How do I watch the timecode from Winamp or similar audio software

[Norryboy]

Hello

I am fairly new to AutoIt. I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to watch the timecode from an audio software like Winamp or Windows Media Player to set off events at a given time. Thanks for any help you can offer.

[DoktorTTM]

Im not sure you can do that with Autoit...

I think you could watch pixles, but thats a long shot.

[Norryboy]

I didn't think of pixels, but that does sound wild. I read about a VB function(IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME) that would pull the timecode, so in my noob brain I was thinking maybe that could be reverse engineered somehow in AutoIt.

Im not sure you can do that with Autoit...

I think you could watch pixles, but thats a long shot.

[skyboy]

IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME isn't a function, but a constant with a value of 105

#Include <SendMessage.au3>
Global Const $IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME = 105, $WM_USER = 0x400
Global Const $WINAMP_CURRENT_SONG_POS = 0, $WINAMP_CURRENT_SONG_LEN = 1, $WINAMP_CURRENT_SONG_NOT_PLAYING = -1
$Winamp = WinGetHandle("Player Window") ; the winamp main window.... i dislike this as it will cause issues
$return = _SendMessage($Winamp, $WM_USER, $WINAMP_CURRENT_SONG_POS, $IPC_GETOUTPUTTIME, -1, "wparam", "lparam", "Double") ; -1 returns the raw array from the dllcall
Exit 0

give me a few minutes and i'll edit this post to contain the proper code

eh, i couldn't get any useful values from it (getting out what i put in, no errors), not sure why not though. but admiralalkex posted a library below

Edited December 7, 2009 by skyboy

[AdmiralAlkex]

Winamp Library?

[Norryboy]

Nice, I think all this will help a lot. Thanks everyone!

Winamp Library?