yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
0.8 looks good Chad :) Look forward to it.

A couple of thoughts - don't know how easy they are to implement:

1 - when you blank the screen is it possible to have the D pad work like in WMP and control volume/next/back rather than have it re-awaken the screen? And, can it be done so that only the power button wakes the screen again?

2 - is it possible for Melody to fast forward/rewind the track when you hold down left or right rather than it skip through tracks? Don't know how hard that is to code

Other than that, this is rapidly becoming an awesome player.

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
0.8= omfg

Thundershadow, youve got it made, this looks awesome. Cant wait for 0.8 now... any ideas of release date? doesnt really matter, i guess it will come at some point. Youve got an album scroller, finger-scrolling kinetic song selector, and a player all in 0.8. What more can we expect from this? I havent seen an iphone, but i do know about the album art being part of its media selection. What else are you going to get inspiration from on the iphone and implement in melody?

Oh, and when 0.8 comes out, could you like maybe give us pictures of how to flip the album and scroll through, because theyboth looked pretty similar to me. and hopefully it would save millions of people all asking it, like they did when elody wouldnt work because theres no MP3 folder in storage card....[people need to search lol]

Thanks as always

rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
really really good looking

this version has a lot of good improvements really good. i only would like to see the next song, play/pause button to change when pressed, this makes it just a lot better, i dont know why haha

im apparently the first to ask this so i will see what you will do,

good luck and cheers!

:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
+1 on this feature request. I've been meaning to post, but alas my memory has been crappy my entire life... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dcgrove:
Ok, so I am having problems. Cingular 8255 with the latest WM5 rom. All of my songs are in "Storage Card\Mp3s" with no subfolders. When I open Melody, I get

the picture titled pc capture 1. I navigate to the mp3 folder and it shows to be empty. I then selected a scrolling method and hit the scan button. Next I get this error every time.

Melody.exe

IOException

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at Melody.Form4.Button1_Click_1()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick()

at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick()

at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WnProc()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()

at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterModalDialog()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()

at Melody.Form1.Form1_Load()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form._SetVisibleNotify()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible()

at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()

at Melody.Form1.Main()

What am I doing wrong?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Ok, seems like there are some file creation issues that need to be dealt with here, this error seems to be happening with several people a little too often. I'll definitely deal with files not being there. Yet, it shouldn't be. Have you copied EVERY SINGLE FILE out of the zip file into your melody directory on your WM device? Once you have, all files should be on your device. Please double check that you have copied every single file, .dll's, .mel and .txt. If so, everything should run well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
Hope version 0.8 will be release soon
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Installation

Thundershadow

I have a "begging" request: is it possible for you to post again the installation steps (or instead tell me in which postes will i find it)?

I know I'm doing something wrong, but dont know what. I've installed and uninstalled several times melody 0.7 but it gaves the same error which i've already reported.

I own a QTEK 9100 with wm5, .net CF 2.0 SP2, flash player ActiveX, ...

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Installation instructions posted on the first post of this thread :). If problem still persists let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
hello thundeR, any clues when will be ur next version release
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Don't like to post teasers and have them teasing THAT long. I'm aiming for either later tonight, it's 5:45 pm here, or tomorrow. Working really hard on this release ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
GREAT ;-) its now 2am here so after waking up maybe i can download it now ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Well, I finaly did it. The player works fine, the playlist scroller too.

However, two things are bugging:

1. When I run Album Downloader, it gives the following error (my translation) 'File name or assembly not found 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Versio=8.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A' or one of its dependences'. Then I click Exit and appears another message "initializing error from .NET CF: The aplication cant run some of necessary components".

2. Wouldnt be supposed to appear album art? My default player is mortplayer and all my playlist tags were built in mediamonkey. I think mortplayer is good but i have great expectations on Melody.

