tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22123227948592257432011-11-28T12:44:42.600+13:00SharePod and anything else I get time to write about...Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03124500762526773156noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212322794859225743.post-70809597889860003802008-05-12T13:39:00.003+12:002008-05-12T13:42:20.767+12:00

Thanks to all of you who signed up for the ActionThis trial... I won the Wii by lets say a large margin! :)It is still on order apparently, so its not actually in my hands yet, but will be soon :)In the meantime, I'm working on SharePod 3.8.3

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Hopefully you will have noticed that SharePod has moved to www.getsharepod.com!Along with a nice new domain name and style, the SharePod blog is now at http://www.getsharepod.com/blogIts not styled yet (will be soon), but that will become the blog to check for SharePod news and upcoming features.I'm not sure what will happen with this blog yet - hopefully I'll make time to update it once in a

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This is a bug fix release. You only need to get this if you are having these following problems:Unable to delete track because missing ArtworkDBXmlException while loading a ShuffleDownload

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3.8 is out:Add/remove album artworkVideos now auto-resume from last positionShuffles should now work againVideos dont play in random mode in the media playerDownload

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During the day I work as a developer on ActionThis - a web and Outlook task management system.We've just started a bit of a competition - the person with the most signups using their referral code wins a Nintendo Wii! I would love to win this, so if you have a spare minute, please signup for a free trial with the code INT577. Heres a link. I hope you'll find it useful.I'll let you know if I win!

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So I've been adding/removing album artwork on my 5th Gen Video for a couple of days now and it all looks good :)I'll try to finish it up over the weekend - so expect SharePod 3.8 within a few days

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SharePod 3.7 is out :)New features:View-only Album Art support! (Full read-write Album Art will be in the next version) The album art is displayed in the Track Edit window.SharePod should now be able to detect your iTouch/iPhone if you are using appropriate mounting software (iPhoneFS etc). Should be able to view your songs, and hopefully add/remove them too. Please post on the forums if you have

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The Artwork support is coming along nicely, I hope to complete the majority of it tonight :)I use ActionThis to keep track of all the things I have to get done, and I've made a little widget for my website to show all the tasks I'm currently working on for SharePod!Hopefully it will be interesting to see how many small bits go into a SharePod feature/release.See the live view here

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You won't be seeing it this week, but behind the scenes I'm working on adding Artwork support for SharePod! The first version will be read-only view of artwork, the following version will be full add/remove artwork.I've got a working ArtworkDB parser, but haven't converted the binary images into anything viewable yet. Making progress though :)

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Regarding these (never-ending!) Vista issues, I have got a Vista machine up and running now, so in the next week I will be trying to replicate some of the crashes that have been reported.I've just checked the www.sturm.net.nz stats - it was its busiest month in January with 47GB transferred!!

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Hello everyone, its been a while since I've written about any updates! Christmas/New Years is usually pretty busy for me. Kate and I spent a week in Melbourne over new years. It was great fun and 42c several days in a row :)Now things are back to normal, I've been making some significant changes to SharePod, and tonight (well morning, its 1.30am local time...) 3.6.4 is available.So whats new?

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SharePod 3.6.3 is available!Changes:Fixed: Cant select songs from the menu on new iPods for people still affected after 3.6.2Added: 'Part of Compilation' flag to Tag Edit windowFixed: Few small bugs

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After the 3.6.2 release, it turned out some people were still seeing the menu bug.The bug is that songs added by SharePod are visible but not selectable in the iPod menu.After some more investigation, I have found the field which the new iPods expect and that SharePod 3.6.2 doesn't create. A beta has been released to a number of people with 100% success rate :)3.6.3 will be out hopefully tonight!

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SharePod 3.6.2 is available!Changes:Fixed: Cant select songs from the menu on new iPodsFixed: Drag/drop to playlists and playlist reorderingFixed: Could not save when a track tag (eg. Artist) was made emptyAdded: Workaround to not need admin rights when using SharePod with an older iPod. This will also solve the 'iPod Handle' errors for most people. See the Faq for more details.I am aware of

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After lots of investigation, I have a working version of SharePod which doesn't break the menus on iPod Classics and 3G Nanos.It will be out this week :)Phew, Apple, that was a tricky one!

