Programming for Winamp

Winamp is just an amazing player: it is light, cute and very modular. Most popular third-parties add-ons stand with plug-ins and skins. Find out here some papers written for Winamp 2.x/5.x plug-ins developers.

How to add Meta-Information support to your Winamp input plug-in

With Winamp 2.90 appeared the ability to deal with meta-information (usually stored in tags such as ID3 tags). This new feature, currently used by the media library but available for general plug-ins developers, is implemented inside input plug-ins. Nullsoft team kept the old interface but added a couple of exported functions do deal with meta information. The purpose of this article is an attempt to describe these undocumented functions.

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«I just wanted to thank you for publishing a fixed version of the flac_in plugin for Winamp. (...) Keep up the great work! Hope you get a good job!»

Justin G.