Mamewah + Winamp = :(

[Brad Lee]

[crossposted from the juke forum]
Argh
Im trying to set up mamewah as an album jukebox. Ive got each album in its own directory(d:\mp3s\artist\album), a playlsit directory(d:\mp3\playlist) with 1 .m3u file for each album, and an artwork dir(d:\mp3\covers) with a cover .jpg for each, named the same as the playlist

I set it up the same as any of the generic emulators. Ive got gens, zsnes and some others setup identically except its roms instead of playlists. The emulators work fine- pick a game, itlaunches, you play, and then you exit back to mamewah.

With winamp, it's doing a couple different things, all goofy. Most of the time it flashes the "Loading - album name" box for a second, and then gives control back to mamewah without starting winamp. Depending on the settings(send rom path, send extension, long file names) sometimes it will start winamp with the correct playlist, but its all in the background- no winamp box pops up(actually it should start right to the milkdrop visualiztion)- so theres no way to control playback, or even exit, short of crtl-alt-del, or manually launching winamp to bring up the window

My system in XP with winamp5, the latest build. I havent tried an older v2 winamp yet, but Im not opposed if thats the fix

Ive seen a thread or 2 about using winamp to play mp3s in the background behind mamewah & mame. Can anybody help with this? Im gonna Xpost it to the software forum,  Idont know if minwah reads in here so he might catch it in there... Thanks in advance for any suggestions orhelp

[Brad Lee]

Making progress..
Send path - yes
send extension - yes
long names - no

SHOW DOS BOX:
no- behaviour as described above
default/mame- launches the playlsit editor but not the player window
yes- shows the winamp player, in the foreground, in focus YAY!

Now I need to redownload winamp, as the one Im playingwith here at work was the ultra-lite version without visualization. If I set the vis to start at play, it should launch straight away to it full screen.

Now I also need a way to one-button quit winamp- can the ipac utility map alt+f4 to a single input? I plan on using customized winipac.cfg's per emulator so Im notworried about itconflicting with mame, if I use the [esc]key. Or maybe I can figure how to make [esc] quit winamp.. hrmm

[Minwah]

Making progress..
Send path - yes
send extension - yes
long names - no

SHOW DOS BOX:
no- behaviour as described above
default/mame- launches the playlsit editor but not the player window
yes- shows the winamp player, in the foreground, in focus YAY!

Now I need to redownload winamp, as the one Im playingwith here at work was the ultra-lite version without visualization. If I set the vis to start at play, it should launch straight away to it full screen.

Now I also need a way to one-button quit winamp- can the ipac utility map alt+f4 to a single input? I plan on using customized winipac.cfg's per emulator so Im notworried about itconflicting with mame, if I use the [esc]key. Or maybe I can figure how to make [esc] quit winamp.. hrmm

I don't think you could map Alt+F4 to one key, but you could use your Winamp 'IPC' configuration to map Alt to a button and F4 to a button...

Could be more difficult to get WinAmp to quit on one button...  Edit: Can't believe I didn't think of it 'til I saw that other thread - give HC's wrapper a go

[Brad Lee]

Actually it turned out to be easy as pie- the newer winamp v5 has global remappable hotkeys. Youre able to asign the 'quit' action to a hotkey, or a single key, and that quits vis+winamp both


quick question about the IPC configs and how mamewah switches em though:
DOes it laod the ipac config everytime a game starts, or when the emulator switches, or is it smart enough to know which is laoded currently and only switch if needed?

[Minwah]

quick question about the IPC configs and how mamewah switches em though:
DOes it laod the ipac config everytime a game starts, or when the emulator switches, or is it smart enough to know which is laoded currently and only switch if needed?

It is smart enough to know not to reprogram with the same IPC....

It isn't smart enough to know to program back when returning to the FE (in case of different direction keys etc.)    I need to sort this out at some point - I overlooked that at the time...