"Now playing" support

[Hazar]

Hi there! First of all, I want to thank all contributors for this excellent software.

As you might know, some players and some sofwares (generally IM apps) incorporate a feature that does pass currently playing song information between applications. For example, when you play some song on Winamp, song name shows on your personal status at Pidgin or WLM (which is now Skype).

I would like to include the currently playing song information in my stream. Currently I'm accomplishing this using a Winamp plugin that export song data to XML file, triggering some PHP file which extracts artist-album-track info from XML, looks up album cover pic on Amazon and write these in a text file and a JPG image, which I'm feeding into OBS.

While this works great, I also would like to use Pandora for my music needs. Software that i'm using capable to publish "now playing" data at OS level, but at OBS side there is no "receiver", so I can't use this.

If anyone does want to implement this feature, I think this article going to help him: http://dotnet-snippets.com/snippet/wind ... laying/590

(Excuse my bad English, I'm not a native speaker.)
-Hazar

 

[paibox]

This isn't something that's likely to make it into the main OBS application, but might be a better fit for an optional plugin. That being said, there are plenty of "Now Playing" tools and scripts in the "Tools and Scripts" section of the forum. I've unfortunately never used them myself, so I'm unsure if any of them carry the functionality you need.

 

[Alton0]

Possibility to output the video to a virtual webcam device similar to Dxtory's DirectShow output. Most likely as a streaming mode or as an output in addition to RTMP/File Output Only.

 

[Shifter]

There is an application called Snip. With that you can export the current playing to a text document that you can use to display the song in your stream in plain text. I don't really think the viewers demand something superflashy.