Fun little online winamp controller

Redline · 06-01-2006, 01:37 PM

I posted about this before, but have recently revisted my online winamp control project.

I found a plugin for winamp called Snowcrash, written by Victor Pavlov. It's an HTTP server plugin allowing remote control of winamp. I altered a few of the files, and wrote up some PHP, and AJAX to display the current song title and elapsed time updated every second. Then threw together a quick little control bar to play/pause/skip songs from my website. I've got a shoutcast server running from my machine as well, so you can listen to the station. Feel free to poke around: http://www.avclan.net/wip

Redline · 06-02-2006, 01:28 PM

Alright, so you can now actually start winamp from my website if it's not running already

Also, http://www.avclan.net/wip/winamp displays the current playlist and allows you to select certain songs for it to play. There's a 18-36 second delay between what is displayed, and what is heard on shoutcast due to shoutcast buffering

Redline · 06-04-2006, 03:11 AM

Winamp - Online Remote
And now I'm just rebuilding winamp in html/javascript
-Playback buttons are functional
-repeat/shuffle buttons functional but image swapping is buggy
-Moving progress bar
-Title/time update 1/sec
-Playlist behavior is nearly identical to that of winamp

DJMaze · 06-04-2006, 06:59 AM

Looks like you're having fun

Redline · 06-04-2006, 11:44 AM

You would be correct

This is probably the most fun little project I've done. I'm learning a lot about Javascript too. I used to hate it, but I'm growing pretty fond of it now.

sde · 06-07-2006, 11:55 AM

nice stuff Josh. I poked around a bit. Looks pretty cool, but I guess you need Winamp to actually hear the music. The controller seems pretty reposive if it is actually controlling the remote system.

Redline · 06-07-2006, 11:26 PM

There is usually about a .3-.5 second latency when you alter playback, but I do the image swapping onclick so that the user can see the page is doing something, and they don't keep clicking until something happens (which might not be annoying to them, but when I'm in here on the computer, it might be annoying to me

)

I'm working on building scrollbars in javascript so I can keep winamp-style scrollbars. I've got them working currently on http://home.avclan.net/test.php but the drag/drop code is based off a script I found, and I need to rewrite it for my purposes before I actually make it control playlist scrolling.

Thanks for the kudos Mike, I'm pretty proud of this thing so far. I'm trying to learn C well enough to write my own plugin for the base so that I can make adjustments and add more functionality, but I'm having a hell of a time with that side of things. I can't seem to get a project compiled with winamps SDK headers

sde · 06-08-2006, 07:43 AM

we have some pretty good c support around here.. you may want to try posting the issue.

Redline · 06-08-2006, 02:06 PM

Definitely. Right now I'm a total noob when it comes to C though. I don't really know what I'm doing, or what I need to ask. When I get a better handle on it, I'll most likely be asking some questions on here.

Right now I'm trying to optimize the scrollbars I made last night. I didn't realize how hard the math was on just a simple scroll bar. I've got it working fine now, but there are several minor tweaks I need to make before it's finished and goes live