Feature request: support for dynamic playlist data updates

[ASk]

For example, when listening to an internet radio with foo_read_http, and having dynamic updates of the playlist data (with the currently streamed title), the latest version of foo_winamp_spam does not support said updates, instead using the default data for that radio station. Could support for that feature be added (according to kode54 - Foo_winamp_spam would need a play callback handler for dynamic updates which are indicated to be track changes.)

[koitsu]

Hear hear!

I'd love to see something like this.

AFAIK, there is no title-display variable in fb2k which can return metadata for Shoutcast/HTTP streams, which is the core of the problem.  %_filename% returns the actual URL of the Shoutcast server (as it should; in a playlist, a URL is considered synonymous with a filename), and %title% returns the Shoutcast server title itself.

There needs to be a special way in the Winamp API Emulator plugin to return the metadata (streaming song name) from the HTTP Reader plugin (which I assume is kept somewhere inside of fb2k's memory space, since it obviously changes the physical Win32 application title).

Peter *really* hates IRC spam plugins/modules, so seeing something like this implemented into fb2k natively would be pretty unlikely.

If the code was open-source or at least made available (I've no problem with closed-source apps though), I'd give a shot coding it up myself.

[ASk]

I actually use foo_winamp_spam to provide interface to my shell plugins - I use BB4Win (www.bb4win.org - blackbox for windows), it has 2 good plugins (BBMuse - title display and multiamp - control panel) for Winamp. The latter supports Foobar2k, but only the earlier versions. It also has a plugin for FB2K controls and title display, but it's less developed and less stable (and also does not allow me to have both title and controls at once) - BBFoo. Using the winamp_spam, I am able to keep the interface consistent and usable.

[R1CH]

I'll try and add this when I find some free time to relearn the foobar SDK .

[ASk]

Much appreciated

[Fox Mulder]

Any progress in this matter? I would really like it to work. The title of foobar2000 shows the stream info, so does the playlist, but /spam in mIRC only shows:  is playing  (Streaming: 51:8000/ @96kbps, 0:20)...

[R1CH]

Unfortunately the current foobar release doesn't provide a metadb handle for streaming things, so I can't format the entry according to what the format string you entered is. Hopefully 0.9 will fix this and I'll update the plugin when it's released.

[Fox Mulder]

Yeah! foobar2000 0.9 is finally out!
R1CH, I see you are already working on new plugin... NICE! I just want to remind you about dynamic playlist data updates while listening to internet radio... Hopefully new foobar2000 will allow you to make it work!