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As promised, here is the SharePod 3.6.1 Beta. Please try it out if you have any of the following issues -Running on a 64bit OSUsing an iPod Shuffle and getting an Xml errorSystem.ArgumentException on loadEither post your feedback as a comment to this post, or email me for more complex feedback :)

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From your emails and comments, there are 4 main issues with v3.6:1. Lack of 64bit supportThis might be really easy or really hard. Expect a test release tomorrow.2. On new iPods, cannot select songs from menus after using SharePodCurrently under investigation!3. iPod Shuffles give an Xml errorWill be fixed in 3.6.14. System.ArgumentException on some iPodsWill be fixed in 3.6.1If you have

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Yep, its available!Only 1 new feature, but its a big one - Support for new iPods and iTunes :)Get it from the downloads page

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Over the last few days SharePod 3.6 has been with beta testers. The good news is it works perfectly with the new iPods!There are a couple of small issues with Windows Vista (SharePod needs to run with Admin rights) , and I just need to work through these in the next few days before the release.Things are looking good for a weekend release :)

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SharePod will be supporting the latest iPods very soon (within 2 weeks!).Thanks to wtbw's example c++ code for the new database format, it is being ported to SharePod as I write this :)If you have a new iPod and want to be a SharePod beta tester, please email me!*Edit: Please stop emailing me about beta testing :) I have had lots of responses (thanks!) and dont need any more at this point!

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Just heard about this news! The newest iPods (the touch screen generation) have a check in them to prevent programs like SharePod and Amarok from modifiying songs on the iPod.No-one has had any success in cracking it yet, so I'll have to just watch and see what happens. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to try and crack the checks myself...

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Friday was a big day, the SharePod article on digg was the most popular in the last 24 hours(!), and http://www.sturm.net.nz served 5Gb of traffic that day :)

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SharePod is on another digg.com post!The article is about the Top 10 freeware applications that everyone should know about. A friend pointed it out to me a couple of hours ago, and in that short space of time the post has had another 1000 diggs :) Its not the first time it has featured on digg.com, but this is the most popular post so far.So, please go and digg the story, see if it can make it

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How about this one? First I create a new playlist (called "New Playlist") and add a track to it. Then I can modify that track (in this case the comment field).Then I can use the built-in IPodExporter class to easily copy a track to the users c:\ drive!Could it be much easier? :)try{ Playlist newPlaylist = iPod.Playlists.Add("New Playlist"); newPlaylist.AddTrack(iPod.Tracks[0]);}catch (

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I've been getting lots of questions about how to use the SharePod SDK and to provide more code samples... so thats what I'm going to do. They will be added to the SharePod SDK page and to the SDK download.This shows how easy it is (under 10 lines including some error checking!) to get a list of tracks on your iPod:IPod iPod = null;try{ IPod iPod = SharePod.GetConnectediPod();}catch (

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Features:Multi-column sortingBetter support for old iPodsHopefully fixed occasional drag-drop not working bug

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Yay, I've finally gone out and bought myself a new iPod. Its the 30GB Video model.My 3rd generation which I've had for almost 3 years finally died (the padlock icon just switched on, and wouldnt turn off, even after draining battery and restoring with iTunes). Apparently it just happens sometimes...I was going to get a new one soon anyway, so wasnt too annoyed, but then I read a rumour of the

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I like lists. Lists are great to keep track of what I'm doing (or should be doing...). I usually use simple txt files, but thats really annoying when I'm using different computers.After a bit of looking, I came across TadaList.com from 37Signals, which gives you simple online lists. Its a couple of clicks to create a list and add items to it. You can tick things off (and un-tick to track your

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New features in SharePod 3.3Drag tracks up and down playlists to re-order them (this is the most requested feature!)Fix for non-latin characters in filenames when exporting tracks to iTunesRemoved the requirement to have an iTunes 7.1+ format database. :) SharePod now does its own compatibility test which is more reliable anyway.SharePodLib will also be updated to include the new functionality.

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SharePodLib, a .NET class library for interacting with an iPod has been released today :)SharePodLib is for developers only - if you are writing an application in .NET and want to be able to read and update an iPod, SharePodLib will save you weeks of work!SharePod itself is written on top of SharePodLib, and with 25,000 downloads in the last month alone has proven to be reliable with only minor

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Well there haven't been many updates lately, and its mostly these girls faults! My girlfriend and I got 2 kittens from the SPCA last weekend :) Theyre lots of fun but take up a lot of free time too...Their favourite things are fighting, eating and sleeping in that order!

