way to load predefined "packages", which contain information on the commands/tag and optional custom emoticons used. These can then be made available for download and installed from WMPlus easily. I mean, if some Visual Basic guy can make an application to add custom emoticons using SendKeys and charge for it, I sure as hell can make one much more reliable, free and integrated into WMPlus . It will be as easy as downloading "Fukafly's Amazing WMPlus Output.wmp", I could even link the files to an install application so you can press Open in IE and not worry about anything else...

Good

Only i thing, Fukafly: WMP9 displays those icons and stuff in much more clear way in library. Icon has a bad quality on the upper right corner where you can select what you wanna listen to, but if you go to licrary you'll see that icons are much smoother.

Problem is, that it uses transparency, so you cant just "cut" the "emoticon" out... You'll have same result as normally

It would be nice if someone will "steal" those "emoticons" from wmplayer.exe ...

Check the screenshot:

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
but with black you can see it aliasing clearly... I know, you shouldn't use a black background

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File -> Export -> PNG. This will give you several options. If you've been using the transparency in PSP correctly you can select "Alpha Transparency" and "Use existing image transparency" and export them that way...


Looking forward to 'em!

ok i have already been using that alpha transparancy for thicko me but i usually use the 'filter this colour' option i am sure you know what i mean with a tolerance of usually 32 or 61

Yeah, then it creates a PNG with either full or no transparency (on a per-pixel basis that is)... using the Alpha option makes it much smoother...

i used your version and sorry to say it made absolutely no difference whatsoever but fear not i have made them look slightly better using a mixture of paint and PSP 8 i will include a screenshot of them both to compare

ok they look slightly worse now but not a great deal different from the originals (i am talking about a couple of pixels here) but i still dunno what you mean by a black background because this is what happens on my msn with a pure black background [see enclosed pic] it shows up the actual message window with the greyish bit in it. thus making no difference what so ever

It's possible by customizing the Windows system colors... or using themes or WindowBlinds... take a look at the attachment...


...plus, I'm kind of a perfectionist, so if I know it can look good on any setting I'd go for that... nothing personal

i feel like a perfectionist when it comes down to non school or tidy room stuff aswell (I think its got to me!)BTW i finished those emoticons then i got a BSOD [Blue Screen of Death] and lost all my work should be back soon

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
It would be nice if someone will "steal" those "emoticons" from wmplayer.exe ...

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Aaaaight man, you the best!!

THANKS SOOO FUCKING MUCH!!!

so whats happening now?

Emoticons are getting much smoother and look much better!

Also, they can be 19X19!!

well this one which was ripped still has the black whiteness thing.

*EDIT* the picture on the right is the current (band) emoticon

Nah, i will show you... They look perfect on MSN with any background

And about that 100% black thing by PsychoMark... I also use custom window themes, used them long before MSN 6 came out, and NEVER had anything like that

I think its a bug or summttin'...

So, this is a small preview of what it can be...

Not all the icons can be 19x19 though 

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
And about that 100% black thing by PsychoMark... I also use custom window themes, used them long before MSN 6 came out, and NEVER had anything like that

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I agree with you, but i still belive that its a bug, as i did exactly the same as you did and got normal thing happening on MSN"

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traxor, stop spamming!
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I don't think you did the same... you used a completely black background image, right? I changed the Windows system color for the "Window" element.... a screenshot:

i understand what you mean mark. slim done exactly the same as me

so whats happening to all my emoticons i spent ages on????

yes i did exactly the same, AND tried with different backgrounds, you see black one on screenshot

Do you have XP themes enabled? If so, the system colors you set won't affect it

so is someone now ripping all the emoticons from WMP i spent ages on those fucking things

ok now i like these new ones ok. I know you're all gonna moan 'They're too sharp they're not soft enough' but just take a look

I dunno what the problem is... just use an icon ripper or something to take out the icons.... They'll show up correctly with ANY background as they all have an alpha-channel.... just use the right ripper (which rips the whole icon) and use the icons in the right way.
Every icon can consist of different icons in different sizes and colors...

Too late, already tried that, and also checked every other resource using ResourceHacker... they don't appear to be embedded that way... unless you can prove me wrong.


However, I took a look at fukafly's new icons and they look good. With a bit of eraser-work on the button edges they look pretty freakin' smooth

I also tried with ResHacker, and wasn't too happy with result... if you right-click>copy icon, it won't copy transparency... you will get the same result as if you just PrintScreened it...

I think CookieRevised means something else by "icon ripper", not Res Hacker....

Cookie, tell us pls...??

Try Axialis IconWorkshop, supports XP icons and can export those to transparent PNG's. But you can only get the WMP icon that way, not the play buttons etc, which are the main problem...

Yeah, play icon and stuff are not "separate" components... they only exist with "a peace of player around"... Too bad

But you can as well steal album, artist, etc icons i think...

check out the other files that are from WMP; I think for example of \Windows\System32\wmp*.dll, and there will be more somewhere else...

Don't think of ResHacker as the holy grale
Just use one of the bezillion (free) icon editors you'll find on the net.... For example IconXP on http://www.iconutils.com....

