For Your Ears Only

For Your Ears Only is a Symbian app that automatically pauses the music player when the headset is disconnected.

It is inspired by how Android works, and also headphone daemon for Maemo.

At the moment, only Symbian^1 (S60 5th edition) onwards is supported. Specifically, it has been tested on the Nokia 5800. I believe it is possible to adapt it for 3rd edition, but I haven't had time to look at it closely.

It does not work on Samsung i8910 (Omnia HD).

For Your Ears Only is a rough prototype, and should be improved with a background running auto starting daemon.

Usage

Install For Your Ears Only
Start the music player (must be started before For Your Ears Only starts)
Start For Your Ears Only
Connect a headset
Play music in the music player
Pull out the headset cord - music stops!

Versions

0.10 - First version. Basically a prototype. It works!

Download

See the downloads page.

Source code

See Source.

Comment by dafunky...@kaffeeschluerfer.com, Nov 06, 2009

Hallelujah! Been searchin so long for YOUR tool, great! If you´d find a way to make it S60v3-compatible you would be truly me hero of the month! Thats a must-have killer-app imho - go on! Big up to you!

Comment by aitken.mark, Nov 18, 2009

Second that, would love to have S60 3rd edition support too.

Comment by consider.it, Nov 18, 2009

You are our saviors! But, please, please... remember about poor s60 3rd edition users... :(

Comment by symbianwarrior, Nov 29, 2009

wonderful app.certificate not valid anymore though.

Comment by iain.mercer, Jan 06, 2010

Does this work with the Nokia Podcasting app? If not, could it? Please??

Comment by teknolog, Jan 06, 2010

Yes I'll try to make it work on 3rd edition too, but it's completely different APIs there.

Since the Nokia Podcasting app does not have its own player, but relies on the Music Player, it should work fine.

Comment by johnray.hpti, Jan 18, 2010

Hi, I've just tried this on my Samsung Omnia i8910. Sadly it fails halfway across the installation bar simply saying "Unable to install". A shame since it is a great idea.

Comment by teknolog, Jan 18, 2010

Sadly I don't have an i8910 to test on. ForYourEarsOnly depends on "plug in APIs", that likely are not included on the i8910. Maybe they will appear in the next firmware update.

Comment by shukim, Feb 07 (2 days ago)

HI, i installed the app on my Nokia 5800 Musicxpress and followed the instructions carefully, but still when i pull out the headset the music keeps on playing. please advise.

thank you, shuki.

Comment by teknolog, Feb 07 (46 hours ago)

If you're using the normal music player, I don't see why it doesn't work. So the sound comes through your speakers when you pull out the headset?

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