Using PHP to access WinAmp data

crighton

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to use PHP to display on a web page the playlist (m3u) information for a file currently being played by winamp?

Note this is not about controlling winamp, but accessing data in real time to display current file / playlist name being played.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Gary

mrbaseball34

There is no way for PHP to access information on the client's machine as PHP is a server side language.

However, you can use vbscript od jscript to access the
FileSystemObject and open the playlist. There would be no way
to know which is the currently playting song, however.

crighton

Hi,

Ok, just to be more specific:

My test project is not a public (or intranet) service but rather a private media management system on my own local machine. So in effect I am both the server and the client at the same time.

To play an album I click on a link with the href set to the playlist. This launches WinAmp and plays the album locally. Ideally I'd like to then have a box on my locally hosted webpage with a "Currently playing" link which leads to a page with full album details (cover / tracklist / date / comments).

While I understand your above comments about file system access in a client / server relationship I'm not sure if the unique characteristics described above allow for any other solution.

Finally, display of the complete song-by-song playlist is not a requirement - simply the album name which can be gotten using the playlist file name (it takes an album id code with all other details stored in a db elsewhere).

The real-time element is the key (and the thorn). If I'm not running winamp and playing an album it should not display anything.

Any other options?

Cheers,

Gary

jayant

search google/winamp.com. I remember seeing a few winamp plug-ins for the purpose. they update any webpage with the playlist and the song currently playing 🙂

similar tools also are available for mac/linux for their corressponding media players.

mrbaseball34

IF you'd been more specific in your original post we could have
avoided that unpleasantry that I posted, sorry... ;-)

Not sure where to start but someone may have already done
that for you. Have you search the usual places?

Try this one to start...
http://www.phpclasses.php.is.it/browse.html/package/908.html

jayant

http://www.srijith.net/codes/whatsplaying/

Check out the plug-in for Winamp 3 and the PHP code there.

also has link to corressponding plug-in for WinAmp 2