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Music Identification

Hello, I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone knew how the MSN Music Identification process worked. I downloaded the msnMessengerActivityKit SDK and took a look at the 'documentation' but found nothing on the topic, maybe I looked in the wrong place I am curious as to how MSN knows what song is playing in Windows Media Player, is it a registry key Thanks.



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Music Identification

  • lpx

    No, that's not right, you can actually retrieve the information. Your application should listen to the right windows messages and then capture the right information. I don't know which messages, but I am sure you will be able to find it on the internet somewhere.

  • Tej62007

    Ah I see, now the problem will be looking for them, nevermind I guess I can use something like Spy++ or Winspector. Thanks, I'll have to see how to listen to windows messages from C#.


  • efriese

    Ah okay thanks, so I guess since it's 'hard coded' (Is it ) into Windows Media, I can't retrieve that information in some way, right


  • etcheverrjc

    No it knows because Windows Media sends a message to it containing the currently playing song. It is sent through the SendMessage function in the user32.dll
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