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
The album downloader, is for your windows PC, not for your pocket pc :). It reads the albumart id3 tags that media monkey or whatever program you used before would have saved, and if it doesn't find any, it will download a new album cover, and prepare the "albumart" folder for you, which you drag into the melody folder on your windows mobile device ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyet804:
sweet gotta try this when i get home.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SciFer:
Hi Chad,

I'm one of people having this error (post #518). Just confirming that I did copy paste everything from the zip file. I did twice on 2 different PPC-6700 with WM6. The only thing I can think of is that I deleted my .6 version folder and created a new one using the .7 zip file. Was there something in .6 that I was supposed to keep had I just copied and pasted (replace) the new files over the old? If the .7 zip file is standalone then I can't think what else it could be. Thanks for continued hard work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
0.8 Update

Ok, at this stage, I could release 0.8, but I'm not. Why?

Not sure how many of you remember in previous versions of melody, the RIDICULOUS amount of time it took to sort a small number of mp3's by artist etc. This problem was born out of using a bloated dll that wasn't even written in visual basic to begin with. So, in light of this, something really exciting from my developing standpoint was born tonight. I created my own ID3 Tag reader from scratch!! That's right! I just ran the first line of code that reads songname, artist, genre, year and album name from the binary data of a mp3. Now, I'm looking into retrieving the album jpeg from any mp3 file. Once this is done, the albumart downloader application will be discontinued, and you can use a multitude of applications out there, to download and associate albumart with your mp3s.

Finally guys, melody will be able to read album art from your already extensive library of mp3s, and there will be no need to pass it through another program before it can do so. This is a very big step towards not only better album art usage, but melody speed and efficiency! If all goes well guys, I'm seeing 0.8 as one of the biggest releases since the birth of this project.

Hold on to your seats.

Thundy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I've got a pretty good idea as to why this problem occurs, depending on how things go, I might release a patch for this (I really dont like doing that though) or you're going to have to wait until 0.8, which isn't THAT long from now :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
Hi Thunder

u do a very great job, i love that very much!:D

i have a problem, cause i use Macintosh computer, so i think the album downloader is not work for me,

is it possible manually put the album cover to the albumart folder?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
:) Please read post number 538. This won't be necessary.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sheltem:
Looks fantastic! Any chance that you could integrate HTC Home support as well?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
im holding now my chair... :eek: ;);)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] EP3hatch03:
i am excited!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
GAaaaah! Between this and the Orange Box release from Valve -- where is the time for sleep?!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
any devs out there..

we are stuck on this last step of getting the album jpeg data.

we have two methods of getting the starting header, but the end of it is somewhat a mystery.

any help is appreciated.

thundershadow has been working with this for a while though so it probably won't be long till 0.8 :) :)

in other news, i might have found a way we can use the dll from tcpmp later down the road.

that way we'll be able to play divx videos etc.. and have perfect performance with all types of media playing.

this is looking very interesting now :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dcgrove:
Just to be sure, I deleted the folder and put the entire Melody 0.7 folder that was in the RAR archive and I am still getting this error.

Melody.exe

IOException

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at Melody.Form4.Button1_Click_1()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick()

at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick()

at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WnProc()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()

at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterModalDialog()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()

at Melody.Form1.Form1_Load()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form._SetVisibleNotify()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible()

at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()

at Melody.Form1.Main()
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] carson512:
really good work!!Thanks~
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
very nice

im waiting for this like anything !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
Its like waiting for Christmas, *lol*
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
My Daily Post

The integration of id3 reading will be a great addition, but would have been greater if 0.8 was released then 0.9 was released later with the id3 integration....

Anyways

Great app as per usual, and the possibility of video in it is making me so happy..

Any ideas of 0.8 release?

Thanks as always

Rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SciFer:
No worries, I'll wait.

No worries, I'll wait.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
Some body should develop a Rom with iscroll , pocket Cm Contacts , pocket Cm Keyboard, pocket Cm Image veiwer and melody integrated into the Rom this will change the PDA almost into a Iphone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maggy:
PCMkeyboard and PCM img viewer are beta's, no use of burning these.

Lots of programmers do not like it if you put their software in a ROM, the user would take it for granted and would probably never consider to donate.

