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Kerelmans · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: [Question] Detect playing music

Hey,

I'm making a program in VB6 that needs to detect what music is playing (for ex. in Media Player etc.) & then return the music file path. I'm not sure what API I need for it and I searched the net, no results... please help!

e.g. I open MySong.mp3 with media player & my program can say: it's saved in that directory (if it's even possible... prob I need to write hooks?)

EDIT: Is it possible to lower mp3 bitrate in VB6?

Sincerely,
Kerelmans

AndrewMan · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

Good question.

To be honest here, i'm not sure this is possible.

I've never seen any program "detect music playing", unless you want it to detect the Media Player being used, which would be very simple.

Music(.mp3's for example) is not the same as a process. You cant just scan for a .mp3 playing.

Idea for how this could work:

- Have your program scan for common Media Player's in the process list.
- Next, have it scan your computer for music files, and open them.

Note: Usually if you open a music file that is already being played, it will pop up with a message "This file is already being used".

Anyone have any other thoughts?

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

For example, check if Winamp or whatever is open. Continuing on that, if Winamp is playing, it's caption will be the title of the song, which you can easily get from it.

oib111 · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

Look into Foxytunes

&Vage · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

Make a output graph for the speaker, and make it detect if the sound increases beat or melody for a period of time.

nwongfeiying · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

Is it just me, or did you guys too not understand the question? Are you trying to see what song is playing or what file?

Stylo · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

i think he's trying to see what sont is playing like MSN Live does on the personal message

Overload · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

Well what kind of method do MSN and iTunes use? When you play a song on iTunes and it shows up on MSN?

Not sure how that works, but give that some thought.

Kerelmans · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:29 am Post subject:

sloppy · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:

Download the WMP SDK and check out the remote skin sample, or make use of a Now Playing plugin.

WMP SDK -> msdn . microsoft . com/en-us/windowsmedia/bb190327.aspx
Now Playing Plugin -> brandon . fuller . name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/wmp/