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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
I am carefully watching the development of this project, as I am sure are others who are watching as well.

thundershadow14, i hope you make better use of the original thread to detail your progress. With each new release can you state what changes, additions, bug fixes are made on the original thread so that it doesn't get buried in what will probably be a tremendously long post.

Personally, I am waiting for native albumart support, like TCPMP, without the use of a downloader.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Will edit original post tomorrow.

Update:

Okay on the graphical side of things (as you might have guessed) A LOT has been happening. Me and youmeus have been feverishly re-designing melody. And he's done a GREAT job (check out his earlier screens) in creating a fresh and rich looking user experience.

On the coding side of things. After re-aproaching allowing melody to index mp3s by itself. I've allowed it direct access to the id3 lib, instead of using my ugly C# wrapper, so sorting is quicker. But you guys will have to tell me, if indeed I'd need to completely switch back to media player.

Me and youmeus are looking at creating a better playlist, trying to run away from the ugly old listbox. Look out for this in the new version.

A lot of activity, keep your eyes open!

Thanks again guys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] salahnajm:
yup, ur right... if i use melody's screen off function then it doens't go into suspend, otherwise it does (minor issue).

- waiting anxiously for updates :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pthomson:
Please provide a read me file

Please provide installation instructions like a read me file. I've read that flash is not required. Is direc.mel required? Is cf 2.0 required? I am running WM6 and am getting this error.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
Post ##323 and #324 should contain your solution...

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
they look great and very flash :P

but i really hope it will still look like the iPhone when playing media and scrolling albums etc.

otherwise it's 'just another media player'.

the main reason we all want our pocket pc's to look like the iPhone is because we want to be able to stick it to the iphone users and say "so what, i can easily do that too, and more".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@Chris

That's certainly one aspect most of us would agree with.

However, I think it just isn't enough to copy "the looks" one-by-one (you'd probably agree).

IMHO, the iPhone has 2 basic thrills:

1) the looks / coolness factor

2) the ease of use, ie the stylus-free ergonomics of navigation

So introducing a feature just for the looks or coolness factor, that's fine.

But only as long as it doesn't stand in the way of easy navigation.

Also, improving/enhancing iPhone's easy navigation AND cool looks AND features IS possible, in some areas even necessary. I'm convinced Melody will prove my point.

When I think of your own iPhone slider: as soon as you'll have added some final features (eg Caller ID), you will have created a "better iPhone app": all features, the same looks and coolness but better performance: perfect! ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
yer true, it's ok to add stuff ontop of what the iphone has,

but don't go changing it to look completely different only with the similar functions.

cos the sliding albums across the screen on it's own isn't really so amazing.

either way though, if this doesn't turn out that much like the iphone's media player, i can always make one myself :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pthomson:
In my minisd card I have a folder called "storage card" and within that I have my "mp3s" folder is this not correct?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
--> no: u have to create these folders

directly

under "my device" (or whatever it's called in your case)! You can only do this from your ppc!

--> couldn't agree more! :D

--> game on...;)

hope/think this won't be necessary, though. Add CallerID to your slider instead and you've got another user already ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
wrong quote there i think.

btw also you can easily change the directory to something other than /storage card/mp3s/ to somewhere you have your mp3s by editing the direc.mel file.

heh yeah i hope it wont be necessary too. (fingers crossed, but it's thunderstorm's program after all)

but looking at those screenshots posted it looks like the entire design has changed now (to nothing like the iphone).

i'm going to add callerid later btw.

first the core functions need to be fixed up though,

and then i need to find out what functions the iphone has first (does it have callerid and stuff? idk), as i will implement a function to make it only show what the iphone has (incase you want it the same as the iphone for showing off to your friends etc.).

which is kinda what i'm hoping will happen here too. or ability to use different skins for the interface could be added, and the new design could be made as a skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
sorry for the wrong quote --> was adressing pthomson

"it's Chad's app" --> absolutely!!

"i'm going to add callerid later btw. first the core functions need to be fixed up though" --> sure thing. Still: can't wait ;)

"looking at those screenshots posted it looks like the entire design has changed now (to nothing like the iphone)"

--> for the mo, let's just agree on not agreeing completely ;)

I see what you mean, but I'm used to looking at designers' proposals, ie what part is a definite proposal and what part of it is just suppoesed to be a rough skech. I'm absolutely positive youmeus is or is to become a professional designer, his proposals show great potential in my eyes and again: I think even in design terms:

a) "better than iphone is better than exactly like the iphone" and

b) "a)" IS possible ;)

k, I shut up now, ran out of cigarettes, gotty go for a mo :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
Melody Navigation Concept Version I

Chad

Just finished a first version of my attempt at an overall "Melody Navigation Concept". Hope it's of some use to you.

