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Dead motherboard

I got some major setbacks yesterday. The motherboard on my PC died and I’m waiting for a replacement today. I suddenly realized that my computer is OLD 🙂 The 478 socket is almost gone, and I was lucky to snap the last motherboard with the Intel i875P chipset.
Now this will delay the release of SizeMe since I have to reformat and set it all up again. Not much I can do other than wait, but I’ve also bought a s-ata raid controller to so I can mirror the 2 drives containing the sourcecode and other projects 🙂

For you guys that misses predefined selections in SizeMe: You’re in luck, since my pc stopped working I’ve started a smaller project on my laptop. It will modify the default directoryselection and add shortcuts in the right of the window. Check out this early developerpicture:

Dir selector

I’ve decided that I’m going to release the sourcecode for this selector, and make a quick article about it. Maybe other developers find it usefull.

SizeMe version 2.0 teaser!

Hi folks!

I’m currently working on the new 2.0 version of SizeMe and I wanted to show some pictures on how it works.

First you’re off selecting your mode

Switchmode As you can SizeMe works in 3 ways:
-Flatlevel (normal as it did before)
-Multilevel (to come!)
-Music (explaination follows)

Since the Musicmode is one of the great features on the next update I’ll try to explain that here.

I have like many a MP3 player that usally get new tunes once in a while. I was not happy with the easyness of generating random playlists and so on to the player so I’ve started making another tool that did just that. One evening a friend of mine said, why not put those two things together. I packed my friend on the back and said you’re a genius. This was a pretty cool idea.

After you have selected your Mp3 player size you can press the “Scan new directory” or “Rescan the same”
Selected media

SizeMe will then work its way through the selected directory like this (remark: it only find .mp3 tunes for now, I’m working on ogg support)
Music found

After scanning is finished SizeMe will group the material based on your medium and show the groups like this:
Result

Pretty cool since it created quick 4 “playlists” that you can drag’n’drop to your mp3-player. You can also use the standard copy & paste technique.
That was the basics. Now for the more cool advance functions you can play with. Let me mention these features:
– Sorting on: Artist, Title, Album, Genre, Size, Year and Bitrate.
– 5 different ways on filtering Artist, Title, Album, Genre, Size, Year and Bitrate.
– Dynamic filter addon so you can add so much filtering as you like 🙂

Here are the gfx on them:
Filter

It will then give you the result
Filtered

You are able with the advance button to change the filter to include or exclude based on their value.

I hope this would give you some idea on the functions, and I can announce a bunch of bugfixes to. So those of you having problems with the drag’n’drop function you’ll be happy with the update 🙂

Almost forgot, here is the complete gui putted together
MusicMode with filtered added

Cheers!

NetSync update

Somehow I got some inspiration and a request for fixing the NetSync for Winamp 2.xx and 5.xx. The stuff that are fixed:
* New fancy icon (lol)
* It updates clients when a playlist changes

You might expect bugs, but I do not care about that right now 🙂 Be happy you got an update!

Download NetSync (v0,5) updates here