Show currently playing song in signature/some talk about music & sigs (Page 1 of 3)

i would have though the easiest way would be to get audioscrobbler http://www.audioscrobbler.com/download.php then try a sig thing for that http://wiki.audioscrobbler.com/index.php/ScrobblerSig(THx)

you got the idea

why don't you combine the 2 images in your signature so we don't have all that blank bit

Yes, please make your signature images a bit smaller. Half that size would be desirable.

XMMS has a plugin called "Song Change" that runs a command you specify when the song changes. I set it to the command

php send.php "%s"

the script base64 encodes the title to keep the special chars, and calls a file on the server with ?song=whatever that decodes and writes it to a text file. The file song.php makes the graphic when called.

$im = imagecreatetruecolor(600, 30);
$bg = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
imagecolortransparent($im, $gb);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 255);
$song = file_get_contents('song.txt');
$song = $song ? $song : '[Offline]';
imagestring($im, 5, 0, 0, "Now playing: $song", $textcolor);
header("Content-type: image/png");
imagepng($im);

You need to be running php locally to use this method of course , but I'm sure there are other ways,

Yes. I just left the empty space in the 1st one in case I needed it but I'll remove the blank space. And I just did.

Now if only I could combine the 2 or something... (And I just did. )

I just use Musikcube.

The command is

php send.php "%s"

The %s is the track title, and you can get that parameter from inside the php script using $argv[1]

Edit: ewww, coldplay

I know.

I added some extra space (just 24 pt/px worth) to use if I need extra space for quotes and stuff.

I'm opening up my image program again... thanks for the feedback. Can you read it now?