[App] VJWMPlayerControl - Windows Media Player Handsfree - Windows Mobile Apps and Games

Guys,
I've been asked here and there if it's possible to do something useful with the wired headset on HTC phones.
I've written a set of apps, VJPoOf, which can be used to remap the press and hold and double tap functions of the headset.
I've also been asked if these remapped functions can be used to control Windows Media Player.
I'm not sure if anyone has written an external control for Windows Media Player - I'm sure they have, but I always re-invent the wheel, so here goes.
[My old favourite, PHM tools, seems to have stopped working ]
VJWMPlayerControl: as ever, a hardcore command line only tool.
It supports the following command line options:
[Control functions]
-playpause
-stop
-previous
-next
-shuffle
-repeat
-volup
-voldown
[Options/Screens]
-nowplaying
-library
-options
-fileinfo
Please find out how to make a shortcut with a command line if you don't know how (see my website).
So, example usage is:
VJWMPlayerControl.exe playpause
will obviously toggle play or pause if WMP is currently up and a track is playing.
WMP does not have to be on screen for you to use these functions.
The app currently has limited functionality, but has a lot of use if you need it! Use it with MortScript etc and you can control various functions of WMP. Use it to control WMP from Touchflo, or your Today Screen etc.
This app is hot off the press and relatively untested with Videos etc, but works fine for me with audio.
My usage is to use VJPoOf to remap the wired headset on my Touch HD, so that I can launch WMP by pressing and holding the headset button.
If WMP is not running, this will launch WMP and start playing the first track in your music library, so you don't need to touch the phone to start playing music.
When playing music, press and hold again to skip to the next track, and double tap the button to pause/play.
Please note - this usage has to be set up using a combination of VJPoOf and VJWMPlayerControl, for full flexibility in how you might want to set things up. You will need how to set up VJPoOf (not difficult!) to do this.
Also note, if WMP is not running, VJWMPlayerControl will try to launch WMP, and automagically start playing music (if there's any in your music library. If not, it'll launch missiles on Russia - I think...). This is so you can start running WMP handsfree, with the handsfree.
Note, this even works when the phone is switched off, so just insert your headset and press and hold (with VJPoOf) to launch WMP.
Let me know if it works for you or if you can think of other features to add.
Oh, and donate. My children eat cement for roughage
V
Download from here:
http://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjwmplayercontrol/vjwmplayercontrol.exehttp://www.vijay555.com/vj/releases/vjwmplayercontrol/vjwmplayercontrol.cab
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Hi Vijay,
It's good to see you're active around here again recently.
I would have loved this about a week ago when I was trying to get mortscript to shuffle my playlist after a set time, but I found the registry entry for it instead
the updated VJBrisk & VJPoOf seem good too.

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What programming language is this written in? Is it possible to get the source code of the app?
Also, I think I might write something similar for the TouchFLO3D media player (AudioManager). Eventually.
Edit: Got previous and next track working with the Touch Flo 3D player. Can't seem to get play and pause working properly for now. Will try it again soon when I have more time.

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Hi Daniel,
I''ve been trying to figure out a way to run the HTC Touch HD remote with wired headset (something HTC should have thought about?). But with the builtin TF3D music player..
Ufnortunately my skills were lacking...
Is there any chance I can be your beta tester? Drop me a line... I can live witouth play / pause... but next and previous is nice... ;-)
Regards.

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Conduits Pocket Player Support
Hello
I was wondering if Conduits Pocket Player 4.0 support could be implemented in the next release?
It is only a question of running pocketplayer.exe with the right command line parameters.
Here is the command list (taken from pocketplayer forum):
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Here are some command line options that are recognized by Pocket Player. To use these, you would target your shortcut to:
\Program Files\Pocket Player\pocketplayer.exe [command name and options, without brackets]
FileOrUrl Will begin playing the track
/VOLUME=N Where N is from 0 to 255, will change the volume
/SILENT Will start Pocket Player hidden
/ENQUEUE X Will enqueue track X to Now Playing
And the format that controls playback:
/COMMAND C1 [optional: C2 C3 C4 C5]
This option takes one to five numbers on the command line, and then processes those numerical commands. Here are some of the numerical commands recognized in that form:
Play/Pause 1
Play 2
Pause 3
Stop 4
Next 5
Back 6
Mute 7
Volume up 8
Volume down 9
Screen toggle 10
Vis toggle 11
Jump fwd 12
Jump back 13
Hide/show 14
Bookmark 16
Lock/unlock 17
Unlock 18
Repeat/shuffle toggle 21
Eq toggle 28
Dsp toggle 30
Browse 31
Seek to marker 33
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example: Storage Card\Program Files\Pocket Player\pocketplayer.exe" /COMMAND 1 5 17
It would be even simpler if the app would just run pocket player and let the user input their own command line parameters.
The procedure would be simple to implement but unfortunately i lack the programming knowledge
Please?

