Zune - Now Playing

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ZenWalker — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:48:27 GMT

Project Description
Zune Now Playing retrieves the information of the current song being played in Zune Software and stores it in the Windows Registry. It runs as a background process and the song metadata it stores in the registry can be retrieved by any application to use as required

Quick-Start Guide:
To find the metadata, just read the registry values at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZuneNowPlaying. It contains the following values:

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

You can include the executable with your project and run it as required. Only one instance of the executable will run at any particular moment.

Projects Using It
Zune Lyrics - http://zunelyrics.codeplex.com/
Ztatus - Now Playing App for Zune Software - http://inameri.ca/ztatus/
PowerToys for Zune - http://ptfz.codeplex.com/

New Post: How does this work?

DNeoMatrix — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:57:04 GMT

Is the fact that it is using the name "MsnMsgrUIManager" causing the zune software to send it information about which song is playing? Is there a way to get this information without this kind of hack?

New Post: Kind of a hack

davux — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:44:29 GMT

I'm not sure why this wasn't obvious, but the data in the COPYDATASTRUCT is of type wchar_t, not char. This is why you "are getting nulls every other character." Ignoring the second byte means that unicode tags won't come across properly.

Source code checked in, #48188

_TFSSERVICE — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:15:13 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: IRC

tim11pop — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:01:58 GMT

I was wondering for the text string when F12 is pressed, the text could be made to put /me is listening to <song> by <artist>

Updated Wiki: Home

ZenWalker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:18:38 GMT

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

Updated Wiki: Home

ZenWalker — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:57:49 GMT

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

Updated Wiki: Home

ZenWalker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:19:38 GMT

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

You can include the executable with your project and run it as required. Only one instance of the executable will run at any particular moment.

Updated Wiki: Home

ZenWalker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:42 GMT

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

You can include the executable with your project and run it as required. Only one instance of the executable will run at any particular moment.

Screenshot:

Updated Release: ZuneNowPlaying v1.0.0 (Apr 17, 2009)

zenwalker — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:00:11 GMT

Completely stable release of Zune - Now Playing. More features to be added though.

Released: ZuneNowPlaying v1.0.0 (Apr 17, 2009)

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:00:10 GMT

Completely stable release of Zune - Now Playing. More features to be added though.

Created Release: ZuneNowPlaying v1.0.0 (Apr 17, 2009)

zenwalker — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:45:50 GMT

Complete stable release of Zune - Now Playing. More features to be added though.

Updated Wiki: Home

ZenWalker — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:38:46 GMT

Playing - Its value is either 1 or 0 based on whether Zune Software is playing a song or not. (Please note that Zune - Now Playing doesn't identify PAUSE event in Zune Software)
Artist - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of artist whose song is being played, otherwise null string
Album - If Playing = 1, it contains the name of album from which the song is being played, otherwise null string
Title - If Playing = 1, it contains the title of the song being played, otherwise null string

You can include the executable with your project and run it as required. Only one instance of the executable will run at any particular moment.

Source code checked in, #8126

ZenWalker — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:22:45 GMT

Version 1.0.0 of Zune - Now Playing