this program is a stand-alone plug-in executable that uses COM event interfaces to use itunes and aim. the original intent was to make the program fix broken itunes libraries, but I haven't gotten to that yet, and instead it updates the aim status with the now playing

features

• updates aim status with the song playing in itunes
• can be minimized to the notification tray

source code here http://zxcvbn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/itunes/
download http://zxcvbn.googlecode.com/files/itunes-nowplaying.zip

other nerd features

• auto-updates it's own version information resource
• microsoft com implementations in c++
• multithreaded to support the multiple event interfaces

keywords: CAccEventSink (AimEventHandler), IiTunesEvents (ItunesEventHandler), GetFileVersionInfo (AboutDlg)