Hello Everyone!

I thought I’d post a small update on what’s going on in my little world as well as the status of WWWinamp and other associated projects.

I hope that everyone is enjoying WWWinamp and the work I’ve put into it! I enjoy providing it as much as I love hearing from my users. So please, if you have any feedback or questions, send them to WWWINAMP ATnospam ENUSBAUM.COM (you know what I mean). I try to reply to each user request as quickly as time allows.

So where do things stand? Well, things have been at a bit of a stand still for the last month or so. On top of my wife and I moving into a new place, we were also impacted by the wildfires that swept through San Diego county in October. Because of this, I haven’t been able to dedicate too much time to development projects.

Now that things are starting to settle back down, I’ve picked up the code base and started to tinker away once again. I’m currently working on a WWWinamp WPF XBAP using XAML. Lots of acronyms, I know. But basically it’ll be as if you’re running WinAmp within the browser, and then have that browser copy of WinAmp control WWWinamp using it’s WCF endpoint. This would be another real world use of the WCF endpoint.

I know some people use Mac as well (I’m included, I’ve been using my PowerPC Notebook now for a couple years), so I’m going to try to write a class or two using Coaca and Objective-C to interface with the WCF endpoint in WWWinamp using SOAP. This way, it might be possble to write native OSX applications that can also control WWWinamp remotely.

So anyways, that’s a quick status update. I hope to have an updated build of WWWinamp out by the end of next week which will include some bug fixes and a couple new features which are from the v3.0 branch. These are being added at the request of user e-Mails. So keep ‘em coming!

Cheers!

Are you getting the following error every time you start WWWinamp?
[csharp]
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Configuration system failed to initialize —> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section system.serviceModel. (C:\WWWinamp\WWWinamp.exe.Config line 67)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.ThrowIfErrors(Boolean ignoreLocal)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfParseErrors(ConfigurationSchemaErrors schemaErrors)
at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.ThrowIfInitErrors()
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.EnsureInit(String configKey)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at System.Configuration.ClientConfigurationSystem.System.Configuration.Internal.IInternalConfigSystem.GetSection(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(String sectionName)
at System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.get_AppSettings()
at ENusbaum.Applications.WWWinamp.Classes.AppConfiguration.get_configWWWinampStartHTTP()
at ENusbaum.Applications.WWWinamp.Forms.frmMain.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
[/csharp]

This is WWWinamp’s friendly way of saying that you do not have the Microsoft .NET Framework v3.0 installed. You can download it from Microsoft here.

Cheers!

This is an update to the original WWWinamp WCF Client Example (please read the original post for configuration and help).

This update adds support for the new WWWinampGetStatus() method. This method was added so the WCF could could easily access information on WinAmp and WWWinamp including the current configuration values.
Supported values:

• CommandName
• “CURRENT_SONG”
• CommandValue
• “TITLE” – Returns Title of Current Song
• “NUMBER” – Returns Playlist Number or Current Song
• “BITRATE” – Returns Bitrate of Current Song
• “SAMPLERATE” – Returns Sample Rate of Current Song
• “LENGTH” – Returns Length of Current Song (in Milliseconds)
• “ELAPSED” – Returns Elapsed Time of current Song (in Milliseconds, -1 if Stopped)
• “STATUS” – Returns Playing Status of Current Song (Playing, Paused, Stopped)
• “LIBRARY”
• CommandValue
• “SIZE” – Returns the size of the Library (Number of Files)
• “PLAYLIST”
• CommandValue
• “SIZE” – Returns the size of the Playlist (Number or Files)
• “POSITION” – Returns the current position of WinAmp in the Playlist
• “CONFIG”
• CommandValue
• WWWinamp Config Value Defined in WWWinamp.config (i.e. “WWWinamp.Media.HomeDirectory”)

Please let me know if you encounter any errors while testing this new method!

Cheers!

WWWinamp WCF Client Example for WWWinamp Build 2809 – Download (14k)