Guide: WMP9 Now Playing

[Alan]

How do you mean Benny....?

for me it lags a bit while it sends the info to the server, but nothing drastic

Alan

 

[X-Istence]

In that respect winamp's now playing is better, because it doesnt crash if the server is down or unreachable, it doesnt lag, doesnt slow down.

 

[Alan]

When I say lag I mean the cursor is busy for about 2-3 secs.....

As I said...nothing to drastic.......I think

Alan

 

[NetRyder]

Glad you guys got it working, Alan and Benny
I'm sorry I couldn't be of assistance while you were having problems with it, Alan. I was in the process of moving to my university dorm room. It's great you got it all figured out.
Also, thanks for the assistance X-Istence

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Originally posted by Alan
How do you mean Benny....?

for me it lags a bit while it sends the info to the server, but nothing drastic

Alan

It tends to freeze wmp up when changing tune... kinda annoying

 

[Alan]

I think this is while its sending the info........

I'm on B/band.......... and as I say its only for a couple of sec's

X-Istence is quite right when he said the Winamp plug-in is better......I remember using it a while ago with some built in server.......

But I just like Wmp9......looks more sechy

Alan

 

[Alan]

Whey hey...just noticed 500 posts.......

 

[Tabula Rasa]

congrats on the 500...
if winamp starts doing its menues and GUI like wmp i'm switching , but they dont

 

[X-Istence]

Originally posted by Benny
congrats on the 500...
if winamp starts doing its menues and GUI like wmp i'm switching , but they dont

They will in V5.0 allow for free form skins, so anyone can make it look like however they want, so mabey a WMP theme will come up, i personally prefer winamp, just start it up, hit play, and dont touch it anymore.

The fact that it sits in the trays i what i like .

 

[Mainframeguy]

aha - I was wondering about this...

and there I was thinking it was all Bennies own invention!

I wonder if this will catch on? The scarey part would be if you started having others listen to your toonz.... whoa that would eat bandwidth!

 

[X-Istence]

Re: aha - I was wondering about this...

Originally posted by MainframeGuy
and there I was thinking it was all Bennies own invention!

I wonder if this will catch on? The scarey part would be if you started having others listen to your toonz.... whoa that would eat bandwidth!

Nobody can listen to any body else choons with this.

 

[Mainframeguy]

oh sure I knew that - I was just day dreaming....

 

[NetRyder]

You could use ShoutCast for that

 

[Not Bman]

Ok..I'm really confused now. I made the "nowplaying.php" and "nowplayingimg.php" files and uploaded them. I entered that info into WMP9 and nothing shows up. Do I have everything, ect ect. Confused..

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by bman™
Ok..I'm really confused now. I made the "nowplaying.php" and "nowplayingimg.php" files and uploaded them. I entered that info into WMP9 and nothing shows up. Do I have everything, ect ect. Confused..

It would help if you could provide more details...perhaps a screenshot of your Songwriter settings dialog box (with the username/password blurred out, of course)?

 

[Alan]

Originally posted by X-Istence


The fact that it sits in the trays i what i like .

Do you mean like this X-Istence?

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by Alan
Do you mean like this X-Istence?

I think he means the Winamp feature that gets it off the taskbar completely. All you see is a small Winamp icon in the system tray next to the clock, and other icons.
For that purpose, you can always use little programs like RBTray, and others, which can minimize any application to the system tray. RBTray uses less than 500k of RAM too.

 

[Alan]

For that purpose, you can always use little programs like RBTray, and others, which can minimize any application to the system tray. RBTray uses less than 500k of RAM too.

Nice little tool thx for the heads up NetRyder

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by Alan
Nice little tool thx for the heads up NetRyder

Glad you find it useful

 

[Not Bman]

sorry for the little detail, I was meaning for putting it on the forums, the showing what is playing thing. Im not sure what files im suppose to use from the tutorial. Here is my details... is the User Name, the name your provider gave you or of ntfs? and is the top address, the address of the file..which file?