How to post my currently playing song to my website?

Question

I need to publish my currently playing song info to my website. I have three media players on my desktop: Winamp, iTunes and foobar2000. I mostly listen with Winamp, and sometimes iTunes or foobar.

Is there any way to publish or post song information to my website? Information like track title/artist/album/year/genre et cetera?

I need to display it on an HTML page.

Answer 1

There's a tutorial for this on my blog.

Tools required:

• AMIP for Winamp
• For foobar / iTunes users, check for AMIP plugin on their website
• AMIP Configurator
• Winamp 5+
• Dropbox
• Notepad

Javascript files required:

• jQuery Library

Method:

1. Download and install AMIP & Configurator. Copy the following code to Callbacks/Web tab in the configurator.

   /template:(C:\Users\_USERNAME_\Dropbox\Public\in.html) C:\Users\_USERNAME_\Dropbox\Public\out.html
   

   Replace _USERNAME_ with your Windows login username (location of your Dropbox).

2. Open the Dropbox folder: Dropbox\Public\

   Create a new HTML document in this folder called in.html and add the following variable to it: %name

   You can get more variables and functions on the AMIP website.

   So, contents of the in.html would be:

   %name

3. Now we start with coding the index.html page. Copy this file to your /js/ folder: jquery.min.js

   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script>
   
   <script>
   $(function(){
      $.get("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27854284/out.html", function(data) {
         $("#nowPlayingInfo").html(data);
      });
   });
   </script>
   

4. Code for the main body tags of index.html. Add the following code to your body tag where the Song information will be displayed.

   <p><span id="nowPlayingInfo">Artist - Song Title</span></p>
   

That completes the answer.

Detailed explanation of code and scripts are provided on my blog. The demo is on my homepage is inactive presently...

Answer 2

For foobar2000 it is better to use http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Now_Playing_Simple , because AMIP does not support last foobar2000 version. Also, you can share js files on dropbox too, just replace 'www.dropbox.com' with 'dl.dropboxusercontent.com' in public links.

Now_Playing_Simple also support UTF-8 and datetime stamp.