iTunes plug-in?

[Alan]

It appears that the website of the author of the iTunes plug-in has disappeared. Until such time as it reappears, I have had to find a work-around, and I thought it might be useful to folks. The two key elements: AMIP and the holdnscroll plug-in.

AMIP has a plug-in version for iTunes that will let you save iTunes information to a file for four states: Play, Pause, Stop, and Exit.

For Play, I entered:

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iTunes
Song:<space>
%name

For Stop and Pause (since there isn't really a pause in iTunes but I figured just-in-case):

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iTunes (Paused)
Song:<space>
%name

For Exit:

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iTunes (Off)
<space><space>
<space><space>

I also made certain to uncheck the box for "Delete file on exit" since this would rather defeat the purpose of that last part.

(Since I only have a 2x16 display, bear with me.)

For the Smartie screen line 1:

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$File("itunes.txt",1)

I have the "Center text" box checked on this one.

For line 2:

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$dll(holdnscroll.dll,1,$File("itunes.txt",2),10/$File("itunes.txt",3))

This makes the first line display "iTunes" when playing, "iTunes (Paused)" when stopped or paused, and "iTunes (Off)" when iTunes isn't running (or hasn't yet been started playing the first time).

The second line displays "Song: <scrolling artist - title>" except when iTunes isn't running and then it displays nothing (well, actually spaces, but nothing visible).

I guess I wouldn't have needed the Exit stuff if I could figure out how to skip the screen when iTunes isn't on, but, hey. It works.

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I'm in touch with plugin author in order to get things fixed about the iTunes plugin...
Please stay tuned here for news about it

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