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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] psvillars:
tried native app so far got that part working good :)

Here's a wishlist i think would make this the best player out:

1. The ability to scan your device and find music files and/or specify a directory for music.

2. the album art idea was great but unfortunately not all my mp3's have album art so maybe a default pic with the name of the song underneath or imposed over the image would be good for such mp3's with no art.

3. Video of course :)

4. The ability to control the player from bluetooth headphones.

5. the basic functions play rewind, shuffle repeat.

6. maybe even the ability to play flash video from sites like youtube

this is of course a wishlist some or none of the above may be possible but here's at least some good ideas to look at which i believe would make this player perhaps the best on the market.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
can not download the cover:(

why?

I tried to make the cover pics of myself,but can not loaded into the player.

I think each name of the song corresponds with its cover's name,but what's the name? in XML file?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
UPDATE:

I just finished the playlist function on the native app, and you can now select any directory on your device. Album art is next, once this is done, the native app will be at the same level as the flash, and there will be little or no need for it. It's very buggy, and slow, the native app is already presenting itself with A LOT less bugs, A LOT more stability, and more flexibility from a developers stand point. It's on it's way! :)

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
any chance you can have album art read from the id3 tag without having to manually build a library? TCPMP and CorePlayer does it this way and it is all automatic.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Native player, will read id3 tags perfectly. Why I didn't do that with the flash version, is because the PPC CPU couldn't handle loading and processing flash, and loading full mp3's to memory in order to read id3 tags. Native version will read from id3 :).

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
Great work bro
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jolas:
Any chance for VGA resolution???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Definitely! But this would come on player completion, or at least, on increased functionality.

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
hey will it be possible for those of us who don't want album art to get a default album cover that we can "swipe" across to switch songs?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jolas:
Thank you!!! Can't wait...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Ofcourse! Just dont use the album art downloader, and the it'll go through a regular pic. All this available in the native version, that's ALMOST on par with the Flash now..even has a better scroll routine for the playlist. Not as good as Lumen ;) but it's better than the 1st.

Chad. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
From what i read, you used swish to write the flash based player rite? Can you write programs for flashlite 2.1 with swish as well?

Can't wait for the next release:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
can you post your most recent native version, so we can try it out?

you stopped at the first version, which only has music playing capabilities and not much else.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
About to post new native version, with playlist ability, and the ability to use any directory on your device. Also static albumart using the flash versions albumart directory. Will release soon, I'm fixing some minor playlist function problems. Please bare with me. :)

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
Can't wait :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
someone has a contact manager also called iMedia. i think oone of you should change it to not have confusion. Personally I think this app is more befitting of iMedia, but I don't know who came first.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=315929
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
He was here first. I'll look at changing mine. Besides, his name is on the title of his post, and mine isn't. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
2nd Native Release!

Okay, second native version is here! There are some things you need to know though.

First of all, there is no album cover scrolling in this version, only the static images changing as the you change the song, or as the songs cycle through the playlist. The reason for this, is because as we speak, I'm working on landscape album switcher mode, so you will not switch albums from the player view anymore.

Second, please put mp3s in "Storage Card\mp3s" this WILL be fixed in the third native release, but I pushed it back a bit, since for some reason the compact framework doesn't have an open folder dialog option. Not a big problem at all though :)

The album art still uses the format of the old album art downloader packaged with the flash release. Make sure your "albumart" folder is in the same place as the player's executable. Oh! Default picture loads if there's no album art ;) For all of those who don't need the fancy side of things.

Additional Instructions:

Unzip the archive, replace the empty "albumart" folder with your previous one, and then transfer all the files to your pocket pc in a folder.

OH! playlist view, is now reached, by swiping the entire screen from left to right on the black area just above the player controls(where the pause, next and back buttons are).

Volume up: right half of the screen, JUST above the album cover.

Voume down: left half of the screen, JUST above the album cover.

The usual, I'd really appreciate feedback, so I can make bug fixes, as well as adding new features at the same time.

Looking forward to the comments ;).

Chad.

P.S

I've had trouble with the name change for the player. Think anyone can think of a cool name for it? Suggestions more than welcomed ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
Why not just name it "Melody". a nice soft word indicating the soft scrolling.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
Cannot get it to work, i downloaded the latest native version then all i see is the player but cannot navigate through it, i made a folder called mp3 and put some songs inside it but still no response. When ever i exit the program it shows an unexpected error can some one help me .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The Dutchman:
When i want to ''slide'' to the playlist, i get an DirectoryNotFoundException..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
If I press the forward button, the app crashes. Also, after I swipe and the playlist comes up and I use the D-pad, the app crashes with the same error. Im using an HTC Touch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey all,

Okay, most of the problems above seemed to be due to the fact that the player cant find your mp3's. Remember the directory MUST be (from your root) "\Storage Card\Mp3s\" if your device is not in english, you're going to have to create the directory anyway. Like I said, the next release WILL fix this problem.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention, that happens because the playlist is not created until you swipe across the screen to goto the playlist page. I change this so that it creates the playlist on either pressing the back or forward buttons, as well as swiping to reach the actual playlist. But, strange, you say you get a list of your songs in the playlist page?? I usually use my hand to scroll through the list, press hold and drag, release when the song you want to select is highlighted, I never really tried with the D-Pad. It would help though, if you told me what the error says when the application crashes. It usually has a button "details" that you can click on...I would like to see what it's telling you :).

