Python Winamp Control Module

As expected, I'm posting my iWC's Winamp control module here.

The module works without the need of installing a plugin in Winamp, hence it does alot of IPC (some of it is totally undocumented, and I think that even Winamp's developers didn't think of using their media library in such a way, but who cares).

All of the functions are documented beside of the three most complicated ones, because I'm just too lazy - so if you're really interested I can spread some lights on the ugly hacks I did too.

Get it from here.

Requirements: ctypes, win32 python modules (comes with ActiveState's python), Winamp 5+.

Feature request / comments - just leave a comment here.

Have fun!

The Semester is dead. Long live the Semester!

Semester 1A and its exams ended, and the new semester is beginning on Sunday.

This means I've got some spare time to do stuff beside sitting in my room and looking at some papers, so here are some updates on the upcoming projects I'm planning to work on:

iWC - I've decided to discontinue the project, because I've found out this application which allows you to control Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes using an iPhone web application. It seems that programming a web application specifically for the iPhone can replace most native applications, and you should give it a try.

However, I'm planning to release the Python Winamp module of iWC, which enables communication with Winamp 5+. I still need to document and refactor it a bit, so I hope I'll be able to release it this upcoming week.

iPhone Synchronization - I'm planning to enhance the currently available iTunes-iPhone synchronization. I know, there are some products which allow better synchronizing, but they cost money, and they are not modular and open-source.

Currently, the main features I'm planning are Facebook synchronization (fetch friends pictures, phone numbers, addresses, websites and so on) and better Outlook integration (such as notes and to-do synchronization). If you have any other ideas, please send me an email or leave a comment.

Smart-Home - I wonder if I shall start working on an embedded project to connect some switches / electronic devices to the wireless network at our apartment in Jerusalem. If you know a cheap wifi microcontroller, please leave a message.

Some Updates

Hey mates,

Haven't got alot of time to write because of this crazy semester going on...

So this is the last week of semester 1A (the one which started after the strike), and the exam season will begin next week with a fine one in Mechanics, and after that there will be alot of fun with Infinitesimal Calculus, Intro to CS and Discrete Mathematics.

To the more interesting updates: I'm working on a small project, which is currently called iWC and its purpose is to remote control Winamp from the iPhone (possibly creating a similar iPod interface for that).

The iPhone has some remote control applications for your computer, mostly using VNC, but I want a clean and fast interface for song selection, volume control and so on.

So right now I'm working on a module that will communicate with Winamp using window messages (their API is one of the worst I've seen, but is full with funny comments - mabye I'll post some when I'll have some more time). After I'll finish that one I'm planning creating a client using RPyC and pyobjc.

That's it for now - I hope to give more updates soon about my progress.

And until next time... cy'a folks!