Adds the ability for foobar2000 to interact with the Windows 10 media control overlay.
Screenshot of the Windows 10 Media Control overlay
Screenshot of foobar2000 in your Discord status using Music Presence
Building requires Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.10240.0 or higher.
- Open the provided solution file in Visual Studio:
foobar2000/foo_mediacontrol/foo_mediacontrol.sln - Change the target to
Releaseand platform tox86 - Build the solution
- Move the resulting
foo_mediacontrol.dllto your foobar2000's components folder - Restart foobar2000
- TODO Describe how to set the build directory to the foobar2000 component directory
- TODO Describe how to launch foobar2000 instead of the built DLL
- Open
foobar2000/foo_mediacontrol/main.cpp - Change the version string to the new version
Build the project by opening Visual Studio and following these steps:
- Go to "Build" and click "Clean Solution"
- Select "Release" and "x86". Go to "Build" and click "Build foo_mediacontrol"
- Select "Release" and "x64". Go to "Build" and click "Build foo_mediacontrol"
- Wait until both builds completed successfully
Now open a command prompt and enter the following command,
presuming you have make installed:
make package
Alternatively you might want to use nmake,
if your make binary comes from a Cygwin/MSYS2 installation.
fb2k-component files for x86 and x64 will be in the package directory.