And as said before an icon (.ICO file) can consist of different icons for each resolution and with different number colors. Not all resolution support alpha-channels. Read up on some docs on what an icon really is and what a good .ico-file consist of

A good and complete .ico-file in XP will consist of 9(!) different formats in a specefic order:
48 x 48 at 24-bit, 32 x 32 at 24-bit, 16 x 16 at 24-bit, 48 x 48 at 8-bit,  32 x 32 at 8-bit, 16 x 16 at 8-bit, 48 x 48 at 4-bit, 32 x 32 at 4-bit, 16 x 16 at 4-bit... Only the 24-bit (you're right, I meant 32-bit ) icons support alpha-channeling....

Remembering this, if you want to save the true icon you can use ResHacker. But you don't want the Icon Resources, you want the Icon GROUP resources. select one and then choose "Save [Icon Group]"...

And Icon is also not a PNG, nor a BMP, these are different things....
You can open a .ico-file as a BMP, but you will loose A LOT of information.

The buttons, etc. in WMP are not icons but actually BMP's, you 'll find them in \Windows\System32\wmploc.dll as I mentioned in my previous post

Don't use Paint for handling images with transparency. Use Photoshop or PaintShopPro...

Anyways, try IconXP and search for \Windows\System32\wmp*.dll

enjoy

ResHacker is no holy grail, but it can at least provide a preview of the files in there, and also PNG's (which might have also been used, don't think ICOs have been used for the play button for example)... also, I have a legally purchased version of IconWorkshop, which can do a whole lot more than most freeware Icon applications, specifically when dealing with 32-bits icons (not 24-bit as you said, they only contain RGB information, not the alpha channel)...

And I think I know what an ICO consists of, I have written an XP Icon loader by looking at the ICO specs myself because Delphi's TIcon didn't load the 32-bits icons.


As for the System32 icons, I did not notice those before (and haven't looked very far as Fukafly was working on the icons already), so thanks for that. Again however, no single ICO of the play button, and like I said before, those are the only real problem as the rest can be ripped easily. wmploc.dll does have bitmaps containing the buttons, but they're not transparent, so they're of little help... there's simply no other way than manual editing of those buttons...


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I see you've updated your post. Anyways, my point still counts: the buttons still can't be ripped without some manual erasing...

right i think i done what you said mark....

they need a little tidying up but i can do that easily now so are we happy with these ones?

edges of Play/pause/etc. buttons look perfect

i will make them look better so they all the same as play one

Great work! I see you've started to figure out how PSP works . In fact it's the Stop one that looks best on all colors (including black) in my opinion, perhaps except the lighter edge, although I personally don't mind at all. One problem with the stop button though, put it on a big white field and notice how, especially the upper right part, looks like it's been in the washing machine... if that's erased it might be better than the play button... I know I love it...

I attached a zoomed in version so you can clearly see it...

Version 0.7 coming out. Now that most have been smoothed out and made nicer

Here ya go any comments will be welcome again.

so what do you lot think now????

Don't think anyone has anything to add . I like 'em...

do they work fine on any colour background?

i love the emoticons!!!! one of them is 16*16 tho. Other than that perfect. Brilliant job

which one?????

*EDIT* yes the band one was not done by me so that is nothing to do with me, anyway it still looks great in MSN

Hmmmz... What's up to plug-in??

i talked to mark and he is having a crisis at work and is having very little time to work on WMPlus 3. but he also added that he was working on a few new codes to make it better

slim could you pester mess.be to change the MSN Plus thing at the bottom of their page because people will get confused when MSN releases their subscription service MSN PLUS

Crisis is the correct word . I won't bother you with company problems, but hopefully it'll all be better at the end of the month. Either way, I'm still here, and I haven't forgotten any of the feature requests, just didn't have any time to really work on WMPlus. In the spare time I had I've been working on the website though, so once that's been released (hopefully at the end of this weekend) another burden is gone... plus, I'll have a shiny new vBulletin running so there can be a forum dedicated to WMPlus making it easier to ask and find

Aight cool

Well, i really hope it'll go better wit you on your job/whatever, hope shit'll get better soon

The beginning of the new website is up. I say beginning because I'm not at all happy about the look of it yet, but at least it's functional and running, that's what mattered . WMPlus also got it's place here now, along with a FAQ containing a screenshot similar to the one posted in this thread earlier so people have a better reference when installing, a forum and Slim Shady's excellent icon on the Products page (on a sidenote: I will add proper credits later when I redesign all of the pages )...


So for any comments, requests or feedback you are more than welcome on the WMPlus forum. I'll try to add a "todo-list" one of these days with all the requests in this thread in it...

aaight, this is cool

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The beginning of the new website is up. I say beginning because I'm not at all happy about the look of it yet, but at least it's functional and running, that's what mattered . WMPlus also got it's place here now, along with a FAQ containing a screenshot similar to the one posted in this thread earlier so people have a better reference when installing, a forum and Slim Shady's excellent icon on the Products page (on a sidenote: I will add proper credits later when I redesign all of the pages )...

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I've been doing some research, and changing the nickname in Messenger 6 is not nice. It involves opening the options screen and all, and even though I would probably be able to do it whilst keeping it hidden (got some hooking experience ) I don't think I'll try that at first...

