Winamp LCD Display plug-in / News: Recent posts

This Winamp plugin displays status information on various LCD/VFD modules. A menu provides access to playlists, song titles, albums, artists, disk browsing and much more! Several input methods allow to control the menu and Winamp itself. 0.6.4a is a new alpha release and includes many bug fixes and the following new features: sleep timer, 44780 shift register interface with 2 wires, LCD re-init option, input options for shutdown, standby, hibernate & reboot.... read more

This Winamp plugin displays status information on various LCD/VFD modules. A menu provides access to playlists, song titles, albums, artists, disk browsing and much more! Several input methods allow to control the menu and Winamp itself. 0.6.3a is a new alpha release and includes many bug fixes and two new major features: Custom character map for each LCD and dynamic menus. Please see the release notes for the full list of new features and bugfixes.

Binaries are on the plugin home page:
http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects/lcdplugin/download.html

Sources will be soon in CVS. Binary and source packages will be made available here once it reaches beta status...

Updates from Preview 5k:
- Multiple actions per key is back! Well, for keyboard input only, the other input methods will be supported soon...
Inspired from my iPod I came up with the following new navigation options:
- Menu | Backlight on/off
- Menu / Volume Up
- Menu / Volume Down
- Select / Switch Set | SA on/off
- Previous | Rewind
- Next | FF
- Play / Pause | Stop
The action after the pipe ('|') is the 'long key press' action, just try it out...
Everything will be documented with the offical 0.5 release :)... read more

Binaries are on the plugin home page:
http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects/lcdplugin/download.html

Source is in CVS. Binary and source packages will be made available here once it reaches beta status...

New features in preview 5:
- Noritake VFD 800 driver!
- Scott Edwards Serial Display driver (untested!)
- SED1531 driver (untested!), more infos @ http://home.foni.net/~tobias-schirmer/
- Improved HD44780 driver! More delay options and a more accurate delay function with high resolution timer (VHR). Everything is now configurable in the cfg dialog of the driver. Use the VHR option whenever possible, it should give much better results if you have timing problems (LCD doesn't work at all, garbage on row 3 and 4 with 4x40 displays etc.)
- Improved Spectrum Analyzers and a "Mini VU Meter"
- Serial and Parallel port key pads (Win 9x and NT)
- Support for the AlbumList plugin: http://come.to/albumlist
- Enhanced LCD menu: system stand by and shut down / AlbumList integration
- Enhanced scrolling: bouncing and reverse
- Option to automatically switch output sets
- Support for APE tags and Ogg Vorbis comments... read more

New features:
- Input driver concept with support for: keyboard, WinLIRC, serial port
- Recursive playlist loading and sort option
- Linear- and non-linear spectrum analyzer
- Position of spectrum analyzer configurable
- Hotkey to start/stop spectrum analyzer