How does Google Talk get current Music track?

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How does Google Talk get the current song played? Can I do this using .net?

Edit : Looks like every player has its own SDK for use

Winamp : Here is a good thread about the clas to be used : http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2481680

iTunes :http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html

Windows Media Player : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmedia/default.aspx

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '09 at 18:53

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I'm not sure that there is a consistent way of doing this, but I think that both iTunes and Windows Media Player have COM interfaces, which you can use for this sort of thing.

answered Jul 24 '09 at 18:53

Tom Haigh

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How does Gtalk get Winamp's track ;-) they code for every player? – Shoban Jul 24 '09 at 18:56
Both of those links redirect to useless landing pages now. – Keavon Jun 03 '14 at 01:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '09 at 18:52

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It uses a plug-in for your media player. I suspect this plug-in is a COM component and exposes a COM interface for Google Talk to interface with and extract the information. If it is COM, then you should be able to do a similar thing using .NET.

answered Jul 24 '09 at 18:52

Jeff Yates

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How does Google Talk get current Music track?

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