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Posted on 12-11-07 08:23:02 AM

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I would probably have to start using mpd or something to get one in the first place. At the moment I pretty much use players dedicated to the file format (mpg123, ogg123, flac123, waveplay, etc) to play my music

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Posted on 12-11-07 08:51:07 AM

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Originally posted by chungy
I would probably have to start using mpd or something to get one in the first place. At the moment I pretty much use players dedicated to the file format (mpg123, ogg123, flac123, waveplay, etc) to play my music

You could probably read the information from it through a socket. It should be relatively easy to get it, anyway.

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Posted on 12-11-07 04:13:09 PM (last edited by Xkeeper at 12-11-07 05:39 PM)

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AMIP?

That actually looks a lot more useful / better than my current crap method of doing it (relying on two old, outdated mIRC plugins

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And yeah, mine's the one he completely #(*!#%ing ripped off

I'll have to give AMIP a shot for improving things, as long as it has all the features I want. Currently I have to rely on a lot of things, so it's a real mess to do.

The two versions of mine... there are actually different colors too, but these are really the only ones I ever use

(Somehow I have my doubts that AMIP will be able to support all the features the big one shows)

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Posted on 12-11-07 07:02:23 PM

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Jul - Post #1776 - 12-11-07 02:02:23pm

Mine is two parts. The backend is a C++ app running in the background, that listens on a socket for info requests. It reads info from whatever Winamp window it finds and sends it back. The frontend is a PHP script that connects to it, requests some info, and generates an image from it using GDI. The string positions, colours, and font sizes and the name of the background image are pulled from a database. I was thinking of adding a "make your own style" system, but I don't think anyone would care.

If Winamp isn't playing/running or it can't connect to the backend it defaults to pulling a random line from a text file and displaying it.

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Posted on 12-12-07 03:52:45 AM

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Originally posted by Xkeeper
And yeah, mine's the one he completely #(*!#%ing ripped off

Hey at least I was nice enough to admit it :<

Although, I should work on a theme system that uses INI-style files for it. It'll certainly be easier than having to modify the script itself.

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Posted on 12-12-07 03:54:58 AM

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I wanna get one working, but my host dislikes these things, and my computer being vista won't run apache server tools.

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Posted on 12-12-07 04:03:35 AM

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Originally posted by Tyty210
I wanna get one working, but my host dislikes these things, and my computer being vista won't run apache server tools.

Have you tried the hint here.

Might be overkill but you could download VMWare, install some version of linux (I choose gentoo), install and load apache there, then port forward from vista to VMWare image.

It is what I had to do in order to get mysql to work because mysql doesn't like my windows installation for some reason.

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Posted on 12-17-07 06:06:57 PM

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12-17-07 12:06:57pm 905 posts 167 days
I plan to make one work for me by doing the following: Custom command in mIRC which sends data to a PHP script on my server. Set AMIP to trigger such command. Then the PHP file will show the same data mIRC gets, which pretty much would make it work. ____________________
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Posted on 12-17-07 10:24:10 PM (last edited by HyperHacker at 12-17-07 07:25 PM)

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Jul - Post #1842 - 12-17-07 05:24:10pm

Updated mine. You can select different styles for here and the xkcd board now. Changed the default for here to match my layout better.

Now to add more styles.

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Posted on 12-17-07 10:27:17 PM

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For mine I'd like to craft a theme system that uses INI-style files for everything. Though that's been uh... a bit stalled for now, as I havne't really planned anything for it.

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Posted on 12-18-07 12:11:20 AM (last edited by HyperHacker at 12-17-07 09:15 PM)

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Jul - Post #1844 - 12-17-07 07:11:20pm

Added some more styles. I'll probably do a few more of those speech bubble ones later, and maybe a few new ones if I come up with any good ideas.

Also, changed default text colour for Plain to white, which I forgot to do earlier. Since all the other text in the layout is white, it may as well be too. (Of course you can choose whatever colour you want. Yay.)

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Posted on 01-02-08 12:25:09 PM

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Finally updated mine:

Using AMIP and updating some things. For one, downloading always works (unless it's a nondownloadable file), instead of before where it only worked if it was, you know, playing. (It'd just say "$false" and stop working)

This one also actually works to the point I can use large playlists again. The last version would simply crash mIRC entirely (and sometimes, Winamp)

I think this makes my version better again

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Posted on 01-06-08 05:35:15 AM

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(re-)updated the "miniature" version of mine. It's no longer 22px high (38px, now), but it shows artist, title, and album info.

I'll probably add more, eventually.

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Posted on 01-06-08 07:19:32 AM

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I think it goes without saying that it kind of lost the "compact" feeling mine had.

It feels like my big one minus everything useful.

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