Playlist Fun

I am running into some really weird behavior with playlists in WMP, which is probably why they behave so strangely in the current version. It seems like a bug in WMP to me, but I am still looking into it...

Good Progress Today

Today I spent a few hours in MusicBridge. I upgraded some of the code to be thread safe as required by .NET 2.0

I then spent a little time modifying the installer and changing the location of the logfile to a more Vista friendly location.

I still have a few more threadsafe issues to resolve, then I need to go through the existing functionality and make sure it is all working as expected. Then I will look at the couple of feature requests that were made here or on the discussion group.

What do you guys think about the user interface? Do you think it needs an overhaul? Is it too confusing?

What about the command line options, are they working OK for you?

As part of the 2.0 release I will include real documentation that goes beyond the readme. The most common misconception that people have with MusicBridge is that it will physically move files between the two apps, I will address that and other questions in the documentation.

I will also need your help beta testing the application on both Vista and XP so that I can try and get it as stable as possible before the 2.0 release.

I plan to keep MusicBridge free, and I really appreciate those who have sent me donations through paypal. The donate button can be found on the MusicBridge web page at jrmwillis.googlepages.com

Slow progress... Still

I am currently looking for a new job which is again impeding the time I have available for MusicBridge development. Sorry people.

If anyone is looking for a MS based Web Development Manager in Iowa (Dubuque, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids) then let me know...

Thumbs up for Dell tech support

A little unrelated but I thought it was worth posting about. As you know I just got a nice new Latitude laptop from Dell. Well I noticed that I had a single pixel that was half broken, and the problem was only intermittent. I emailed Dell about it fully expecting them to tell me where to go, but to my surprise they immediately replied and organized a replacement and an engineer to install it. It was a fantastic tech support experience, something that is very rare these days so worth commenting on. BTW I do have US based gold level business support.

Laptop Arrived

So here I am posting from my new Vista laptop. This means I can start development work on MusicBridge 2.0. Unfortunatly I am finding Vista a little troublesome for my business reasons. I cannot get a Cisco VPN client that works and I can't install SQL Server 2000... This is going to be quite a transition.

Laptop Ordered

A nicely specced Dell Lattitude D820 is being built as I type, it should be here by the end of next week, maybe...

Then the real work can begin.

Feature Ideas

Please be sure to post your feature ideas over on the discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/MusicBridge/