WMP Plug-in for LCD Smartie
^{v1.0 Copyright (c) Jon Grieve 2005}

The WMP Plug-in for LCD Smartie reads the Album, Artits, Title and Duration information for the track currently playing in Windows Media Player (WMP).  It can also be used as an Action to detect when the track changes.

To retrieve the information from WMP, this plug-in requires the "WMP Blogging Plug-in" to be installed.  This is a free download, and is available from Microsoft here.  This plug-in also requires the latest .NET Framework Version 2 runtime.  At the time of writing, this is currently not widely installed, and the current (Beta 2) build can be found here.

If the WMP Blogging Plug-in is not installed, nothing will be returned from functions1-4 and function5 will always return "0".

Usage:

To retrieve information from the WMP Plug-in for LCD Smartie, use the following functions:

• $dll(wmp,1,,) retrieves the Album
  
  
• $dll(wmp,2,,) retrieves the Artist (Author)
  
  
• $dll(wmp,3,,) retrieves the Duration.  Note, this is not the "current position"; it is the total duration of the track.
  
  
• $dll(wmp,4,,) retrieves the Title
  
  
• $dll(wmp,5,,) retrieves a True/False indication of whether the track has changed.  The actual return value is either "0" or "1", and is designed to be used as a LCD Smartie Action.  In the Action tab, Add a rule "If $dll(wmp,5,,) = 1 Then GotoScreen(n)".  This will cause LCD Smartie to switch to the screen you've designed to show the WMP information (presumably, using functions 1-4) whenever the track changes.
  
  
• $dll(wmp,6,,) retrieves a True/False indication of whether WMP is active.  The return value is either "0" or "1" and is designed for use in Actions and "conditional" displays.  If WMP is not active - either not loaded or stopped - this function will return "0" and all the media information will be blank.
  
  

Installation:

Copy the wmp.dll file to your LCD Smartie\plugin folder (i.e. the plugin folder beneath the folder where you installed LCD Smartie.)

About the author:

Jon Grieve
me@jongrieve.net
http://jongrieve.net