iTunes Song Info Publisher

im sure many of you have seen some signatures of aqua soft members that show their current playing song in iTunes as in image...

i did some investigating as to how it was done, and i found some shareware you can get to do it... but then i thought, hey i can do it for free... so i did

its in the early stages of development, but it definately works!

check it out: http://ion1design.com/iTunes/songInfo.php

and http://ion1design.com/iTunes/songInfo.php?type=1

its a combination of a vb.net program and a php script.

the vb.net program:

can either monitor the file created by MPlugin for iTunes, or use the iTunes API to get info about the current track, save it to a file, and upload it to a designated ftp server. as well as the album art (eventually)

the php script:

takes the info uploaded, and a background image that you can customize, and write the song into to the image! and it even tells you the last time the file was uploaded.

cool, huh?

when i get the vb.net app customizable so you can specify an ftp server and such, ill release it. just a heads up and a prompt to suggest improvements.

#261752

sweet thats a great idea but just curious could you make one for winamp as well

if it not too much trouble

cause I love the ichat feature from konfab that does this .

good luck

#269747

well.... i dont have winamp installed, since i have iTunes!!! if someone wants to code a program to export the info to a txt file, ill give them the php file and specs about the txt file they need to know, and the ftp functionality if its in vb.net...

also, i dont really have time, i cant even find time to get this one done and out to the public... so adding winamp to the mix is probably not in the near future...

anyone want to do the winamp side of this?

#269784

/me gives Winamp a contemptuous look :P

Go ahead mmmmanson, can't wait to get it in my dirty hands.

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