So, now that foo_mirc is listed as a problematic plugin and appears to be the source of my foobar crashes, are there any alternative methods of getting currently playing song into mIRC? Thanks in advance.

you could just apply a global hotkey to "currently played song" under keys in the settings. This will copy the played song to the clipboard then just paste into the mirc window using ctrl + v.

Then just add a "/me" to the front of the title formating --> copy command if you like.

hope this helps

you can also use foo_text to write info to a text file, then read that file and display its contents in mirc.

Did you try amip?
amip plugin for fb2k, winamp, etc.

I made a nice addon who uses foo_text to get data from foobar2000 for display in mirc.

There is "foomirc2000", a dll and a script for mIRC 6 and higher. It requires foo_remote on the fb2k side. Invokes a callback alias whenever a track changes, adds some handy identifiers (such as $np), gives access to all tags and lets you (almost) fully control fb2k from mIRC. It requiers a somewhat fresh version of fb2k, because the author of foo_remote does not care much about backwards compatibility; older version of the player may misbehave (though nothing fatal will happen, of course).

Read more.

Thanks for all the help. I eventually used foo_text and then made an alias in mirc as follows:

/foobar /say /say mp3: $read(nowplaying.txt)

Works like a charm, foo_text is a neat module.

Cheers

Pardon me if I'm tagging onto the wrong thread, but I want to have the same functionality via a different route - I need to send a URL for the currently playing song...

Format to be like:-

http://somewhere.somethings.org/songviewer...L_CURRENTSONG%%

There is an existing one for Winamp that I use (see here which works great... but my friend is foobar not winamp.

I'd even write the plug in myself if I knew where to begin - it cannot be that hard, but I am inexperienced so any pointers appreciated - or maybe someone can make one, I think it would be appreciated!

Hope I have made myself clear and posted in the right place - let me know if not (this is my first post her!)

thanks

I tried a few addons for displaying my "now playing" song in mIRC and in the end I stuck with AMIP. It works, does the job well, and personally I found it the easiest. I don't use all it's features and I wrote a script to make it work how I like but it definitely gets the job done.

Amip is good for that too - it has tons of features!

wow - thanks for fast replies - I have installed AMIP onto foobar now, but I am having the greatest trouble seeing how I SEND to URL?

Could anyone help explain? It's not explicitly covered in the help, and I am sure I am being thick.... but this is not for mIRc as such, also I am tired so maybe missing something obvious....

You could base your effort on Dynamic Signature Package. The website doesn't have much docs, but crazy coder put a lot of time in his helpfile. Or check on the amip forum if the helpfile doesn't, euh, help :)

/me uses the foo_text plugin and reads the string out with a little selfmade mircscript.

I have worked it out now - I didn't have curl! DOH! Now I do and it's working like a good 'n and everyone knows what I am listening too

Thanks all - esp. millette who pm'd me

Just to let you know (i had no idea until just now) that nnscript now supports foobar2000. So you can control foobar by clicking icons in the top toolbar.

It doesn't contain a script that pastes the currently played song to the channel but it's still very nice.


nnScript

Saint

Actually, it does.

mp3ad script integrates AMIP and nnscript smoothly. See here: http://www.markushenn.de/?main=mirc&site=mp3ad

another way of doing mirc spamming is to use r1ch's foo_winamp_spam & r1dll (for mirc).
small neat and works.
though I did end up changing his mirc script to make it simpler (and fix one bug I've forgotten about) ->
link

I use foo_text, I have a dual line now playing, the result comes like this:

(+ditto_n) Np: Iron Maiden - Aces High : Live After Death
(+ditto_n) Musepack 265kbs 2:41 / 5:29

Its super easy to get working. Just put what ever format string u want in foo_text's format string section, then write an allias like

/np //say $read(c:\nowplaying.txt)

well i ve faced this problem too
after reading this thread i ve made mp3.txt in the mirc dir with foo_text, it consist of 3 lines of info about current mp3 playing ....
and after that ive made i ve added this alias:
/foobar /play mp3.txt 333