However! I did have another idea, which I think is even better. Display Pictures. I just did some tests, and thanks to the interface Plus! provides (wasn't able to do it with an external application) I can set the display picture to anything I want. Combined with song-change-monitoring and some graphics skills, it's possible to have the current song displayed as a display picture. Of course that would involve some skin settings to customize it . I was also thinking about an option to show the WMPlus DP (display picture) for an x number of seconds, then revert back to the old, though I haven't experimented with going back yet. Either way, I've Paintshopped a small example of what it could look like. Even the shadow of the text is easily done... in fact, I might even implement monitoring code for Winamp and Sonique as well, polling every 5 seconds isn't that bad and DP changes take some time transferring to contacts anyways...


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Oh, and of course the Play button would change into a Pause button when the player is paused, etc . Just a general background change in such cases, so anything is possible...
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Here's the faked screenshot:

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME

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Originally posted by SLim Shady
THIS IS F**KING AWESOME

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LOL, guess that's a "yeah, we would appreciate such an option ". Good news is, I like it too! It'll be released in WMPlus 3...

PsychoMark, your website is looking good, WMPPlus2 is great, and the next verison is looking brilliant. What more could you want from life

Keep up the good work.

EDIT: Me cant spell

we could want it to give us free money and download songs for us, but thats asking too much i think

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
LOL, guess that's a "yeah, we would appreciate such an option ". Good news is, I like it too! It'll be released in WMPlus 3...

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when is it coming when is it coming

As always, I stopped announcing release dates a long time ago, unlike certain game companies lately . It's done when it's done. I'm currently working on the display picture rendering; the skin format has been defined, my code already loads the ZIP file, reads the skin's PNG images and information and outputs a display picture. Now working on the text rendering, the antialiasing was easy since I'm using the excellent Graphics32 library for Delphi, problem is: it doesn't support text wrapping, so I'm solving that with a bit of custom code... as soon as the first computer rendered display picture is out I'll let you know (got a test-app set up which can also be used to preview skins), so people can already start working on skins if they want (and any feature requests related to that can be included immediately)...

After that WMPlus itself will require some rewriting, building it on top of my plugin framework and of course features like (!xmpartist) and a configuration dialog will be added as well. For this reason I dropped WMPlus 2.1 and went straight to WMPlus 3, way too many additions to use minor version numbers


And thanks for the words of praise everyone, they make it all worth double

Text wrapping done. Finished the test application, made two skins and zipped it all up... so anyone interested in making skins / just seeing it in action, you can view the screenshots and download it on my forums (since it supports multiple attachments and the announcement is there anyways, didn't want to pollute this forum)...

If there are any comments, I'm sure I'll hear about it

wow i like the default skin best but well done a very good program. so this is going to automatically do all that data and figure out if it is playing paused or stopped wow! your very clever mark and how about the emoticons i made? Are you going to make an installer like you said? Anyway i would really like to test this plug-in when you are at testing status.

I will include your emoticons, don't know about the installer yet. I don't like the way current installers work; SendKeys/SendMessage. I've already figured out how Messenger stores the emoticons, but after changing it it might need a restart or another way to trigger a refresh... that's not clear to me at this point, I will however at least include them and instructions/examples on how to use 'em...


Yes, WMPlus will figure it all out and call the Display Picture generator. Speaking of which, I made quite some progress yesterday. The new core is much more flexible and completely player independant. For some quick testing I reimplemented the Winamp player, which works 100% (including tags like (!xwaartist)). As updated in the Delphi framework I posted on this forum, all output can now include tags like (!N) and (!IP) as well. Monitoring support for Winamp and Sonique players has been added, basically it's just a thread which polls the player every 5 seconds to see if something has changed... which works quite well... WMP will be instant, since I can monitor it from inside the WMP plugin...

Then, the display picture. I can say it's awesome, the tests with Winamp turned out excellent. But (yeah, there's a but ), whenever the DP changes it adds it to the list, so you can imagine how it'll grow after a day of listening music. Nobody seems to have the cure, except one guy simply cleared the whole list every time (blegh), so I'll need to run some tests on the decrypted files (thanks MS! really like my display pictures to be encrypted so we have a hard time accessing them! I mean, my picture might contain my password or something, yeah! can you smell the sarcasm?)... I think I'll be able to pull this off, just need to check how well it'd work...


I'm not sure whether or not I'll release a beta, since it wouldn't include a configuration dialog and support for /xmpcommand and the likes has been dropped (figured they wouldn't be needed anyways with a configuration dialog and the (!xmpartist) tags, unless someone really really wants those commands available )...

i downloaded it and it did nothing for me, sum1 please help me **unleash it**

I guess you're talking about WMPlus 2 now? Did you follow the installation instructions in the FAQ on the website?

yeah i followed the instructions, but when i type in the command, it just say -windows blah blah*- when it actually is

oh! windows blah blah! yes of course, get that message all the time...


In other words, please post the exact message you got

I think he's talkin' about "Windows Media Player is currently not running" or something-like-this message...

