XSplit - Show Current Song

Hey dear TL community,

After having some trouble with this topic, I finally got it to work and wanted to share my work with all of you.

First of all, you might ask yourselves: "Why the hell would I need something like that, and what is it at all?"

Progamers streaming their ladder, or caster playing music in between the games, probably know what I am talking about. Every time you play an awesome song, the chat goes wild and wants to know the name of it.

NOT ANYMORE!

Here I will present a small tutorial on how to add an overlay to your XSplit, which will contain the current song information.

First of all what you will need:

- XSplit (duhh)
- Winamp (or any other popular player, like iTunes and Foobar)
- AMIP (this is where the magic happens

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From here on out, it is almost as simple, as acquiring the tools mentioned above.

Install AMIP for your favorite music player. In this tutorial I will be using Winamp.

EDIT: Ok, so after having some questions about which players are supported, here the list:

- Winamp
- Foobar2000
- iTunes
- Quintessential Media Player.
- Apollo
- MediaMonkey
- AIMP Classic

After you do that, go to Winamp and go into the settings menu. Now go to "plug-ins" and choose "general purpose".

This is where you will find the AMIP plugin.

It should be the one marked blue on the pic.

From here on out, it's not much to do.

Simply change these settings in the red box, in the next picture to your liking:

After you decided were to put the .txt, you will have to decide what information will be contained in the .txt and if it is supposed to change, when the song is on pause or stop.

After saving, there is only one more thing to do: Go to XSplit and add a title.
You should set it to "Remote text update" and set the interval to 10 sec.

Were it says "remote URL" just input the location of your .txt, which you created earlier using Winamp / AMIP.

It would be best, to set it to scrolling, since you never know, how long the song name will be.

If you followed my instructions, after you are done, it should look something like this, with your additional overlays etc.:

Hope I could help some streamers and casters out there. I know, it helped me a lot.

Greetings,

Krytos.

Last edit: 2011-08-12 03:55:13

EscapingJail United States. August 12 2011 01:21. Posts 206

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Thank you for this!!!

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Kryt0s Germany. August 12 2011 01:22. Posts 203

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No problem, happy to help

kleptako Denmark. August 12 2011 01:23. Posts 167

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Does this work with windows media player?

Last edit: 2011-08-12 01:23:31

Kryt0s Germany. August 12 2011 01:24. Posts 203

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I am pretty sure, that it does not, since you don't have the possibility to install plug-ins.

Coal Sweden. August 12 2011 01:27. Posts 1515

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Would be great if people who stream( specially Huk <3) could use this. Thanks for creating this thread!

Might be a stupid question ,but is it compatible with spotify?^^

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Kryt0s Germany. August 12 2011 01:29. Posts 203

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Ok, I checked it out, and it seems like the only players supported are these: Winamp, Foobar200, iTunes and Quintessential Media Player.

aksfjh United States. August 12 2011 02:26. Posts 3484

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Awesome! Thanks for the guide! Now I just have to start streaming SC2 again...

DMcKechnie Scotland. August 12 2011 03:31. Posts 75

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I was just wondering the other day if there was a way to do this. Thanks for the guide, I'm sure there will be a fair few people who will find this useful.

Kryt0s Germany. August 12 2011 03:41. Posts 203

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Hehe, nice to see so good responce

Darc1n Hungary. August 16 2011 16:07. Posts 10

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It's very useful, thx, I can make it work with AIMP player, just had to copy the gen_irc.dll file to the plugins folder and set it up the same way as winamps.

shublar Korea (South). August 16 2011 16:54. Posts 264

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this is awesome, very useful. is there any ability to customise the output out of the plugin?

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Eskiya31 Germany. August 21 2011 14:08. Posts 2

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Thanks for that dude, but very bad we dont can use Windows Media Player. Thanks again.

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Carras Argentina. August 28 2011 15:24. Posts 843

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got it ! thanks so much!

TheAmazombie United States. August 28 2011 15:25. Posts 3629

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That is neat. I am a mediamonkey user, but have no need for this at this time. Awesome write-up though.

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KazeHydra United States. August 28 2011 15:30. Posts 1897

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very awesome. thanks for the guide!

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Jei- Bulgaria. September 12 2011 02:51. Posts 33

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You are the best man

Thumbs up!

Lefthanded United States. September 15 2011 05:10. Posts 67

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Was JUST trying to figure this out!!! thank you so much

-miDnight- Taiwan. November 04 2011 22:26. Posts 455

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this thread desire more attention

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jinkyu7 United States. November 29 2011 06:04. Posts 43

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i'm really confused on what the .txt is suppose to contain. and how this all works. i'm not entirely sure what to put in my xsplit as a remote url. could use a more elaborate explanation if possible!

Edit:Figured it out. Awesome tool

Last edit: 2011-11-30 04:42:42

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