I don't know iscroll, will start a search when I finish this post. But do you know Oto? Fits like a glove in the entire picture

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=326891

update:iscroll is a mystery to me, Google can only find a java script for web pages and a program on MAC's with that name. please explain
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
0.8?

When Will You Release 0.8?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
The album art downloader is pretty good, but is there a way to get the picture of an album which has the same name as others? I looked for 'hours' by fineral for a friend and it came up with some other band.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
delude -- next version should make the album art downloader obsolete.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HTCMDA:
downloaded 7th release

does not work

t-mobile MDA (usa)

and yes i followed instructions and have all needed programs, flash 7 and what not.

i see the screen with the "back/pause/forward" buttons, then i get some error.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dharvey4651:
I experienced the same problem. Does not work on T-Mobile MDA USA. I also Have WM6 on it. Don't know if this will make a difference.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mateotti:
Melody on Trinity

Does anyone tried on Trinity? For me, it doesn't work. When i try to move pictures with the finger, it happens nothing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HTCMDA:
i have WM5 t-mobile usa, i got it working, just uninstalled and reinstalled flash-lite 2.1

but still have issues, i have to drag across the screen like 4-5 times before it goes back to the song list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmdare4:
.net cf cab

i'm a newbie at this, but at the moment my pc is crashed! does anyone know if i can install .net cf by a cab file?? i really wanna test this app...thnks in advance,

caleb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maggy:
If you've run the .NET msi installer once on a PC, and if the harddisk with \Program Files is still accessible, you can find there a folder Microsoft.NET, in which you should be able to find the correct xxxxxARMx.cab, there may be several, only one will work on your device.

success
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmdare4:
all right i got it up & running...thnks maggie for your help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmdare4:
whoops! srry maggy, i misspelled your name lol...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
Album Art temp Fix

@thundershadow

A suggestion toward the album art. Have you thought of using the metadata profile saved by WMP when it is synced with the desktop? It may not be accessible but if it is it would allow those users that sync that way to have Melody pull album art from the phone and for those that don't could use the downloader until you all get the final way figured out.

Curious George
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dchkchung:
I just stumble into Melody while surfing for HTC Album. Does the app function similar.

I am currently using a HTC Trinity and I would like to install the application. However, I am a little confuse on the instruction on the 1st page. Do I need to download all the files eg (native 1, native 2 and etc). I also read somewhere that album downloader is to be use in PC only.

It would be great if a single CAB file can do the whole install.

Anyway, kudos for such a nice app. Wonder why everyone have to constraint by iPhone or HTC Touch when all is needed is some brilliant s/w programming.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dharvey4651:
Thanks but Flash lite is integrated into my Rom so I cannot just uninstall it. I think I am just going to subscribe to this thread and wait for the final release.

Looking forward to it let me tell you... :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maggy:
I forgive you ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nabeelmoeen:
Does not handle subdirectories?

I used to copy files on my SD card by inserting it directly into the latop slot, but opted instead for WMPLayer synchronization of music to my WM2003SE device to be able to get the Album art on the PDA when playing music. :o

Now when i use melody i'm facing the problem that this application is not able to handle subdirectories.. I assume that is the problem. :confused:

though for one particular directory (\Storage Card\\Music\\ Pearl Jam\\Vs_) i can see the songs in the list populated when i access from Melody, but I still get an exception when i try to select a song to play or scroll the list (though the list is less than a screen length.. and hence unscrollable).

EDIT: just verified... it crashes if the Playlist is less than a screen in length :rolleyes:

I liked what i saw in the YouTube video for this application, and would appreciate any help i can get to make this work :)

Also, the Album Download exe crashes with a Public Key not available exception.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kinson:
hey, great application. very nice, but when will you release version 0.8. been waiting for a long time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cmdare4:
great work! 0.8?

thundershadow:

thnks alot man, this is a great little app! any idea of when u will release 0.8?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
aaaahhhhh!

I need 0.8 :)

Hows the development going thundershadow? hope you havent had too many problems, its just that we havent heard from you for ages.

