How to display mp3 tag while playing?

Hello guys!

I wish you all have a happy new year full of health & personal happiness.

Now to get to the point...

I'm designing a site for an internet cafe; and from what the supervisor told me they want to have a place where the surfer could see wich song is playing at the moment in the store... I thought of a way to do it using mp3 files taken from a pc (that plays music using winamp) and have the title & name displayed by reading it's ID Tag. <_<

Is there a way doing it using Winamp? What I mean is, while Winamp plays the mp3 file, php reognizes it & reads it's ID Tag which then echoes it in a simple way.

Thanks in advance.
Panos

Originally posted by Panos@Jan 20 2004, 04:52 PM
Hello guys!

I wish you all have a happy new year full of health & personal happiness.

Now to get to the point...

I'm designing a site for an internet cafe; and from what the supervisor told me they want to have a place where the surfer could see wich song is playing at the moment in the store... I thought of a way to do it using mp3 files taken from a pc (that plays music using winamp) and have the title & name displayed by reading it's ID Tag. <_<

Is there a way doing it using Winamp? What I mean is, while Winamp plays the mp3 file, php reognizes it & reads it's ID Tag which then echoes it in a simple way.

Thanks in advance.
Panos

if you search for the "do something" winamp plugin you will find a small plugin that can send info to a website. then it's just a matter of parsing the info and dumping to the screen.
I send mine to a database and then display the top 20 albums played etc (http:www.somethingtoforget.ca/winamp.php)

www.site.com/winamp/process.php?artist=%%URL_CURRENTARTIST%%&song=%%URL_CURRENTSONGTITLE%%&album=%%URL_CURRENTALBUM%%&length=%%URL_CURRENTSONGLENGTH%%