Edit: See http://www.myplugins.info for updated version. 2.2

Now supports Messenger 7.0.0632 & 7.0.0777

Updated version now has support for configuration.

Hi shaneh,
the zip archive seems to be corrupted.
Please take a look at my other post also: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=274509
Bye

Ok, I fixed up the pause/resume problem.

I think it would be nice if someone made a nice GUI, or otherwise made it configurable for the formatting, like I have for Toaster.

Hopefully this .zip wont be corrupt.

Thank you shaneh, so fassst!
Plugin works 100%.
I experienced zip archive corruption again, but maybe guilt of win xp internal zip manager. WinRAR opens successfully.

Zip is corrupt for me. Try using http://7-zip.org/

WinRAR wouldn't open it for me but using Tools > Repair archive proved successful.

No problems for me extracting the file with PowerArchiver .

BTW, somehow I forgot to say... thanks for this class plugin!

Just applied the Mess Patch from mess.be to switch it to Artist - Track and now I'm set to go!

Thanks again for a great plugin!

Hello again. I think I'm missing something , I extracted the file in the zip to the Components folder and I turned on the "What I'm listening to" feature in MSN Messenger but I only get <Unknown Title> - <Unknown Artist> .

All my mp3 are correctly tagged. I need to configure something? .

Cheers and thank you in advance.

EDIT: I'm using Windows Me. Maybe this feature is only available for Windows XP/2000?

For anyone experiencing zip corruption

New problem, i have saw that the plug-in doesn't work with stream tag...

The plug-in shows the name of the radio ( like : "? - Frequence 3")

When i'm deleting the name of the radio, it shows "? - ?"

PS: I'm french, sorry for my english...

Thats because it just uses %title% and %artist% for the track. What is needed is a configuration where you can specify the tag particulars that you want. I do this with toaster with (basically):

$if(ishttp, %httptitle%, %tracktitle%)

You would need to modify the source to either make this configurable, or put in the appropriate tags required for foobar to pick up the correct info.

thank you for the plugin !
I had to repaired the archive with winrar, attachment is the repaired version

Note that the Toaster plugin Ive posted in this forum has the ability to update MSN titles too. It will also let you format the titles to be updated.

Its possible to configure toaster to not show the popups but still update the msn titles if thats what you want.

Hi Shaneh,
I'm using MSN Messenger 7.0.0632 and foobar with your latest foo_msn plugin (got from http://www.myplugins.info/).
It's good it now displays artist name first.

When I click on the title in Messenger window, MSN Music window appears as in the screenshot. The album name is right, but the artist seems to be got from the track title...
I tried foo_toaster 0.1.6 and it works correctly instead.

Greetings and thanks for your work.

hmmm, i mustve put it the wrong way 'round. If I fix it, the artist name and title will be reversed again, the same as in WMP.

This is customizable, but foo_msn doesnt have this, use foo_toaster for customisation. You should not use foo_msn with foo_toaster together. I dont see why anyone would want to click on it anyway.. ?

Yes I noticed, they are reversed with WMP and iTunes.
With both foo_toaster (by customization) and foo_msn I have the good order (artist - title) displayed, but: foo_toaster sends the artist name in the correct way (see following screenshot); foo_msn does not (see screenshot in my previous post).
If possible, I would like to keep using foo_msn because I don't need the (nice!!) features of foo_toaster for now.


I agree it's useless you click on your own songs, but sometimes I want to click on the ones of my contacts to get some info.
All things considered it's not a serious issue - album title is obtained correctly so I can get info in other ways.
Thanks again!

I have now updated the plugin to support some basic configuration, as well as made the source code public again.

Its available at http://www.myplugins.info

Some further improvements may be to add some better support for http streams etc. Feel free to make updates and send them to me

Great update!! Thanks shaneh!

thx for the update.. what is WM/ID in config panel?

Wm/ID is just windows media content id garbage. You can put whatever you want in there, and use it as an extra field if you like, through the {3} selector.

Be advsied this will be sent to all your contacts even if you arent showing it. When you click on a contacts currently playing song, it uses the fields to try locate the song. If WM/ID is present, it may use that field to try locate the song. So I suppose you could be clever and set it to the wmid of some britney speares song to give people clicking on your song a cute surprise. I assume if the WMID isn't valid, it then uses the album/artist/title to try locate the song.


I havent really experimented with it that much, but the WMP seems to use that field for that purpose, so its labeled as such.

cool... thx shaneh

omg i leave for a week and everything i was gonna post about magicly shows up omg ur guys r alsome thanx for all the hard work i wubz j00 yallz

btw works alsome im in love no more wmp to soo friends and family what im jammin 2 thanx sooooooooooooooooooooooo much wmp is a resource hog

Ever read TOS #10?

Can anyone help? The plug-in was working fine 12 hours ago, and now it doesn't seem to work.

How can I make i work with newest foobar ?? 0.9 build 5 ..

Quick question, will any of these work with v0.7.1 of foobar?

I like hte style of this version and dont really want to change. When i load it i get a 'could not load dll' message

this should do the trick for DLL load errors:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=34890

Doesnt help me

Anyone know if it can be made to work with v0.7.1, or alternatively if the newest version can be made to look exactly the same as, and have all the features of v0.7.1?

update to .09

Please

+1

I've got this to work with 0.9. This is experimental but seems to work fine:

• Unofficial DLL
• Modified sourcecode

I hope Shane is alright with this. I've already had contact with him on modifying foo_msn before and he was okay with it. But I turned out to be lazy and never really sent him anything.
I changed the name to foo_msnalt at his request to set it apart from the official version, though.

doesn't seem to work with windows live messenger :S

It's due to a different display behaviour of WLM beta, but your Msngr 7.5 contacts will see your song properly.

Cool. It works with 7.5.

I found foo_msnalt for 0.9 yesterday.

Looked for the link, can't find it, but I found the plugin pretty easily.

works great with 7.5 thanks

Works like a charm on MSN 7.5, thank you!

got this for 0.9.

its great. configured it just like my notification area pop-up

thanks

foo_msnalt works with foobar 0.9 + WLM 8 build 566
well done

Is it possible to change tags ?
I mean, with shaneh's release, we were able to display this : "[TITLE] - [ARTIST] ([ALBUM])".
I didn't found this options with foo_msnalt

seems the new wlm uses a different method for display
a workaround is to change the value of "Title {1}" to %title% - %artist% %album%
can't get the parenthesis to work though
till the next release :)

I'm not sure I understand the problem. The MSN format string is still configurable. There's a bug in Windows Live Messenger that it doesn't show the artist, but others (not using WLM) can see it.

Can we have a summary?

What are the best plug-ins to use?

For 0.83 or 0.9, and MSN or Live Messenger?

I have 0.83 and Live Messenger, with the old Toaster, but its been dodgy recently. Especially since upgrading to Live Messenger. What do you guys suggest?

Thanks...

Keep up the good work shaneh!

Okay, looks like I was wrong. They (unfortunately) ditched the format string in the later Windows Live Messenger builds. I've added a Windows Live Messenger mode checkbox to the preferences, and it shows up fine now for me.

Grab it here

thanks a lot

WLM Bug has been fixed...no need for the special mode now

just out of curiosity but what does WM/ID do?

Looks like it. Odd in the latest WLM though, is that they seem to have switched around artist ({0}) and title ({1}) in the formatting string?


Some windows media player specific identification I think, not sure if it's for the song or wmp itself. You should probably leave it empty though.

Any chance that this can be made to work with 8.0 beta?