Thanks for the responses!

Chad. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Next release = Melody ;)

Thanks! I like it.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
the playlist comes up when i swipe for it and it starts playing the song, but as soon as it starts i get an error message and the app quits. this app has really great potential and i think in a couple of releases it will be my default media player.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
me too,I am also using the HTC Touch Rom...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Can't wait for the completed release ;). Anyway, I need to know exactly what the error says? I have a feeling, I need to use the windows mobile 5 or 6 sdk to compile this app, for it to work properly on your devices. Anyway, tell me exactly what the error says so I know what I'm looking for in the code. :)

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
sure. DirectoryNotFoundException is the main error, it expands and shows like 30 lines of text describing the error in more detail.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
So your mp3 actually begins to play? Then you get that error? Or does the mp3 never play?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
Nope, in my case nothing begins... I made a directory Mp3s on my storage card with a few MP3 in it, but I get an UnexpectedError message ("ArgumentOutOfRangeException).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
English device right? your storage card has the name "Storage Card"? I'll need the full error report if possible though....it tells me EXACTLY where the error occurred, so I can nail it easily. It seems all of you are having close to, or nearly the exact same error. Just need the full report.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
My mp3 begins to play and continues playing while its showing me the error details.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I made a quick change to a small bit of code, it's only a guess to what may be causing the problem, since I need that full error report. But anyway, just take this exe, and copy it over the existing exe.

Let me know if it works :)

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
Yes, English device.

Ok, here are the full error screens (attaches)...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
And that pops up every time you select a song to play from the playlist? Strange, it looks like it's calling the function that is used when you hit the "next song" button. I'm actively looking at this problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
No!

I start the .exe and in the main screen (see attach) I click the next or prev button. Then the error screen appears (the first attach from the previous post). I DON'T SEE ANY PLAYLISTS!

I made a map Mp3s on my storage card, my Albumart directory is empty.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
AAh, yes this is a known issue, this happens because the playlist hasn't been created as yet. You need to swipe the bottom of the player (just above the player controls) and the playlist will be activated. Select a song, then you can use previous and next. :)

See attached screenshot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
Ok, after about 15 seconds sometimes I'm able to get the playlist by sliding my finger from left to right. But then when I click on a song it starts to play but at the same time a new error message appears (see attach)...

Also: the next time I start, again I don't see a playlist till I slide my finger. Is that normal?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I think what's happening there, is the default album cover picture isn't loading. I forgot to package that in the zip archive. Please take the attached file, and put it in the albumart folder, and make sure the folder is in the same place as the exe.

And as far as the swiping is concerned, make sure you span the entire screen from left to right...it works fine on my device everytime. It's important that it works, since I'll be using the same routine to cycle album covers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
OK, that works fine, songs play and I can go to next, prev.

For now still two situations in wich I get an error (you might already be aware of?): when I press next on the last song of prev on the first song and when I press next without loading the playlist (swiping).

In both case message ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
yup now i added the default image and it is working fine, thanks for the work will be waiting for the next release.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Finally

Right things are pretty much working the way they work on my system. I'm aware of the current bugs with reaching the last and first song on the playlist, those will be fixed for the next release. Everyone cross your fingers and you can be looking at a landscape coverflow mode with the next release.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Btw, what OS are most of you running this app on??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
WM6, Pandora 5.4 cooked, based on the official ROM (AT&T 3.57).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Help Needed

Hey everyone, just need someone with WM5 or WM6 to test this, before I make another release. This "mini release" has switch to landscape mode, for the album switcher mechanism. Before I release the version with the animation, I need to make sure that it's switching to Landcape on WM5 and WM6 devices.

Instructions:

Unzip archive and put all files on PPC. Run the exe, play a song as usual. Then click the album cover image. Your device SHOULD switch to landcape, and you SHOULD have a presentable looking screen, waiting for you to flick the album cover images. Although you can't right now, this is just a test, to make sure screen orientation switching is working.

Let me know.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Z3rO`:
Hello,

first off, I can't start playing a song because the programm crashes when I try to select a song (directory not found error). I think this is because my Storage card is named "SDMMC".

