controlling winamp with COM

Is there any way to control an open winamp application in php? I want to
use php as a scheduler to play Winamp. The API has system calls to do
so, but I don't know how to implement the windows calls.

Hi,

> It might even be possible that Winamp itself provides
> hooks to a running instance of itself via command line
> parameters (one can hope) which would simplify the
> task greatly.

Winamp (v2 at any rate, I haven't worked with v3) has a great API, including
hooks via the command line, which is nicely documented here:

http://winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/sdk/api.jhtml

HTH
Jon

I would think that a Java applet would be your best bet. You can have
real-time updates instead of page reloads. However, you will need to
write a server to handle the specific requests for the applet. That can
be done in Java, C/C++, or even Perl. I would prefer Perl because of
it's string manipulation strengths. However, the most important thing
is to how they communicate. For this, I wouldn't got with anything else
but XML.

John Herren wrote:

> Is there any way to control an open winamp application in php? I want
> to use php as a scheduler to play Winamp. The API has system calls to
> do so, but I don't know how to implement the windows calls.
>
>