Wireless Music Sync for BlackBerry®

Wireless Music Sync for BlackBerry® keeps the music on your BlackBerry® devices
in sync with your Desktop music library wirelessly. It presently works with
iTunes on Windows.

Wireless Music Sync for BlackBerry® has three components:

1. Server: Runs in the background. Fulfills requests from clients.
2. Desktop Client: For initial loading or large periodic transfers.
3. Client: BlackBerry® app. Lets you select Playlists, Albums or Artists to
   sync and Performs sync.

If you are a new user, see Getting
Started
for detailed installation instructions.

Features

• Sync a Playlist, an Album or an Artist.
• Fast, On-Demand sync.
• Supports both OS 5 and 6.
• Server uses minimal amount of memory while idle.
• Two-Way syncing of playlists (for iTunes).
• Open protocol and code, modify it to your heart's content.

Planned Features

• File based backend support.
• Support for other popular music players.
• Linux server.

Using WiFi Music Sync

There are several ways to get started with Wireless Music Sync for
BlackBerry®. The recommended way is to initially load music on to your
BlackBerry® device using the Desktop Client. You can then start the
Wifi Sync application on your phone and the synced playlists will be kept
updated. see Getting
Started
for detailed installation instructions.

Runtime Dependencies

To run the server application you need:

• Windows XP or higher.
• .NET FX 4.0
• iTunes (Optional)

Build Dependencies

To build Wireless Music Sync for BlackBerry® you need:

• .NET Framework + Tools (>= 4.0)
• Kayak Server Framework (source included)
• Afterthought (source included)
• Log4net (>= 1.2.9.0) (unmodified binary included)
• iTunes (>= 9.0)
• And Visual Studio.NET 2010+ (Optional) It is the easiest way to build.

Known Issues

• The BlackBerry app cannot sync playlists with special characters in the
  name, characters that cannot be represented in the BlackBerry file system
  (FAT32) file names. Playlists with Unicode characters in the name will
  usually fail to sync.

Get It

• Download the Latest Release
• Fork it on GitHub or
  Get Source Code
• Install the BlackBerry Client OTA OS 6
  or OS 5

Credits

• Steven M. Cohn for
  USBManager.
  Also check out iTuner.
• Twit88 for QRCodeLib.
• Nir Dobovizki for
  WPF reflection control.
• Eric Daugherty for
  iTunesExport (the old C# version).
• George Joseph for code used from
  KeePass for BlackBerry.

• Icons based on
  Faenza,
  Elementary or
  Ultimate-Gnome icon themes.

• Thanks to Brian Gold for testing the use of iTunes libraries stored on
  network shares.

License

Copyright (C) 2011 Nithin Philips <nithin@nithinphilips.com>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Visit the Project Page at SourceForge

BlackBerry® is a registered trademark of Research in Motion.