Component for foobar2000 to generate "now playing" text, clipboard or file.
- Open
foo_nowplaying2.fb2k-component
to install it into foobar2000
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
.
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.
-
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. -
Build the foobar2000 sample project for
Debug
andRelease
. 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.
-
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"
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Open the generated foo_nowplaying2.sln solution, build it and use the resulting
build\src\<Debug|Release>\foo_nowplaying2.dll
in foobar2000, under theuser-components
directory.