Squeezebox plugin

[bart]

I have a Slimdevices Squeezebox, I also have a VFD hanging off my parallel port. How about a plugin to echo what is displayed on the Squeezebox onto the VFD?
(The Slimserver software is open-source and written in perl, if that helps)

About a year ago Slimdevices upgraded their VFDs from 40*2 to 280*16 and offered existing customers an uppgrade path, so many Squeezebox owners will have a 40*2 VFD sitting around unused.

[limbo]

Hi Bart

What are some of the URLs I can use to access special features on Squeezebox2 and SlimServer?
Replace "localhost" in the following URLs with the IP address of your SlimServer computer.
........
To get the "Now Playing" and current playlist listing:
http://localhost:9000/status.html
For more information, see the HTTP interface documentation.

Can you access the info you need using the above information?
(found on FAQ)
Let me now about it, may be a hope to access them via a custom created dll

[bart]

If I use http://localhost:9000/status.txt then I get the current track in plain text and the position in the playlist eg (1 of 5) which would be a start.
There is a java software version of the Squeezebox available at
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/
which will show you what the display looks like - it also shows that someone has been able to successfully replicate what is displayed on the Squeezebox.

[bart]

I see that there has been some recent discussion on the Slimdevices forum about using the command line interface...
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15137

[limbo]

Tried before to get help from squeeeze box forums (without success)..
I will give it a try again, I believe that I can spend some time to this.