iPh.Dj – iPhone DJ Application
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Thank you for visiting iPh.Dj website. Content in this page is
- How to use iPh.Dj
- How to download your music to iPh.Dj (from Mac)
- How to download your music to iPh.Dj (from Windows)
Please send questions to below mail address if you encounter problem while using iPh.Dj
goldrushcomputing@gmail.com
How to use iPh.Dj
Playing Music
Upper part of each turntable is for playback control of iPh.Dj.
- Tap a playback button at the upper left corner of each turntable to play or pause music.
- A slider at the top (ranging from -50% to +50%) is pitch controller.
- A longer slider bar just above the record is progress control. You can move to any point in the music track.
Lower part of each turntable is for volume control.
- A slider bar at the bottom is volume controller.
- One slider bar between left turntable and right turntable is crossfader. By adjusting this bar, you can change the input level of each music track.
Select Music
You can select music for a turntable by tapping the center of that turntable.
Music library of iPh.Dj appears.
As soon as you select one music, that music is being loaded to the turntable.
You can delete songs by selecting ‘Edit’ button and select the song you want to delete and pressing ‘delete’.
Or you can drag the song to left side and press ‘delete’ button. (You cannot delete pre-installed songs.)
Download Music
When you press ‘Download’ button in Music Selection page, Download page appears.
Here you can download music from web server.
You can set up your Mac or Windows PC as local web server and download music.
Please read below chapters for step-by-step instruction about how to download your music.
Displaying Album Artwork
If you download and select a song which also exists in the iPod Music Library in your phone,
iPh.Dj extracts the artwork of that song and display it on the turntable.
Since iPh.Dj extracts the artwork by searching the iPod Music Library by the song’s filename,
your song’s filename have to be equal to that song’s name in the iPod Music Library in order for iPh.Dj to
extract right artwork.
When you download music files from Mac or PC, please don’t change the filename (or only remove numerical prefix as ‘01′).
For example if a music file name is ‘03 Your Music.mp3′, just keep this name or change it to ‘Your Music.mp3′.
How to download your music to iPh.Dj
(From Mac)
1. Open ‘System & Preferences’ in Doc.
2. Click Sharing
3. Check ‘Websharing’
In above example, your local website URL is http://10.0.1.3/~yourname/. We use this URL later to download music from iPh.Dj.
(The number “10.0.1.3″ changes according to your network environment.)
4. Open Finder and go to ‘Sites’ folder under your home directory.
5. Place your music files (mp3 or m4a files) under this ‘Sites’ folder as ‘YourMusic1.m4a’ and ‘YourMusic2.mp3′ files in above picture.
6. Now you can access your music file by typing
(your personal web site adress) + (your music file name).
In above example it is;
http://10.0.1.3/~yourname/YourMusic1.m4a
Input this address in the Download Music page in iPh.Dj as below.
Note: Both your Mac and iPhone have to be in the same Wifi network.
For example, your Mac is joining to a network named ‘Goldrush Computing Network’ as below, you also have to connect this network from iPhone.
Trouble Shooting Tips
If you cannot download music, please type the same URL in Safari browser in your iPhone.
If Safari also cannot access the file, type only IP address without music filename (like “http:/10.0.1.3″) in Safari.
If you see some page in your iPhone’s Safari, most likely you typed wrong music file name, double check music filename spelling.
If you don’t see any page in your iPhone’s Safari, there is some problem in Mac side.
Please make sure that there is no firewall software blocking your access. (If you open browser in Mac, and can see some page by typing “http://10.0.1.3″ in the address bar. Most likely firewall is blocking your iPhone from accessing your server.)
Disable Web Sharing after Download
After completing the download, we recommend you to uncheck ‘Web Sharing’ which you checked in the above instruction #3.
How to download your music to iPh.Dj
(From Windows)
1. First you need to download Apache (web server software). Visit below apache.org site.
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
2. In the top page, select ’apache_2_2_14-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi’ and download this installation package.
3. After download, double click the package. You’ll see below window. Click ‘Next’.
4. Please License agreement and select ‘I agree..” if you agree, and go to next.
5. Read Apache instruction appeared, and press next.
6. Write ’somenet.com’, ‘www.somenet.com’, and any e-mail address in below window. Since you won’t open your local server outside of your local network, below setting is not important.
7. Select ‘Typical’ and click ‘Next’.
8. If you don’t have any problem to install Apache in the default installation place, click ‘Next’.
9. Press ‘Install’ and start installation. When installation finished, press ‘Finish’ and close the installer.
10. Open Internet Explorer, and type ‘http://localhost/’ in the address bar. If you see below message Apache is properly installed and run.
11. Open MS-Dos window. And type ‘ipconfig’
You can see your IP address under ‘Ethernet adapter: wireless networkconnection’ like below.
This address (10.0.1.6 in above example) is later used to access your music file from iPh.Dj.
Open Internet Explorer and type this IP address (in above example case, type “http://10.0.1.6″).
If you see “It works!” message as you saw in #10 instruction, you server is accessible by this address.
12. One pitfall at this point is firefall. If you have any firewall you cannot access the server from outside of your Windows (i.e. from iPhone).
For removing the firewall in Windows XP, read below website and follow “Manual Configuration – Scenario2″.
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Customizing-Windows-Firewall.html
For removing the firewall in Windows 7, read below website (in #7 instruction, select TCP and set 80 as port number).
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/open-a-port-in-windows-7s-firewall/
For removing firewall of other venders’ security software (e.g. Norton), please follow each vender’s manual.
13. Place music files under
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs
14. Now you can access music via ‘http://your IP address/musicfilename”.
Assumed your IP address is ‘10.0.1.6′ and you put music “sample.mp3″,you can download this file by typing ‘http://10.0.1.6/sample.mp3‘ from iPh.Dj’s download page as below.
Stop Apache Web Server
After completing the download, we recommend you to stop Apache and restore firewall.
To stop Apache web server, Click Windows’ ‘Start’, and then run ‘msconfig’ as below.
Windows XP
Windows 7
Go to ‘Startup’ tab as below, and uncheck ‘Apache HTTP Server’.
Restore Firewall
In Windows 7, Open ‘Control Panel’ and select ‘Windows Firewall’. Select ‘Advanced Settings” in the left column of the Windows Firewall window. Select ‘Inbound Rules’ in the left column of the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window. Then select the rule you created in #12 instruction, and disable it as below window. (Click the image to expand.)
In Windows XP, Open ‘Control Panel’ and select ‘Windows Firewall’. Select ‘Exceptions’ Tab as shown in below picture
Uncheck ‘TCP Web Server(TCP 80)’ you created in the above instruction #12. (Click the image to expand.)
This looks like a good app
Looks cool to use – imaginative app.
Can imagine being able to scratch with records on the deck.
Keep up the good work and please release for Android soon!
[...] 曲の用意が手間で且つ難しい：iPh.DjはiPhoneの中にあるiPodミュージックライブラリに直接アクセスすることができません。こちらのページに方法は書いてありますが、要PC or MACであり、しかも、少々難しいです。 [...]