I've been working on a little side project at home in the evenings. I love my Sirius satelite radio. I'm waiting to move into my new cube at work before I setup the antenna again, so I'm missing it terribly right now. While I was using it, I found a neat site - http://www.itsonsirius.com/ - which displays the current title and artist for every stream (they call them streams rather than stations since you aren't actually tuning to a different frequency). That got me to thinking about the latest version of MSN Messenger (version 7 or higher) which can display your Now Playing information from Windows Media Player. I thought, now why should WMP users have all the fun. So I wrote up a quick app that will read the info from ItsOnSirius. You select the stream you are listening to, and it sends that information to MSN 7 as your Now Playing information. I don't know that many Sirius listeners, but if you use a Sirius radio and MSN 7, you can find the tool here - http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sirius2im
Sirius2IM
Posted by Adam Jones at 1:10 PM
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As a matter of fact, that should work if you use w.bloggar. The w.bloggar tool has integration into the Media Player plug-in for now-playing information. I believe you may also need to install a plug-in for Windows Media Player to get it to work, but you can definitely do it.
Hmm... but how to automate it so that you don't have to write a post to get that to work.... Perhaps I can noodle through the Blogger API code and figure out how that is done....
I'll let you know if I get it working...
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