Nowplayer Plugin v2 for Windows Media Player Series 9

How to setup

If you have downloaded NowPlayer for Winamp this setup will be fairly easy. (It does not require Winamp plugin.)
Just download the plugin below and follow the on screen instructions of the setup program. Plugin is installed to Windows Media Player directory and can be uninstalled through Control Panel's icon.

After you finished with setup running Windows Media Player at the first time with the plugin a configuration box appears.
Here you can set:

Tip: You can bring up this configuration box later if you doubleclick on the green smiley in the Now Playing window of Media Player. (above trackbar, before media time-counter) or simply use the menu bar (View -> Plugins -> Options -> Background -> Nowplaying plugin -> Properties).

You should check under NowPlayer for Winamp to see Coolmon tag details.
Differences:

Comments

The plugin was tested under Windows Media Player Series 9.
It does not work with older versions of Media Player as those don't support architecture of plugins. Even the built in Player of XP has no plugin ability (It's only version 8.0). Please upgrade to 9.0 to use this plugin. Download from Microsoft.

Available Attributes

Probalby you won't use all these attributes but I wanted this list to be as complete as it can be. I didn't tested all these attrbutes only just the ones that make any sense. Worked fine. Again: if the attrbiute has no value (no such tag filled inside mp3 file) it's left unchanged by the plugin. This table is quoted from Microsoft's Windows Media Player Series 9 plugin SDK. (So beware - you've been warned!)

