Plugin coding: get filename and metadata of current song

[Zahl]

Hi there,

I'm just trying to make a winamp5 gen-plugin work with MM.
The dev wiki says that work is being done on support for unicode to make MM more compatible
with winamp5 plugins.
So I'd like to know how much progress there is on this issue, or how else I can get the filename,
artist and title of the currently playing song from within a plugin (in unicode).
Currently for winamp I'm using

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   wchar_t *file = (wchar_t*)SendMessage(plugin.hwndParent, WM_WA_IPC, 0, IPC_GET_PLAYING_FILENAME);
   // Get Metadata
   extendedFileInfoStructW artist;
   // Artist
   artist.filename = file;
   artist.metadata = L"Artist";
   artist.ret = (wchar_t*)malloc(300);
   artist.retlen = 150;
   SendMessage(plugin.hwndParent, WM_WA_IPC, (int)&artist, IPC_GET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFOW);

Both calls are apparently not implemented in MM3.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Peke]

You are right Winamp MSG call 3026 (IPC_GET_EXTENDED_FILE_INFOW) is not yet supported, but it is on our to do list.

If you can get me working example (with clear show of return structure that will be received from MM) of plugin where I can test this with MM 4.0 I'll try to make it work.

BTW in all of my general plugins I directly connect to MM COM and retrieve data from there.