ListenTo this.

[Brandon Martus]

You can now have what song you are lisetning to automatically appended each and every time you post something on the forums.

You need Winamp3, and a little Maki script I wrote, called ListenTo.

go here for details & instructions


It will append the song name when replying and posting new threads. It will not change when editing.

It only will show a song that was recorded being played in the past 4 minutes. (time subject to change)

If you'd like to make something like this for your favorite mp3 player, send me an e-mail, and I will give you all the information necessary to make it happen.


Yes, there will be more website-side features, but its 3:30am.. yikes.

[Trashed20]

are you going to be really cool and make the source for the maki and php script available? cause this would be cool for many sites, with due credit of course

[Jeff Waegelin]

How do I put this in my signature? It's not working for me.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Trashed20
are you going to be really cool and make the source for the maki and php script available? cause this would be cool for many sites, with due credit of course

Eventually, yes.

I have to take out the hard-coded URL in the script, so that other people can use it.

That will happen next version. :-)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Anyway to make it work for winamp 2.8x?

[Brandon Martus]

A plug-in will have to be written for Winamp 2.x, if you want it to work.

I don't plan on doing a 2.x version. If anybody is interested, I will tell them what all is required to be sent to the URL to make it work correctly.

Same with any other media player.

For all you Mac users: I have an AppleScript I may try to modify, so this will work with iTunes. We'll see.

[Clark Gilbert]

Is this just random and it puts it in only sometimes? I've posted about 4 times since i've been using it and none of them have showed up...

Anyone wanna help me out?

oh ya..if i look under my history it puts

(fixed)
Could it be that i'm editing the xml thingy wrong?

[Joel J]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
Is this just random and it puts it in only sometimes? I've posted about 4 times since i've been using it and none of them have showed up...

Anyone wanna help me out?

oh ya..if i look under my history it puts

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/po...ve&YEAR =2001

Could it be that i'm editing the xml thingy wrong?

I think you forgot to put in your CD username.. instead of saying USER=Clark%20Gilbert it says USER=Username%20Here

[Clark Gilbert]

But the XML says



<container id="CDBrow" name="Browser">

<layout id="normal" drawbackground="0" desktopalpha="1">

<layer id="move" x="2" y="2" image="CDBrow.move"/>

<text id="cdUSER" default="Clark Gilbert"/>
<text id="cdPASS" default="PASSWORD REMOVED BY BRANDON "/> <--i was wondering about that (fixed)-clark

<browser id="brow" x="0" y="0"/>

</layout>

</container>

[Brandon Martus]

It works like this:

Song plays and Winamp MiniBrowser opens a URL (out of sight)

In the next 4 minutes, any post on the forums will contain that song. Unless of course, another song starts -- in which case that song will show up (for 4 minutes).

I will be making a page on here soon, to show your last 4-5 songs .. and what you are currently listening to. So, if you post, and nothing shows up -- you will be able to go to that page and see if a song was recorded in the past 4 minutes.


So, I don't know why yours is randomly not showing up. I'll make that page right now, so we can make sure stuff is recording properly.

[Brandon Martus]

Oh yeah.

The following are required for the song to be logged:

• username
• password
• title (id3)
• artist (id3)

That could explain why some songs are not being logged.

[Yan Wang]

Yay, the winamp script is working though the 4min thing makes it so the song doesn't register sometimes.

[Chris Nowak]

just a thought but is it censored if you are listening to a song with "bad" words in the title? I'm not planning on listening to anything like that but im interested b/c its a mistake someone might make.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Brandon Martus

Yes, there will be more website-side features, but its 3:30am.. yikes.

Look up in the 'Site Navigation' drop-down. I threw an item up there so you can see some ListenTo stats.

Or, go to http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/mp3list.php

More may be added, thats all I got for now. Time for some TextTwist

[evulish]

Brandon, if you'd like to send the stuff my way (evulish[at]epix.net) I could make an attempt to make a plugin for XMMS for the...what? 3 linux users here Not that I'll ever use it or anything...but just to make an attempt at programming C