Media Jukebox Interface Plugin SDK
(last updated March 7, 2002)

This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.

Introduction

This SDK contains everything you need to create your own interface plugin for Media Jukebox.  An interface plugin is a plugin that seamlessly integrates into Media Jukebox to provide added functionality .  An interface plugin can be just about anything you can imagine.  (an advanced tagging studio, an HTML control server, a playlist management tool, and on and on)  Luckily you can build on all of Media Jukebox's established power, so you don't have to deal with ugly low level details like tagging, controlling the system mixer, database management, etc.

Writing a component

The first thing you need to do to create an Interface plugin is to choose a language.  Any language that supports COM should work fine. (C++, VB, etc.)  Once that's out of the way, you need to create a new COM control that has a user interface.  Then, there are two requirements for your COM control:

1. It must enter information in the registry to let Media Jukebox know it exists.  In C++, this can simply be a block of code added to the DllRegisterServer function.  In VB, you will have to make a .reg file for the user to run on their machine. (see the included samples for examples of this)
2. It must implement a function called Init(...) that Media Jukebox will call when starting the plugin to give you an object to control Media Jukebox with. (the object is a dispatch pointer (CMJAutomation *))

Support

If you have questions or concerns not addressed by this SDK, or just have suggestions for making the SDK more understandable, please visit our developer's forum at this address: http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/ or contact matt@jriver.com or nikolay@jriver.com