Winamp – Live Messenger (MSN) ‘Now Playing’ Updates
| Posted by watashii | Filed under Software
The Windows Live Messenger (MSN) has a feature to “Show what I’m listening to” on Windows Media Player. But what if you want to show titles for your favourite music player like Winamp?
The solution is very simple. Just install the right Winamp plugin, and you’re done. The one i’m using is the now playing plugin (gen_msn). I am using Winamp 5.52 and Live Messenger 8.5.1
For power users, you can check out the advanced title formatting reference to allow you to fully customize the line display to any string value you like.
Another alternative is the toaster plugin for Winamp that does the same things, with other song notification features and customizable skinning. I had some problems with this one displaying the unicoded values such as Japanese and Chinese characters, so i opted to switch to gen_msn instead.
MessengerAmp does the same thing also. I havent tried this one, but it looks alright.
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