Some forums have a spot to put the music they are listening to right now under the title of the forum. This way we could see the tastes of all the people.

Example

CuttinKing2183

Now Playing: Linkin Park-Faint

Blah...blah...blah...

a good example of this is http://forums.3eb.co.uk -- click on any of the posts and you'll see some people put what they are listening to...

Hrm, maybe sometime down the road, but for now I'm gonna take a pass on that one. Thanks for the suggestion, though. :tu:

hmm that would be kinda cool, but too hard to implement at a guess, seeing as for it to be dynamic it would mean interacting with the users computer and getting the song info from xmms, winamp or whatever media player he/she uses
:|

cuttin: i tried to implement that same protocol within my bulletin board i run for the Texas Subaru Owners Group that i started, and it came with more hassles than it's worth. I did some research on google, and came up with something almost as good, if not better, imho:

http://www.audiomatch.net

enjoy. :D

ps:i recently upgraded to winamp 5, and this plugin seems to only work in winamp 2, for now. although there is a beta version of the plugin for WA5 that is currently release, caveat on installing that on, as with anything beta ofcourse. =]

/edit: i just installed the plugin for winamp 5, and it works wonderfully with no problems. =]

cheers,
pooh

Here's a plugin that you can use with winamp in order to post info to a remote website. What they normally do on these forums is that they have a .jpg file in their sig, but the .jpg file is actually a php-script (you can manipulate this for a certain file on apache webservers for instance). In this "jpg" file there is usually php code that parses the text your computer uploaded with the help of the winamp plugin, then combined with the GD-library that lets you manipluate pictures in php you can output a dynamic picture.

http://www.neuro-tech.net/archives/000034.html

here's what I'm talking about :)

output picture
http://snowball.darktech.org/~jeff/music/music.png

code to dynamically create picture
http://snowball.darktech.org/~jeff/music/music.phps

all too complicated to me...


i simply meant you type in whatever you are listening to...

all too complicated to me...


i simply meant you type in whatever you are listening to...
heh...that would work too i suppose. =]