{"id":385,"date":"2009-10-28T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-10-28T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:53:00","slug":"foobar2000-msn-show-song-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2009\/10\/foobar2000-msn-show-song-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Foobar2000 MSN Show Song Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like software that just works.  If it works well and uses minimal resources all the better.  That&#8217;s why I like foobar 2000.  I&#8217;m using it to play all of my songs and it&#8217;s using a slim 20MB.  And yes, it works under Windows 7 64bit.<\/p>\n<p>But one feature that was missing was the ability to show my fellow MSN (or Windows Live Messenger) users what I was currently listening to.  Not that anyone cares, but it bothered me that both iTunes and Media Player could provide this information but foobar couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a plugin just for this reason &#8211; it works well under 0.9.6.9 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Download this: <a href=\"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/utilities\/foo_msnalt.dll\">http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/utilities\/foo_msnalt.dll<\/a><br \/>\nPut the file in your foobar 2000 components folder (in my case it&#8217;s C:\\Program Files (x86)\\foobar2000\\components)<br \/>\nRestart Foobar2000<\/p>\n<p>You should now notice that MSN will display the song (assuming you set it to do so) in your status.  Rock on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like software that just works. If it works well and uses minimal resources all the better. That&#8217;s why I like foobar 2000. I&#8217;m using it to play all of my songs and it&#8217;s using a slim 20MB. And yes, it works under Windows 7 64bit. But one feature that was missing was the ability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2009\/10\/foobar2000-msn-show-song-playing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foobar2000 MSN Show Song Playing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}