Welcome to Ztatus!

Ztatus is the FIRST Now Playing application for the Zune Software.

Version 2.0 Update:

I noticed on my laptop it was crashing quite often (Ztatus), and across the board the keyboard function would stop working (as in it wouldn't do anything when you pressed F12).
Basically, I went back and re-did a lot of stuff and it should work much better now!

Mission:

I've been searching for a Zune Now Playing app so I can post something like "/me is now playing "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions from the album: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Scorpions" into IRC or IM or anywhere. After being unable to find one, I decided to make my own.

Solution:

What I created was an application that prints out "is now playing "Song" by Artist from the album: Album" when you press F12 in whatever program you want to put it in. Also, you can view the song now playing in the window (Double Click on System Tray icon to get the window when it starts up) when you press "Update". If you press "Update and Get" or select that from the menu on the system tray then it will add the now playing info to the windows Clipboard.

What You Need To Know

-It's Free!
-Just run Ztatus.exe, it'll do the rest (Even open up Zune for you!)
-Press F12 to print out something to this effect in whatever program you are currently in "is now playing "Horizon 12.2" by Thomas Newman from the album: WALL-E: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
-Double Click on System Tray Icon to get the interface
-Right click on System Tray icon for "About", "Exit", and "Update and Get"
-Update just updates the interface, Update and Get copies the song info for you, so you can paste it anywhere!
-To make sure it works right, after Ztatus is open switch to at least one other song in Zune

Known Bugs

-Parenthesis aren't displayed when you press F12
-Have to switch to another song in Zune after it is open, this is probably more a bug with the program I use to get the registry info probably

Thanks!

-To you for downloading! :D
-To http://znp.codeplex.com/ for the program to add Zune info to registry (so then I could read it)