Make sure plug-in is also loaden in Windows Media Player:

Go to Tools > Plug-ins and make sure Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin is checked

Which is of course already detailed (along with a screenshot) in the FAQ

good old FAQ's you heard it people go to his site for the answers!!

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

Errr, right. Was there any reason for yawning?

yes there is the plug dont working anymore thats why i yawning but i working on it to get it working if i dont get it working you here from me oke

I've noticed that the WMPlus 2 plugin seems to work with Winamp 5.02 without any compatibility plugins. Just a heads-up so you don't stress yourself out. I know your busy...

The website already indicated so . I'm running Winamp 5 at work, and got it at home for testing as well... at least thanks for confirming

Yo, good to know! Updated info in mess.be's database

Cant wait 'till you make new version... It will be great if it will launch about same time as Plus! 3

Don't know what the schedule is for Plus! 3, or if Patchou will change the way plugins work... but I'll continue on the "when it's done" schedule. Started work on the configuration dialog, and as soon as I fix a crash in the player monitoring code that part can be integrated as well... the display pictures are pretty cool (no, no beta yet, it's all manual and hardcoded for testing ), and it can also restore the display picture set before WMPlus changed it. Using that for when WMPlus stops monitoring the player, and I think a "show playing song in DP for x seconds, then go back" option would be cool too


Anyone interested in player control btw? I was thinking about it, I know at least Winamp and WMP would be able to support it... /xmpnext would go to the next song for example. Not too sure if I'd use it, but if you guys want it WMPlus would probably be the best platform to build it on

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Anyone interested in player control btw? I was thinking about it, I know at least Winamp and WMP would be able to support it... /xmpnext would go to the next song for example. Not too sure if I'd use it, but if you guys want it WMPlus would probably be the best platform to build it on

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it's working agian

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Originally posted by xsRush
I wouldn't use it. I have WMP in the taskbar an find it easy enough to just click the buttons on the player.

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True . Got multimedia keys on my keyboard myself, so I'd have no use for it either. Ah well, I'll keep it open... for now, no demand means no code

Concentrate on DP's

Btw, this might be a skin if you want, standart WMP9 icon...

Any more news? Shouldn't we make a new thread for WMPlus 3??? It would be very cool if this was released just after msgplus 3!!!!!!!

Makin' a new thread for plugin that still has to come?



Nah i think its good like it is, and about time... well, lets just wait... I have enough cool stuff and excitment coming soon: new D-12 album, new Prophecy (of Slay Mafia) album, Messenger Plus! 3, WMPlus! 3, etc...

If everything comes in 1 day its not that cool as of they come lets say a week after each other

And you probably habe some other events to enjoy too

thats why i said just after msgplus 3. . as for thread for new plug-in not out yet, what about the countless msgplus 3 threads???? ~LoL~ anyway yes i am excited about stuff aswell.

*I'm still phsyced over the display picture feature*

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Originally posted by Fukafly
as for thread for new plug-in not out yet, what about the countless msgplus 3 threads???? ~LoL~

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anyway yes i am excited about stuff aswell.
*I'm still phsyced over the display picture feature*

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how much longer will it be i can't wait its all so cool messenger plus 3 so many gigs i am going to and my favourite plug-in gets updated

I honestly have no idea . Haven't done much work on it lately, only yesterday I had the chance to continue (company I work for still isn't stable, bringing a lot of stress). Schedule for today is at least finishing the WMP/Sonique parts so it'll function like WMPlus 2 again...

I doubt I'll release a beta version of it without the Display Picture changing. Though it adds some tags, it doesn't add that much to WMPlus 2 (apart from the internal reorganisation and a configuration dialog)...



Sorry to keep you all waiting


Quick thought: if Messenger 6.2 is released before WMPlus 3 and it supports animated GIF DPs, I might implement that into the skins as well... not only the background animating, but perhaps scrolling text for long titles as well...

wow even better display picture skins

sorry to double post but what about this as an idea being implented?

The idea was that someone wanted to send a song to a contact that they were currently playing, but they couldn't find the song in their folders.

"[08:24] <Haggard> no look in WMP's media library you get the option to display the filename. i'm sure there could be an option possibly a tag that you could type say (!XMPSHARE) that will copy the filename then do a msgplus file share tag and paste the filename"

I'm sure that this could be done don't you think?
Good idea bad idea?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Mhhhh, now that's an interesting idea... would be a command then instead of a tag, like /xmpshare, /xwashare, etc.

In fact, I got an idea for extending that; I don't share my files with Messenger but with my Apache webserver (Messenger seems to slow down dramatically after a while whereas Apache gives me the full 120 kb/sec upload throughout the file)... my MP3 folder is directly linked to that, so /xmpshare could be configurable; either send the file through MSN or (if available) map the filename to an URL (be it HTTP, FTP or whatever)... if WMPlus allows multiple path->URL "rules" and falls back on Messenger-sending in other cases it'd make for quite a nice automated system...

Don't think many other people will benefit from that added option, but I know I would for sure



Btw, I think I owe you all an apology. It's been ages since I last worked on WMPlus. I haven't been motivated at all lately, mainly due to the recent events in my job (been going up and down for the past 3 months, and unless a miracle happens we'll be all unemployed within two weeks)... the next job is waiting in line fortunately, so it'll just be a matter of time before things settle...

