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Title: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Modern Day Miracle!!Well........
Post by: mccoy178 on November 30, 2005, 08:39:33 am

I have started a thread over at winamp.com for help with a plug in that will send song info to beta brite.

Title: Re: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Take a glance
Post by: ahofle on November 30, 2005, 12:22:13 pm

Did the sign come with any APIs or programmers reference material?  I had to write some code to display text on a Symon scrolling marquee a long time ago for work.  Usually it's just a matter of getting the API (or programming interface) to the sign and then making those appropriate calls from the winamp plugin to display the text.  If I had one of those signs I would be all over this hehe.  Good idea you have there -- I'm envious.  :)

Title: Re: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Take a glance (Hint, Silver)
Post by: brophog on November 30, 2005, 05:58:26 pm

Not sure on the winamp thing, but I've LOVING the idea of doing that with an arcade machine.

Anyone know how it's done?

Title: Re: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Take a glance (Hint, Silver)
Post by: mccoy178 on December 01, 2005, 12:08:39 am

Come on,  It's only the best thing since sliced bread.  I can see someone didn't do any searches. ::)  Silver made a program to create files that send game names or whatever, including controls to the beta brite.

(http://www.ohiostate.photosite.com/~photos/tn/581_1024.ts1124320000000.jpg)

Title: Re: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Take a glance (Hint, Silver)
Post by: brophog on December 01, 2005, 01:10:24 am

I shoulda known such instructions were on this board somewhere. Is there anything this site doesn't contain! :angel:

Title: Re: Sending song titles to betabrite using winamp - Take a glance (Hint, Silver)
Post by: mccoy178 on December 04, 2005, 09:04:29 pm

It's a modern day miracle.  I don't know how this happened, but I was listening to streaming xmas music and my wife says," what's that crap at the top?"  She was pointing to the beta brite.  It was the address of the music.  I looked at it and blew it off at first....................then the little bulb in my head went off!!!!  I went to my library, picked a random song and bam!  It displayed across the beta brite!!!! I am really not sure what happened.  It could have been this plug in, but I don't know.  All I know is that I wish all this stuff just happened like that!

Here is the plugin that may have started it all, but I have had it on there for awhile and nothing happened in the past till now!

http://clint.rutkas.com/code.php?lang=2