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Serious Blueamp Bug

Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:50 Stig Atle Steffensen
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There is a serious bug in Blueamp, this will be resolved asap,
you need to have winamp already started when you load up Blueamp,
If not, it'll crash.
Last Updated on Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:52
 

What is blueamp?

Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:12 Stig Atle Steffensen
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I figured I needed to write more about the application itself.
The software is 2 parts, one that is for the mobile phone (Windows Mobile),
and one for the PC.

The pc software sits and listens for commands from the mobile phone.
When it recives a command it applies it to winamp.

Where can I download it?

http://stigatle.net/uploads/blueamp/setup.exe

http://stigatle.net/uploads/blueamp/Blueamp_winmobile.zip

 

What does it support?

  • change song, pause, play etc
  • Volume up\down
  • View current track name
  • start winamp if not running.

For the next version:

  • "Get song (sends current song to phone automaticly).
  • Various bug fixes.

Future versions:

  • Other mediaplayers by request
  • Wlan

 

How did it all start?

I was just sick and tired of being on my bed, with the music on in my livingroom,
and then had to either remote desktop into my main computer, or walk in there
to change song or turn it off etc.
So I figured I could write a simple but usefull software for my phone.

Why is it free?

Because i love free software. And I wanted to give something back.

 

Why Bluetooth?

Because it does not drain the battery like wlan does.
(But I am planning on supporting wlan too).

 

Where can I get the Source Code?

I'm sorry, but the app is closed source as of now.
Don't know what I'll do about that in the future yet.

 

BlueAmp - New update

Wednesday, 08 April 2009 20:02 Stig Atle Steffensen
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New version of Blueamp was released today,

Various bug fixes, and also the "volume" works now.
And I'm also proud to say that the application where found by Softpedia,
so now it's featured there! :

 http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Remote/BlueAmp-75861.shtml

 Next version:

  • The pc software updates itself, but I'm looking into a way to do the same for the "windows mobile" part of the software.
  • Add a paypal account name for donation.
  • Sending of current song to phone from pc (Almost working already).
  • Playlist, skip-to song, remove.
  • Fastforward - show time status (Enable\disable).
Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 April 2009 20:26
 

Bluetooth - pc - phone

Saturday, 03 January 2009 23:35 Stig Atle Steffensen
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Finally got the time to solve my bluetooth project!

Got the client running on both computer and cellphone ( HTC P3300 ).
I do now send text to\from both devices, this enables
me to make a nice remote control for my winamp.

The library i use is this one : http://www.codeplex.com/32feet/

shared-source project to make personal area networking technologies such as Bluetooth,
Infrared (IrDA) and more, easily accessible from .NET code. Supports desktop, mobile or embedded systems.
The project currently consists of the following libraries:-

  • Bluetooth
  • IrDA
  • Object Exchange

 

I ported one of the sample codes that was in VisualBasic to Csharp (The pc client).

Next up is to port the windows mobile client also.
Screenshot of my working version:

 

 

Just a little update:

It now works with Winamp, much easier to code then i thought..

Here is a screenshot of all 3 apps in action:

 

[Update 16:06 04.01.2009 ]

 

So, yesterday i ported the pc client, today i ported the windows mobile client to csharp also, now after hours of swearing it finally works!
I can now send strings each way, to\from pc to\from mobile phone.

I did some easy tests yesterday for catching the strings as commands, this works great!
So now I'll design a better UI for the mobile client.
Screenshots'll be up soon.

 

 

So, as you probably know i use Csharp, after some google i found "Winamp SDK .Net", perfect! this one enables me to control winamp directly, withouth hacking with "Sendkeys".

This SDK can be downloaded here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cswinampsdk

 With this SDK it took me half an hour to complete the framework for my application.

All the basic "player" functions is working, next is to integrate the playlist, so that i can browse songs and choose
to play them on the computer from the mobile.

Screenshot of the working interface (windows mobile):

 

 

Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 April 2009 20:28
 


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