Need info on whom to send it and how, please (see PM).

Stephan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Hey Chad send it my way as I am still having trouble getting the albumart to work and need to try something diff. I never got the email with the version to throw up the messages so you could figure out why i cant see the album art

chrism@kcwireless.com
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@nxtlidenno

little misunderstanding here: I prepared some powerpoint charts to help structure the navigation of melody. These charts aim to help Chad and/or youmeus in further developing Melody. I'm not a coder, nor a designer...unfortunately. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, just came back from uni. And I'm completely drained. I also just read through all of your recent posts, and hopefully tonight me and youmeus will work on some more design concepts with your thoughts in mind.

I'm sure many of you have heard about the Lumus media player. Well, he's just given me the library that he's used for movement of jpegs. That means I'll be able to implement the iPhone album cover flow in full now. So that's one exciting thing to happen.

I'm currently waiting on the design proposal from Steph99, and hopefully it will help us in creating an interface that EVERYONE can be happy with. Let's not froget the possibility of having more than one UI for the app, later down the road.

:) I'd be MORE than happy to work along with you, in creating the best media player for our environment, if you can create the iPhone's scrolling routine, as a .NET user control, then we'd definitely be on our way to creating something BETTER than the iPhone's media player.

Going to get some rest now, and will be working working working, (hopefully along with youmeus, and chrismrulz) tonight. As I've said before, I'm doing this, not for glory our notoriety, but because I want a sick media player too! :)

Keep em comin' hot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
you've got mail. hope it helps more than it confuses..:o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Utakos:
I'm in love they look great but please please a VGA version
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] youmeus:
getting my iphone today :)

Hey guys getting my iphone today so we will be looking at how it looks/works very very closely in efforts to pull the good parts and improve the bad parts both in design and functionality for melody. thundershadow14 and i have some super cool ideas and i am happy to help.

@steph99 send me that file for flow and will review with 44 and do a storyboard. once we are all in agreement then we can set a more structured approach for future version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@youmeus:

pls pm me your email adress. cannot attach stuff via pm on this board.

u need 2do this right away, pls because I go to sleep now. it's 11:47 pm in Germany ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@youmeus: you've got mail ;)

good night everyone!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cyberk007:
hey, i was looking through and trying to find the newest version of this, what would that be? 4th native release?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Yup! That's the latest so far :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrabie:
Exception

Hi

I downloaded the iPhone Media Player Native 0.4, unzipped it and put the folder on my SD card. Whenever i run it i get

Melody.exe

DirectoryNotFoundException

which directoy or how can i get it to work?

thanks

found my answer in post#326

thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@mrabie

when melody first starts, it looks for: "Storage Card/mp3s".

You can change that once melody starts, but you have to create it so meody starts the first time.

Just create "Storage Card/mp3s" DIRECTLY under "My device". This can only be done from the ppc and not from the pc.

You can also edit the file direc.mel to adjust it to your directory structure directly.

Good luck!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbrianj:
S2U and Music Players

You could report this to A_C, he was able to make S2U aware of HTC's Audio Manager, and If Melody countinues to develope along the current path the number of users should make it worth his while.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Paulo Marques:
Requirements and Compatibility

Hello there!

Great looking app! promises a great music player...

Have tried this on my Artemis running WM5. I´m able to get it running (at least I get the "Welcome to Melody" screen) in Portrait mode, but then, if I tap:

"backward" button: Error (something about adicional resource assembly) (no need to reproduced screen picture here, You wouldn't understand it as it is in Portuguese.

"Pause" button: Nothing (no action)

"Forward" button: Plays 1 music (if it is placed in the "Storage Card/mp3s" directory/folder) and after a few seconds... error again: NullReferenceException at Melody.Form1.next_song()... + some other errors about windows forms and so on...

Center image (default.jpg): screen changes to Landscape, (and while I writting this, the hole thing just got "stuck" and had to softreset...) (...one second...back again) and I get the "Album scroller". now, if I tap "back" I go back to the previous screen, and If I "slide" the default.jpg it moves, and then... error.

