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Windows Media Player Discord RPC & Media Info bridge

Features:

  • bridge Windows Media Player playing media info and Windows 10/11 system media info. This allows you to use keyboard media keys and apps like wallpaper engine can show the playing media on wallpaper:

  • take info from running WMP instance and put it into discord

  • minimize onto tray to not take space on taskbar (press minimize button on top right) minimizes automatically when you open some other software in 2.0

  • smart album art manager

On Windows 7, please install .NET 4.8
On newer Windows, install .NET 4.8.1

WindowsRPC.mp4

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Album art manager

  • you must create application on https://discord.com/developers/applications to be able to use custom album art
  • create app there, and put the app id into this program
  • upload your cover arts + bundled textures into Rich Presence -> art assets
  • open art manager by pressing the 3 dots button in this program
  • on left, you have list of already paired album arts
  • on right, you have 3 options how "pair" album arts with songs
  1. by exact album name, past the album name into the correct field, and put the album "key"/filename into the filename key
  2. by album name containing specific string. enter string of words into the field, and album art filename that will show for songs that have album name with containing this string. you can also specify that it must not contain some string
  3. same as 2 except with song name instead of album name *you may also enter priority in which the album art is searched. 0 is highest priority, 9 is lower priority *click close on the album manager window, and it will automatically save (the pairs are saved in albumarts.csv, do not delete the file!) obrazek
  • if the info was entered correctly, it should now show the matching album art file name in bottom corner:
  • image

if you do not want to use the custom album arts, you can use app id "1076519967631093891"