hack request - a plugin to print the contents of a text file and output into postbit

[Dominick]

reason?
xmms and winamp both have plugins to print the current song and artist to a file. If vB could read this file then it could print what the poster is currently listening to.

of course this would probably be a pain in the toosh but I suppose any hack this good (in mine eyes) is worth atleast requesting.

here is the plugin info for the xmms changer

#!/usr/bin/perl

open (TEMPFILE, "> /tmp/xmms.song")
	or die "Couldn't open the local temporary file!!";

print TEMPFILE "Now Playing: ";
for (@ARGV) {
	print TEMPFILE " $_ ";
}

and here is the file that it works with... (irc plugin of course)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$start = "true";
IRC::register("Now-Playing", "0.1", "", "");
IRC::add_command_handler( "np", "print_to_channel");

sub print_to_channel
{
	open(INFO, "/tmp/xmms.song");
	@lines = <INFO>;
	IRC::command( $lines[0] );
	close(INFO);

	return 1;
}

here is linkage to the winamp app called nowplaying that does just about the same damn thing.

http://drpizza.arsware.org/nowplaying/

:banana:

so can we get a go at it?

-Dom