Usage instructions are inside the archive, as is the Delphi source code (requires Indy10 for TIDHttp)

Edit: added alternative sourcecode which uses WinINet instead of Indy10.. results in a smaller DLL

Fixes:

• MSN Messenger output didn’t work when an ID3 wasn’t present
• Part of MySQL command wasn’t escaped properly when ID3 wasn’t present

Download here: gen_announce_v0_3_1_71.exe

Unfortunately, due to me rushing the last version, I failed to spot a couple of obvious bugs.. these would have manifested themselves when the MySQL output encountered an untagged track

I’ve fixed the bugs now and released a new version

As you can see in the above screenshot – under the MySQL section, there’s an option for a backup command – this is incase gen_announce encounters an untagged track.

In such cases, %s serves as the filename of the track as in previous versions

Download here: gen_announce_v0_3_1_70.exe

The format string has now changed from the generic %s which was either “artist – title” or just the title if no tag existed

You can now insert variables of the form %var% where the variable is an ID3 meta data variable..

Here’s a basic list of the variables from ID3v1.1:

• album
• artist
• title
• year
• track
• comment
• genre

So you’ll need to at least replace %s in the configuration with %artist% – %title% if you wanted to maintain the output which previous versions gave

If the variable isn’t recognized or if that meta data doesn’t exist in the ID3 tags (or equivalent tag) of the song, then the output will be null where that variable would’ve been

Download here: gen_announce_v0_3_1_69.exe

• MySQL Updater thread not being released
• SSH tunnel listener thread not being released

I don’t know how I managed to overlook these two but I sort of rushed it out today as I was rather busy at work!

Download here:
gen_announce_v0_2_1_61.exe.

gen_announce has a few different methods of advertising your currently played track:

• mIRC DDE command
• MSN Messenger ‘now playing’
• MySQL SQL Query

It is customisable so you don’t end up advertising the fact that you’re watching a movie cough

gen_announce also includes a SSH tunnel ability, e.g. if you need to be on the same server as your mysql daemon to have access to it, you can tunnel via SSH (assuming you have a SSH account on that server!)

You can download it here: gen_announce_v0_2_1_60.exe.

Edit: I need to look into stopping Markdown formatting links that have underscores in