My experience with IPAQ5050

Under construction

Simple mp3 player for IPAQ

As the Familiar project version 8.4 doesn't come with any mp3 player that would match our needs, I decided to write my own one. The IPAQ is actually installed on the wall, connected to an amplifier that feeds the speaker box. The sound files are remotely mounted via NFS using the PDA's WIFI.
So the requirements were following:

  1. Little RAM usage
  2. Reasonable speed
  3. Resiliance against WIFI glitches
It lead to following features:
  1. No playlists and fancy stuff
  2. No use of ID3 tags
  3. Reasonable read buffer size
  4. Simple GUI that doesn't need lots of RAM and CPU power
The current version (including source code) is available here.

To be continued ...