IF it's possible, I want to have Mushclient import the currently playing artist/album from Foobar2K on Win10 to an &info on ShangrilaMUSH. I know that may not be doable, but I know juuust enough to think it could be. I need advice, if you can help. I'm not a coder, and not finding any preexisting posts that relate.
Thanks.
I don't know enough about Foobar2K to know if it is doable or not. I doubt it, somehow. You would need to query Foobar2K via some API, which may or may not be possible.
Of the music player progs I've tried, Foobar2K appears to be very much open-source, and configurable. My problem is that I think it may be possible to do what I desire, but I'm not gonna be he who does it. My programming stopped after the early 90's. I've looked at Mushclient helps, and at those for Foobar2K, and those for ShangrilaMUSH. Gave me a headache!
It's just for fun, something to play wif. The helps of all three are overwhelming for this ol' fart.
I've got $100 for anyone that can make it work. Money's easy, neurons are hard. And old. But, life ain't boring! I'm leaving it all on the field.
Seriously, thanks for taking a look at it, you're a good human bean. :) Stay safe, y'all.
Maybe you can install the https://github.com/hyperblast/beefweb foobar2k plugin to set up an HTTP API for foobar and then query it from MUSHclient using luasocket.
Add this component to foobar2k: https://github.com/hyperblast/beefweb/releases/download/v0.4/foo_beefweb-0.4.fb2k-component
And then in MUSHclient you can do this using Lua:
http = require "socket.http"
require "json"
local page, _, _ = http.request("http://localhost:8880/api/query?player=true&trcolumns=%25artist%25%2C%25album%25%2C%25title%25")
local pagetable = json.decode(page)
local artist, album, track = unpack(pagetable.player.activeItem.columns)
local playback_state = pagetable.player.playbackState
print(artist, album, track, playback_state)
Quote: I've got $100 for anyone that can make it work
Just to expand on what Fiendish said, I made a plugin that implements that.
You need to download and install this component into Foobar2000.
Then:
To save and install the Foobar2000_track_playing plugin do this:
Copy the code below (in the code box) to the Clipboard
Open a text editor (such as Notepad) and paste the plugin code into it
Save to disk on your PC, preferably in your plugins directory, as Foobar2000_track_playing.xml
The "plugins" directory is usually under the "worlds" directory inside where you installed MUSHclient.
Go to the MUSHclient File menu -> Plugins
Click "Add"
Choose the file Foobar2000_track_playing.xml (which you just saved in step 3) as a plugin
Click "Close"
Save your world file, so that the plugin loads next time you open it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>
<muclient>
<plugin
name="Foobar2000_track_playing"
author="Nick Gammon"
id="cd346c228c0e8479480c933d"
language="Lua"
purpose="Shows which track you are listening to"
date_written="2020-11-17 20:58:28"
requires="5.00"
version="1.0"
>
</plugin>
<!-- Timers -->
<timers>
<timer name="ShowTrack"
script="ShowTrack"
enabled="y"
second="5.00" >
</timer>
</timers>
<!-- Script -->
<script>
<![CDATA[
http = require "socket.http"
require "json"
-- With thanks to Fiendish for suggesting the code below
oldTrack = nil
oldState = nil
playing = nil
function ShowTrack (name)
local page, _, _ = http.request("http://localhost:8880/api/query?player=true&trcolumns=%25artist%25%2C%25album%25%2C%25title%25")
-- check Foobar2k is running
if not page and (playing or playing == nil) then
ColourNote ("orange", "", "Foobar2000 is not running")
playing = false
end -- if
-- no information? Can't decode it
if not page then
return
end -- if
-- decode the track information
local pagetable = json.decode(page)
local artist, album, track = unpack(pagetable.player.activeItem.columns)
local playback_state = pagetable.player.playbackState
if playback_state ~= oldState and playback_state == "stopped" then
ColourNote ("orange", "", "Playback stopped")
oldState = playback_state
end -- if
if track and artist then
playing = true
if track ~= oldTrack or playback_state ~= oldState then
ColourNote ("orange", "", string.format ("Now %s %s by %s from %s", playback_state, track, artist, album))
oldTrack = track
oldState = playback_state
end -- if track changed
else
playing = false
end -- if
end -- ShowTrack
]]>
</script>
</muclient>
The plugin connects to Foobar2000 every 5 seconds and checks what track is playing (if any). It then does a ColourNote to put that into your output window. You could change that to send to the MUD, for example:
Send (string.format ("chat Hey everyone! Currently %s %s by %s from %s", playback_state, track, artist, album))
Note that without Foobar2000 running this plugin seems to degrade keyboard input significantly. I suspect that it is attempting to connect to the (local) web server, and hanging for a couple of seconds, then timing out.
Only install the plugin if you are actually planning to use Foobar2000.
