foo_nowplaying2

Component for foobar2000 to generate "now playing" text, clipboard or file.

Installation

Open foo_nowplaying2.fb2k-component to install it into foobar2000.

Features

Now tab

To generate a "progress bar" in the "now" tab, use the following title formatting code:

$if(%isplaying%,
%datetime% $if(%ispaused%,❚❚,►) %artist% '('%album%')' - %title% [%playback_time%] [$progress(%_time_elapsed_seconds%, %_time_total_seconds%, 30,'█','─')] [%length%]    ,
█
)

to obtain:

2024-10-06 21:26:33 ► Weather Systems (Ocean Without A Shore) - Do Angels Sing Like Rain? 3:14 ───────────────────█────────── 5:06

Note that this progress bar requires the "On Every Second" event toggle, so it updates.

%datetime% custom field

In the Now Playing 2 tabs, for titleformatting the new %datetime% expression can be used in the inputs. It evaluates to "now", into strings like 2024-04-24 23:45:01.

Run tab

There is also a "Run" tab that allows launching command lines in the cmd / bat syntax. To create a file E:\music\logstack.txt that logs the songs played with the newest at top, use:

pwsh -NoProfile -Command "Set-Content -Path 'E:\music\logstack.txt' -Value $('$np2_log'; Get-Content -ErrorAction Ignore 'E:\music\logstack.txt')"

Use the cmd / conhost / CreateProcess syntax, not the pwsh / PowerShell one.

Release version download

Get it on GitHub from Releases.

Use the -with-debug versions if needed to generate meaningful crash dumps.

Inside foobar2000, go to Properties - Components and select the Install... button, point the dialog to the downloaded foo_nowplayin2.fb2k-component archive.

Building

1. Download the foobar2000 SDK, extract its contents to path\to\sdk and open the single solution file, path\to\sdk\foobar2000\foo_sample\foo_sample.sln.

   WTL 10 is needed, extracted at a location such as other\path\to\wtl\. For every one of the:

   • foo_sample
   • foobar2000_sdk_helpers
   • libPPUI

   subprojects, edit in Visual Studio the properties for All Configurations/All Platforms under Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> General and add the WTL headers path, other\path\to\wtl\Include, to Additional Include Directories.

2. Build the foobar2000 sample project for Debug and Release. The included settings target Win32. It's fine to generate configurations for x64 and ARM64EC based on Win32.

   Project pfc is special: for Debug and, respectively, Release, for any Active solution platform, select Debug FB2k and, respectively, Release FB2K in the Visual Studio Configuration Manager.

3. Switch to the foo_nowplaying2 directory and generate the Visual Studio solution, explicitly referencing the Win32, x64 or ARM64 architecture and the foobar2000sdk path:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake .. -AWin32 -Dfoobar2000sdk="path\to\sdk" -Dwtl="other\path\to\wtl"
   
   cd ..
   mkdir build64
   cd build64
   cmake .. -Ax64 -Dfoobar2000sdk="path\to\sdk" -Dwtl="other\path\to\wtl"
   
   cd ..
   mkdir buildARM64EC
   cd buildARM64EC
   cmake .. -AARM64EC -Dfoobar2000sdk="path\to\sdk" -Dwtl="other\path\to\wtl"

4. Open the generated foo_nowplaying2.sln solution, build it and use the resulting build\src\<Debug|Release>\foo_nowplaying2.dll in foobar2000, under the user-components directory.