From: calvin8@... (Andi Scharfstein)
Date: 2003-06-16T00:15:43+09:00
Subject: Get songtitle from Winamp

Hi,
I just got the following to run, maybe someone finds it useful. All it
does is extract the songtitle that Winamp is currently playing. Note
that of course this only works in a Win32 environment. Also, the
constant "4096" and "256" are just values that seemed to work for me.
They might yet need correcting.

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# Extract Songtitle from Winamp -- 2003 by Andi S.

require "Win32API"

findWindow = Win32API.new("user32", "FindWindow", ['P', 'P'], 'L')
getWindowText = Win32API.new("user32", "GetWindowText", ['L', 'P', 'I'], 'I')
hWnd = findWindow.call("Winamp v1.x", 0)

if hWnd > 0 then
        song_array = " " * 256
        getWindowText.call(hWnd, song_array, 4096)
        song_array.unpack('M')[0].strip! =~ /^\d+\. (.*) - Winamp.$/
        song = $1
        puts song

        else raise "Please start Winamp first!"
end

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