My little project for the car

[Jessica]

So, I'm tired of looking for a good media player for my carputer. All i want is something i can operate without looking, doesn't cause me to stare at a screen to find a button and crash into oncoming traffic and does what it is suppose to do. I wanted a small, lightweight, fast program. Since it seems there is noting out there I am writing my own.

So far I have about 6 hours in it. That includes finding and editing the artwork. Right now, it will search and find media and build a library, and it plays mp3's (playing .wav's is a simple addition) It has visualizations and stuff, Volume control and that's about it.

I chose this button layout because it puts all the important controls right in my reach. Big easy to find buttons. No frills. Just simple and useful.

Anyway, this project should keep me busy for a while because i can add more and more features as needed, and I can make them work the way i want them to.

So leave a comment tell me what you think

Here are a couple screenshots of what i have so far

[Neckbeard]

You made this????

[RCP Audio]

Awesome!!

[Jessica]

You made this????

Yes.

Awesome!!

Thanks!

[BobbyG2]

Sweet man! This program can be used with Windows? Maybe I'll hit you up when I build the computer for my car!

[206xtreme]

Thumbs up!

[Jessica]

Sweet man! This program can be used with Windows? Maybe I'll hit you up when I build the computer for my car!

I'm writing in in VB6, so it will run under win XP for sure. That is the o/s i will be using and I am going to put it on a SSD. So Speed is king here. I basically want a setup that goes from on-switch to ready to use as quick as possible.

It should run in Win 7 but it may need to be ran in comparability mode. After I compile it I will see how it does.

[Jessica]

Ok, well I have made some progress, i havent had a lot of time to code, and i realized that when you haven't written anything in 5 years you get really rusty. lol

anyway, I think i have the Library building worked out well enough that it doesn't crash. I did find one bug that i think i can't do anything about. It happens with really really long folders + filenames. In rare situations it will give a file not found even though the file exists. It shouldn't be an issue for most people.

I have the Playlist option working, I still have to try to break it to see if there are any bugs in it.

Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Prev, Volume up and Volume Down seem to be working too.

I have a bunch of cosmetic things to tweak, and i would like to add video playback just for the sake of having it.

So, i still have plenty of work to do and ave to actually test it on the mobile screen to see how it will look.

That's all i have so far.

[kandiman71874]

Are you coding this to where it can pull a .m3u playlist and load the actual data info from the source file to find the drive and file locations as well?

[Jessica]

Well, i don't know the format of the .m3u. I can look into it though.

edit:

looking at the .m3u format, it isn't all that different than what i am doing already. Instead of # i am using ? to signify folders, so i don't think it would be a big deal to just change my playlist structure to .m3u so it's all the same.