So my question is: if I'm able to run this part, does it mean that I have all the necessary software and these are "bugs" You are working on solving, or do I need adicional Soft? What are really the minimum requirements of OS and with what devices is it compatible so far?

(anyone running it on an Artemis with WM5?)

Keep up the work!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
So which one is the latest melody version 4 native release or melody 0.5 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Paulo Marques:
.5 I think
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
then why didn't thunder shadow post it on the First Page ? must be unstable version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
where do you guys see .5?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Sorry for the confusion.

0.5 = Latest Version. See Main page update.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KING SKILLZ:
Is there a readme or a post "#" that explains eveything needed for this program to function as intended. thanks in advance & excellent commitment
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mazor:
same problem!

Hey fantastic looking app Chad. Have not manged to get it to play any MP3's on the Atom pure. I get exactly the same symptoms as Paulo Marque.

basically after creating directory "Storage Card\MP3s" Melody loads up, but then afterwards I see no way of changing to my MP3 directory, bottom right of screen turns off backlight, bottom left exits the program. Clicking on the media icon in the middle activates landscape mode, and clicking any of the nex or previous track will not play any music, rather crash out melody.

I even tried editing the direc.mel file with the path to my MP3's and still no luck

Anyidea on how to find the MP3s?

MAzor
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :zainy::
i am having this same issue...i think i am too dumb to figure it out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, swipe the bottom of the screen, just above the user controls, and that will get you to playlist screen. Then, hit the black bar at the bottom...this will take you to the screen to select your mp3 folder :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
Music folders

Thunder,

What if our music is divided in the folder under by artist folders?

CG
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
music folders 2

And then by album folders under those artist folders?

CG
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyfriendinacoma:
i tryed to get it to work i put it on my 8125

it doesnt work

i need help

and please make a CAB version
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
hey guys, good news.

we're making alot of progress on making an icontacts-like menu for selecting the files.

here's my demo project to see what it's up to (and for thunderstorm, the source is attached).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cerede2000:
I dont work on my P3600. At launch the program crash with the error :(

With any version :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
sorry, works now (if you meant my demo app).

forgot to include a dll.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
hey Chris,

test form works, only shows small corruption at bottom left when scrolled down. See attachment

stephan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
oh, that's ok.

it was just a label that was supposed to show the mouse movement speed and where it was scrolling to.

you can see the label if you run it from the desktop.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Nice work chris!

Gonna try wrapping that moving code in a timer to create fluidity. We need to talk again :P.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Tried wrapping it in a timer...it "works" but not fluid enough. Maybe using the opennetcf animate control might help? I've attached the slightly modified source. Only works for scrolling down though, just a test.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cerede2000:
Sorry i talk about Iphone Media Player ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Paulo Marques:
Thanks chad,

Now I'm able to get to the playlist screen and hitting the black bar will get me to the screen I can select the mp3 folder...but... after a few (1 or 2)seconds playing the first song I get the same error as before (the one I also get by pushing the "Forward" button:

"Plays 1 music and after a few seconds... error again: NullReferenceException at Melody.Form1.next_song()... + some other errors about windows forms and so on..."

I'm sorry to repeat my question, but:

I]if I'm able to run this part, does it mean that I have all the necessary software and these are "bugs" You are working on solving, or do I need adicional Soft? What are really the minimum requirements of OS and with what devices is it compatible so far?(anyone running it on an Artemis with WM5?)[/I][/B][/B]

Thanks! Keep up, I'm sure You'll have something working very soon!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Merlin_reloaded:
At startup.

{Progress:Installing OpenNetCF}
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Forgot to mention, please make sure you have flash player 7, at least installed....as well as Macromedia Flash Player Active X.

All this will be bundled and installed automatically in upcoming releases.

BTW, I'm going to bed now guys, it's 1:20 am here, so anyone who tries the app, leave your comments, I've got the ENTIRE day tomorrow to record and try to fix bugs :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Merlin_reloaded:
It Worked!!!!w00t!

All I can say is.....crap, I'm outta words.

Way to go!