Hope it comes soon

Rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fizawan:
I've been reading in these forums and come to this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=338945&highlight=pocket+player+3.5

Maybe you guys want to try it first, but this one is a paid one (30 days trial though)

Right now I'm just playing with it until it expires or Chad comes out with something.:D

Thanks to Chad and all other for developing this software though! I think you guys may be busy with school now (most college students should be busy after Halloween and before Thanksgivings, lots of mid-terms). Good luck with whatever you guys doing and hopefully we hear from you guys soon!!!:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey all!

Okay, I know I've been MIA for a very long time, but Uni has been driving me crazy. I'm just wrapping up the last of my mid-terms and will be back on track very soon. I'm hoping though, to at least roll-out 0.8 today or tomorrow if all goes as planned. I'm still here, the project is still VERY much alive, just keep checking.

pocket player 3.5 looks nice, but melody will ALWAYS be free. And will ALWAYS strive for feature reference from direct interface with it's users. Let's keep mowing through guys!

Chad (AKA Thundy).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonder12:
This is a piece of good news! Looking forward to your release.

Thanks bro for your hardwork! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Oh Man I am stoked now!! Been waiting for this ready to compare it to my new ipod touch and see how it fairs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xmack:
No luck with 0.8??? `plzzz post ittttt it looks awesome man!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
it looks like, ''all'' did not go as planned

haha lol:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
I think some guys are pushing too hard. No hurries. All of you, give chad a big break and let him work quietly. After all, he's doing what none of us are doing at all. For me, 0.8 will be ready when it will be. I dont mind to wait.

Keep going thunder, great work. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
The wm5 "bug" could be that you have to install flash 7 again after installing

Imedia player...or its just on the Mio A701?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I can't be sure, I don't have a WM5 device...I'm selling my current phone to get my hands on one, but if anyone else with a different device, and WM5 can test this, I'd appreciate it :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Second Release

Okay,

Thanks to spicchio72, I've been able to come up with a second release, that addresses the bugs he's outlined. The following bugs were FIXED:

His suggestions, will be included in version 0.3, along with any other bugs found and brought to my attention before then. Here's the link:

http://www.sunatrise.com/iMedia Player 0.2.exe

Since stephano, is working on a more native version of the player, I'll continue my flash version, which will hopefully allow me to explore really interesting visual effects later on. Probably even making it BETTER than the current iPhone Media player ;). It's worth a try!

The community has been VERY supportive, please keep it up.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marcos200:
join venture

You could join efforts with the other guy messing with an iPhone like mediaplayer (His already playing finguer scroll friendly feature:) ), but I think those 2 are developed in different ways.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=325286&page=2

good work, congratulations
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Yup, I've even posted on his thread. Only problem is, our developing styles are WORLDS apart. I would love to implement his finger scrolling though, I havent actually seen it, cuz I dont have a WM5 device. But from the comments, it sounds kool.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
i have not installed this yet but i want to, firstly i have a mac and from wat i read it needs to be installed from a pc, correct me if i'm wrong, i hope i am, plus it requires flash player 7 while i am currently using flash 2.1 because i want to run the FreeStyl launcher from whoneedsaniphone.com. wondering if there would be a .cab file soon or something similar and that it will use flash 2.1.

it looks really great and i think it could become better than the actual iphone media player
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Cab File

Thanks for your interest, I've attached the cab file. Albumart might still be a problem for you though, since the downloader only works in windows for now. I'll have an OS X version out later. But for now, here's the cab file.

You said you're using flash 2.1...hmmm cant you install Flash Player 7 while that's on. I'm not too familiar with the entire Flash Lite scenario...I'll do some research though :).

Enjoy, and as usual, feedback is deeply appreciated.

Oh, I'm currently working on getting finger scrolling using swish. So keep those FINGERS crossed! LOL.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
Wow thanks for such a quick reply, i will probably install flash player 7 for now, as the whoneedsaniphone launcher is still not very stable for me, and so i dont use it much. thanks