CG-WhatTunes

Ummm, what are you using with WinAmp to auto-POST the song info? I’ve only ever used iTunes (mac and windows), or a beta script with WMP. It is likely that the format of the POST string is different for WinAmp than it is for iTunes, and you just need to find the right format. If you can point me in the general direction, I’ll help you figure it out…

I just downloaded WinAmp 5.08, so just let me know what plugin/etc. you are using.

-d

I’d need to write customized code for the tracktunes.php file to be able to interpret the POST format the Now Playing plugin is posting. Hmmm…

iTunesBlogger for windows:
http://www.ituneshacking.com/wiki/wakka.php?wakka=iTunesBloggerHomePage&v=687

I can probably make something for winamp-now-playing at some point as well…

-d

I’ll be putting up a new PowerPack with this fix over the weekend — but until then, here’s a revised tracktunes.php that works with the NowPlaying plugin’s Http-POST option — or, at the least, worked in my quickie testing. 😉 There’s still certain to be edge conditions or other issues.

tracktunes.zip

-d

Using the HTTP-post to tracktunes.php should be working fine. Writing custom stuff into the tracktunes.txt file won’t — it needs to match my formatting… Don’t know which you tried… 😉

-d

How would I get the sidebar to look like this?:

“Song Title”
Album Image (link to amazon)
Album Name (link to amazon)
Band name (no link)

Even if it looked like it looks in my WP Admin interface, that would be cool. I was looking at some of the CSS, and i can’t figure any of it out… I’m a pretty big novice.

I get unneccesary underlines for some reason. You can see what it looks like at http://www.jakebouma.com. Let me know what you think. Also, whenever a song has an apostrophe in it, a “/” get’s added, i.e. “U Know What\’s Up”. Is that something that can be fixed? Thanks man.

Thanks for all of your pro-bono help. I’ll link to you your site.

Jake

I’ll try to take a look later tonight when I get a break. If you don’t hear from me, I’m just busy — feel free to ping again.

The extra underlines are due to links — as specified in CSS for either “a” or “li a” or “{menu} ul li a”, or something like that. Off the top of my head, could try:
#sidebar .amazon-block a {
border: none;
}

The extra slash thing has me bugged… There’s some encoding happening, but I already do one stripslashes — so must be that there’s one on the sending side, and then I’m introducing a SECOND one on the receiving side… GRRRRrrrr… Will look into it.

The black border around the image is easy, something like the following might work (make sure it is defined AFTER the example above!):
#sidebar .amazon-block img {
border: 1px solid black;
}

You might also want to throw a UL or UL LI around the amazon output, which would ‘insulate’ it better. Not sure what that’d mess with in your theme. (I don’t have Minima Plus installed here, or I’d try this all directly…)

-d

No problem! Obviously, I want EVERYONE to use my plugins, since they’re so awesome! 😉 😉 (Now, if I just made them a little easier to use/configure/tweak… 🙂 )

For a different picture size, you want to find the line in cga-config.php:
// $defaultAmazonImage = 'SmallMediumShadowed';
Uncomment it, and try ‘SmallMedium’ instead. ‘Medium’ is really big, and ‘Large’ is just enormous.

As for single-line thing, that’s because you don’t have cg-amazon.css installed — though it probably would have caused OTHER visual problems. The key line that should solve the problem is at the top of cg-amazon.css:
.amazon-item-wrap span {display: block; }

Let me know if that doesn’t do the job.

And of course, once you’ve gotten this far, you can also easily add other Amazon stuff to your sidebar (select items, ‘reading now’ lists, your Wishlist, etc.), or direct in posts. See all the CG-Amazon threads around here if you want more info. 😉

-d