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Good news! I was finally able to reproduce the hanging-when-copying files bug. Its now fixed and I will upload a new version (3.0.0.2) tonight (NZ time!)Edit: This is now available at the usual place... Actually fixed the application hang bug when copying tracks to iPodAdded Multi-line grid row mode (cells wrap long content if necessary)

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Version 3.0.0.1 is available right now!It addresses some of the most commonly raised issues Dragging tracks to a playlist now preserves ordering and keeps current selection Drop to Explorer now works properly and includes drop to Desktop Hopefully fixed application hanging when copying files problem Custom Copy to PC filename pattern now saved To everyone who has been asking when the SharePod

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I dont work on SharePod all the time. I appreciate your donations, but its really not enough to retire on just yet!During the day, I work at Intergen, where we are working on ActionThis - a new Web 2.0 team collaboration application. It will be launched worldwide later this year. Its super cool, fun to use and helps actually get things done :) Sign up for the newsletter at www.actionthis.com

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Phew, at long last SharePod 3.0 is available to download! I'm really happy with it, its the most significant release since 1.6 when the UI was redesigned. I'm guessing the next week will be responding to bugs/install problems then im going to take a bit of a break :) Feel free to comment with questions/issues/bugs etc, I check it regularly.Enjoy, im off to sleep!

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Heres a teaser of the new SharePod UI :) SharePod is ready to go out (its even all zipped up) but I just want to wait a day or two to investigate an issue one of my beta testers has. We're not sure if it is SharePod or his system yet but for the sake of a couple of days I think its worth it to wait and fix as many problems before the mass release as possible! thanks for comments

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Well I've been working pretty hard on SharePod. (Most nights after work..!)Rewriting from scratch always seems like a good idea at the start of the project but at the end it justs makes you realise how much the previous version did!!The list of new features and fixes for old issues is quite large now, so the next mission will be re-doing the website as the info contained there will be out of

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Well I've just realised its been over a week(!) since I last posted...its crazy how time can fly by sometimes.I didnt have much time over the Easter break to work on SharePod, but here is the current status:iPod Songs/Playlists reading and writingPlay Counts reading (the number of times / last time youve listened to a song). In SharePod 2 this file wasn't read, so if you didnt use iTunes, your

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I've been working on SharePod v.3 for about 3 nights now. (I work during the day and usually busy in the weekend so nights are all I have..)Progress so far has been really good, its coming together so much faster than the original SharePod 1.0, where every part of the iPod's internal database had to be investigated. Although there will be no current-version SharePod code in Version 3, all the

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I've had loads of questions about Sharepod - am I still working on it, how does it work on Vista, can it handle images/videos etc etc.For quite a while now I have avoided doing large scale work on SharePod - just fixing it when iTunes changes its file format or someone finds a bug. One reason for this is I started writing it about 3 years ago now and had got a bit bored of it.The other reason is

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03124500762526773156noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212322794859225743.post-13366195831087527352007-02-05T16:02:00.000+13:002007-06-06T15:14:46.958+12:00

I recently registered 2 new websites - TVTorrentsOnline and G-CalMobile.com.Diggnation (a great tech and beer podcast) recommend GoDaddy, so I went with them.The initial sign-up was pretty painless, although their website is covered with ads and quite hard to navigate. The first warning sign (which I ignored) is there is no monthly fee option - you have to pay for at least 1 year of hosting in

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Current-gen games look better and are far more complex compared to older, especially console, games, but arent necessarily any more fun! I'm certainly not the first person to think and blog this, but its actually true...Recently I went to LAN event and came back with a SNES emulator and a few ROMS, just for kicks. I played StarFox and Street Fighter and then loaded up Zelda 3. Zelda fans probably

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.NET 2.0 by default doesn't allow code running in a separate thread to update controls created by the main GUI thread. So if you create a new thread, that thread cannot call Textbox1.Text = "Hello World" for example.There are two ways around this - set the CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls flag to false. This will allow .NET 1.1 controls to work as they did under the 1.1 framework.The proper way to

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I few weeks ago I needed to detect sound through a microphone. What I wanted to do was turn on a computer screen when a sound was heard (talking, clapping etc). After a long google session, all I turned up were several expensive sound detection systems and a piece of VB6 code which sets up the soundcard for sampling using the Win32 API.Instead of porting all the API code to C#, and having an '

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Welcome to my new blog! It will probably cover a whole lot of different topics, from software development to philosophical musings...

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