Sony M-Crew Software

Let's face it, this software is pretty lame, Does anyone know where I can
get any info on the protocols used between the units and the PC?.
I'm a pretty experienced programmer, particularly in serial & midi comms. It
shouldn't be too difficult to improve upon M-Crew if I can get the inside
info.
If I have to analyse and figure out how they speak to each other then it's a
different story.

TIA
Craig

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:01:39 -0000, "Craig"
wrote:

Let's face it, this software is pretty lame, Does anyone know where I can
get any info on the protocols used between the units and the PC?.
I'm a pretty experienced programmer, particularly in serial & midi comms. It
shouldn't be too difficult to improve upon M-Crew if I can get the inside
info.
If I have to analyse and figure out how they speak to each other then it's a
different story.

TIA
Craig


There's sod all info on the web about how it works. You are right -
the software is dire and I have considered trying to improve on it.
The M-Crew site seems to have been static since 2002 :-(


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Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2
'77 101FC Ambulance
'95 Discovery V8i

Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:01:39 -0000, "Craig"
wrote:

Let's face it, this software is pretty lame, Does anyone know where I can
get any info on the protocols used between the units and the PC?.
I'm a pretty experienced programmer, particularly in serial & midi comms. It
shouldn't be too difficult to improve upon M-Crew if I can get the inside
info.
If I have to analyse and figure out how they speak to each other then it's a
different story.

TIA
Craig


There's sod all info on the web about how it works. You are right -
the software is dire and I have considered trying to improve on it.
The M-Crew site seems to have been static since 2002 :-(


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2
'77 101FC Ambulance
'95 Discovery V8i

Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:01:39 -0000, "Craig"
wrote:

Let's face it, this software is pretty lame, Does anyone know where I can
get any info on the protocols used between the units and the PC?.
I'm a pretty experienced programmer, particularly in serial & midi comms.
It
shouldn't be too difficult to improve upon M-Crew if I can get the inside
info.
If I have to analyse and figure out how they speak to each other then
it's a
different story.

TIA
Craig


There's sod all info on the web about how it works. You are right -
the software is dire and I have considered trying to improve on it.
The M-Crew site seems to have been static since 2002 :-(


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2
'77 101FC Ambulance
'95 Discovery V8i

Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com

Hi Tim,

I've done projects before where I have had to analyse the comms between
devices and it was hard work and I was getting paid!!!
I don't fancy doing that again. It wouldn't be hard to improve upon M-Crew,
a decent interface that actually remembered settings, less clicks to
download CDDB data, download genre data from CDDB, and actually being able
to print something!!

Delphi is waiting but I don't want to reinvent the wheel

Craig

"Tim Hobbs" wrote in message
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:01:39 -0000, "Craig"
wrote:

Let's face it, this software is pretty lame, Does anyone know where I can
get any info on the protocols used between the units and the PC?.
I'm a pretty experienced programmer, particularly in serial & midi comms.
It
shouldn't be too difficult to improve upon M-Crew if I can get the inside
info.
If I have to analyse and figure out how they speak to each other then
it's a
different story.

TIA
Craig


There's sod all info on the web about how it works. You are right -
the software is dire and I have considered trying to improve on it.
The M-Crew site seems to have been static since 2002 :-(


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2
'77 101FC Ambulance
'95 Discovery V8i

Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com

Hi Tim,

I've done projects before where I have had to analyse the comms between
devices and it was hard work and I was getting paid!!!
I don't fancy doing that again. It wouldn't be hard to improve upon M-Crew,
a decent interface that actually remembered settings, less clicks to
download CDDB data, download genre data from CDDB, and actually being able
to print something!!

Delphi is waiting but I don't want to reinvent the wheel

Craig

Have you tried emailing sony? I wouldn't expect them to have protocols on
their main site - not of general interest to consumers, but they /might/
be more helpful if they hear you want to make them new software for free
(assuming it'd be freeware) that'd work on more diverse platforms (again,
I'm assuming). Most likely the bosses know their software's dire!

It's a long shot but a few big companies are starting to realise how
helping open source helps them.

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

Have you tried emailing sony? I wouldn't expect them to have protocols on
their main site - not of general interest to consumers, but they /might/
be more helpful if they hear you want to make them new software for free
(assuming it'd be freeware) that'd work on more diverse platforms (again,
I'm assuming). Most likely the bosses know their software's dire!

It's a long shot but a few big companies are starting to realise how
helping open source helps them.

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org

Hi Jim,
That's so obvious, how come I didn't think of it
I'll give them a go. watch this space.

Craig

Hi Jim,
That's so obvious, how come I didn't think of it
I'll give them a go. watch this space.

Craig

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:58:30 +0000, Kurt Hamster wrote:

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:24:57 -0000, Jim H used
to say...


Have you tried emailing sony? I wouldn't expect them to have protocols
on
their main site - not of general interest to consumers, but they /might/
be more helpful if they hear you want to make them new software for free
(assuming it'd be freeware) that'd work on more diverse platforms
(again,
I'm assuming). Most likely the bosses know their software's dire!

It's a long shot but a few big companies are starting to realise how
helping open source helps them.

Won't they insist that all that OpenMG bollox be incorporated thereby
screwing up what could be useful software?

Hmm... yeah, maybe.
Strange how somthing so closed is called open.

--
Jim H jh
@333
.org