supported media extensions?

[henryt]

Where do we get a list of supported media extension?

There was an ini-file entry in winamp.ini (extlist=) in the previous Winamp versions but I can't find something like that with the 2.90 version.

I would prefer to have the ini-file entry back 'cause it's easy to read.

Any other ideas?

[A Plugin Developer]

That ini entry (extlist) is still in Winamp 2.90.

But it isn't really very useful. The list only contains the extensions that are associated with Winamp - NOT the extensions that Winamp is capable of playing. Perhaps you don't see extlist in your Winamp.ini file because you have nothing associated with Winamp?

[henryt]

Thanks for that information! You are right, I have not associated any file extensions with Winamp.
Too bad there is no way to get the supported extensions...

[A Plugin Developer]

I never said there is no way to get the supported extensions. There are plenty of ways, just not any easy ways... it would be nice if you could just get a pointer to the supported extension list using the Winamp IPC (perhaps you can, but they just haven't documented it).

[Poseidon]

There is a way, and it is documented. Look for IPC_GET_EXTLIST in the 2.90 sdk

[A Plugin Developer]

Well shit... there it is - I must have missed that one little important line. Good catch Poseidon.

[henryt]

That's not what I call 'documented'. There is nothing written about what it does! But i'll try it. Thanks!

[A Plugin Developer]

henryt - this should help you out... (delphi code below)

p.s. I hate null terminated delimiters.

code:


var

  test: PChar;

  i: Integer;

begin

  integer(test) := SendMessage(GetWinampHandle,WM_USER,0,292);

// use some big number (like 5000) since Winamp is assigning the

// memory... the max # of input plugins is 512, so 5000 is plenty

  for i := 0 to 5000 do

  begin

    if test[i] = #0 then

    begin

      test[i]:=',';

      if (i >= 1) and (test[i-1]=',') then

      begin

        test[i-1] := #0;

        test[i] := #0;

        break;

      end;

    end;

  end;

  MessageBox(

            GetWinampHandle,

            test,

            MyName,

            MB_OK + MB_TOPMOST

            );

  globalfree(Integer(test)); // make sure to free it

end;

[henryt]

Finally I have found some time to try this out. Works good so far. Thanks!

While playing around with it I found out that not ALL extensions are listed. Example: The .M3U (Playlist) Extension is missing!

[A Plugin Developer]

That doesn't surprise me, as far as I know Winamp handles m3u and pls internally... they even show up as supported extensions if you don't have any input plugins.

So you can assume m3u and pls extensions are always in the list.