Is it possible to get date when some .mp3 file was added on device? I want it to use for example to show songs that was recently added or sort music by date.
As far as I know you won't be able to do that.
You can do limited operations with Music Hub, even if you manage to get a song from MediaLibrary there is no such public property like creation date (or similar).
As for the SD card - you don't have direct access to music files on SD - these are reserved file associations - you won't see that files when you list SD card in your app. Also files on sd have date modified but not 'created'.
Maybe it will change in the future, but for now it's like this.
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I am a noob with everything related to coding, except for some knowledge of the linux command line. Anyway, I have this idea for a project. I need a website with an image that updates every few hours or so. I have a folder in google drive, and every few hours a new image is uploaded. These times are not regular, but as long as the website gets the new photo within an hour-2hours, it will be fine. I was thinking of making an alias folder that links to the latest image in a folder (like how apple does it with time machine backups) if that makes sense. Then I would copy the link on google drive (of the alias folder) and put that into wordpress. It would pull that link, which would go to the latest image in a folder. I have a feeling that this would not work out, however. Basically, I just want an automated updater to pull the latest image from a google drive folder and publish it to the website. If it needs to be local, I could use the backup and sync for drive and the google drive folder would be synced to my local machine.
Another thing I was thinking of was a automatic slideshow maker. I would use some kind of script in google to delete all files in a folder except for the latest one. Then I would use the automatic slideshow maker to make a slideshow based on data in the particular google drive folder, which would be the latest photo.
Again, these are just some ideas that I have had, and they are both likely not going to work.
I have a self hosted web server (docker) and could put a wordpress instance on that, or I could use an online website builder like weebly or wix or even google sites. It needs to be free because this is for a community service project and I do not want to have to constantly fundraise. However, if my only option requires payment, I am open to that.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
Thanks!
There are several ways to achieve what you desire.
One approach:
I would suggest naming the image that you put in drive with the same filename. (renaming the old ones, as each new image is uploaded)
Google Apps script makes it easy (and free) to deploy a Web App, and using it gives you the benefit of using it's Drive Service among others.
Use a time-driven trigger to execute a function that renames your images so that the most recently uploaded one has the name of the image your website is requesting.
Alright, I have found an awesome solution! First, I setup a google account and made a folder in google drive. Then, I downloaded an app called DriveSync. I used the app Automate (by llamalab) to take photos (you can program it however you want it to trigger the photo). The trigger happens, then it deletes a file called latest.jpg in the Automate Image folder (on the android phone). Then it takes a photo with an image name of latest.jpg. And all of this is synced to the remote Google Drive Folder thanks to DriveSync. So now we have a synced google drive folder. Then, I setup a Wordpress Instance. Get the Add-On called Image and video gallery from Google Drive here https://wordpress.org/plugins/skaut-google-drive-gallery/. Now, follow the steps to link up your google drive folder to it, and configure your website to display this addon on your page of choice. It will pull the only image in the folder we configured earlier, and it will display it on the website! Plus it auto updates. Also, you can configure the image size which is helpful as this was probably meant to display more than one photo, but with only one photo there is a lot of empty space.
Hope you found this helpful!
I'm a beginner at App Inventor and I don't know what I'm doing wrong with the sharing component. I'm trying to share a sound file but it gives me the following error:
No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.SEND flg=0x1 (has clip) (has extras) }
The code is the following:
I also tried the following things:
This doesn't work.
This reproduces the sound perfectly. That means that the picker works and the file exists.
I put a file in my root folder and it works but I want to send the file which was picked from the list which is in the following folder "/storage/sdcard0/MyDocuments/Downloads/app_inventor_1431867799168.mpeg".
I don't know where is the problem and I look in a lot of forums and none of the solutions solved my problem.
Thanks for your help.
PD: I just found that the downloaded files are stored in .MPEG format which it is a compressed format. It is possible that sharing function don't find any app that accept this type of format. If this is the problem please tell me what I have to do to make App Inventor to not change the original .mp3 file.
ok, problem solved as I said in the PD part the problem was that by default App Inventor stores the audio files in to MPEG format. This format is not recognized by whatsapp, gmail, etc...
Solution was to set a name to each file when I download them that ends with .mp3
With this extention the programs of my device recognize them and now I can share my audio files.
Thanks to everyone that was trying to solve this problem.
I am developing gallery viewer app. App will fetch the image file from Isolated Storage and will show in an image control. Most of the things are already setup and working fine.
Now images are stored in folders which act as album and user can delete the whole album. I tested with many many folders with assorted images and delete works fine. But I see that when there is a particular image file of name "XXXX.jpg", it doesn't get deleted. Although all the images from folder are shown in image control. That file doesn't gets deleted, and an exception is thrown "ArgumentUnhandledException". I tried after renaming the file but earth didn't move.
Also, for testing purposes I am transferring folders(with images in it) using "Windows Phone Device Manager". I know it is not official to use it, but it makes testing easy. Also peculiar thing is that "Windows Phone Device Manager" also cannot delete that particular file, although I dumped that file in app's isolated storage using "Windows Phone Device Manager". So I think that there is some problem with that file.
How can I delete the file. And if I cannot, how can I know it before hand that some files cannot be dealt with properly and should not be dumped in Isolated storage.Here is that file. File is inside zip file. I think file is required and not not just uploading image to a image hosting site. Please take a look. Also try not to look over the content of image file, that's only random file which is not working and I want to know why.
I found that file was marked read-only and was causing problem when a delete attempt was made. Removing read-only solves the problem.
I wanted to show a Presentation. When I run it on another computer, both the sounds and the vids didn't work. I found out about Package for CD and run it. The audio started to work on other computers, but the videos still ain't working. I am also including the audios and vids as the included files, but still, only the audios are working and the vids just show as thumbnails.
I am using PowerPoint 2007, Please help me if you have got any idea.
Thank You
It would work to save the original video file (not one copy pasted from the powerpoint presentation) in the pc. I assume you are the recipient of an emailed presentation. Make sure to have the videos in the ppt emailed as well.
For vids to play in PPT, two things have to happen:
PPT has to be able to FIND the linked video file, and
The CODEC required by the video must be installed in Windows
To keep links from breaking, you have to:
Save the PPT at least once before adding any videos
Put the video files in the same folder as the saved PPT
Make sure that the videos and the PPT file stay together, in same folder, on any computer where you want to play the presentation.
Package for CD should have handled all of that correctly for you, or modified the presentation so that it works as though it did.
As for CODEC though, you might try inserting the video into a new presentation on the system where the vids aren't working. If they still don't play, you need to figure out what codec was used and install it (or re-make the videos with a more common codec).
I'm not enough of a vid wiz to explain exactly how to do that; perhaps someone more knowledgeable will come along to fill in the blanks. If not, google is our friend.
I'm getting quite a few emails with logs in XML format attached and I want to associate my own app with the XML file type on Windows Phone Mango, overwriting the default xml viewer.
If overwriting isn't possible I can get the logs generated with a custom extension. I would then need to associate the extension with my app same way Adobe Reader does it for PDFs.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Currently there is no way to set your app as the default viewer for any file extension. The closest you can get at the moment is using extensibility. However, these are limited to Photos, Music and Search and not custom extensions. (Even then, your app wouldn't be the default viewer, but it would be accessible from the respective hubs).