BlueMuze released! (P2P bluetooth music file transfer)

[alostpacket]

BlueMuze, a bluetooth P2P music sharing program, is now in BETA on the Android Market

Special thanks to DF, as the inspiration for this app partly came from someone here asking about apps for playlists

WEB LINKS
Trial: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alostpacket.bluemuze

Full: 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

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 surruonds 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.

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.

Since this is a live BETA release, please feel free to post any and all feedback. Suggestions/comments/bowls of cereal -- whatever you like.

 

[alostpacket]

0.9.0 update

- 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


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

Please feel free to post any comments/feedback/questions/etc!

Enjoy your music

 

[alostpacket]

Update to 0.9.5
- New 2-tier caching system for the selection screen
- Should get up to 90% faster loading times

Next up: some minor bugfixes and one more big feature will be added before release.

But please feel free to let me know any feedback or suggestions/questions/problems whatever! You can post here or email me through the market as always

 

[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 featured 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:

 

[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

 

[alostpacket]

Been a few updates since I posted, so I'll condense into one bump so as to not be too spammy. As always, please feel free to post or email me with questions/comments concerns.


1.2.0
- 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

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

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

 

[alostpacket]

Have put out a lot of updates since I last updated this thread
(Latest is at the bottom 1.4.6)

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

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

1.4.5
- Improved display for tablets
- Lots of bug fixes
- Stability improvements
- Still looking into Wi-Fi (beta) issues
- Minor performance improvments
- Fixed an issue with the app switching to trial mode


1.4.6
- EXPERIMENTAL: New option to let the phone sleep during transfers in the settings - should save a lot of battery life!
- NEW: Manual Wi-Fi connections
- NEW: BlueMuze will remember the last IP connected to for manual connections
- Wi-Fi stability & performance improvements
- Bluetooth pairing improvements
- Bluetooth Name, Mac address, and Wi-Fi IP now shown to user
- Removed hard to see dark colors from menus
- Misc bug fixes
- New permissions relate only to Wi-Fi stability improvements