Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Winamp for illustro - Rainmeter

I have been using the open-source desktop ricer Rainmeter for some amount of time now.

Typically I have been using the Gnometer skin, although I found with some wallpapers that some of the colours involved in the skin did not match up very well, and we can't have aesthetic mismatching on a desktop now.

I started using the illustro skin that, from memory, also came with Rainmeter. One thing that always bothered me was the lack of a widget that displayed what Winamp had playing.

A quick search around the internet only returned to me an iTunes plugin that a member on the forums created. Having no interest in using iTunes I took to making my own.

Looked easy enough, and here's the final result: Version 0.1 2011-10-19 DOWNLOAD



Constructed it mostly using the illustro base and some script elements from the Gnometer Winamp display.

To remove the number at the start of the song title open Winamp Preferences and under General Preferences untick "Show the playlist number in the Windows taskbar". If you would like the song title to scroll then tick "Scroll title in the Windows taskbar".