[P2P] BlueMuze - bluetooth music file and playlist transfer

[alostpacket]

BlueMuze, a bluetooth music sharing program, now on the Android Market

Named one of the "best new apps of the week" by Android Police


WEB LINKS
Trial: https://market.android.com/details?i...acket.bluemuze (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuze)
(https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuze)
Full: https://market.android.com/details?i...t.bluemuzefull (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuzefull)

PHONE LINKS
Trial: market://details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuze

Full: market://details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuzefull


http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/marketing_icon_128x128.png

About BlueMuze

You don’t have to be a fan of the movie High Fidelity to remember the 80s and 90s culture of making mixtapes for friends. (Though it was a great movie).

Handwritten lists on the back of cassettes, CDs adorned with sharpie titles — these things probably seem like distant memories in the digital age.

But our desire to share music that inspires us, that makes us laugh, that moves us, never left. It’s just the technology that surrounds how we interact with music, that has changed so rapidly.

BlueMuze aims to help bring back this ability. Transfer custom-made playlists, and the music files/MP3s that go with them, directly to your friends.

Select some songs, put them in the order you want, give your playlist a name, then send it to a friend.

http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/bm_home_322x536_0.8.jpg http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/bm_playlists_322x536_0.8.jpg


http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/bm_audibles_240x400_0.8.jpg http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/bm_arrange_240x400_0.8.jpg http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/bm_send_240x400_0.8.jpg


You will only ever need the Trial version to receive music from someone else.

To send music, you can use either the trial or full version but the trial is limited to 60 days and to sending 7 songs at a time.




http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/qrcode_bm_phone_market_full.png


Thanks and please enjoy/post feedback/etc!


(And before ggrant asks, yes I'll be adding it to the app directory! :) )

[alostpacket]

Two updates bump :)

0.9.5
- New 3-tier caching and pre-loading system for the "all music" screens
- Should get up to 90% faster loading times

0.9.0

- New mini audio player for the Selection, Arrange and Bluetooth screens
- It should be much easier to preview music in order with the new mini audio player
- Complete rewrite of the Bluetooth reconnection code
- Connections should be signifigantly more stable now and able to recover much better from any disconnections
- Fixed rare bug with multiple dialogs popping up

Here's a screenshot of the new audio player and you can see it's #5 in the playlist order:

http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/MediaPlayer_0.9.jpg

[alostpacket]

BlueMuze 0.9.6 released: lots of bugfixes and bit of performance tuning for the drag and drop screen.

Will probably be one more feature added then 1.0 will be official in the next release or the one after.

[alostpacket]

update 0.9.7

- Lots of new features on the Arrange screen media player
- Move items to first, last, up, down or remove them
- This offers an alternative to drag and drop for arranging songs
- New feature to show selected only, deselected only, or all
- New feature where BlueMuze will better "remember" your selections from one screen to the next
- This should make it much easier to make selections, arrange them, and go back and change your selections without losing the order
- A few misc. bugfixes



Screenshots of the updated media player, and new selection options in the bottom menu:

http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/MediaPlayer_0.9.7.jpg http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/menu_0.9.7.jpg

[alostpacket]

1.0.0
- Beta is now over. More features in progress though :)
- More improvements on remembering selections and play order from one screen to the next
- New quick-view for playlists
- New auto-select preference for playlists
- New "toast" hints to highlight features
- Hints can be disabled in the preferences
- Fixed rare FCs occurring after inactivity
- Fixed a typo

Screenshots of the new features: playlist quick-view and "toast" hints


http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/plalist_quickview_1.0.jpg http://alostpacket.com/images/screenshots/bm/hint_1.0.jpg

[alostpacket]

1.2.0 released
- NEW: Transfer over Wi-Fi (full version)
- WiFi transfers can be 5-20 times faster than Bluetooth
- New Preferences
- Auto-disable WiFi when sending with Bluetooth
- Auto-disable Bluetooth when sending with WiFi (full version)
- This will make transfers for the free version and full version fast and more stable
- Hints now turned off by default, can be enabled in preferences.
- Reduced file size of the app

[alostpacket]

1.3.0
PLEASE NOTE: This is a required upgrade for continued compatibility
Due to adding the genre info in songs BlueMuze will no long be compatible with older versions

- NEW: Sort by and search by genre
- NEW: Playlist backup and restore to SD (BETA)
- Improved UI and graphics
- Improved reliability and stability, & security of WiFi connections (Full Version)
- Removed 60 day trial time limit. Trial does not expire now

[alostpacket]

Have put out a few updates recently with a lot of "under the hood" improvements/fixes and a few new graphics :)

1.4.3
-Improvements in Wi-Fi stability
-Minor Bluetooth improvements
-Added playlist backup to individual playlists
-Fixed a selection bug where selections were remembered incorrectly
-Improved Instructions

1.4.2
-Fixed a bug related to media scanner
-Changed preferences slightly
-Minor graphics fixes
-Fixed a performance related bug

1.4.0
-Fixed FC that happend after prolonged inactivity
-Big improvements to playlist backup-restore
-Some new graphics
-Some optimizations related to the internal media DB

[alostpacket]

1.4.4
- Changed some preferences
- Some stability improvements
- Rare FCs being looked into

[alostpacket]

1.4.7 is out


-Bugfix release
-Major rewrite of playlist backup/restore & folder handling
-This should address most issues users may have been seeing
-Fixed an issue with Bluetooth connections faililing on first try
-Fixed an issue with Wi-Fi manual connections

As always if you have any issues please email me and let me know!







Note: the playlist backup & restore is still in beta as a feature. Please let us know if you have any problems whatsoever. Please be sure to make extra backups of playlist files to you PC (just in case)

known issues:

1) Playlists created in Google Music Beta are not visible in BlueMuze.

- Unfortunately there is little we can do for this issue. All 3rd party music apps have this problem. This is because Google hides the playlists it creates.

We urge you to please write Google and ask them follow their own "open data" policies and allow playlists to be seen by other apps. To learn more about Google's own policy, visit this Google website: http://www.dataliberation.org/

2) Playlists use a forward slash / as a folder separator.

This is not a bug but rather the default folder separator for Android. However we hope to add a tool to help with converting files for the desktop in the future.