foo_now_playing_helper

A foobar2000 component that announces events as well as track metadata via OutputDebugString, which allows for easy capture in other programs.

Announced events:

• D6FNP_INIT

  Sent when the plugin is loaded (e.g foobar2000 starts)

• D6FNP_QUIT

  Sent when the plugin is unloaded (e.g when foobar2000 exits)

• "D6FNP_STATECHANGE_PLAY!"

  Sent when playback is started.

• D6FNP_STATECHANGE_PAUSE; D6FNP_PBPAUSE

  Sent when playback is paused.

• D6FNP_STATECHANGE_RESUME

  Sent when playback is resumed.

• D6FNP_STATECHANGE_SETTRACK

  (I forgot when this happens, see: play_control::track_command_settrack, probably never occurs)

• D6FNP_STATECHANGE_STOP

  Sent when playback is stopped.

• D6FNP_NEWTRACK

  Sent when a new track is starting, e.g when a song ends or you skip to the next.

• D6FNP_SONGINFO

  Occurs at the same time as D6FNP_NEWTRACK, contains all the useful song information encoded as base64 and separated by |.

Structure of D6FNP_SONGINFO:

Notes:

• In this example we replaced the | separator by line breaks to make it readable.
• Every value is separately encoded in base64 to retain Unicode characters of different languages.

D6FNP_SONGINFO!
%title%
%artist%
%album artist%
%album%
%codec%
%bitrate%
%samplerate%
$info(bitspersample)
%filesize%
$year(%date%)
%discnumber%
%tracknumber%
%length_seconds%
%path%
$directory_path(%path%)
%rating%

Populated example:

D6FNP_SONGINFO!
Moonlight
Asterisk feat. 那由多
Lost Landscape
Lilium Records
FLAC
1045
44100
16
35396699
2018
1
1
269
G:\example_path\music\Lilium Records - Lost Landscape\01. Moonlight.flac
G:\example_path\music\Lilium Records - Lost Landscape\
8

Tools

You can use Dbgview.exe to view the messages: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/debugview