Multiple Winamps

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ericvic
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Multiple Winamps

Post by ericvic »

I'm not going to need this feature for a while but it would be really nice to be able to control multiple instances of winamp through HouseBot. I'm going to be adding a multi-source/multi-zone whole house audio system in the future and wanted to have some of my sources be winamp.



Any chance of this happening?



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Post by ScottBot »

Can you even start multiple versions of WinAmp on one machine? When I try and start a second, it switches to the first. Maybe there's an option somewhere to do this.



The plugin finds WinAmp by the name of its window class (and maybe the window title). I think if multiple versions used different window titles it might be possible, but I'm not sure. Let me know when you get to that point.
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Post by ericvic »

Scott,



I know you can run multiple instances of winamp. I haven't done this personally but on the HomeSeer board there are multiple people that do this. The thing I don't know is how to programmatically control the instances.



I'll be happy to help out when I get closer to putting in my whole house audio system.



Eric
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