BeMused - Audio Remote for Nokia N95, N6600, N800.

BeMused Be Amused, yes that is what the company expects you to be, Be Amused with your Nokia Handset! Be it the primitive Nokia Symbian handset or the latest funky(expensive) N95, you can make it your Audio Remote!

Yep you heard it right, your Bluetooth Symbian phone can be your remote to manage your Laptop/Desktop. The SourceForge project BeMused can remotely manage your Media Player(Winamp/Windows Media Player) and Your Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.

BeMused can control Winamp2, Winamp3 and Winamp5 versions seamlessly, and believe me it is fast, like lightning, the search and media scan is over, and you are the Wireless DJ of the loads of Music that lies on your hard disk. I use it while I party with my friends frequently, the house is a mess, and BeMused is very useful while I party. It allows me to scan for media files, by Name, Ascending order, by parts of words, by the starting letter and search is easy and fast, I become the DJ on the move!

BeMused allows me to control my Videos, I connect my Laptop to my HDTV and hence playing the video files from the couch is just a touch away!! Imagine you can play a range of videos from your Hard Disk while easing on the couch with your girl friend! This is just wonderful!

I use it during presentations, I do not have to go near my Laptop during important presentation at work!

Icing to the cake, you can download the supported Audio/Video files to your handset wirelessly while playing it. This is an added feature from the older versions of BeMused.

What are you waiting for, get BeMused and be Amused - that is for sure, want more? - beMused can be skinned. You can download the cool colored skins, and decorate your handset application. there are many skins to choose from, that should fit your mobile theme!
Check out some skins here.

There are 2 parts to the BeMused suite of applications, one the Server(resides on your computer) and the other, The Client(that is installed to your Symbian device as a .SIS file). The Server Application has to be configured to point to the system directory where you store your Music files, you can confine the scan to certain directories by mentioning them, or leave the full drive(s) to be scanned for a wide range of input.

Next, configure your BlueTooth port, so that your system and the mobile can talk to each other seamlessly, thus beMused can do it's job well. Mostly com port 7 is used, but this is not mandatory, you can set the right port that is convenient for you.

You can specify the file types to handle/scan for. I prefer to keep most of the file types my Winamp can play(like MP3, WMV, WMA, WAV, VOQ, MP2, MP4 etc). You have to specify the path to your music player(Winamp or Media Player), an option to keep both would have been nicer!

The automatic COM Port finder was a welcome feature to BeMused from the previous versions. Everything else is cool, and I guess it can better in certain areas like the server GUI and some button placements, and support for more players and Image Viewers (consider IrfanView)!

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