Attribute Name Description
Abstract Short description of the radio station.
AcquisitionTime Date and time the item was added to Media Library.
AlbumArtistSortOrder Value for sorting the Album Artist column in Media Library.
AlbumID Unique identifier for the album (sorted by album title when queried).
AlbumIDAlbumArtist Unique identifier for the album (sorted by album artist when queried).
AlbumTitleSortOrder Value for sorting the Album Title column in Media Library.
Author Name of a media artist or actor associated with the content.
AuthorSortOrder Value for sorting the Author column in Media Library.
AverageLevel A 16-bit amplitude value indicating the average volume level.
Bitrate Bit rate of the item, in bits per second.
BuyNow PARAM value for commercial interaction.
BuyTickets PARAM value for commercial interaction.
CallLetters Call letters of the radio station.
Copyright Copyright message for the item.
Description Description of the media content.
Duration Playing duration of the item, in seconds.
DVDID Digital video disc identifier.
FileSize Size of the file in bytes.
FileType Three-letter file name extension, such as wma or mp3.
Frequency Frequency of the radio station or Net only.
Is_Protected Whether the content was protected using digital rights management (DRM).
IsVBR Whether the content was encoded using variable bit rate (VBR) encoding.
Location Geographic location of the radio station or Net only.
MediaType Type of content in the item.
ModifiedBy Deprecated; do not use. Value is always empty or user.
MoreInfo PARAM value for commercial interaction.
PeakValue A 16-bit amplitude value indicating the peak volume level.
ProviderLogoURL Address of the logo of the provider of the attribute values.
ProviderURL Address of the home page of the provider of the attribute values.
RadioBand FM or AM or Net.
RadioFormat Description of the type of content provided by the radio station.
RecordingTime Date of the original recording, for items where this date is different from the release date.
ReleaseDate Date of the original release of the item.
RequestState Media information request state.
SortAttribute Specifies the attribute to use for sorting the playlist.
SourceURL Address of the item.
Title Title of the content.
TitleSortOrder Value for sorting the Title column in Media Library.
UserCustom1 Arbitrary text.
UserCustom2 Arbitrary text.
UserEffectiveRating Rating computed by the Player based on how often the item has been played.
UserLastPlayedTime Date and time the item was most recently played.
UserPlayCount Number of times the item has been played.
UserPlaycountAfternoon Number of times the item has been played between noon and 17:00 local time.
UserPlaycountEvening Number of times the item has been played between 17:00 and 22:00 local time.
UserPlaycountMorning Number of times the item has been played between 06:00 and noon local time.
UserPlaycountNight Number of times the item has been played between 22:00 and 06:00 local time.
UserPlaycountWeekday Number of times the item has been played on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
UserPlaycountWeekend Number of times the item has been played on Saturday or Sunday.
UserRating Rating specified by the user in the Media Library user interface.
UserServiceRating Reserved for future use.
WM/AlbumArtist Name of the primary artist for the album.
WM/AlbumCoverURL Address of a Web page that contains an image of the album cover and information about the album.
WM/AlbumTitle Title of the album on which the content was originally released.
WM/AudioFileURL Address of an official Web page with information about the file.
WM/AudioSourceURL Address of an official Web page for the source media.
WM/AuthorURL Address of the author's Web site.
WM/BeatsPerMinute Beats per minute of the content.
WM/Category Category of the content, such as "Pop" or "Opera".
WM/Codec Name of the codec used to encode the content.
WM/Composer Name of the composer.
WM/Conductor Name of the conductor.
WM/ContentDistributor Name of the distributor of the item.
WM/ContentGroupDescription Description of the content group, a collection of media items such as a CD boxed set.
WM/Director Name of the director.
WM/DRM Whether the content was protected using digital rights management (DRM).
WM/EncodedBy Name of the person or group who encoded the content.
WM/EncodingSettings Settings used to encode the content.
WM/EncodingTime Time at which the content was encoded.
WM/Genre Genre of the content.
WM/GenreID Genre identifier compliant with the TCON tag in ID3v2.
WM/InitialKey Initial key of the music.
WM/ISRC International standard recording code (ISRC).
WM/Language Language of the item.
WM/Lyrics Lyrics of the content.
WM/Lyrics_Synchronised Lyrics of the content synchronized to times in the file.
WM/MCDI Music CD identifier of the CD from which the file came.
WM/MediaClassPrimaryID GUID specifying one of the primary media classes: music; non-music audio; video; other.
WM/MediaClassSecondaryID GUID specifying the secondary media class.
WM/Mood Category name for the mood of the content.
WM/OriginalAlbumTitle Name of the album on which the track first appeared.
WM/OriginalArtist Name of the artist who originally produced the content.
WM/OriginalFilename Name of the file from which the content was made.
WM/OriginalLyricist Name of the person who wrote the original lyrics.
WM/OriginalReleaseYear Year during which the content was originally released.
WM/ParentalRating Parental rating of the content.
WM/PartOfSet Part number and the total number of parts of the set to which the item belongs.
WM/Period Period of the item.
WM/Picture Graphic related to the content.
WM/PlaylistDelay Milliseconds of delay that should precede playback of the item in a playlist.
WM/Producer Name of the producer of the content.
WM/PromotionURL Address of a Web site offering a promotion related to the content.
WM/ProtectionType Type of protection used on the content.
WM/Provider Name of the provider of the attribute values.
WM/ProviderRating Rating of the item as assigned by the attribute provider.
WM/ProviderStyle Style of the item as assigned by the attribute provider.
WM/Publisher Name of the company that published the content.
WM/RadioStationName Name of the radio station associated with the content.
WM/RadioStationOwner Name of the owner of the radio station associated with the content.
WM/SubscriptionContentID Subscription content identifier.
WM/SubTitle Subtitle of the content.
WM/Text Arbitrary text specified by the user.
WM/ToolName Name of the application used to create the file.
WM/ToolVersion Version of the application used to create the file.
WM/TrackNumber Track number of the item; this number is 1-based.
WM/UniqueFileIdentifier String that uniquely identifies the item.
WM/UserWebURL Address and description of a Web site.
WM/WMCollectionGroupID GUID identifying the group containing the collection to which the item belongs.
WM/WMCollectionID GUID identifying the collection to which the item belongs.
WM/WMContentID GUID identifying the content.
WM/Writer Name of the writer who wrote the words of the content.
WM/Year Year the content was published.

Known issues

The downloadable version is now somekind of an RC1 release. I tried to test it throughoutly and no problem occured of the tested version. But still I take no responsibity of any possible loss of data or damage to your media. (no such mean, just self protection).
Author: Cina.com 2003.
Thanx for downloading...
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