Interesting programming project: Your music follows you. - Developers

Start this off by saying im not programmer, just an information systems major(the lazy IT degree) with a good idea. So I've been thinking, and what if you could somehow carry a song with you from your computer to your car? Lets say you've got music playing in random media player on your computer. Your phone is charging in computer(android OS), and you get up to go drive around for a various task. Your phone picks up where you left off in your computer media player(if able to) and you're able to continue that song/playlist in your car if you've got an aux/ tape player converter. Is it possible?

It'd require a lot of different applications in a few different languages but sure.

ya I personally call it a flash drive and decent head unit

[QUOTE=Soda;28132799]ya I personally call it a flash drive and decent head unit[/QUOTE] ya I personally call it using ur brain and not rating dumb lul

[QUOTE=geel9;28132396]It'd require a lot of different applications in a few different languages but sure.[/QUOTE] That was my fear; I was hoping someone could chop the idea down to something more simple. Just seems like a cool mechanic that could be used in everyday situation.

I would like this, often I listen to a song on my computer then leave and have to find it again on my iPod.

I suppose it could be done with the iTunes COM API and a jailbroken iPhone/iPod touch.

Hmm well it would be alot easier of you had a single media player with a mobile derivative. That way you could incorporate some kind of login system - you log in on your computer and mobile device, whichever device you got playing the music continually updates its current playback status to a server. When you press play on either devices it requests an update on the playback status, incorporates the necessary changes and off you go. This could be done with relative ease. And even with different apps, there's always plugins (say a VLC plugin and an Android/iOS app with plugin ability). Automating the process is a different matter, but I think perhaps bluetooth could solve that.. when you're going out, the device detects a loss of signal (say 90% to make sure it's not too sensitive). It then updates its status and starts playing, and on the PC side it simply pauses. Obviously you'd need to either sync the music on the devices or use a media server to fetch the music.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;28139745]Hmm well it would be alot easier of you had a single media player with a mobile derivative. That way you could incorporate some kind of login system - you log in on your computer and mobile device, whichever device you got playing the music continually updates its current playback status to a server. When you press play on either devices it requests an update on the playback status, incorporates the necessary changes and off you go. This could be done with relative ease. And even with different apps, there's always plugins (say a VLC plugin and an Android/iOS app with plugin ability). Automating the process is a different matter, but I think perhaps bluetooth could solve that.. when you're going out, the device detects a loss of signal (say 90% to make sure it's not too sensitive). It then updates its status and starts playing, and on the PC side it simply pauses. Obviously you'd need to either sync the music on the devices or use a media server to fetch the music.[/QUOTE] sounds correct. I currently use doubletwist on my phone instead of the pre-installed crap... and i'm pretty sure there is a software client for a regular OS. I'm gonna snoop around and see if I can find some sort of recognition program, might have to route my phone.

You can do this with MPD.

If I were to make something like this, I'd center the entire thing on a phone... it could operate as a remote for iTunes or whatever music player you use and make sure the libraries are synced, or you could have it stream music from your phone to the computer... on the go, your average headphones or earbuds will do just fine. For the car, you could just plug it into the aux or the cassette converter and it'll play just fine. So basically write a program that will stream music from your phone to your computer's speakers.

Most phones have Java support, PC's have Java support and there's actually quite a few car radio players with support for it as well, so uh .. It's quite possible with just one language.

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;28145507]Most phones have Java support, PC's have Java support and there's actually quite a few car radio players with support for it as well, so uh .. It's quite possible with just one language.[/QUOTE] I can't recall most computers having Java ME support. You'd still have to write the computer front-end in something different.