Controlling winamp 3 though another program.

george3 · 28th March 2002, 01:54

I was just surfing the web and came accross an tie of Winamp2 and PHP. http://www.overloadinteractive.com/kg/

I was playing around with it under winamp2 and 3. It uses httpQ to control winamp. When I tried it under 3 it had limited support for the controls, basicly it was only able to play, stop, pause, etc. The plug-in is capibal of controling the EQ, play list, etc.

To cut to the chase I was wondering if it would be possibal to have PHP work with winamp directly instead of a third party plug-in. Would it be possibal or would I have to do some tweaks or some stuff to winamp?

george3 · 28th March 2002, 03:10

I should been a little bit more spacific. I did use the plug-in with the winamp2 plug-in manger for winamp3. What I'm trying to get at is if it is possibal to get PHP to send commands to winamp3 directly without the plug-in.

schweitn · 28th March 2002, 03:22

It would require a plugin...

but lately I've been seeing some stuff go into the sdk that would make this a rather trivial task... for one they are adding a service that would make this simple...

its called svc_eval... and you write one for different types of expressions you would like to evaluate... you'd just have to write one for php

- then write your php script.

28th March 2002, 01:54	#1
george3 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 13	Controlling winamp 3 though another program. I was just surfing the web and came accross an tie of Winamp2 and PHP. http://www.overloadinteractive.com/kg/ I was playing around with it under winamp2 and 3. It uses httpQ to control winamp. When I tried it under 3 it had limited support for the controls, basicly it was only able to play, stop, pause, etc. The plug-in is capibal of controling the EQ, play list, etc. To cut to the chase I was wondering if it would be possibal to have PHP work with winamp directly instead of a third party plug-in. Would it be possibal or would I have to do some tweaks or some stuff to winamp?

28th March 2002, 03:22	#3
schweitn Winamp3 Component Guuuru Beta Team Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 1,068	It would require a plugin... but lately I've been seeing some stuff go into the sdk that would make this a rather trivial task... for one they are adding a service that would make this simple... its called svc_eval... and you write one for different types of expressions you would like to evaluate... you'd just have to write one for php - then write your php script. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Winamp 3 Projects \| Winamp 2x Plugin Manager \| Explorer Playlist \| FileSystem Object \| Shoutcast List \| Sashimi

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28th March 2002, 03:10	#2
george3 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 13	I should been a little bit more spacific. I did use the plug-in with the winamp2 plug-in manger for winamp3. What I'm trying to get at is if it is possibal to get PHP to send commands to winamp3 directly without the plug-in.