Winamp Scripting

[ryerman]

To stego

Concatenate the following 4 lines into one line. That is the web address where you can download the latest CVS version of gen_activewa.dll

www.
myplugins.
info/activewinamp/doku.
php

Latest does not imply recent. I believe that development stopped on this project and the author is no longer providing support (Just my gut feeling, I have no proof)
Post #629 in this thread had an amended gen_activewa.dll file. It's gone now but I have attached a copy.

Cheers

[stego]

Thank you very much.

I hoped, that I could get rid of the crash on exit. But it seems that it is still there :-/

[DrO]

bugger, looks like the forum upgrade lost the version smk-ka had uploaded into the post at http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....42#post2616942. that had resolved the crash issue i thought so hopefully someone (i'd hope osmosis) has a copy and can upload it again. or is the version ryerman's uploaded the one smk-ka provided?

-daz

[ryerman]

is the version ryerman's uploaded the one smk-ka provided?

-daz

My intent was to upload a copy of the file that smk-ka provided. I believe that is what I did, but I can't swear on a stack of bibles. When I downloaded that file (from smk-ka) I was trying to address a problem as described in post #646 above and I was downloading copies from all over the place. Maybe I got mixed up. I never had a "crash issue" problem (still don't) but I run Windows Vista and my understanding is that the crashes occurred in Windows XP. The fact that stego reports crashes on exit seems to indicate the "amendedgen_activewa.zip" that I uploaded does not solve the crash on exit problem that was presumably solved by smk-ka. Maybe a PM to smk-ka and/or osmosis will produce a definitive copy of the elusive little bastard.

-ryerman

[Amandio C]

Hello. I would like to know how to write a script/batch file that will load a specific Milkdrop preset n times per second. Thank you for your help.

[DrO]

i really don't think there's anyway for a plug-in/script to do that to control Milkdrop as i can't see anything in Milkdrop's source code which allows for external controlling of script loading (unless it's possible to fake key presses to the Milkdrop window and effectively step through the preset loading menus to get what's required but that'd be evil).

-daz

[Amandio C]

It would be sufficient for me to have Milkdrop reload always the same preset, on a folder with just one preset. The command would be the equivalent to pressing the spacebar.

[DrO]

i don't think what you want can be done (i'd love to be proved wrong), not without hackery and forcing an update n times a second would affect Milkdrop and the system's performance in general. plus it does seem like a weird request anyway.

-daz

[osmosis]

I've disassembled the code and tracked the crash on close issue down to a missing CoInitialize() call in the CScriptManager destructor (CoCreateInstance() returned a - surprisingly - helpful error code). Recompiled with the attached patch applied and everything seems to work again.

-Stefan

The recompiled plugin.

-Stefan

Here you go folks. Dang forum upgrade.. Shame smk-ka hasn't come back to give it that simple unicode patch as well..

[osmosis]

• Fixed song history for Winamp 5.55+ (changed from ML DBIndex- to filename-based).
• Removed now-redundant ML change checking code.
• Minor cosmetic changes.

Should have thought of this before now but without DBIndex being available, it doesn't get much more unique than filenames. Long story short, song history should work again and all is right in the world.

The AW wiki has been broken for a while, locking all the wiki docs from changes so the new version is attached below.

Cheers!

Rename attachment from *.txt to playlist_Party Shuffle.vbs and place in the AW Scripts directory.

And of course..

[Amandio C]

Lol. I just managed to do it using a program for macros, Easy Macro Recorder, but would rather have something like a VB script. Thank you for the help.

[fixinchik1975]

can i change a track.comment field? why i cannot change this fields?
i want to change this field for audio & video files, so i dont need id3 field comment, i need to change this field in media library.

[KClaisse]

Hey guys, I am not familiar with vbs at all and even after looking through the example I am still at a loss as to how to do this:

I have a python program I wrote that updates some online applications of mine with song information. I can either just constantly query winamp for new song info but its a bad way to do this. All I need to do with ActiveWinamp is pass track title, artist, and album to my program at the start of a song being played. Then for stopping/pausing It would pass the argument "stop" or "pause" respectively. I read on the activewinamp page that it is possible to use programs written in other languages, so maybe I can just use python directly? I doubt that though since everyone is using vbs heh.

Anyway, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[KClaisse]

Ok I got that sorted after looking over the documentation, which wasnt too out of date tbh. Now the only problem I have left is getting my script to automatically load up into winamp when it starts. I put it in the scripts folder and it didnt load up, so then I created a scripts folder in here: %APPDATA%\Winamp\Plugins\ but it still didnt load up. I couldnt find any setting that allowed me to autoload either. Is there a different folder I should use?
I have winamp v5.581

[osmosis]

%AppData%\Winamp\Plugins\Scripts\

and make sure it's named startup_<name>.vbs

If that doesn't work, put a playlist_<name>.vbs file in there and see if it shows up in the Scripts submenu in your Winamp playlist.. it could be that startup scripts have stopped working.