Winamp Plug-in Details

Author's Comment:

Allows Winamp to notify mIRC of what track you are playing.
This plug-in lets Winamp talk to mIRC to execute a command based on whatyou play in Winamp.

- Justin Frankel

Staff Review:

Heads up IRC
Not sure if we need every one on IRC telling us what mp3 they are playing, but I guess its cool for Shoutcast stations.c-

Random Review:

Really needs documentation
I got the plug-in to work after taking a clue from Jakob Kobberholm, below. Unfortunately, nothing I've seen here was complete enough to get it working without a bit of reading, a lot of fiddling and too much friction in the channel.-----------------------------------------------------In the plug-in, I checked the box titled "mIRC support enabled" and entered:/z %sin the "Text to send field." The /z can be any unused mIRC alias.In mIRC's Scripts Editor, I added the following lines to the Aliases file:/z /set %WinAmp.Currentsong $$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13 $14 $15 $16 $17 $18 $19 $20 $21 $22 *and* /p /me is listening to %WinAmp.CurrentsongThe /z matches the alias I chose in the plug-in. /z is called by the plug-in and passed %s which mIRC seems to parse into multiple pieces. Hence we use up to 22 variables to receive the pieces and assign them to %WinAmp.Currentsong.The /p is my trigger for announcing what mp3 is playing at any time. Again, it can be any mIRC alias not already used for another purpose.Almost immediately when WinAmp starts playing an MP3, the song name is passed to mIRC and you can then trigger the alias to report the title to the current mIRC window. Doing it this way puts you in control of notifying the channel, rather than having the plug-in always send an announcement at the start of each track.I am using WinAmp v.2.91 and mIRC v.6.12.Jeff Newman

- Jeff Newman, Oct. 23rd, 2003

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