In the meantime, bring on the ideas!

sorry to hear about your job status but you need to earn money and live a life. i thought it was a good idea anyway. but i think you should have a defualt msn filesharing (filename finder thingymabob) in there because other users may not have apache or whatever

Yeah, that was the idea; have the file->URL mapping under a seperate tab in the options or even hidden under an Advanced button, and if none are defined or none match fall back on sending it through Messenger filesharing... and yes, it's a good idea

how's that file sharing going?

No its not that
Its What other people have it rated and an average is taking if other people has the same song they take there rating and then they take an average

What are you talking about? I was refering to a new feature of WMPlus 3 a command that will send the file you are currently listening/watching to the contact you are talking to

I don't want to be picky, but could it be posible to use the album cover as background of the DP (you can place images in the ID3 tags (at least with WMP))

Good idea, I'll take a look at it... well, once I get started again that is. Again, sorry for the delay, but with the end of the month coming getting a new job has a higher priority . Like I said, don't let that stop you from posting new ideas, just don't expect them to be implemented the next day

Question, i just downloaded this, is there any way i can make it have the title in my nick?

answer...

Kewl, thanx

Hey,
first of all, great work!! but i have a question...
it doesn't want to show the album, i always get a blank space... I'm using Winamp5

code:

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/xwacommand (!FC5){artist} - {title} - {album}(!FR) [(!FC14){position} of {length}(!FR), {status}]

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In case you didnt know, Windows Media Player 10 (or new WMP9 build) beta is out, 2nd edit: doesnt work ok with the plugin, colour tags do not work for people without Messenger Plus!.
Any info on WMPlus 3?

PS 1st post just to let you know

georges000: Winamp doesn't publish the album information through it's API. Might be able to work around it by parsing the ID3 tags from the file myself, but that's something for the future... for now, the album tag simply doesn't work...

trentsteel: I heard about the WMP 10 beta (thanks fukafly ), but I won't take a look yet. With such early betas it just isn't worth the investigation time . In theory it should be backwards compatible with the plugin, as WMP 8 was to 7 and 9 to 8...


As for WMPlus 3, nothing new basically, same story as before. Still don't have a new job, although the last interview went well... some day WMPlus 3 will be finished, I do not intend to abandon it at all, but don't expect any overnight releases

WMP10 is in ALPHA testing it is mainly GUI changes its not amazing. Only new features i see are the ability to view pictures or TV if you have a TV card, it also has bugs in the library section and isn't as user friendly as WMP9 was this is why you shouldn't download the beta's/alpha's becasue you get buggy crap software. WMPlus 2 does work with WMP10 i should know. WMPlus 3 is on hold at the moment because mark's company went bankrupt so he is looking for a new job i wish him all the best of luck in finding one (mainly so he can earn some money and get down to WMPlus 3 )

Good day today! Had time and motivation, so WMPlus 3 was up for some development... so it's time for a little status report.



Current status

• Windows Media Player and Winamp re-implemented
  
• Communication with WMP plugin more stable (no registry used, although it still writes the info there for legacy purposes)
  
• Usual commands, as well as tags like (!xmpartist) working
  
• Internal support for full output customization
  
• Display Pictures generation and restoring is stable
  
• Album Art as background for DP
  
• File sharing (/xmpshare starts a file transfer with the media file currently playing)

• Making the configuration dialog actually work (all it does now is look pretty )
  
• Get rid of the manual test code and make the DP auto-update
  
• Add an option to restore the original DP after X seconds

Aight, cool! I also found a way to rip da icons directly from wmploc.dll to *.PNG's, so they look just 100% good with 0% editing

Good work on plugin, I can't wait

Great work , the feature list looks awsome , I use WMPlus 2 a lot, so I'm realy gonna like MWPlus 3.

Keep up the good work

(I didn't even think the "Album Art as background for DP" was possible, incredible job)

Pure_BY: excellent! Any day you feel like sharing, I could use 'em for the default skin, and I'm sure Fukafly could use 'em for the emoticons set (credits to both of ya!)

Martijn: thanks!

Yep, just say when you so far with WMPlus 3 that you need 'em, and i'll rip and attach 'em to a zip

Btw, if you forgot, my previous name was "SLim Shady", i was that big WMPlus 2 lover, hehe

Still love it btw, and lookin' forward to WMPlus 3

i hope to see these emoticons i'm guessing that the play one isn't 19x19 because i had to edit that one down to size with a skin i made. although i fele like i have wasted alot of time editing those pics i hope that the everyone enjoyed using my pack obviously i'm not going to go hacking into files to get icons i'll just learn how to code in VB and make my one and only plan to make a money converter plugin

The play icon? Ahm... u mean the play button? Well it is impossible to rip buttons from wmploc.dll, as they are not saved there as separate componetns... The way it looks like is just the same as screenshot of Play button, cropped to 50x50 or summttin'

What I was talkin' about, were icons... Like Album, Artist, Playlist, etc. Those can be ripped without any problems

I will rip en post 'em tomorrow.

