Jukebox plugin idea (JPS: Song info in forum sig)

[headkaze]

I was wondering what plugins have been made for the JPS system? Has the LED one been made yet? Is loadman still working on it?

I was looking at the JPS site and saw Space Fractals idea for a "WebInfo" plugin. That made me think of a good idea for a JPS plugin. I have seen these before but think they would be cool for jukebox.

Basically it's a plugin that allows you to enter FTP details and when you play a new song it creates a png graphic with artist, track and song info maybe with a picture of the album as well and uploads it to a server.

I could write this easily in .NET but I think it would be better to write it for a natively compiled language. What do you think? How hard would this be to code in Dark Basic Space Fractal?

Here are some examples of what I mean:

[loadman]

Has the LED one been made yet? Is loadman still working on it?

Ahh no, that stuff is on hold until I get MaLa on track 

Basically it's a plugin that allows you to enter FTP details and when you play a new song it creates a png graphic with artist, track and song info maybe with a picture of the album as well and uploads it to a server.

Nice Idea   

[Space Fractal]

Dark Basic cant producere Dlls, and is a Direct 9c based language (I have a registred copy of that of well due for a unannoce game never finish, but just a private project).

But I gues you mean Pure Basic (I really like Pure Basic for creating DLL's, du it produce very small exe/dll's without using any runtime or net systems)?

I got never finish that plugin. If you wish I can send the source code or release that here. It is due for MultiFE. I allready have plan to release the source code as well when it was finished.

IF you want to due that for your plugin, do that. Just make sure to work with winamp playlist and queue systems (since MultiFE is a bit diffecent than Uncle'T).

Otherwice it was extract that I was working on..... Hope a day went back to that. The idea was from Freebox which have that feature.

[Barry Barcrest]

I was going to say i have that feature in freebox. Would be nice to have it as a plugin though i suppose.

[Neilyboy]

would be kinda interesting.. if you could allow it to keep track of the last 10-20 songs played in the order they were played (like some radio stations web-sites) or pandora for that matter. sometimes I like to let her sit on random and if I hear a song I like I quick go look on Pandora's little scroll feature to see what the last song or the song before that was.. Also if you could keep like a top ten most played songs list as well.. I think it has alot of potential man!

Neil

[richms]

Simpler IMO would be a last.fm plugin, since they have the backend to serve the images already made, and people wouldnt have to worry about getting ftp accesable webspace etc to have the image upload to.

[Space Fractal]

I'm working on this plug-in. By now it just show queue to in a window as test to check if these commands works. I just got this to work in MultiFE Wip 5 (not released) which MultiFE got some issues with the songlist commands.

Now it time to get it work with Uncle'T Jukebox Software. I guess it only one command I need to test and expand (because I doesn't use that in my software).

When I got this to work in Uncle'T Software, then I release the SongList Test plug-in, how songlist commands should been used by plug-in writes so all queue/playlist styles can been used (example MultiFE and Uncle'T Jukebox is not 100% the same queue system).

SongList Test would been released as a development plug-in to test by jukebox authors to make sure to get these commands to works. Of course Pure Basic source code would been included (my favor language to create dll's).

After that release (I guess tomorrow or a day more) I I expand this plug-in to a more usable use, like this webinfo plug-in I have planned for a month or 2 months ago...

Thanks to headkaze for the reminder  .

[headkaze]

Yeah I code most of my dll's in VC6 because it creates really small dll's with no dependancies either. I actually tried writing a C++ dll in VS 2005 but found to my horror that it requires install of the C++ runtime redistriutable! FFS I code in C++ so I don't have to have dependancies! So yeah quite often I go back to the old VC6 to write them. I belive you can statically link them but the size of the dll's are much larger than if you create them in VC6. I guess one day I'm going to have to get over that and just move to VS 2005 as it's such a nicer IDE to code in.

Also writing GUI's in VC6 is pretty terrible because there is no visual editor unless you code in MFC which I don't like that much. So as far as writing this plugin goes I probably won't do it myself, and I don't like Pure Basic either. I've seen pb code you've written and it hurts my eyes, kinda like how VB.NET code does

[Space Fractal]

That proportionately I'm are not English and might have danish trail.

Its was all hand wrote with no GUI design, it was all handmade in the source code you have see from me. Hence it might been a bit messy of course. It could been better, but it works.

Dark Basic Pro s howover not re-commered to write this type of utility at all (Arcade Music Box 1 was wrote in Dark Basic, switched to  in Arcade Music Box v2). It have a very different style of basic. Dark Basic Pro is actually good it its own, but have too high system requirement for this type of applications (graphicscard problems).

Personal I allways liked basic languages and BlitzMax is my clear favorit (but not for plugin develement = can't create dll's).

Sorry if I hihacked the tread about langaues, since your folks allways should chooice your favor tools.

I'm making my webinfo in this week and hope got a release soon... and it would been released as open souce when done. All Plugins I might write in Pure Basic would been open source.

NB. Sorry for edits.


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Still in develoment. I dosen't work very much these days, when the wether is hot again.

[Space Fractal]

The weather have been hot and still, why i havent development very much in the past. The plugins have a nice progress, so I think it can been released in this week in some sort of a beta.

The size of the webinfo would been 610x100 pixels and have 2 pages. It is designed to use with a IFRAME tag to include them into a page.

I have a plan to use a smaller picture based versions like freebox, but for now it would been these 610x100 banner size. I known this is not a standard size, but turned out a nice size for this plugin.

More info coming soon.

The beta wil even propenty not have FTP uploads and such, but instead I would let user run a application under any change to start with.