gen_smtcinterop

Windows System Media Transport Controls Interoperability Plug-in for Winamp

Propagates the metadata of all contents that Winamp supports to SMTC and lets you focus and control Winamp from the Windows Media Controls. Provides the functionality via a single binary (DLL).

System requirements

• Windows 10 or newer
• Winamp 5.9.1
• Visual C++ 2019 runtime (should be already installed along with Winamp 5.9.1)

Installation

1. Download the plugin from Releases
2. Copy the gen_smtcinterop.dll to your Winamp installation's Plugins directory

Dependencies

• Visual C++ 2019 (v142)
• vcpkg
  • must be integrated with MSBuild and Visual Studio using vcpkg integrate install to be able to reference TagLib
  • recommended to add vcpkg to PATH
• Windows 10 SDK latest
• Winamp 5.55 SDK
• TagLib (statically linked)

Summary of set up

• git clone git@github.com:laszlolukacs/gen_smtcinterop.git
• cd ./gen_smtcinterop
• vcpkg install taglib:x86-windows-static
• Open ./gen_smtcinterop.sln in Visual Studio

Environment variables

• WA_SDK_HOME the root directory of the Winamp SDK, required to build the VC++ project
  • [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("WA_SDK_HOME", "C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp SDK", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)
• WINAMP_HOME the root directory of the Winamp installation itself
  • [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("WINAMP_HOME", "C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

Grant write permission on the Winamp Plugins directory

The plugin's binary is automatically copied from the build output directory to the Winamp installation's Plugins directory for debug builds. However for this to work the current user must have the write permission on the Winamp installation's Plugins directory. This could be set from the Windows Explorer. Alternatively executing the script below in an Administrative PowerShell session grants that:

$waPluginsPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins\"
$waPluginsAcl = Get-Acl $waPluginsPath
$waPluginsAclEntry = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name, "Write", "Allow"
$waPluginsAccessRule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($waPluginsAclEntry)
$waPluginsAcl.SetAccessRule($waPluginsAccessRule)
$waPluginsAcl | Set-Acl $waPluginsPath
Get-Acl -Path $waPluginsPath

Greetings

• NanMetal/gen_smtc - A longer existing Winamp plugin delivering the same SMTC integration, the major difference is instead of the VC++ Runtime it depends on the .NET Framework