Feature request- more compact display

[clandrew]

From e-mail:

"I was wondering if it's possible to modify the plugin to, instead of looking like this:

App Title
Band - Song
(Playing)
xx:xx elapsed

To change it to look like this:

App Title
Band
Song
xx:xx elapsed"

[derekgates]

I started working a PR for this.

Propose a checkbox to enable or disable the (status) line and replace with Artist/Title. I have this in place locally with the following mindset on how to change the output:

With (status):

Winamp
Artist - Title
(Status)
<Elapsed Time if enabled>

(status) disabled:

Winamp
Artist
Title
<Elapsed Time if enabled>

Current display to aid in understanding above pseudo code:

Issues I am running into are the wa_ipc.h not having a clean way to obtain Artist and Title separately, compared to the IPC_GET_PLAYING_TITLE macro being used.

I looked at the other header files in the WinAMP SDK and not having luck finding a way to obtain the Artist and Title separately.

@clandrew It seems to me that we need to obtain the Artist - Title string and regex or split the string on - and use the respective parts? Does that sound like a good approach?

(I accidentally had this comment in #9 ... sorry)

[clandrew]

re: general separating artist from title- There might be a way to get those from Winamp but it's hard to say. Speaking as a fan of Winamp I have to say its SDK is not very well documented. :/

Some things in the plug-in had to be figured out through experimentation since it wasn't clear at all from the plug-in header which is the one source of SDK documentation. Then there were forum posts but a lot of the contradicted each other. More recently i found out about a Discord for winamp devs (you're probably already in on this) so that could help me with these problems in the future.

For this particular issue I think it would be enough to just not show the "(Playing)". Especially with your change to disable the phone home to Discord when it's not playing anyway.

[derekgates]

Ah, good note about the Winamp Discord, I wasn't on there yet. I've been trying to figure out what I can from the SDK (which is decently commented).

Would the approach of splitting on - (to get artist and title separated for this and other issues) be a good addition to:

For this particular issue I think it would be enough to just not show the "(Playing)". Especially with your change to disable the phone home to Discord when it's not playing anyway.

?

[papin97]

Is there any updates to this? I've been wanting this particular feature for months. I had to disable app icons so it will display more of title text. Or move playing status to big icon description so it will show on hovering the big icon.