So, see, not all your work is for nuttin'

ok just checked out some image rippinf programs using AT mole i discovered that the images your talking about are still in need of slight editing afterwards I've already done this so whats the point in doing it again?

Ahm... No point... I was not talkin' about that play and pause images...

I was talkin' about artist, album, etc. images... THey way i rip em requres no editing at all, besides makin' 16x16 icons 19x19 by adding some transparency..

They must look beter than edited ones, no matter what way they were edited :/

well go for it then upload em

This is pack with icons I ripped, that I thought anyone might ever want to use...

ok shame i dunno what program you used to rip the emoticons because there are a few ones i wouldn't mind being taken from my version of WMP (T.V. Picture and Year) picture is just a square so that easy to edit TV I'm not so sure i think it could be better because it may have been blended with the background colour (black) and year is quite shapey (like the genre icon) so your method would come in handy



ANYWAY here is the next version of WMPlus Icons includeing a .txt of a popular xmp format

I use ResHacker to save Icon resources, and AWIcons Pro ( http://www.awicons.com ) to transform them to 100% quality PNG's. Photoshop CS to resize PNG's

Btw, in credits... That "a.k.a. SLim Shady" thingie can be removed... And.. the "y" of "Pure_By" in capital pls

you picky so and so

EDIT: OK then all done thanks for that took a while to find the images but i found them

Best version of WMPlus Icons is now available here

perfect, thanx!

Looking great!


Just so you guys know, someone made an excellent suggestion on the WMPlus forum, which will definitely be implemented...

Idea about DP is good

But I also agree with the dude, that WMPlus should not show song rating if it's not set! I rate about 80% of songs i have, but it really annoys me, when I play a song that is not rated and it shows the rating of 3 stars

Sidenote: WMPlus 3 correctly reads the rating assigned by WMP when you haven't set it yourself... WMPlus 2 would get confused by that...

Cool, but... What do you mean by "reading a rating that you did not set by yourself"? Will it display correct number of automatically given stars, or will it display nothing?

I prefere the last option, cuz' WMP sometimes gives 4 start so songs i literally never played... So..

It displays the auto-rating. When leaving out the rating some additional text would need to be left out as well (like "Rating: "), which means it either needs a completely seperate output format, or have some kind of obscure tagging mechanism to indicate which parts to leave out...

Hey real tight PlugIn homie but every time I try to run a command it says I aint runnin a song, while I am.
I didn't read all the 33 pages so it might have been stated before, while I didnt read.
You got any idea what's up?

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Originally posted by Jorris
Hey real tight PlugIn homie but every time I try to run a command it says I aint runnin a song, while I am.
I didn't read all the 33 pages so it might have been stated before, while I didnt read.
You got any idea what's up?

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Martijn sounds like dutch, send me a pm if you are.
so ya can state the dutch names

will the new version of this plugin work with WMP10
because the latest version doesnt work with it

last post on this page...

And I may have said it as well, not sure, but I will not even look at WMP10 until it is out of beta and into release, so compatibility issues with it will have to wait once most bugs are out of WMP... no point in "fixing" WMPlus otherwise

it works for me I dunno whats wrong with everyone elses

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Originally posted by Fukafly
it works for me I dunno whats wrong with everyone elses

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Jorris, if ya problem is not solved bu solution Martijn gave u, it's also possibele that plugin is not activated in WMP itself.. Go to your Windows Media Player, than Tools > Plugins > Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin, make sure it is acrivated. Than start playin' a song (if you are already playin' one, replay ot or play another one...)

Here is screenshot.. Go to Now Playing (Afspelen in Dutch version), and than just do da same as on this screenshot:



Hope that helps

The contacts not seeing color is because they don't have Plus!, and WMPlus assumes they do by outputting the status and such in color... you can change everything with WMPlus 3, including the status text/colors, so that would solve it...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
The contacts not seeing color is because they don't have Plus!, and WMPlus assumes they do by outputting the status and such in color... you can change everything with WMPlus 3, including the status text/colors, so that would solve it...

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Originally posted by Pure_BY
Jorris, if ya problem is not solved bu solution Martijn gave u, it's also possibele that plugin is not activated in WMP itself.. Go to your Windows Media Player, than Tools > Plugins > Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin, make sure it is acrivated. Than start playin' a song (if you are already playin' one, replay ot or play another one...)

Here is screenshot.. Go to Now Playing (Afspelen in Dutch version), and than just do da same as on this screenshot:



Hope that helps

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Originally posted by Pure_BY
Jorris, if ya problem is not solved bu solution Martijn gave u, it's also possibele that plugin is not activated in WMP itself.. Go to your Windows Media Player, than Tools > Plugins > Messenger Plus! WMP Plugin, make sure it is acrivated. Than start playin' a song (if you are already playin' one, replay ot or play another one...)

