Digital Point Forums Winamp Music Reporter

Since the last year I have been pretty interested in Internet marketing and one day my friend Ruslan Abuzant suggested to register at one of the biggest Internet marketing forums - the digital point forums.

Later the same day he said that there was this special cool feature that displayed the current music (current track) you were listening to. He said that WinAmp was not supported and it would be a pretty interesting thing to write for DPF. So I got the Winamp SDK, played with examples a little and after a few days had the plugin running. At first I thought I’d sell a copy for $5 each but now I decided to give it away for free and even opensource it under GNU GPL license.

Here is how the current track being listened to is displayed on DPF:

Notice the “Listening to:” label.

How To Install The Plugin?

First download the plugin: dpf forums winamp music reporter (.dll). It’s a DLL file and it’s called “gen_digitalpoint.dll“. (”Gen” stands for “general purpose plugin.”)

Next, put the plugin in C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins directory.

Next, restart Winamp and navigate to general purpose plugin preferences. Take these steps to get to the preferences:

• 1. Right click on Winamp.
• 2. Select Options -> Preferences.
• 3. Find Plug-ins section.
• 4. Click on General Purpose label.

See this screenshot if you’re getting lost, it’s after step 2:

You will see all the installed general purpose plugins. Notice our new plugin “Winamp DPF Music Reporter v1.0“. Now double click it! The configuration dialog will apear:

Enter your DPF username and the special authentication hash that can be found in your “Edit Profile” link on DPF.

You can also specify the format of how the track will be displayed. The default format is “%A - %T” which stands for “Artist - Track”.

Here is how the About screen looks like:

If you wish to compile the plugin from source, get the whole source tree as a zip file here:

• source code of winamp digitalpoint music reporter plugin (.zip)

See the compile.txt file in the source tree for all the details on how to compile it!

Have the best time on DPF, and don’t forget to give me some good reputation! ;)