How to Download and Use the NowPlaying.dll Plugin for Rainmeter
Rainmeter is a popular desktop customization tool that allows you to display various information on your screen, such as weather, time, system resources, and music. One of the features of Rainmeter is the ability to control and display the current playing song from various media players, such as Spotify, iTunes, VLC, and YouTube.
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To do this, you need to download and use the NowPlaying.dll plugin for Rainmeter. This plugin is a dynamic link library that communicates with different media players and retrieves the song information. In this article, we will show you how to download and use the NowPlaying.dll plugin for Rainmeter to display and control YouTube music on your desktop.
Step 1: Download the NowPlaying.dll Plugin
The NowPlaying.dll plugin is included in the default installation of Rainmeter, so you don't need to download it separately. However, if you don't have it or you want to update it to the latest version, you can download it from the official Rainmeter website: https://www.rainmeter.net/plugins/#NowPlaying.
Once you download the plugin, you need to extract it to the Plugins folder of your Rainmeter installation. The default location of this folder is C:\\Program Files\\Rainmeter\\Plugins. If you installed Rainmeter in a different location, you need to adjust the path accordingly.
Step 2: Create or Edit a Rainmeter Skin
A Rainmeter skin is a file that contains the code and settings for displaying various elements on your desktop. To use the NowPlaying.dll plugin for Rainmeter, you need to create or edit a skin that uses the plugin. You can use any text editor to create or edit a skin, such as Notepad or Notepad++.
A skin file has a .ini extension and consists of several sections that define different aspects of the skin, such as metadata, variables, measures, meters, and actions. To use the NowPlaying.dll plugin for Rainmeter, you need to create or edit a measure section that uses the plugin and specifies the media player and the song information you want to display. For example:
[MeasurePlayer]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=TITLE
[MeasureArtist]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=ARTIST
[MeasureAlbum]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=ALBUM
[MeasureCover]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=COVER
[MeasureProgress]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=POSITION
[MeasureDuration]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=DURATION
[MeasureState]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=NowPlaying
PlayerName=YouTube
PlayerType=STATE
The PlayerName option specifies the name of the media player you want to use. In this case, we use YouTube as the player name. The PlayerType option specifies the type of information you want to display. You can choose from various types, such as TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, COVER, POSITION, DURATION, STATE, RATING, SHUFFLE, REPEAT, VOLUME, etc. For more details on the available options and their values, please refer to the documentation of the NowPlaying.dll plugin: https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/nowplaying/.
Step 3: Display and Control YouTube Music on Your Desktop
After creating or editing a measure section that uses the NowPlaying.dll plugin for Rainmeter, you need to create or edit a meter section that displays the information on your desktop. A meter section defines how the information is displayed on your screen, such as font, color, size, position, etc. You can also add actions to control the media player from your desktop. For example:
[MeterTitle]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=MeasurePlayer
FontFace=Trebuchet MS
FontSize=24
FontColor=255,255,255
AntiAlias=1
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