Jazz Jukebox Suggestion

[Z903]

I'l keep this short. I think it would be nice to see OTTD update the jukebox so we can control our favorite media players in game. Just like FoxyTunes and firefox. Perhaps choose which one in the Advanced settings. Such a list would contain OTTD player (what we have now), Winamp, Windoes Media Player, VLC, etc... Keep the ottd feel of it all (dont change the skin) and just use Play, Stop, Next, Prev, Volume, Song Tittle. If somebody wants to get advanced then do more. (Shuffle, Repeat, logo of player... )

[XeryusTC]

There is already an option for that, it's called alt-tab

A bit more serious: this has been suggested many times and rejected many times before as you can just as easy control the media player from within your mediaplayer. It gets even worse if you want to support semi-exotic music players like MediaMonkey which have quite an extended method of browsing the entire library.

[Yexo]

In fact this is the first time I've seen this suggestion, most of the time the suggestion is to implemented mp3/other music formats support in OpenTTD. I think this is an interesting idea, but it's probably way too much work. Remember OpenTTD doesn't only run on windows, but also on linux and mac osx so that increases the number of media players to support a lot.

[piderman]

The media keys on my keyboard work for most media players (on windows at least). Would it be possible to emulate them from within OTTD?

[Eddi]

The media hotkeys should work from anywhere (including within OpenTTD), if they are set up as global hotkeys.

[Z903]

I would still like to impliment this so i was thinking about haveing open ttd write to a buffer or port and then make some extentions for various media players. Basically break up the work into manigible pieces. Im going to try and make a patch for this and see where it goes. As for a media library im not. Just the simple commands for now.