Windows Media Player?

[AlexV]

Is there a plugin available to display information from Windows Media Player? I haven't spotted one, but maybe I just haven't looked in the right place...

[limbo]

I thought I was posted a message about it.

The only way I know till today is to install the "now playing" plugin for media player http://members.fortunecity.com/wilmahoney/main.html
Install it following the instructions!

After that goto "Properties..." and set the information you want to display
to your LCD. And of course the txt file.

You can display the information provided by this plug-in with the $File command of LCD Smartie.. e.g.[$File(C:\np_info.txt,1)]

Good Luck

[Jumpin' Jon]

Another way to pull the "Now Playing" information from Windows Medai Player is to install the WMP Blogging Plug-in from the WMP Fun Pack. This populates registry keys with the current track information, which can then be displayed using the RegistryReader plug-in.

So, the Smartie lines could look like this:

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Artist: $dll(RegistryReader,1,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\CurrentMetadata,Author)
Track:  $dll(RegistryReader,1,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\CurrentMetadata,Title)
Album:  $dll(RegistryReader,1,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\CurrentMetadata,Album)

EDIT: Just tried this at home and it works very well. Although, when WMP isn't loaded, the Registry keys vanish which means RegistryReader shows "Could not find..." messages instead -- not perfect.

JJ

[Jumpin' Jon]

I just posted an alternative to the method above. More detail here.

JJ