iPhone / iPod Touch application

[phibon]

I'm currently using Music Collector from Collextorz. I'm not too happy with this application and I'm looking to change it. As a part of the evaluation, I would like to know if there are any plans to have an iPhone / iPod Touch application for OrnageCD (for viewing and searching my database)?

[Jazz_North]

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[phibon]

Hi Jazz North,

Your reply seems to be cutt off. Can you repost?

[Jazz_North]

Hi Jazz North,

Your reply seems to be cutt off. Can you repost?

Don't know what happened. But here's the gist of my longwinded reply.

1. You can use Safari on the iPod/iTouch to connect to RacksandTags.com. You can upload your Orange cd database to this. I used this extensively in the San Francisco and Berkley Amoebas a couple of weeks ago. (Great used cd places, by the way)

2. Andrei has spoken about an iTouch/iPhone app that will make use of RacksandTags, but it hasn't been created yet.

3. There is no app that uses the Orange database directly and Andrei has indicated a reluctance to develop one, principally I think because he worries about trying to keep multiple versions of the database in sync (I would have the same worry).

[phibon]

The iPod application needs to be an offline one. I usually don

[Jazz_North]

The iPod application needs to be an offline one. I usually don

You might try one of the database apps that allows you to import CSV files (HanDBase, for example, or Ozymandias, though it is pretty old now; Ozymandias does have a Lite version for free to try) and export your Orange data using Database > Import and Export > Export to plain text. This will export only album level information, however.

I suspect the file format and many of the routines Andrei has developed are not compatible with the OS on the Apple devices and to develop an offline app would mean starting from scratch. I think OCD uses some elements of IE, which is not available on iPhone/iTouch.

[andrei_c]

I'm currently using Music Collector from Collextorz. I'm not too happy with this application and I'm looking to change it. As a part of the evaluation, I would like to know if there are any plans to have an iPhone / iPod Touch application for OrnageCD (for viewing and searching my database)?

Yes. It's in development and should be in appstore in August-September.

[Patrick]

Yes. It's in development and should be in appstore in August-September.

Can you tell me the status of the app? Would really love to see a nice app to show off my collection on my iphone :)

[phibon]

Is the iPhone / iPod Touch still on the roadmap?

[andrei_c]

This is the reason why iPhone app was never finished:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/168019/delicious_library_iphone_app_yanked_from_app_store .html

OrangeCD uses the same Amazon license as Delicious Library. Which means that as long as we access Amazon databases, we cannot release an iPhone app.

[phibon]

This is the reason why iPhone app was never finished:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/168019/delicious_library_iphone_app_yanked_from_app_store .html

OrangeCD uses the same Amazon license as Delicious Library. Which means that as long as we access Amazon databases, we cannot release an iPhone app.

Yes I know about that. Collectorz’ iPhone app has been removed for a short while form the app store because of that reason. Collecotorz is no longer using Amazon as a source for information. Instead they use other sources such as Discogs.com.
Does this mean the Orange CD iPhone application is dead?

[frederf]

I'm kinda confused... why do we need Amazon? I can see the problem if we wanted to "run" orangeCd on an smartphone, but don't we just need an app to access our data on ragsandtags formatted for the tiny screen?

fred