I thought I'd let you guys know of a project I worked on years ago that I came back to recently. It's a Winamp plugin that can pause, stop or turn down the volume when the phone rings. At first I made it use a modem. But a few months ago I finally ditched my ATA and went with an IP phone, so the modem wouldn't work with this anymore.
Since I work from home and usually have music going, I wanted this to work. So one night I pulled out the source code (after about a decade) and updated it to listen for a SIP INVITE. I configured Anveo to also send each call to a SIP URI, which is my dynamic DNS name and a non-standard port. I opened the port on my router, and it worked!
I know not a whole lot of people use Winamp anymore, especially since AOL abandoned it. But since it's supposed to be revived by new owners soon(ish), I thought it was worth maintaining online. I took the opportunity to figure out how to use GitHub today and put it up there.
I'm curious as to how many people would use it. So if you do, let me know what you think.
Check it out here:
WinampRING