Here is screenshot.. Go to Now Playing (Afspelen in Dutch version), and than just do da same as on this screenshot:



Hope that helps

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Originally posted by trentsteel
Even people with Plus! did not see it properly, with both the Ctrl + K and (!FC*) formats

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thanks for the screenshot Pure_BY i just got WMP10 and fought that the plugin didnt work but it does just i forgot to click on it in the plugins bit your screenshot reminded me thanks

You welcome, and screenshot is not mine, its from official WMPlus website FAQ 

But good that it worked

I really like this program, except it doesnt work anymore!
Everytime I type /xmp (yes I use mediaplayer and yes it did work before) it always types the same song... and it says it has been stopped...
What is wrong? It just suddenly didn't work anymore!
Best Regards
Kilomil

did you happen to reinstall it at all

Have you made sure the Media Player plugin is loaded correctly? As indicated in the first post on this page (the quote that is)...

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Originally posted by Kilomil
I really like this program, except it doesnt work anymore!
Everytime I type /xmp (yes I use mediaplayer and yes it did work before) it always types the same song... and it says it has been stopped...
What is wrong? It just suddenly didn't work anymore!
Best Regards
Kilomil

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Have you made sure the Media Player plugin is loaded correctly? As indicated in the first post on this page (the quote that is)...

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Pure_BY
Your plugin is disabled in WMP9!!!

Enable it:

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Originally posted by Kilomil
I just think it's wierd that it has been disabled, but wtf... now I know, Thanx guys
Best Regards

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Is there anything special you have to have for the plugin to work?

Just Messenger Plus! and either WMP, Winamp 2 or 5 or Sonique...

I'm using WMP and wene I'm listening to a song, and I use the command it dont tell the person what I'm listening to help?

Is the WMP part of the plugin activated? Take a look at the previous page of this thread, or read the WMPlus FAQ for instructions...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Is the WMP part of the plugin activated? Take a look at the previous page of this thread, or read the WMPlus FAQ for instructions...

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Yes, we have determined before that WMP 7 will not work correctly . An upgrade to WMP 9 is recommended... I will list this as a requirement...

Daym, I gotta upgrade that again?? I just upgraded that from 5.0 to 7.0 lol dern

So, WMP10 Beta is officially out, and WMPlus 2 works perfect.

Because of this new release, here is also a new logo. Now it looks much smoother (same smooth on any cbackground), and I replaced WMP9 play button wit WMP10 play button. Hope you like it!

HOWEVER! Mark says he is still not prepared to adjust WMPlus 3 to suit WMP10 until it is out of its BETA period

There is nothing to ajust...

Btw, i dunno if u spoke to him or not, but when he was sayin in this thread he wont do anything about plugin until WMP10 is ready, he meant the leaked (alpha?) version that was not supposed to be installed on other peoples PC's.

The release of public Beta is already next step of paying attention to compability wit WMP10

But, as I said, it functions perfectly on my PC so far, so no need for worry

i did speak to him and it was as I said out of its beta period whether it is leaked or not

hmm ok than... But i am pretty sure, if plugin works now, it will also work in final version. Later WMPlus 3 might make use of some of the new WMP10 features or whatever, but i am pretty sure that current engine for displayin main media information (so, in fact all the WMPlus 2 fearures, besides customization, but thats a Plus! part) will work stable without changes on WMP10 final. At least lets hope so

yes it looks like WMPlus 3. whatever (when WMP10 is released) will need to display TV but i don't really care about the pictures part of it

Where is the readme file with the commands?

I need to know how to put a song and artist on my nick (thru WinAmp) ... can anyone post all the commands here?

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Originally posted by DiegoCJ
Where is the readme file with the commands?

I need to know how to put a song and artist on my nick (thru WinAmp) ... can anyone post all the commands here?

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so WMP 10 has been officially released now.

Best start working again Mark

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/pla...load/download.aspx

It does not work with WMP 10 Final (10.00.00.3646) French ... I just installed the version from the website.

Windows Version : Windows XP, 5.01.2600 SP1 French
Messenger Version : 6.2.0137
Messenger Plus! Version : 3.01.0094

NowPlaying v2.0 by DJMystic && Lareamond
StuffPlug-NG
WMPlus 2

EDIT : Nevermind It works ! Must restarted WMP after installation...

Great, let's see if they added some of the suggestions I made

all the icons are different new WMP icon pack maybe

To be honest; I've dumped it and went back to Winamp 5... some things I like, and it's certainly faster and more stable than the beta, but the new icons are ugly and lack contrast and it's hard to navigate the library without having to look twice in every step... I'm keeping it installed for WMPlus, but other than that I'm disappointed...

when i go to say my current media there is some songs and now that i have windows media player 10 its says  (no song currently playing) and i have reinstalled the newest version from the owners site and plus site the plugins menu is checked on in the media player and plus preferences

any ideas as to what is going on??

Is this project dead? :/

You could definitely say it's dying slowly... not using WMP anymore so it's hard to find motivation to carry on with all the other stuff I've got going...

So you won't make it WMP 10 compatible?

What's not WMP10 compatible about it? So far the only complaints I had regarding WMP10 could be solved by making sure the plugin is active...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
You could definitely say it's dying slowly... not using WMP anymore so it's hard to find motivation to carry on with all the other stuff I've got going...