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Hi ViJay.
I use your command line tool with a mortscript to launch WMP.
I remarked that when WMP is playing the whole library (ie : when launching WMP with the "VJWMPlayerControl.exe playpause"), it uses a lot of memory, and at this moment, the "STOP" function doesn't work anymore, while others do. "VJWMPlayerControl.exe stop" acts like nothing happened.

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Hi lpaso!
Could you write everything you do that shows the bug, step by step, so I can do it on my phone and try to fix it.
Thanks!
V

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Hi ViJay,
Thank you for your support
Here are the steps I follow :
- I have about 1000 songs on my Touch HD, using a 16GB µSD card.
- When I launch WMP using your command line tool (vjwmplayercontrol.exe playpause), the player launches, go to the first song of my library, then starts to play.
- at this moment, I'm not able to use the "stop" function of your tool : it doesn't work.
I remarked it was occuring when WMP uses a huge amount of memory. For example, before launching WMP, my phone has about 30% of memory used. When I launch WMP and start playing song, it can go up to 85% of memory used.
When the player uses this amount, the stop function doesn't work at all, while other functions work very well.
If I push "pause", then wait about 15min, WMP starts to decrease its amount of used memory, and I'm able to use the "stop" function again.
I don't know if I'm clear enough.
If I'm not, I'll try to make a video

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it does not work on my Viva.
i copied Redial.exe, SDDialer.exe and VJRedial.exe from vjpoof to Windows folder... i installed vjwmplayercontrol.cab... i made a shortcut VJRedial.lnk (70#"\Program Files\vijay555\VJWMPlayerControl\VJWMPlayerControl.exe" next) and VJSDDialer.lnk (74#"\Program Files\vijay555\VJWMPlayerControl\VJWMPlayerControl.exe" previous) and placed them in Windows folder... but nothing happens.

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play & pause
finally got it working..
is there a way for showing the play icon when song is paused or stopped. and the pause icon when the song is playing?

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Why this app does not work on WM 6.5.x?
Any solution, please.

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vijay555: you've been guessing good, there was already one here. But yours have more options, so it isn't a waste
thanks
yes it works with 6.5, as well as the other one you found.

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Although a very cool app it has a basic flaw: VJPoOf is only for HTC devices.
VJPoOf works in HTC devices by overwriting some rom's exe files that are launched when the headphone button is pressed. However these exe files are not Windows Mobile standards (these seem to be HTC only). This app doesn't work in my Samsung Omnia (or any other non HTC device... or so I assume).
I thought of an alternative for all the other devices (but I'm no coder so I can't do it myself). Apparently the headphone button acts as the green button (at least according to emulators button mappers)... If someone could modify Supware's GreenButton app (it already has the majority of the code and it's open source... it's a valid idea) to be able to distinguish normal-press, long-press, double-tap and launch a different shortcut/app/whatever then we would have a universal headphone control app (just let us choose what is launched because this way we could use if with any player we want so long as we know the right command).

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wait, I meant wmp control shortcuts, not headphones button.
there are two apps in this thread.
headphones button is not the same as green button on htc. is it really on omnia? It's just kind of a trick, winmo executes two progs, called redial.exe & sddialer.exe, if you double press or long press it.
if you put whatever, calc.exe instead of one of them, it will just run calc instead. And yes, this one is not as universal as I had to rename sddial to voicecmd.exe to have it working on main.

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Sad to see vijay and supbro are not at xda very often now...
Yeah the WMP seems to work fine (but then again I use WinMo 6.1). I guess one could achieve the same end result using via postmessage... though I never tried to find these commands. But the one I wanted most was the headphone bit (as I don't use WMP).
The VJPoOf concept is flexible and would allow to control any player given you change a few things. But redial.exe and sddialer.exe don't exist in the Omnia... The Omnia headphone button has no native long-press or double-tap features... Instead it always acts the same (as the green button).
I had tested the concept. GreenButton can be used to run any app that is passed in the lnk as an argument by pressing the headphone button. The problem is my device (and I assume it's not the only one) doesn't know the difference between a single press, a long press and a double tap.

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any chances of getting a FWD/Rewind command? I posted a similar query on mortplayer thread as well.