Bibble Media Player

Source Code

The source can be found here Old The source can be found here

Day 1

To starting on the road to finally complete a project I start. Like many I have 10 billion unfinished tinkerings. I wonder whether this is like the shed men used to have.

I am thinking that the UI might be the place to work on first. You can stub the back end and show progress quickly and inspire further progress.

So most the time was wasted as I had to update Visual Studio with 8GB and then update the emulator to use Intel Intel

First Thoughts

Source Repository

As Microsoft own Git Hub I will store my code in GitLab

Requirements

• I want to be able to play Windows Playlists from a samba share
• I want to be able to play Windows Playlists on my phone
• I want to be able to play Windows Playlists on my receiver

Day 2

Back sore and the weekend so perhaps not too much progress today.

Struggled with MSB4018:System.IO.PathTooLongException in 15.8 but fixed using this

Add the following

 <AppendTargetFrameworkToIntermediateOutputPath>False</AppendTargetFrameworkToIntermediateOutputPath>

So added GitHub extension to Visual Studio using extension here

Day 3

Set up the adding of left navigation menu for the play lists.

Day 4

Going to look into a samba library to connect to network drive. Will need to understand how we store configuration in Xamarin. What could possibly go wrong.

Day 5

So added the Samba Configuration page. Learned how to hide the authentication panel

Christmas Break

Abandoned Xamarin multiplatform and went for just android using xamarin.

Re-implemented the old app but now using native layouts. Lots of new bits
- Added reading of mp3 id3 tags
- Added finding of mpeg header
- implemented service for playing tracks

Found this picture a good help