NowPlaying plugin - Multiple Media Player Support

[KreAch3R]

You 're welcome.

[offtopic]So, I installed winamp to check what you 're saying. So, you hide it from the taskbar completely, and in the tray it just sits in the drawer, right? it can't be fully hidden from there. Or is it some other setting that I didn't see?[/offtopic]

[thatsIch]

You 're welcome.

[offtopic]So, I installed winamp to check what you 're saying. So, you hide it from the taskbar completely, and in the tray it just sits in the drawer, right? it can't be fully hidden from there. Or is it some other setting that I didn't see?[/offtopic]

nope you can hide it from tray too,

option > preferences > general settings > show winamp in [ ]Taskbar] [ ] Traybar


just take both hooks from bottom right thingy there

[thatsIch]

That's the reason why I use winamp, too. (But I just hide the trayicon)

And if the name of the file has the title and artist you can use the auto-tagger function in winamp.
Just right-click on the track -> send to -> auto-tagger. And then you should have everything from title, artist, album ... to year. And then you get the lyrics, too!

this makes me curious, how you get the lyrics oO

€: nvm got it, lol very funny
thanks!
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[Litheroy]

From this thread and others on the MediaMonkey forums it seems like MediaMonkey is supposed to work with the latest NowPlaying plugin. However, I cannot seem to get any communications going . . . I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing these problems. Has something changed?

I am using the latest version of Rainmeter 2.3.3 r1522 and MediaMonkey 4.0.5.1496 on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.

Anyone also experiencing this?

Update!
Well, I am very happy to report using Rainmeter 2.4.0 beta r1613 64-bit, and a skin called "Box Player II" ... My MediaMonkey 4.0.6.1501 is now fully functional. On top of all that I'm on Windows 8 Pro RTM (build 9200) at the moment. Thanks!

[Valentine]

Winamp Version is 5.63.
Winamp does not connect my skin(using nowplaying.dll)
Rainmeter version is 2.4.0 r1617

[thatsIch]

Winamp Version is 5.63.
Winamp does not connect my skin(using nowplaying.dll)
Rainmeter version is 2.4.0 r1617

what you mean with "does not connect my skin"?
For me it works with Winamp

using newest RC of RM and WA too

[KreAch3R]

Check if your skin uses the correct PlayerName.

[Valentine]

what you mean with "does not connect my skin"?
For me it works with Winamp

using newest RC of RM and WA too

Check if your skin uses the correct PlayerName.

Oh! my.... I made mistake. Sorry

[Mordasius]

I've been using some of my old MusicPlayer skins with MusicBee and have noticed occasions when [mPlayer] doesn't return anything for the track title. I have set Player=CAD and there are no problems when using WMP.

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[mPlayer]
Measure=PLUGIN
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=#Player#
PlayerType=TITLE
PlayerPath=

There have also been times when the album art doesn't display. NowPlaying works with WMP but MusicBee seems to need to have the album art embedded in the MP3 before it can show it with:

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[mAlbumArt]
Measure=PLUGIN
Plugin=NowPlaying.dll
PlayerName=[mPlayer]
PlayerType=COVER

Is this normal?

Edit: I've also found that left-clicking on the following opens MusicBee but only after it has crashed Rainmeter.

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[MtDeskTop]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=#desktopicon#
SolidColor=00000001
ToolTipText="Open Music Player"
LeftMouseUpAction=[!CommandMeasure "mPlayer" "OpenPlayer"] 

[thatsIch]

ya different player handle the internal information different.
Some player can fetch their data from external internet sources.