Zenses2 Beta

Zenses is a simple application written in Java that allows you to scrobble tracks from an MTP media device to Last.fm

The plan for Zenses is to build a cross platform application but at the moment only Windows is supported, work is in progress to bring the same functionality to Mac OS X and Linux.

Requirements

Windows

• Java Runtime Environment 6+
• Windows Media Player 11

Mac OS X / Linux

• libMTP
• libUSB

Build Requirements (only required to compile Zenses from source)

• Java Development Kit 6+ (Windows)
• Maven

Compiling

Zenses is split into 2 Java projects, zenses-lib and zenses. All the logic and the main workload happens in zenses-lib whilst zenses provides the GUI using Java Swing. To build Zenses with Eclipse install the MavenEmbed plugin, and use the instructions in the Dependencies section to import the missing dependencies.

Before you can build the two Zenses projects you will need to add the required dependencies to your Maven installation, most will be automatically installed when you run the commands below. A few dependencies require a manual install as they cannot be redistributed, see the Dependencies section for instructions and information on the required artefacts.

To build zenses-lib:

mvn install

To build zenses:

mvn assembly:assembly

After you build zenses you should have a Jar in your target directory called zenses2.jar, you can run Zenses directly from the jar with:

java -jar zenses2.jar

To build the launcher application (a Windows exe that launches the jar with the required arguments) and the installer application you will need the NSIS installed on your machine. Once you have NSIS installed, you can use the build scripts inside the scripts directory which is in the zenses project folder.

Dependencies (requires manual install)

JMTP

Artifact file:  jmtp.jar
Group Id:       jmtp
Artifact Id:    jmtp
Version:        1.0
Packaging:      jar

Last.fm Bindings

Artifact file:  last.fm-bindings.jar
Group Id:       last.fm
Artifact Id:    last.fm-bindings
Version:        5.21
Packaging:      jar

JMS

Artifact file:  jms.jar
Group Id:       javax.jms
Artifact Id:    jms
Version:        1.1
Packaging:      jar

JMX Tools

Artifact file:  jmxtools.jar
Group Id:       com.sun.jdmk
Artifact Id:    jmxtools
Version:        1.2.1
Packaging:      jar

JMXRI

Artifact file:  jmxri.jar
Group Id:       com.sun.jmx
Artifact Id:    jmxri
Version:        1.2.1
Packaging:      jar

Spring Application Framework

Artifact file:  appframework-1.0.3.jar
Group Id:       org.jdesktop
Artifact Id:    appframework
Version:        1.0.3
Packaging:      jar

Installing Dependencies (through Eclipse)

For each;

File => Import
Maven => Install or deploy an artifact to a Maven repository
For artifact file => Click browse => Browse to the libs directory in the Zenses2 root and select the right jar file
Enter the artifact information (see list above, make sure Generate POM and Create Checksum are both checked)
Project => Update Maven Dependencies

You can then import the projects:

File => Import
General => Maven Projects

// browse to the root of the zenses project directory (the one that contains zenses and zenses-lib)
select the 2 pom.xml projects (zenses and zenses-lib)
click finish

// this may take a while
// NOTE: let Eclipse / Maven finish before attempting to compile Zenses, doing so will cause countless errors about missing dependencies.

Links

• MTP
• Last.fm
• Java
• Swing
• Jar
• JRE_WIN
• JDK_WIN
• WMP11
• NSIS
• libMTP
• libUSB
• Maven
• MavenEmbed
• Eclipse
• MIT

License

Zenses and Zenses2 is released under the MIT license, which is defined as;

Copyright (c) 2009 Adam Livesley

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.