{"id":248,"date":"2005-08-05T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/making-use-of-various-itunes-for.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:35:10","slug":"making-use-of-various-itunes-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/making-use-of-various-itunes-for.htm","title":{"rendered":"Making use of various iTunes for Windows plug-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112326728195871237-->Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/finally-joining-ipod-generation.htm\">I became an iPod convert a few months back<\/a>, I&#8217;ve ripped all of my CD albums to 192kbps MP3s using <a href=\"http:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p(23708)a(1115261)g(11703474)\">iTunes<\/a> (over 5000 songs using 29Gb of disk space at the time of writing &#8211; still got about 500 CD singles, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minidisc.org\/\">MiniDisc<\/a> and vinyl to go&#8230;) but one of the features which really lets down iTunes is the lack of high quality visualizations (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/\">Windows Media Player<\/a> has loads).<\/p>\n<p>To help me with my quest to find decent iTunes for Windows visualizations, one of my MacMates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartburton.co.uk\/\">Stuart<\/a>, sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.ipodlounge.com\/showthread.php?threadid=21729\">iLounge directory of known iTunes plug-ins<\/a>. I&#8217;m still underwhelmed with the available visualizations but I came across some other interesting plug-ins, like <a href=\"http:\/\/minimalverbosity.com\/2004\/January\/12\/introducing_wmptunelog.htm\">WMPtunelog<\/a>, which writes out information of the currently playing track to the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\MediaPlayer\\CurrentMetaData\\). I&#8217;d really like to access this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/\">my homepage<\/a> and include a real-time &#8220;what I&#8217;m listening to&#8221; panel, but I&#8217;m not sure how at the moment. The blogging plug-in within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmplugins.com\/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=287\">Windows Media Player 9 Series creativity fun pack<\/a> (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/expertzone\/newsgroups\/reader.mspx?query=blogging&#038;dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.plugins&amp;cat=en-us-ms-winxp&#038;lang=en&amp;cr=US&amp;amp;pt=ebf5eed5-9118-4689-bed7-aea5cbdd7a88&#038;catlist=B0DE109D-10E1-4C3C-BCC9-8EB7A22FC6A0&amp;dglist=&#038;ptlist=&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;exp=&amp;sloc=en-us\">also works with Windows Media Player 10<\/a>) was looking hopeful, until I found that the &#8220;code samples for adding support to my web, Visual Basic, or C\/C++ application&#8221; link in the <code>creativity_pack_readme.htm<\/code> file was dead&#8230; If anybody has any hints, then please let me know!<\/p>\n<p>One alternative may be <a href=\"http:\/\/brandon.fuller.name\/archives\/hacks\/nowplaying\/\">Brandon Fuller&#8217;s Now Playing<\/a>, which monitors the currently playing song and writes the information out to an XML file (optionally FTPing this to a location of your choice). Brandon uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/\">PHP<\/a> to process this on his site, but I&#8217;m having problems using PHP on my ISP&#8217;s servers (my ISP only allows active content to run on a separate server and I can&#8217;t seem to call the PHP from within normal HTML pages on their Apache web server) so am hoping that I can use an XSL transformation to format the XML instead but still not sure how to include that in the HTML&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All of this is a bit developery for an infrastructure bod like me but I&#8217;ll keep on plugging away with this and will post a comment to this post when (if) I get it all working. 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