Requirements:

Flash Player 7

not too shabby, but try to speed things up.(C++?)

neat anims.

took ~15 secs to load on a WM6 Wizard @ 247 Mhx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghisura:
hello,

it take about, 10 sec on Elf at 201mhz

but some errors see screenshot. :( but it's promising :D

Edit : problem solved, it's just that I have a french system, so program can't find Storage Card, I have create a folder on the root of device now that work .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
this is exactly the program i've been looking for thanks, its got great potential, quick question tho will it work with flash player lite 2.1?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
When you say Swish, is it SwishMAX?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marcos200:
error?

just perfect,

in everything, images, speed, palylist, in a qtek s200,

but wen i go play, hoo, nothing, reatreve a message.

"The madia Player control is not installed on this device"

This appears whid the iMedia player open, :confused:

well done job great job, men, just fixed this and everithing is just awsome.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
Great job dude, please continue :D I love showing off my phone to those iPhone fanboys haha
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Will be addressing speed today, I'll see how adjusting the quality of the flash might help things a bit. My PDA has the ability to down scale to 200mhz, so I'll develop in that mode from now on.

This will also be addressed, for the sake of speed ;).

Yup, Swishmax all the way.

When you click the executable to install the app, it asks you if you want to install windows media controls. Make sure you click yes, it uses WMP to play mp3s, since if I used native swish, things would have been EVEN slower. I figured this was a good idea anyway, since it would allow me to add video playback in upcoming releases. :D

HAHA! Great to hear all the great positive feedback results!! Don't worry guys, I'll continue to work.

Thanks,

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Speed

Wondering, I'm not satisfied with the speed increase with lowering the flas quality, and I think it might be a much better idea to go native with my code. I'd love to either use C++ or VB. Can anyone point me in the right direction, with regards to what software I'd need to download, to start spitting out windows mobile software? Once I get the software, I can promise a native release today :P.

For those of you that are currently happy with the speeds of the flash version...well, it will be even FASTER running natively :D.

Thanks,

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spicchio72:
Bugs to Fix and suggestions.

Good work mate!

A few bugs to help you starting fixing it and then some suggestions.

1) If you pause playing a song and change cover then restart playing it will start the new selected song from the timing you paused the last one (I.E. if if paused at 0:32 it will start the new one from 0:32). It should instead I think continue playing the old song until I don't press on the cover to change to the new one.

2) In scrolling the covers you'll find a none at end and beginning, I think you'll set an end image there but maybe better to just stop it from going backward anymore or to loop to the first/last one.

3) An error occur while ending the app:

Execption code: 0xc0000005

Exception Address: 0x00dedda4

Read: 0x4da0d448

4) If I'm playing a song and go to the songs selection page and then I don't select any song (I.E: I press on a blank line) it comes correctly back to the main but the covers disappear and most important I can't scroll'em anymore. In this case if i press on the black part of the page once containing the cover it gives me an error telling that I can't play the file: \Storage Card\mp3s\undefinied.

Obviously.

and now suggestions:

1) You should allow ppl to put mp3 in their own storage card. As you have an english based device you only allow to put in storage card/mp3, but in mine (italian) I had to create the storage card folder in the main root so loading mp3 from main memory.

2) You should allow to search for covers with nested folders inside the mp3 dir. I.E: I have a folder with an album inside the mp3 dir and I just need one cover for the whole album.

3) While browsing covers in the main player you should put a text under the cover with the album/song displayed so one can distinguish between songs in the same album and/or albums without any cover.

4) Upper currently playing song text should allow to rotate if text it too much long. Songs text in the songs list should at least be cropped if too long else it just goes off the screen.

5) While selecting a single song in the songs list it should highlight and better if one can select the one to play while releasing thumb and not while pressing (preventing selection errors).

These are just to start. I know your work is just at beginning at I can assure you it's really promising. It will became the killer player for WM!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
GREAT suggestions bro! I've noticed them, and will ALL be worked out by the next release. :D Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
how/where... do i get the OpenNetCF installed?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Merlin_reloaded:
You don't need it. Install the Flash Player v7,and you are set to go(on WM6)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
I have WM 5. all I get is a blank screen...I have flash 7 installed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marcos200:
now is work like a charm

my problem is solved now,

i just change the place for the appications, now i`ve put the applications on the devise memory , und uninstall from de sd card, and start palying like a charm.

i give you feedback ,, later:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
I solved it. i reinstalled flash 7 and now its working :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Strange, anyone else using WM5? Is this bug specific, or is it just this user? What kinda of device are running BTW?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
GREAT! I was just getting worried :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
I have Mitac Mio A701.