Slightly off-topic - if you want a dynamic image which should contain the currently playing song as well as its position, here is a PHP file which will output a PNG file using the GD library. You will also have to set up Apache (.htaccess provided) or IIS to render the PNG as PHP script:
PHP script (playing.png):
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<?php
// Set-up header information
Header('Content-type: image/png');
Header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
Header('Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT');
Header('Pragma: no-cache');
// Set-up image dimenstions
$img_width = 521;
$img_height = 50;
// Create image
$image = imagecreate($img_width, $img_height);
// Set-up colors
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 0);
$white = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$red = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 0, 0);
$grey = imagecolorallocate($image, 204, 204, 204);
$green = imagecolorallocate($image, 128, 220, 0);
// Set-up background color and borders
imagefilledrectangle($image, 0, 0, $img_width, $img_height, $white);
imageline($image, 0, 0, $img_width, 0, $black); // Border top
imageline($image, $img_width - 1, 0, $img_width - 1, $img_height - 1, $black); // Border right
imageline($image, 0, $img_height - 1, $img_width, $img_height - 1, $black); // Border bottom
imageline($image, 0, 0, 0, $img_height, $black); // Border left
$song_info = @file("foobar2000.txt");
// Set-up font
$font = 'cour.ttf';
// Print text and progress bar
if(trim($song_info[0]) == '') {
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'Currently, I am not listening to music.');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, 10, 40, $grey);
}
else {
if(trim($song_info[0]) == '0') {
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'Currently, I am not listening to music.');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, 10, 40, $grey);
}
elseif(trim($song_info[0]) == '1') {
if(trim($song_info[2]) == '') {
if(strlen(trim($song_info[1])) > 40) {
$song_info[1] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[1]),0,37)) . '...';
}
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'I am currently listening to "' . trim($song_info[1]) . '".');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, $song_info[3] + 10, 40, $grey);
}
else {
if(strlen(trim($song_info[1])) > 17) {
$song_info[1] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[1]),0,14)) . '...';
}
if(strlen(trim($song_info[2])) > 17) {
$song_info[2] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[2]),0,14)) . '...';
}
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'I am currently listening to "' . trim($song_info[1]) . '" by "' . trim($song_info[2]) . '".');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, $song_info[3] + 10, 40, $grey);
}
}
elseif(trim($song_info[0]) == '2') {
if(trim($song_info[2]) == '') {
if(strlen(trim($song_info[1])) > 42) {
$song_info[1] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[1]),0,39)) . '...';
}
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'The playback of "' . trim($song_info[1]) . '" is paused.');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, $song_info[3] + 10, 40, $grey);
}
else {
if(strlen(trim($song_info[1])) > 18) {
$song_info[1] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[1]),0,15)) . '...';
}
if(strlen(trim($song_info[2])) > 18) {
$song_info[2] = trim(substr(trim($song_info[2]),0,15)) . '...';
}
ImageTTFText ($image, 9, 0, 10, 19, $black, $font, 'The playback of "' . trim($song_info[1]) . '" by "' . trim($song_info[2]) . '" is paused.');
imagefilledrectangle($image, 10, 30, $song_info[3] + 10, 40, $grey);
}
}
}
imageline($image, 10, 30, 510, 30, $black); // Border top
imageline($image, 510, 30, 510, 40, $black); // Border right
imageline($image, 10, 40, 510, 40, $black); // Border bottom
imageline($image, 10, 30, 10, 40, $black); // Border left
// Return image and free-up memory
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>
Apache Config (.htaccess):
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<Files playing.png>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
Upload those two files together with "cour.ttf" (or whatever font you want to use, but make sure you change it in "playing.png") to your server.
Next step is to set up the text writer to output to "foobar2000.txt" each minute for example using this for "Playing":
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$if(%_ispaused%,2,1)
$crlf()
$if2(%title%,%_filename_ext%)
$crlf()
$if2(%artist%,)
$crlf()
$if(%_time_total_seconds%,$mul($div($mul(%_time_elapsed_seconds%,100),%_time_total_seconds%),5),500)
Stopped:
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0
$crlf()
$crlf()
$crlf()
0
On quit:
CODE
0
0
Currently, the progress calculation is done in fb2k, but you could also modify the PHP file to do it for you. Notice that if you change the dimensions of the image, you will also have to change the calculation in fb2k.
The result looks like this:
My image script is a bit more complicated, since it is blingual (German on some sites and English on the rest) and fetches the file from my local computer where the fb2k.txt file is updated each second. If my PC is not accessible it prints that I am not listening to music.
