Battleangel

I just saw that AMIP has been updated to v2.48. AMIP is, once again, a Winamp 2 / 3 / 5 / Foobar plugin that sends song information to IRC, a txt file (for email footers) or to the web using CURL and HTTP POST / GET.
I obviously use it to populate a file “npvars.txt” using a small php script and later include the same information in various pages on this site. Very nifty and much more flexible than doing the opposite, i.e. polling my computer to see if Winamp is running and so on.

The reason to jump on the latest upgrade is that it is now set up to work with a java configuration tool that is also available from the AMIP site. With this feature it is SO much easier to find some settings. The downside being that I of course had to get and install the entire 15MB java package that I had avoided up until now.

Another fairly new feature that might be of interest is the parse delay setting. If you, like me, sometimes flip through a lot of files it is stupid to call upon CURL every other second or so. So the way I have it configured now is that the program checks for song changes every 3000 ms (default) and then waits to parse for another 10000 ms. Besides, it can save the computer from a hefty CPU spike when opening a song and uploading the song info simultaneously.