Enabling Winamp Current Song as Personal Message on Windows

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Mercury 2.0 Unstable

  1. Download WinampJava.dll to mercury program directory/jni/WinampJava.dll
  2. Download winamp-currentsong.jar to mercury program directory/lib/winamp-currentsong.jar
  3. You need to start mercury using the MercuryStart.exe program
  4. Follow the steps for displaying your current song as personal message as shown here

Mercury 1.9 Stable

(from kainfx's howto on the forum)

  1. Get the doSomething Plugin for WinAmp from Here and install it.
  2. Create a textfile somewhere (example: c:\programms\Mercury\example.txt) and write in it " %%CURRENTSONG%% " without the " " and save it.
  3. Open your WinAmp and press Ctrl+p for opening the preferences, now select the " DoSomething Plugin " and press the button Plug-In Configuration
  4. Now choose " Generate HTML Playlist " from the " Actions " press down menu
  5. Fill in the Field " Template In " your Path to the file we made in step 2. (Exaple: c:\programms\Mercury\example.txt)
  6. Fill in the Field " Template Out " the Path where you wanna save the Playlist (example: c:\programms\Mercury\playlist.txt)
  7. Press the " Add --> " button and close the DoSomethin and Configuration Windows
  8. Follow the steps for displaying your current song as personal message as shown here using "type "Path/to/textfile.txt"" (without outer quotes and don't forget the "type" command) as Shell Command, e.g.
    type "c:\programms\Mercury\playlist.txt"
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