PwnPlayer - New Media Player App for iPhone
Tuesday, 23rd September 2008, 04:09 pm
PwnPlayer is a new media player app that will aim to be a full
replacement for your current default iPhone player.

The application was designed by Eric who also brought us iSlsk. You
can read his full description of the application below...



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Here it is my next application to be released along with iSlsk for 2.0
firmware within a few days. It's called PwnPlayer (in honor of the
jailbreaking tool we all know and love), and is a media player app
that will aim to be a full replacement for your current default music
app.

The reason why I made PwnPlayer in the first place was because iSlsk's
music import feature is no longer available on 2.0 firmware. So I
needed something to be able to play my downloaded music in the iPhone
file system in a 'cool' and friendly way.. the apps out there for this
purpose weren't any good at all, so that's why I decided to make an
app that mimics the MobileMusicPlayer interface, as well as enables a
lot of extras.

Key features include (all shown in the video above):

- For Linux, iSlsk users and iTunes haters: File system playback.
PwnPlayer reads any folder inside your iPhone/iPod file system and
will play mp3s the same way MobileMusicPlayer does, with playlist,
artwork and add/remove/tag edit support. Simply drag and drop your mp3
files using your favorite file browsing app such as WinSCP, CureFTP,
CyberDuck or iPhoneBrowser... Or download them using iSlsk or any
other music download app!

- Music Library compatibility: if you still want to keep using iTunes
*vomit*, PwnPlayer is fully compatible with the internal music library

- Search: type in the first letters of the song/artist/album/file you
are looking for, tap search and it will appear right there for you..
works both with music library and file system songs.

- Lock-Screen gesture controls: this is one of my favorites. You can
control your PwnPlayer by swiping your finger on the lock screen, for
easy handling from your pocket.. without having to unlock the device.
If you haven’t seen it already in the video above, here’s a
screenshot:


- CoverFlow: mimcs almost the same coverflow appearance seen in
MobileMusicPlayer. It works only with iTunes library for now, but in
the future will also support file system mp3s.

- Background mode: PwnPlayer is for jailbroken devices, so you don't
have to worry about it not being able to run in background. Screw
Apple SDK ridiculous rules!

- SpringBoard integration: PwnPlayer automatically integrates with
SpringBoard. You will see the current playing song info in your lock
screen, and you'll be able to use the home double-tap shortcut to
control music playback when you are in another app while PwnPlayer is
running on background.

- Playlist managing: Create, edit, and remove playlists on the fly
easily.

All the above will be available on its first release. Future updates
will include:

- Plug-ins: Yes, if the aforementioned wasn't enough, you will still
be able to add more and more features to PwnPlayer thru it's plug in
system. Or even make your own plugins and distribute them! support for
more formats, Lyrics viewer, a Last.FM scrobbler, streaming.. imagine
what could be done, and that you will never see on default
MobileMusicPlayer.

- Video: Currently PwnPlayer does not support video playback, but it's
one of its top priorities for future updates.

- Support for genius playlists?: I still don't know how difficult will
be to support this new feature introduced in 2.1 firmware, but yes, it
might be available in future updates as well.

- Move music files between file system and music library back and
forth?: well, I already said this is not available now because the new
iTunesDB security checksums have not been cracked yet.. but if someday
they finnally get fully reverse engineered, this will be completely
possible.

A few more small things need to be finished, and it will be released
on Cydia along with the long-awaited iSlsk (called iSoulseek from now
on) for 2.0 firmware.
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[via iPhoneFreakz]


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