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June 15, 2005
I’ve been working on my software a bit more lately. I have the audio playing capabilities working a bit more reliably now. I also wanted to show that I have Winamp Like skin support working. It still needs some tweaking.. but with only 2 or 3 very small modifications to my previously made winamp skin I was able to get it to load, display and function properly in my python application.

June 09, 2005
Well.. my Garmin GPS units came in last night. I was a little too excited to let it sit for too long. So I went out and hooked it up right away to make sure they worked fine, which they did. And also being too excited I took apart the dash again and hooked up the AAI-NIS adapter to see if it would work on my 2004 350 Z, and it did! So now I have to AUX inputs directly into my Bose head unit. I took a bunch of pictures last night on the process so take a look and maybe it will help some others out there trying to do the same with their Z’s. Last nights work took about 3 hours.
June 08, 2005

My new AAI-NIS auxiliary input unit came via UPS yesterday and my new Garmin GPS 18 PC (Serial) units should arrive today! Gonna do some testing and then pull the old FM-Modulator and GPS unit out and replace them with the new stuff this week!

June 03, 2005
I’m pretty happy so far with my progress. After only a week or two I’ve got the interface skinning working and basic audio support. Read on for more info on individual parts.

Interface
I’ve got a basic interface working. It is now using my previously made WinAmp skin with very few small modifications being made to the skin file. Also, so you know, my skin file is almost all .PNG files with transparencies. I’ve also tried changing some things around with the skin to see how it would react. And I think it works out pretty well. I need to work on speeding up the screen updates as it can be fairly slow right now depending on the complexity of the skin.

Audio
I have basic audio playing functionality working (pymedia) and have started on very basic playlist functionality.

iPod Support
Such a hassle. I wish it was easier. I’m not the greatest programmer so I’m digging through other peoples python scripts to try and piece something together. I currently have a script working that outputs all the tracks on my ipod with path, title, artist and album information. I still need to get it to output the playlists, track ratings and play counts.

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