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i know this project was great you did so much with the Display pictures and everything

you must have nearly completed it anyway, it would be great if different versions of this were released for iTunes and stuff

Note that I didn't say the project died yet. I still like the idea and all, it's just that with all the other stuff it hasn't been given much priority... so it basically has a floating time-frame at this point...

If someone has a problem with WMPlus I'll still provide support.
If anyone has info on getting iTunes song information I'd be more than happy to know. And if someone knows how to get Foobar2000 song information that might just be the spark to get it running again (since that's the player I currently use until I find a better one)... but again; it all depends on my available time and motivation

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
What's not WMP10 compatible about it? So far the only complaints I had regarding WMP10 could be solved by making sure the plugin is active...

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Note that I didn't say the project died yet. I still like the idea and all, it's just that with all the other stuff it hasn't been given much priority... so it basically has a floating time-frame at this point...

If someone has a problem with WMPlus I'll still provide support.
If anyone has info on getting iTunes song information I'd be more than happy to know. And if someone knows how to get Foobar2000 song information that might just be the spark to get it running again (since that's the player I currently use until I find a better one)... but again; it all depends on my available time and motivation

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Found a bug with WMP 10. Already mailed it to PsychoMark. My friend also has the same problem so it's not because of me :

If you open a file (ie. you double click on a file in windows exlorer) and you do the xmp thing in msn it says '(no song currently playing)'. If you reload the plugin (in WMP) it still says it. If you then click next, or you double click on the song again it do works... It looks like it always happens with the first song you play when you start WMP 10....

Sys:
XP Prof SP2
WMP 10 (Dutch)
MSN Messenger: 6.2.0137
Messenger Plus!e: 3.21.0104

Hi everyone!

Sorry to keep you all in the dark. I read some posts; got a few mails after Markus' call to the community, and Fukafly was right about me picking up WMPlus 3 a few days ago, so very slow progress has been made. I would still like to note there's no way it's beta-material; all hardwired to run on my system, once that's stable I can make it all dynamic and configurable. The fact that I stepped away from WMP10 didn't help my motivation much either.

Anyways, I'll try to work on it and get a working version for you guys, it seems there's just too many happy WMPlus2 users to ignore . Winter season's here so I should be at home more in the weekends and all... no promises, but again wanted to let you all know I still appreciate all the positive things I hear so I do honestly intend to finish WMPlus3 once and for all...



And yes, the first-song bug has been in there for quite a while. I think WMP9 also suffered from it, should be fixed in the WMPlus3 plugin (which features more fancy techniques than the registry, though the old method is still there for compatibility in case anyone was relying on that information)...

Hey PsychoMark... good to hear from you, a namesake (thnx to Van Dale dictionary), again .

Sounds good . I hope you will be able to finish WMPlus 3.

I'm still using WMPlus 2, but never had any problems with WMP9... only with 10. Can't you make a bugfix version, before working on WMPlus 3, which fixes this little bug ?

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Originally posted by PsychoMark
Hi everyone!

Sorry to keep you all in the dark. I read some posts; got a few mails after Markus' call to the community, and Fukafly was right about me picking up WMPlus 3 a few days ago, so very slow progress has been made. I would still like to note there's no way it's beta-material; all hardwired to run on my system, once that's stable I can make it all dynamic and configurable. The fact that I stepped away from WMP10 didn't help my motivation much either.

Anyways, I'll try to work on it and get a working version for you guys, it seems there's just too many happy WMPlus2 users to ignore . Winter season's here so I should be at home more in the weekends and all... no promises, but again wanted to let you all know I still appreciate all the positive things I hear so I do honestly intend to finish WMPlus3 once and for all...



And yes, the first-song bug has been in there for quite a while. I think WMP9 also suffered from it, should be fixed in the WMPlus3 plugin (which features more fancy techniques than the registry, though the old method is still there for compatibility in case anyone was relying on that information)...

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thinking of foobar support?

I got foobar and used it for a while, so I'll check out some of the other plugins to see how they're doing it. Maybe not in v3.0 (unless it has a Winamp-compatibility-plugin like iTunes, but I don't call that "WMPlus supporting foobar" ), but it's on my wishlist...

nice please make it foobar friendly!

Btw, that cool feature you wanted to add... DP changing to album cover of album you're listenin' to... Will that work or MSN Messenger 7?

and also, dunno if I've posted this already, here is a new logo for your program:


And can you give us some more info about development? Thanks!

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Btw, that cool feature you wanted to add... DP changing to album cover of album you're listenin' to... Will that work or MSN Messenger 7?

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Originally posted by Pure_BY
And can you give us some more info about development? Thanks!

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hi psycho, any news about development?

well i talked to him the other day and he appears to be making some development, hopefully the development emails will start coming out again. YAY

very happy to hear that
hope we will see a messenger 7 compatible version soon...
now i'm using mpwinamp plugin now and it works good but I really want song2avatar feature and it hasn't that

use song2nick that has the avatar option if your going to use it to do iTunes you need multi plugin for itunes if your going to use it for WMP you need WMPlus

I want song2avatar with winamp 5, song2nick has it but it doesn't work with messenger 7 beta and it doesn't seem wouter is going to update it ...

So... How's the progress?