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untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-12 14:49:09
October 20 2012 08:17 GMT
#1
"Untamed Now Playing" is a Chrome extension which parses the song title and artist from popular online radio/music sites, and writes it to a file on your hard drive. Programs such as Xsplit or OBS can then read the file and display it on an overlay, allowing viewers to easily see what song is currently being played. At the moment, this extension is Windows only.

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Latest version: 0.6.1
Updated: 30 Jun 13
Github: https://github.com/untamed0/Untamed-Now-Playing
Changelog: https://github.com/untamed0/Untamed-Now-Playing/commits/master

Supported Sites
  • 8tracks.com
  • ah.fm
  • blinkboxmusic.com
  • deezer.com
  • di.fm
  • distortionradio.com
  • grooveshark.com
  • retro.grooveshark.com
  • hypem.com
  • iheart.com
  • jango.com
  • last.fm
  • nightbot.tv
  • pandora.com
  • piki.fm
  • play.google.com
  • play.spotify.com
  • plug.dj
  • prostopleer.com
  • seoul.fm
  • slacker.com
  • songza.com
  • soundcloud.com
  • themusicninja.com
  • tunein.com
  • turntable.fm
  • vk.com
  • youtube.com
  • zaycev.fm
Support for more sites will be added over time. If you have a suggestion for a site, please reply here or open an issue on Github.

Install

There are a couple of ways to install the extension;

Install the packed extension (Stable, recommended!)
  1. Download the already packed extension here.
  2. Open Chrome, click on the Spanner/Wrench icon -> Tools -> Extensions.
  3. Drag and drop the packed extension you downloaded in Step #1.
  4. Click 'continue' on the bottom left of the Chrome window.
Install the unpacked extension (Under development, not recommended)
  1. Download the extension from Github here.
  2. Extract the files to a safe place.
  3. Open Chrome, click on the Spanner/Wrench icon -> Tools -> Extensions.
  4. Tick "Developer mode" on the top right of the page.
  5. Click "Load unpacked extension" and navigate to where you extracted the files in Step #2.
Note, the unpacked extension is from the development repository and thus may contain untested code and have bugs, so it's recommended you use the packed extension, which is always tested before release - unless you don't mind being a guinea pig .

Configuration

Once you have installed the extension, you can find the options page by either right clicking the music note icon next to the address bar and selecting Options, or by finding "Untamed Now Playing" on the Extensions page and clicking Options.

The main option to configure is the "Save Directory". This is where the file containing the now playing data will be saved. The directory will also be used for caching if you enable the "Check stream is live" option. More information explaining each option can be found by clicking the info button on the right of each option.

Tutorial

Many thanks to benfuzed for these video tutorials!

OBS Setup:
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Xsplit Setup:
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Advanced Settings:
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Limitations

At the moment, now playing data is only saved when the song intially plays and is only updated when the next song starts playing. Thus if you stop playing music, the output file will still contain the last song played.

Chrome limits what directories can be saved to, if you run into problems, try saving to a subdirectory of your profile (C:\Users\USERNAME* or C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME*).

Contact

If you have any problems/suggestions/feedback etc, please either reply here or create an issue on Github. Once installed you can also find my email/skype on the 'contact' area of the options page.
Mig
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States4714 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-20 09:02:07
October 20 2012 08:31 GMT
#2
Edit, Nm this is fine.
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nVusPip
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom260 Posts
October 20 2012 09:40 GMT
#3
Looks quite interesting, will try and post feedback soon
ProTech
Profile Joined November 2010
United States434 Posts
October 20 2012 20:52 GMT
#4
Yup I use it on my featured stream. Great stuff.
n00pe
Profile Joined December 2012
Czech Republic2 Posts
December 18 2012 11:25 GMT
#5
Pretty awesome extension. Works flawlessly.
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-18 11:29:51
December 18 2012 11:28 GMT
#6
I don't understand. Is it just.. so you don't have to make a list of the songs that played in the last half hour or is it so.. you don't have open pandora and look at the song that was just playing?

I really don't get it. Help.
On October 21 2012 05:52 ProTech wrote:
Yup I use it on my featured stream. Great stuff.

This is the only way it makes sense. If someone else was playing music on a stream and then they had a list of the music that played for the viewers. I guess. I mean why not just use shazam or an analogue.
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untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-19 04:56:42
December 19 2012 04:53 GMT
#7
On December 18 2012 20:28 Probe1 wrote:
I don't understand. Is it just.. so you don't have to make a list of the songs that played in the last half hour or is it so.. you don't have open pandora and look at the song that was just playing?

I really don't get it. Help.

This is for streamers who want to display the current song playing on their favourite web radio service, so viewers can easily find out what it is. This wouldn't be of any use to someone who doesn't stream (or someone who doesn't play music on their stream).

And yes, shazam is an option, however by no means perfect and relies on the viewers having that service available to them.
Shabs
Profile Joined March 2013
Finland4 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-13 20:30:42
March 13 2013 20:29 GMT
#8
Is there any way to format the text permanently either for two rows (artist on top and song name below that) or with a space in between so that the text scrolls nicely.
I've installed this and tried it on OBS but the whole artist + song usually doesn't fit in the box/ticker intended, I would have to cram it to an unreadable font for 99% of the songs to show completely inside the ticker. If I put it on scroll it doesn't add a space in between so it crams together looking stupid. Any solution to this?

