Generate playing tracks image with your foobar2000 titles and include it in your forum profile/web page/blog with a single line of code that links to your image ex: http://sig.iamntz.com/6.png
'6.png' is just an example , you will receive a unique id after you register on http://sig.iamntz.com (for free of course )
After you register an account you will receive an email with your username and password. Enter this in the Foobar LPS plugin and click on Enable and start playing something in Foobar to start your image generation/update that you may use it in your webpage/forums/blog (your will receive the image link when when you register and the image link will also be displayed in the LPS plugin after every image update). The image will be generated and stored on our servers. The plugin has a preview build in, the preview works only when the LPS Window is visible - access the LPS Settings window from the Foobar View menu.
Here is a screenshot:

It looks like hydrogenaudio forums doesn't support linking images in the signature
Here is how my LPS sig looks like:


Download and install the LPS plug-in for Foobar2000 from here (NSIS Setup)

have fun !

pretty cool...

I am not getting a preview in my LPS settings window... it's just black...

and what are the display options... I see you have "%SONG%" by default in the display... I would like to display:

%ARTIST% - %TITLE%

when I put in the artist tag I get the actual "%artist%" in my display...

Thanks
The only supported variables for now are:
%SONG% = the song name just like fb2k display it in the list
and %STIME% = track time (like 05:00 for five minutes)
The Preview should update only when you change the track and the LPS Settings is visible (and enabled)... The image preview doesn't update every time it changes your status because I wanted to preserve bandwidth on iamntz.com as much as posible because the preview image is downloaded and displayed from the server... so opening the LPS Window and changing your track in fb2k should update the preview (if LPS is enabled of course, click on Enable to active it before you change your track) ... The plugin will save his enable state and when you start Fb2k again and start playing something the image will be updated you don't need to toogle the Enable state again if last time you closed it was on Enabled.

ok, thanks...

so... %SONG% is actually what is dsiplayed in the title bar at the top of the foobar window...

it would be really nice for a future version to include tagz support so we can create custom displays... but thanks for your work...

Thanks, interested to try this out. The only other way to do this with foobar that i know of is to either use AMIP with your own webserver or use audioscrobbler and last.fm's last played image.

Yeah...
By tagz you mean more variables? like:
%ARTIST% = artist
%STITLE% = title
%SALBUM% = album
%GENRE% = genre
%YEAR% = year
%COMM% = comment
%LISTLEN% = length of playlist in tracks
%SRATE% = samplerate (i.e. 44100)
%BRATE% = bitrate (i.e. 128)
%TRACK% = track number
%FOLDER% = folder name
I plan to add them in the feature builds as well as the the option to customize your image like custom background/number of displayed titles etc (all the above variables are supported and they will be replaced with their corresponding info in the Winamp version of the LPS plug-in )
I'm glad you like it , feedback is what makes us to keep going

There already is HyperIM with Status2Web plugin.

yea thats what I was referring to... since foobars builtin scripting already has it I would use their syntax as to not confuse users...

example... %TITLE% = song title (as opposed to %STITLE%)... and so on...

did you mean these variables are already available in the winamp version but just need ported over to the foobar plugin..?

Peace
Ross

It would be nice if you could make the preferences for this plugin show up in foobar's preferences instead of having a separate entry in the View menu.

Ok, i'll see what i can do about the variables... i will "study foobar deeply"


Exactly



It will be nice but i'm not sure if i know how to do it because i've used Borland C++ Builder which not supported by the fb2k Sdk, i've mange to do an "workaround" for the plug to work with fb2k (it's some kind of port from the LPS Winamp version ) ,... thanks for the tip, i'll see what i can do

Everything is wrong with that user interface.

Also, better start doing things the fb2k SDK way, lest you incite the wrath (or at least disapproval) of Peter.

What is wrong with the user interface? and what makes you think the plugin is not fb2k SDK way? it's working right? if it wasn't fb2k SDK way it will not work... just as simple as that ... the plugin is a part VC and a part BCB I don't see why i will "incite the wrath" of Peter (thank you for fb2k) as long as the plug-in is clean and doing his job.

Distributing plugins in exe packages is not the usual way of foobar2000.
A zip with the dll and a readme would suffice.

Just my opinion.

This is a nice plugin, although more customisation of now playing info would be good. Also, currently the album name always has a lower case first letter.

So that plugin suddenly stopped working with the message:
"Can't connect to server sig.iamntz.com
Error 404 - File not found - The server has not found anything matching the request."

so I suppose the website wen't offline due to some issues. Would be nice if it would come back, or the plugin receives an update.

I think JensRex strongly disapproves of the custom look&feel of your configuration window. I know I do.


What people are criticizing is not your choice of tools, but rather the way things work in your plugin. The usual way for a foobar2000 plugin is as follows:

• If the plugin has some global configuration, it is found in the preferences.
• Unless the plugin is a decoder, it doesn't implement its own metadata reading routines for audio files. Instead it uses the metadata support supplied by foobar200.
• If the plugin needs to display metadata in a user-configurable way, it uses the titleformatting interpreter supplied by foobar2000.

Thanks everyone who made this, it's truly brilliant!

Excellent work guys.