Hey all,

I finally got my Windows Mobile phone, and have had good success getting Jinzora to play well on it.

I started work on a modified version of interface 'Slim', called 'Mobile' in the Jinzora 3 SVN branche. It looks great in Portable Internet Explorer (PIE) and includes good Stylus support. There are some issues in browser Opera right now.

To get everything playing well, I highly recommend the TCPMP player. It pulls M3U's in from PIE and plays them as well as my desktop, including support for seeking. So long iPod.

That's all for now, I have some solid features planned for Mobile, so stay tuned.

Happy New Year =)

Well, the good news for me is I just got myself a Chumby and will soon be getting a Windows Mobile-based phone. The good news for you is I just got a Chumby and will be getting a Windows Mobile-based phone!

I am a little busy through the holidays with work and grad school applications, but look for some new fun interface work soon.

For the Chumby, the first thing I plan on doing is adding an API call to pull dynamic tracks and playlists directly.

The Chumby's next software version will support web streams and hopefully M3U's from the net, and you should be able to plug Jinzora right into that. You should even be able to use Jinzora and Chumby as your alarm clock!

Keep checking in...

I've been on a bit of a Jinzora-upper recently, and I just added a new feature!

The keywords searching is more advanced than before. It now supports queries like the following:

@play @album @genre alternative

Plays a random album from the 'alternative' genre.

@random @album @artist Jimmy

Randomizes a randomly chosen album by Jimmy Eat World.

@random @artist @genre rock

Randomizes an artist from the 'rock' genre.

This doesn't work with an tag-based backend, but I don't think many people use that anyways ;)

If you didn't know about the '@play' and '@random' search keywords already, this is a great time to try out one of my favorite features!

Just wanted to post a quick note to tell you Jinzora now supports VLC Media Player in Jukebox Mode.

VLC is our first fully cross-platform jukebox, relying on its own built-in HTTP interface!

Configuration is really easy and the plugin is very feature complete. VLC also supports video playback, but I have not tested this to see how well Jinzora will play along... Test away and be sure to post any issues you run across.

I recommend setting $jbArr[ID]['prefix'] = 'HTTP' to have Jinzora send Web Links. This makes configuration a breeze and provides better track information on your site.