Really nice extension otherwise, thanks!
untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
March 14 2013 10:12 GMT
#9
On March 14 2013 05:29 Shabs wrote:
Is there any way to format the text permanently either for two rows (artist on top and song name below that) or with a space in between so that the text scrolls nicely.
I've installed this and tried it on OBS but the whole artist + song usually doesn't fit in the box/ticker intended, I would have to cram it to an unreadable font for 99% of the songs to show completely inside the ticker. If I put it on scroll it doesn't add a space in between so it crams together looking stupid. Any solution to this?

Really nice extension otherwise, thanks!

Hey Shabs, thanks for the feedback. I'll add support for more variables and new lines in the plain text format for UNP v0.4 which will allow better customisation for OBS users.
Shabs
Profile Joined March 2013
Finland4 Posts
March 14 2013 15:39 GMT
#10
Great, that should solve it. Any approx when v0.4 will be available? Thanks again!
Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-14 16:31:52
March 14 2013 16:28 GMT
#11
Oh nvm it's basically just for streamers to show their music. Still cool though.
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
March 14 2013 16:30 GMT
#12
Holy shit, awesome.

Did not think of anything like this - half of the reason i dont use online radio sites etc is because i know i would get distracted by or obsessed with new music and not be able to find out what song it was when the game ends half an hour later
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
March 14 2013 16:35 GMT
#13
I'll have to try this out, our overlay's are pretty slick but I couldn't quite figure how to do this with OBS.
TylerThaCreator
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States906 Posts
March 14 2013 16:39 GMT
#14
this is incredible, good work dude! really really like the idea behind this and im surprised it wasnt made earlier. music parsing has been around for a while and i was wondering why they never made something for streaming sites
aka SethN
untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
March 14 2013 16:59 GMT
#15
Thanks for the feedback everyone

On March 15 2013 00:39 Shabs wrote:
Great, that should solve it. Any approx when v0.4 will be available? Thanks again!

It should be out this weekend. In the mean time, to fix the scrolling/marquee issue, you can add a space (or a few) to the end of the "Plain text now playing format" option.


On March 15 2013 01:30 Cyro wrote:
Holy shit, awesome.

Did not think of anything like this - half of the reason i dont use online radio sites etc is because i know i would get distracted by or obsessed with new music and not be able to find out what song it was when the game ends half an hour later

This plugin just lists the current (or last) song played, it doesn't keep a list of previous songs played, but I'll consider a feature like that for a future version.


On March 15 2013 01:35 ThomasjServo wrote:
I'll have to try this out, our overlay's are pretty slick but I couldn't quite figure how to do this with OBS.

Add a new text source, and tick the "use text from file" option, and paste in the save directory you set in the UNP option page and add 'unp_now_playing.txt' on the end, for example: 'C:\Users\Sam\Documents\unp\unp_now_playing.txt'.
untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-16 10:56:43
March 16 2013 10:56 GMT
#16
Just finished v0.4, the plugin should update automatically, or if you can't wait, you can go to the extensions page, tick 'developer mode' and click the 'update extensions now' button.

Changes:
Add support for jango.com
Add support for plug.dj
Add support for seoul.fm
Add support for vk.com
Added more plain text variables (Now more customisable, available variables depend on the site)
Added png album art support
Fixed 8tracks.com album art
Fixed jango.com album art
Fixed tunein.com parsing
Fixed turntable.fm parsing
Improved deezer.com support
Improved iheart.com support
Improved youtube.com support

Full change log here
Shabs
Profile Joined March 2013
Finland4 Posts
March 17 2013 12:39 GMT
#17
I still have a problem with the new version or then I'm just doing something very wrong. I'm using OBS and listening to Pandora. I tried editing plain text now playing format to %a% %n% %e% but it says "Error: Plain text format must contain %s%" It doesn't update the format if I remove the %s% and if I keep the %s% as in %s% %a% %n% %e% it looks like this which is just overall very bad and messy. Am I forgetting something?

untamed
Profile Joined July 2011
26 Posts
March 17 2013 13:17 GMT
#18
Unfortunately I forgot to remove the old validation when adding the new plain text variables, so the validation would fail if you didn't have %s% in the format option. I've fixed this and released v0.4.1:

Changes:
Added missing support site to docs (tunein)
Fixed plain text format validation bug

Full change log here

Again, the plugin will auto update, or if you want it faster, go to the extensions page, make sure 'developer mode' is ticked, and click the 'update extensions now' button. Now, you'll be able to have "%a%%n%%e%" without any problems
Shabs
Profile Joined March 2013
Finland4 Posts
March 17 2013 13:22 GMT
#19
On March 17 2013 22:17 untamed wrote:
Unfortunately I forgot to remove the old validation when adding the new plain text variables, so the validation would fail if you didn't have %s% in the format option. I've fixed this and released v0.4.1:

Changes:
Added missing support site to docs (tunein)
Fixed plain text format validation bug

Full change log here

Again, the plugin will auto update, or if you want it faster, go to the extensions page, make sure 'developer mode' is ticked, and click the 'update extensions now' button. Now, you'll be able to have "%a%%n%%e%" without any problems



Thanks a lot for the quick fix, it's really appreciated. Everything works perfectly now! Great extension
dagthomas
Profile Joined March 2013
1 Post
March 24 2013 09:20 GMT
#20
Just found this great extension, nice work!

Would it be possible for you to add "themusicninja.com" as a working page for the extension?
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