[Android 2.0+] BlueMuze - Transfer music & playlists w/ Bluetooth & WiFi

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BlueMuze, a bluetooth music sharing program, now on the Android Market

One of the "best new apps of the week" -Android Police (3/8/11)

WEB LINKS
Trial: https://market.android.com/details?i...acket.bluemuze

Full: https://market.android.com/details?i...t.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 surrounds 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 sending 7 songs at a time.







Thanks and please enjoy/post feedback/etc!

Have put out a few updates recently with a lot of "under the hood" improvements/fixes and a few shiny new graphics

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

does it work as a player too?

Originally Posted by atlanteh

does it work as a player too?

Hi atlanteh,

The answer is "sort of".

It does have a built-in mini player you can use to preview songs and listen to playlists. You should be able to see the player in the screenshots At times I have used this as my main music player but mostly because it's familiar to me.

But it wasn't designed to function as a main music player. Rather it was designed as an easy way to organize and share music between devices.

So, for instance, the mini player has the "standard" controls for Fast Forward, Rewind, Play/Pause, and a scrubber. However the other controls are related to moving a song around in a playlist (move to first, move to last, move next, move previous, select/deselect, remove from list, etc).

I'll definitely be adding a few more regular player features in the future, but for now it's not meant to replace other players, just compliment them.

Hope that helps answer your question.

one of my favourites apps!

Thank you very much soraxx!

Always very glad to hear users enjoying our software

Also, 1.4.6 should be out tomorrow(ish) and will include major imrovements to WiFi as well as a manual connection method as a fallback.

1.4.6 is out! phew

- 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

1.4.7 is out


-Bugfix release
-Major rewrite of playlist backup/restore & folder handling
-This should address most issues users may have been seeing
-Fixed an issue with Bluetooth connections faililing on first try
-Fixed an issue with Wi-Fi manual connections

As always if you have any issues please email me and let me know!







Note: the playlist backup & restore is still in beta as a feature. Please let us know if you have any problems whatsoever. Please be sure to make extra backups of playlist files to you PC (just in case)

known issues:

1) Playlists created in Google Music Beta are not visible in BlueMuze.

- Unfortunately there is little we can do for this issue. All 3rd party music apps have this problem. This is because Google hides the playlists it creates.

We urge you to please write Google and ask them follow their own "open data" policies and allow playlists to be seen by other apps. To learn more about Google's own policy, visit this Google website: http://www.dataliberation.org/

2) Playlists use a forward slash / as a folder separator.

This is not a bug but rather the default folder separator for Android. However we hope to add a tool to help with converting files for the desktop in the future.