Update on WWWinamp and my life in general
2 November 2007Hello Everyone!
I thought I’d post a small update on what’s going on in my little world as well as the status of WWWinamp and other associated projects.
I hope that everyone is enjoying WWWinamp and the work I’ve put into it! I enjoy providing it as much as I love hearing from my users. So please, if you have any feedback or questions, send them to WWWINAMP ATnospam ENUSBAUM.COM (you know what I mean). I try to reply to each user request as quickly as time allows.
So where do things stand? Well, things have been at a bit of a stand still for the last month or so. On top of my wife and I moving into a new place, we were also impacted by the wildfires that swept through San Diego county in October. Because of this, I haven’t been able to dedicate too much time to development projects.
Now that things are starting to settle back down, I’ve picked up the code base and started to tinker away once again. I’m currently working on a WWWinamp WPF XBAP using XAML. Lots of acronyms, I know. But basically it’ll be as if you’re running WinAmp within the browser, and then have that browser copy of WinAmp control WWWinamp using it’s WCF endpoint. This would be another real world use of the WCF endpoint.
I know some people use Mac as well (I’m included, I’ve been using my PowerPC Notebook now for a couple years), so I’m going to try to write a class or two using Coaca and Objective-C to interface with the WCF endpoint in WWWinamp using SOAP. This way, it might be possble to write native OSX applications that can also control WWWinamp remotely.
So anyways, that’s a quick status update. I hope to have an updated build of WWWinamp out by the end of next week which will include some bug fixes and a couple new features which are from the v3.0 branch. These are being added at the request of user e-Mails. So keep ‘em coming!
Cheers!
8 Responses to “Update on WWWinamp and my life in general”
November 10th, 2007 at 11:34 am
hey there, i was one of the halo8 developers.
i am trying to install 4.1b and noticed that the package doesn’t include the wwwinamp.xml file, so i pulled it out of i think 4.1a.
there’s no readme either, so i can’t get it to start without knowing where wwwinamp.xml is supposed to be in vista. (it doesn’t look like it should be in the program files dir).
thanks.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Hey Mike!
The latest versions of 4.1 were converted to use the .NET “app.config” file format for the configurations. I posted a while back about this here:
http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2007/08/25/wwwinamp-v41-build-2793/
Let me know if you have any questions!
November 10th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
thanks. in this case, the following warning is erroneous:
[ 11/10/2007 7:27:02 PM ] !! Please be aware that Windows Vista does not allow writing to the Program Files folder
[ 11/10/2007 7:27:02 PM ] !! and that you must change the “Winamp Directory” value in WWWINAMP.XML to the correct
November 10th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Thats for the heads up! I’ll be sure to correct that in the next build. I figured some things would be left behind once I converted
November 12th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
no worries. still can’t get it to start though. it complains about default options, although i have the .config file in the same dir as the exe. are there any file permissions issues with vista, or is this not the right place for this file?
November 12th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Could you send me your error.log file?? WWWINAMP ATnospam ENUSBAUM.COM
I’ll take a look and let you know what’s up
November 17th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
i don’t see an error.log file, but i do see the following app output:
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !!
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! WWWinamp has detected you are using Windows Vista (or newer)
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! Please be aware that Windows Vista does not allow writing to the Program Files folder
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! and that you must change the “Winamp Directory” value in WWWINAMP.XML to the correct
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! folder which contains the “Roaming” Application data. This folder is commonly:
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !! If you do not do this, the Playlist will not generate correctly. Thanks!
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] !!
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] Retrieving WinAMP Handles…
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] Building Media Library…
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] ERROR WalkDirectory(): Directory “C:\mp3\” does not exist, skipping.
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] Media Library Built! (0 files scanned, 00:00:00.0371070 elapsed)
[ 11/17/2007 1:31:27 PM ] Web Service Started at http://192.168.0.224:80
November 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
sorry, let me just email you