Windows Phone Thoughts: PlayerPal: Remote Control of Your Music

"PlayerPal Industries has released Version 3.5 of PlayerPal. PlayerPal is a Windows Service that provides a web interface for browsing, searching and controlling Windows Media Player from any networked PC or device with a web browser. PlayerPal research labs utilised the skills of a flock of former Google pigeons to create the new PlayerPal RANDOMIZER button. When lacking musical inspiration, press this button to generate a selection of random tracks or albums to play. Genuine randomness is achieved by using the pigeon pecking seed algorithm. The pigeons joined PlayerPal in 2004 after being excluded from the pre-IPO Google stock options. Version 3.5 also includes a new music library browser that works alongside the existing free text music search. Using this, you can browse and sort your entire music library by artist, genre, year and album art. You can then select music to replace, or add to, your current playlist. As an example you can add all the music from an entire year, or drill down to a specific album or track from that year."



Looks pretty cool, though nothing too earth-shattering. Having the ability to drill down by metadata such as year is a neat feature. My one concern is the price - I gulped when I saw that the author was pricing it in pounds sterling. £19.95 is a whopping $41.31 CAD, and $35.90 USD. That's a lot of money to ask for a one-trick pony like this. I'm sure people in the UK loving having such a strong currency, but for the rest of us, it's a bit harsh to buy in that currency. ;-)