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Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to make a flash signature displaying what you are currently listening to on a program such as Windows Media Player, does anyone have any links to a tutorial?

dunno about flash, but it can be done by image, search google..

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http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~ltnevala/nowplaying/index.php

Thats the tutorial/plugin for Winamp.

To do it in Flash you'd have to set a onEnterFrame to connect to the PHP file and get the variables. Then set them to text fields. Though that would be a little CPU hog, you'd have to set intervals for the onEnterFrame to start, rather than constantly run.

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hey exiot,

out of curiousity and boredom I downloaded the plugin from the link Musoka posted (cool post, btw), and played around a bit and came up with an "easy" way to do this in flash.. hopefully you're fairly flash and xml savvy, but here's what to do.. In the np_templates directoy created inside your winamp directory create a new html file named xmlTemplate.html and just copy and paste this into it:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<songInfo>
<song>
<artist>[np:Artist1]</artist>
<title>[np:Title1]</title>
<album>[np:Album1]</album>
</song>
<song>
<artist>[np:Artist2]</artist>
<title>[np:Title2]</title>
<album>[np:Album2]</album>
</song>
<song>
<artist>[np:Artist3]</artist>
<title>[np:Title3]</title>
<album>[np:Album3]</album>
</song>
<song>
<artist>[np:Artist4]</artist>
<title>[np:Title4]</title>
<album>[np:Album4]</album>
</song>
<song>
<artist>[np:Artist5]</artist>
<title>[np:Title5]</title>
<album>[np:Album5]</album>
</song>
</songInfo>

in the plugin options in winamp set that xmlTemplate.html as your html template and have it output an HTML file named "np.html" and have it FTP'd to the server/directory of your choice..

Now, in Flash, you can use something like this (this is ACTIONSCRIPT - not PHP):

PHP:

<?php
var nowPlaying:XML = new XML();
nowPlaying.ignoreWhite = true;
nowPlaying.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        var mySongList:String = "<b><u>Currently listening to:</u></b>\n";
        var myList:Array = this.firstChild.childNodes;
        var listLength:Number = myList.length;
        for (var i = 0; i < listLength; i++) {
            if (i == 1) {
                mySongList += "\n<b><u>Previously:</u></b>\n";
            }
            var mySong:Array = myList[i].childNodes;
            var songLength:Number = mySong.length;
            mySongList += "\n";
            for (var n = 0; n < songLength; n++) {
                if (mySong[n].firstChild != null) {
                    mySongList += mySong[n].nodeName + ": ";
                    mySongList += mySong[n].firstChild + "\n";
                }
            }
        }
        songList_txt.htmlText = mySongList;
    } else {
        trace("couldn't load that ****.");
    }
};
//  point this to correct directoy...
nowPlaying.load("np.html?noCache="+Math.random()*9999);
?>

Your final output to your html enabled text field named "songList_txt" will look like this:

Quote:

Currently listening to:

artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
title: Hard on for Love
album: Your Funeral...My Trial

Previously:

artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
title: Jacks Shadow
album: Your Funeral...My Trial

artist: The Velvet Underground
title: Heroin
album: The Best Of The Velvet Underground

I hope that helps you out.. I know it's a bit sketchy, but it's a start.. someday if I have some time and someone needs it, I'll write a tutorial proper..

d.

edit: forgot to mention - you'll need to reload that xml on occasion with a setInterval as Musoka was saying.. Unless you're listening to very short songs a 5 minute interval or so should suffice..

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Last edited by devonair, July 3rd, 2005 09:13 PM (Edited 3 times)