About MSN personal message and WMP caption...

Hi, everyone !!
We know Live Messenger's personal message can change when listen the song with Windows Mediaplayer.
And I want to write some code let personal message can show the lyrics with the song synchronous, if the song has it.
So, can you show me some example or give me suggestion about the Live Messenger and Windows Mediaplayer communication.
Thank you very much !!

[392 byte] By [AppleI] at [2007-12-27]

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# 1

You'll need to create an Add-in of your own to set the Personal Status Message (PSM).

Take a look at this excellent blog entry that walks you through building a plug-in of your own.

BrendanGrant at 2007-9-4 >

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# 2

That's a very good blog entry indeed!

About the lyrics, with the Add-In SDK you can indeed set the personal message, but I think there is no way to find out where in the song you are. You can display a new line of the lyrics every second for example, but there is no guarantee that it runs synchronously with the song...

We can't help you with the mediaplayer connection here, only the messenger part.

J-Thread at 2007-9-4 >

# 3

But even when you succeed in getting the messages in sync with the song, you'll probably run into trouble with the msnp network itself. It simply doesn't allow you to change your personal message that often. It's a safety measure by MSN to keep people from flooding the network.

Hope this helps,

coolio

coolio at 2007-9-5 >

# 4

Thank your answer !!

AppleI at 2007-9-5 >

# 5

Hi~ Everybody!!
I almost finish this plugin, but I found a problem about the msn update personal message time interval.
It's seem update the personal message every 7~8s.
It's mean I can see the sync. lyrics A in my personal message field.
But in your side, you'll see the same lyrics A after 7~8s.
So every lyrics interval must greater then 7~8s , otherwise you'll lose the lyrics...
If you have any suggestion, please free feel to suggest me.

Thanks!!

AppleI at 2007-9-5 >

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