LH_NowPlayingLatest Version: 3.00
LH_NowPlaying is a plugin that lets you...
...display the name, artist, album or playing time of the currently playing track in one of many players...
...display how far through the track you are using a progress bar...
...display the cover art for the current track...
...control shuffle / repeat states...
...and more!
e.g.:

- iTunes: Full, native support.
- Winamp: Full, native support.
- foobar2000: Full support via the Foobar_Winamp_Spam plugin (no specific home page but v0.98 is located here) or the foo_rainmeter.dll plugin. This latter option is now preferred with v3.00 of LH_NowPlaying as it allows full control over foobar.
- VLC Player: Full semi-native support - enable the web interface in VLC (see here for a guide) and make sure you've correctly set the port on the plugin settings page. (Thanks to Stephan1200 for the guide and suggestion)
- Windows Media Player: Partial support via the "Windows Live Messenger Music Plugin", found under Plugins > Background.
- Spotify: Partial, native support.
- ...and any other player that supports the MSN Now Playing interface, such as Last.fm, OpenPandora, Songbird(+LiveTweeter), Zune and others."
Compatibility chart from the plugin:
1 If LCDHost is running as an administrator and iTunes is not (or visa versa) LH_NowPlaying will crash. Either run both as administrator or neither.
2 Foobar via Foo_Rainmeter.dll fully supports shuffle and repeat. The winamp spam dll supports sending shuffle and repeat toggle commands, but cannot read the values back.
3 Some users of 64 bit windows report that the MSN interface does not function with any application (i.e. the issue is unrelated to LCDHost); others have reported no problem.
4 The MSN interface only supports the seperate Artist, Album & Track details, hence players using this system cannot display the progress bar or album art and cannot access or set shuffle/repeat data.
5 The Title bar interface only supports the seperate Artist & Track details, not the album name. As with MSN, players using this system cannot display the progress bar or album art.