Is there some kind of "Now Playing" event?

[Jooobs]

Hello all

What I would like to do is detect if my windows media center is playing music or video somehow.

What I want to do is automatically switch my Denon AVR to multi-channel stereo if the source playing is music or switch it to sourround decoding if it is video.

I can think of several options but none are quite right or they are not possible. Things like:

1. Trigger an event when and MP3 starts playing
2. Trigger an event when a file from a certain folder is accessed
3. Trigger and event when you go to the My Music menu in MC (and Guide etc)

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

[blaher]

There is if you use XBMC and there's a plugin here:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1562&start=390#p21652

You get separate events for music and movie playback.

[Dragon470]

You can in WMC get all this info, but it will require a lot of configuration on your part. I have much of this already setup on one of my extenders. First get VMCController plugin for Windows Media Center and the plugin for it in eventghost. once it is setup right you will get triggers that will be like. DMA2100.FS_Videos 'True' or DMA2100.FS_Music 'True' from there you could the ontrol your receiver.