My new plugin: AjaxAMP Network Control

[WoundedLion]

Just finished my first plugin. I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.

It basically allows you to control Winamp from any web browser. Not the first of this type of plugin, but I think the most complete and unique in the way the interface is done. It runs as a lightweight web server inside Winamp and uses the XmlHttpRequest object (AJAX) to handle communication between the client's web browser and the server.

This version imitates the Winamp Modern skin. I am most interested in adding full skinning support, whereby the web interface would reflect whatever skin is currently in use on the server, but I'm struggling with a way to ask Winamp for the main player console bitmap and associated button coordinates. Does the API provide any such facility?

You can find the plugin .dll here.
http://mp3whore.mine.nu/gen_AjaxAMP.dll
Just drop it in the Plugins folder, start Winamp, and point a web browser to the computer's IP address at port 5151 e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5151

Let me know what you think.

-WoundedLion

[will]

Wow!

Thats fucking awesome. What a great idea

If you added support for the media library it would be even better

[Joonas]

I agree. Really cool plugin. But there seems to be some faulty code on shutdown...when I debugged DL gen_AjaxAMP.dll caused a lot (like 50-100) access violations...

[WoundedLion]

Thanks for the comments.

I would definitely like to eradicate any bugs. What OS are you running? I haven't noticed any crashes, but I've only tested on winXP and win2000. It happens every time you close winamp?

Much appreciated,
WoundedLion

[Joonas]

Originally posted by WoundedLion
Thanks for the comments.

I would definitely like to eradicate any bugs. What OS are you running? I haven't noticed any crashes, but I've only tested on winXP and win2000. It happens every time you close winamp?

Much appreciated,
WoundedLion

I run Windows XP with SP2. It is not noticeable outside of the debugger tho...but I get a lot of these first-chance access violation first...A LOT of those...and then a nasty crash. But only in debugger..

[WoundedLion]

Interesting. I will dig into it when I get home. Thanks for the heads up.

-WoundedLion

[Caledonia]

Hi WoundedLion,

Very VERY cool! I digd into the ”api” and found the ”playfile” command which works perfectly (and “playplaylist” – haven’t tested), but already now i have a suggestion: How about a “playdirectory” command? Please? Yes? Smiley face etc. :-)

And maybe a “has play list changed”.. Thou "getplaylistlength” != last play list length is ok.

Oh oh, and maybe a short “playlist.xml” version like “playlist.xml?crop=10” that will get 10 trakcs before and after the current “getplaylistpos”.

Btw, ”setplaylistpos” needs a ”play” after call, or else winamp will shift track, status etc. but keep playing the “old” track (strange). But work with immediate “play” command after.

Thanks!

[Caledonia]

Btw, the "currentsonginfo.xml" needs xml encoding or cdata (like "consolestatus.xml").

[billyvnilly]

hey, i got your email. im using latest beta of ff. i attached a pic with ff build and bug.

winamp 5.1
nvidia gfx
pent 4 2.4ghz
1g ram

Ive got a few extensions installed, in general do you think any of them could be the cause...I can attach a list if you desire.

and just to check the bug is not in ie.
and i cant get it to work at all in opera.

[billyvnilly]

damn attachment...

[WoundedLion]

Perhaps it's something about the beta. I use 1.0.7 final and have no problems. I'll d/l the beta and test. In any case, it's easily fixed by some simple CSS (scrolling:none). I'll definitely add that into the next release. Thanks for the help!

-WoundedLion

[WoundedLion]

In the next release, I will uncover more of those "hidden" API calls. There are a bunch of them in the plugin that have no actual use in the current interface. I will probably remove currentsonginfo.xml altogether since it's kindof redundant when you have consolestatus.xml.

Good snooping! I should really document all of the supported calls!

-WoundedLion

[ylaviolette]

Hey there Wounded Lion, can you let us know if you are still around ? Ive been using Ajaxamp for a while and had a question or 2, let us know, thx!

[NJK]

Originally Posted by ylaviolette

Hey there Wounded Lion, can you let us know if you are still around ? Ive been using Ajaxamp for a while and had a question or 2, let us know, thx!

don't count on it

this user was last active on the forum in 2007 .
never been back since.

[ylaviolette]

Didn't have much hope Still using the plugin to interface with Android; I had built a macro a while back to automate the database reindexing but the underlying macro/software is no longer supported (Promixis Girder). was looking for a simple workaround to trigger the reindexing. Guess I'll start over with AutoIT. Cheers,

[Glaucus]

There was a time I was in contact with the developer via email. He stopped responding to me years ago. I hope he's ok, kinda odd to just walk away from your own creation, especially when people still like it find it useful.