Now currently it only works on windows due to the MediaMonkey API using OLE objects for communications, but I have been thinking about trying to extend the application into the world of Linux also, by supporting the Amarok player there.. Currently my laptop is running Kubuntu 8.04, so I could test said code, but my plans don’t stop there..
As some of you might know, Twitter allows you to update your status via SMS messages, but that can be insanely expensive for people that do not live in the same country as Twitters phone numbers, and therefore I have also been thinking about extending the Java classes I have to communicate with Twitter so that they can run on Java enabled phones and PDAs, that would allow you to update Twitter via the internet, which in many cases are a lot cheaper, because Twitter doesn’t really much up much internet traffic, in my calculations you can send around 2621 Twitter updates on 1 MB of traffic and even in those calculations I’ve given a lot of head room for error packages and such..
So, I hope that someone out there finds my experiments interesting and should I choose to make them public then I will probably make a page about it here on my website, so you all can download and try it out..
If you have any ideas or comments, please throw them to me either via Twitter or MyBlogLog..
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dougis (1 comments.) | 19-Jun-08 at 11:19 pm | Permalink
can I get a look at the code for your Java app with windows? (or a built version).
I would love to have an app that would do this (update twitter with what is playing in MM).
Thanks loads
Silver | 20-Jun-08 at 12:47 am | Permalink
Sure, though I haven’t completed it fully yet, mostly I’ve been testing the Twitter connection library that I’ve written to communicate with Twitter and I’ve been talking a bit with the Twitter people to get the application registered with a custom name..
But I’ll throw you on my list for notification when I release a version that can be used..
Currently though it only works with MM and I have to test it with the new version of MM also, to make sure that it still works, the interfacing with MM is a little messy, due to the way that COM interfacing works in JAVA, but it works as it should. *smiles*
Thank you very much for writing a comment, this is actually the first interest I’ve seen for the application, which is an contributing factor for it not being released yet. *giggles*
Silver | 20-Jun-08 at 1:57 pm | Permalink
Oh, and if you follow me on Twitter, you should be able to see, that I’ve gotten the code working so far..
I just need to throw in some throttling, so you don’t spam Twitter with every music update. *giggles*
Though I need to come up with some good configuration options, plus I need to make it so that the configuration will be saved between sessions, just to make it easier on the user..
Those are some of the things I need to have done, before I release the program.
Btw, my Twitter nick is also SilverDK
gil | 14-Jul-08 at 11:07 pm | Permalink
I’d be interested to hear when you get this to a releasable program – I found you by searching for “mediamonkey twitter”, looking for a widget to do exactly what you’re trying to do. Have fun with it and keep me posted!
-g
Silver | 15-Jul-08 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
Hey Gil and thanks for taking time to write a comment on my little blog.
I’m almost done with a 1.0 version of the application, I just need to write a config persistance class and some configuable limits on how many updates that the application will send within an hour, mostly due to avoid spamming other twitter users..
I also need to add some configuration parameters for the message it will send when a new song is detected, song is stopped, song is paused and so on.
Plus I need to complete my development website (which will be linked to from this one), so that I can get an special app name on Twitter..
I will hold you updates, if you subscribe to all new comments in this thread, I will make a comment, when I release a version for download, with a link to the download.
Thanks again for the interest, it’s what keeps me going.