open a folder to play it in Winamp

[sek_is_back]

Hey everybody,

I will describe my problem. When I press "My Music" the explorer open my Music folder with all sub folders and i can navigate through all of them. Everything works fine.

What I want is, when I have select one folder than I want to press Play and Winamp should play the hole folder, liek the command from the context menu.

An when Winamp starts after this the Window should be closed automatic

[jinxdone]

So.. what does this have to do with EventGhost?

From what I understand you want to launch folders of music from explorer and listen them in winamp.

Take a look at these tools, which allow you to control winamp on the command line, perhaps they prove useful for you:
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/58602
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/144432

With these you could easily make shortcuts that launch specific dirs in winamp for example... but I'll leave that to you.

[sek_is_back]

No, I think you understood me wrong. I want to play the complete folder by pressing the Play button from the remote control and I dont know how?

[jinxdone]

I see.

Is the program you are using to browse the music directory the normal windows explorer (explorer.exe) or something else (Some sort of media player)?

[sek_is_back]

yes it is the normal explorer. In the context menu from my rigth mouse button I can say play it in winamp.
But I don't know how I can put this function via EG on my remote control.

[jinxdone]

To make it possible first you need to get the name and path of the selected/active file(s), after you got that information you could use it to do whatever you want with it like use winamp to launch it. After quite some digging around I came across these examples that retrieve that information from the windows explorer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archi ... 88696.aspx
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/vbcode.php5#shlop

Unfortunately other one is in C and other is in vba, so they are not directly usable as such, but doing the same thing in python it would make your request possible.... If somebody does make a plugin for EG that does it I'm sure it would prove useful for lots of people.


Another way of launching the file from inside explorer using EG is pretty much by interfacing through explorer's UI. Send keypress shift+F10, pause for 0.1sec or so and then the hotkey for "Play in winamp" entry. It will work but probably will display that right-click menu for a split second, not to mention it'd also be quite a hack..

Also the last way I think in theory should be possible is making a script that will essentially drag-and-drop the selected file from explorer to winamp, but this would also be difficult to make and not too great as a solution..


In short: As far as I know there is no good solution for doing this at the moment.

-jinxdone

[sek_is_back]

Thank you, I'll try it and i think the last one wil be good enough for me.