Stuff
Stuff developed by me...
HDD084
HDD084 is a small piece of software that is developed for accessing the firmware database of the Philips HDD084 mp3 player. The big problem of the Philips HDD Series was, that you need a Software like Windows Media Player 10 or Music Jukebox to copy your music files to the player. Windows Media Player isn't installed on most systems anymore and Music Jukebox costs money. Copying files direct into the music folder doesn't work, because the HDD084 firmware handles the music files by a database, there are the references to the music files.
I've devloped a small software to fill the music filelist into the database.
The files are in the "All Songs" list. They are ready to play. Forwarding and Rewarding
are working. What is not working is that they are at the moment in no other list. That means that they are not grouped my genre, artist or album. It just works
for mp3s at the moment, but it is easy to implement other formats later. Another point is that
the visual song progress bar is not working. I plan to implement these functionality later.
How to use the Programm:
1. copy the binary hdd084.exe file to _system/media/audio/ on the player
2. copy the music files to this direcoty as well
3. copy the DLL of the SQLite library to system32/ on your system
4. execute the hdd084.exe, this will take a while
Technical background: I used Lazarus/Freepascal with the SQLITE4FPC components for programming, because you can compile the code on and for many platforms. But I've just precompiled it for Windows.
License: BSD License, This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.