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SNESamp Wrapper v0.9.1

SNESamp is a plug-in which allows you to play music from the old SNES games (done by dumping parts of the cartridges into the SPC file format).

SNESamp is one of the best SPC input plug-ins for Winamp, however development of the plug-in has become sparodic (like mine as well at times). As well only the older source code for v3.1 available (v3.3.4 is the current version of the plug-in as of October 2010 and v3.2 was the version when the wrapper was started) and due to not having the tools to build the SNESamp source files natively with the development tools i have, i decided to make a wrapper plug-in to fix some issues with SNESamp's integration with Winamp's media library and advanced text formatting features.

The wrapper works with a few quirks of the Winamp input plug-in api to allow it to load the original SNESamp plug-in (renamed to a different name so as to not conflict with the overrides) and by doing this it is able to act as a transparent layer between Winamp and the original plug-in to allow the features the wrapper adds. As such it is recommended that you use the wrapper's installer to install this in all situations to ensure all files are renamed / installed correctly. The features that the SNESamp wrapper provides are...

  • Support for reading / saving of the plug-in settings based on Winamp's multi-user settings
  • Support for the unified file info editor when used on Winamp 5.5 and higher
  • Support for Album Art and select tag reading support within rsn compilations added to the Playlist Editor and Media Library
  • Support for the Winamp Media Library tag reading and writing (which is also the basis for the Advanced Title Formatting support)
    (Note: This will never be able save changes back into the RSN files due to RAR write support licensing)
  • Updated localisation support to work with Winamp 5.5+ language packs
Download v0.9.1

With the introduction of the media library / atf support, the following tags are available for query from the plug-in (SNESamp mappings noted):

  • %artist% (%4)
  • %title% (Song Title %2)
  • %album% (Game %3)
  • %publisher% (%5)
  • %year% (Copyright %6)
  • %disc% (OST Disc %8)
  • %track% (OST Track %9)
  • %comment% (%D)

and the following tags are able to be updated via the plug-in:

  • %artist% (%4)
  • %title% (Song Title %2)
  • %album% (Game %3)
  • %publisher% (%5)
  • %year% (Copyright %6)
  • %disc% (OST Disc %8)
  • %track% (OST Track %9)
  • %comment% (%D)


Finally to make it easier to see some of the things the wrapper adds you can see some screenshots of the wrapper working.