[REQUEST] or [IDEA] for NEW Picture Homebrew application

[marek1]

Hi,

is possible to make HOMEBREW app which can access destinatation \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and see the pictures which are in Picture HUB ?

This app should have also possiblity:

1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer
2. Deleting multiple images
3. Manual Album creation
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox
5. Take pictures
6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders

Thanks for info.

 

[IzaacJ]

You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title

And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.

EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome

Regards
Izaac

 

[marek1]

You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title

And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.

EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome

Regards
Izaac

OK, I added [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the title.

Well I don't know much about how Zune organizes the pictures but I know that Zune, Camera saves photo this destination
\My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and save it to some file for example 3d.jpg; 03.jpg; 39.jpg etc.
But Zune must store [ some dat file maybe in \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\zunedb.dat] the real name of the picture that on computer looks like WP_000002.jpg.

It will be nice to have alternative to Picture Hub and if you will look on it it will be great.

I don't know if I help you a little bit ?

 

[IzaacJ]

zunedb.dat work

I've been looking a bit on the zunedb.dat file in 101 Editor and the identifier or what ever it's called is ZMDB (Zune Media DataBase i think) and I could really use some help on this because this isn't really my area of expertise

Could attach a copy of the file I've been looking at if anyone is interested?

EDIT: Attached it in a zip anyway, and here is some of the information I've found so far.

The albums I've synced from my computer are these, with their respective start address in the file, or at least where the album name is in the file, and after each album name there are paths and such to the particular files, but also a lot of information that I don't know what it is.

Misc [47c00h]
tmp [47each]
Diablo 3 [48920h]

Regards
Izaac

 

[marek1]

Maybe it could help some Microsoft developer on Microsoft forum ?
But I think that nobody research it yet.

 

[IzaacJ]

Posted a thread over at the development forum at Microsoft, like here:

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/105185.aspx

I really hope I could get some information regarding this.

 

[marek1]

Well it's 100% that this app wil not autorization from MS but for the homebrew app its not needed.

I hope that someone share the info which you need.

Just a question:

is it possible to create an own homebrew app which will take and save photo in
folder \My Documents\Pictures + it will have features like as I wrote
1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer, 2. Deleting multiple images, 3. Manual Album creation,
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox, 5. Take pictures, 6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders ?

then we dont realy need any info from MS because you can upload it to Skydrive + you cann access the phone file system via WPDM or WMDC/ActiveSync launcher if zou have phone unlock etc.

What do you think ?

Thanks for info.

R,
Marek

 

[IzaacJ]

Well, it's possible. There are other apps doing everything of that, except the saving location, so I doubt there would be any problems.

The reason for my app and what it does is that it enables you to organize the photos, add/delete/rename albums shown in the Pictures Hub, and move photos between these albums.

AND if zunedb.dat is "worked out" it will also enable us to add music and videos to the Zune app, which means if you use any Music Downloader, you could add them to the regular player, instead of having to open that particular music app to play them.

I hope you see why I think this really is something worth investigating.

Regards
Izaac

 

[marek1]

Yes, you are right, it's worth for investigating.

So lets hope that we will have good luck.

Do you know which apps can do the things like iwrote in previous comment?

Thanks.

 

[IzaacJ]

I think there's an application called Private Hub that does most of it, not sure thou.

It will also enable you to password protect certain images/albums (in app ONLY)

Regards
Izaac