Controlling Winamp

stu97jmp · Post by **stu97jmp** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 8:24 pm

Hi Scott,

I am new to HouseBot, so I hope this is not a dumb question!

I am trying to arrange that I can control the music on my PC, using a Software Remote running on my PDA. I've figured out most of the stuff that I need, but there's just a couple of questions that I could not find answers for in the help.

Firstly, I can't work out how to make Winamp skip forward and backward through tracks in the playlist. I know I can set the 'Current Playlist Item' property to anything I want, but I need to be able to set it to One More or One Less than its previous value.

Secondly, I was wondering whether there was any way of controlling the playback volume in Winamp via a slider on the Software Remote. I couldn't find any way of doing that.

Oh, and I'll just quickly put in a request while I'm here... A file-filter would be very handy in the Directory control, so that I can just browse MP3 files if I want to.

Thanks for your help!

And keep up the good work - I have been very impressed with HB so far.

James

Post by **ScottBot** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:20 pm

James,

You can skip forward and backward through a playlist by incrementing or decrementing the "Play List Song Number" Property value. With a "Property Change" button, setting the "New Value" to "+=1" will move ahead one and setting it to "-=1" will move back one.

Volume?? Who needs that?

I can't believe I missed it. My system plays through my main system amp, so I've always just adjusted the volume on the amp. I've just added a volume property to the WinAmp Device that should do what you want. You can download it from "www.housebot.com/HouseBot/WinAmpDevice.zip". Copy the DLL in the zip file into the HouseBot\Plugins\Devices directory over the old one. You will need to deleted the old WinAmp Device and create a new one to get the new Property (sorry). With this Property you should now be able to map a slider control to it to control the volume.

I've added the directory filter to the list. It's a good suggestion.

Scott

stu97jmp · Post by **stu97jmp** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 6:04 am

Thanks for your quick response Scott!

I'll download the new plugin and try it out

James

Post by **ScottBot** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:40 am

stu97jmp wrote:Hi Scott,
Oh, and I'll just quickly put in a request while I'm here... A file-filter would be very handy in the Directory control, so that I can just browse MP3 files if I want to.
James

James,

The latest release now has the ability to specify file extensions as filters to the Directory Theme control.

Thanks for the idea.

Scott

nethermancer · Post by **nethermancer** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:46 pm

Could the same increment/decrement be done in a task? Just trying to go back and forth in a playlist using a keychain remote :) Very impressive software, by the way. Thanks for the help

Post by **ScottBot** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:20 pm

Unfortunately, you can't use += or -= in Task 'Action'.

You could have a Task call a Script Device and do it in VBScript.

Scott

nethermancer · Post by **nethermancer** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 8:23 pm

I'll try that approach. Thanks :)

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