Beside of that switching to landscape and back is working perfectly. When switching to landscape, the background is getting grey. Only the back button and the playlist icon have a black background. But this is just a cosmetical thing.

Device: Eten Glofiish M700 with WM6

Greets

Z3rO
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
GREAT NEWS!

I know why the background problem occurs, and it's VERY minor. Really happy to know that the switching works though. You are indeed right about the directory. If you make the directory "Storage Card\mp3s" and put some mp3s in it, you can test the player out until the next release when I fix that bug.

Thanks a million!

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Z3rO`:
No problem, glad I could help you.

Well I cant change the Storgae Card name since I have some programs which rely on that name. But its no biggie. I'll just wait for the new version.

Greets

Z3rO
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
Same here, switch to landscape ok, but prev, pause and next buttons disappear.

One (minor?) problem: when I close Melody in landscape mode, my today screen stays in landscape (so doesn't go back to portrait). Then when I start Melody again from landscape, the original portrait screen appears in landscape (with a white border on the right...hi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghisura:
hello,

1 I must have also to make a storage card folder cause I have french rom

2 when I click on cover it pass to landscape mode and this is smooth (fluide)

3 I have a back bouton -> I go to portrait mode back but it's long and so not smooth

4 I had the good cover on portrait mode but when it switch in landscape mode it's the default cover and when I go back to portrait it's the good cover.

5 song it's ok in both mode

hope that can help you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
Melody

switching landscape on my device running ok, there's a graphical issue,

but it's working....this will be a killer-app when it's finished! Great work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
Thundershadow, got a suggestion for you. Can you have the player give the option to read album art out of the ID3 tag area? It's possible to embed the album art into the MP3 file itself (I use Media Monkey to do so myself) and I'd like to see the player be able to pull that instead of having to use another application to locate and load the album art into it. Makes it easier if I just want to drop a file in there too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Graphically issue is a very minor issue. Just needed to set the background color to black :). Should be fine in the next release.

3: Aware of this, I was using two different methods of switching between forms, to see which was quicker. I now know which is quicker, thank you.

4. Thank you, bug fixed for next release. Problem was the time of updating the cover.

Thank you so much, bug noted. Once we keep finding and eliminating bugs like this, we'll have a great player in the end

As you all know so well...album art is a big part of this player (if you want it to be). I can assure you, the player will have multiple ways of accessing album art, including ID3 tags. Soon, you'll be able to have mp3s with album art found in very different ways. It will all be completed soon :).

Thanks guys, for the support.

We're getting closer to a fully functional player!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
Glad to hear it. I'm not having a lot of luck with it so far. I've installed the newest version (in melody.zip).

I am unable to get it to actually play anything. I got it to switch to landscape mode and back to portrait successfully. The first time I ran it I was able to get the thing to pop up the playlist window and play the paltry few songs I have actually located in my MP3s folder on my card (most are in subfolders of that one). When I got to the end of the list, I got the out of range exception that crashed the program. Probably need to set it to either stop or cycle back to the beginning of the playlist at that point.

Anyways, I restarted it and now I can't get it to play anything. No matter where I swipe my finger, the playlist won't come up.

Edit: Okay, immediately after posting this I played with it some more and was finally able to get it to bring the playlist back up again. I also see a couple more areas for possible improvement.

1) somehow mark the spot where you have to swipe to bring up the playlist or just make it a button. You could use one of the two soft buttons for it (or go both routes, mark the swipe spot and assign the other soft button).

2) differentiate the buttons. As it stands, I can't tell where one ends and the next one begins. Several times I managed to trigger the rewind action when trying to click on pause.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rostol:
Looks awesome, downloading now to test it.

Thanks for this !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
waiting eagerly for the album scroling
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
need help

can anyone help with install instr. im sure it's all easy but, im receiving no results. i copied all files to main memory. launched both programs and the sreenoff installed. clicked on the media player exe file and got the app up. now nothing happens......already tried to swipe to get the playlist up. now what? thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
up and running

ok, got app running using native ver. 2 . however, i keep getting an error once i get the mp3 playing that crashes the app. its the same one from previous posts "file not found exception. an error message cannot be displayed.......................

at System.IO.____Error............................ and i followed the inst advising to ensure the album art folder is in the correct directory and applicable album art is in the folder. still getting the error when song starts playing. any suggestions? thanks and the app looks great!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anheuer:
I have the same thing..

anyone have a solution?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
ok, got app running once again just using the default.jpg in the album art folder. now im running into another concern. when the downloader is grabbing the album art it gets stuck on 48 of 83 or whatever number of mp3s i have in the mp3s folder. has anyone else had this concern and if so what can i do to resolve it? thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
same here. hope there will be a solution for it in the next version
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, sorry I havent been responding. New native version is very close to release, but i've just been pressed for time since University just started back. But anyway, hold tight, new version on the way.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
is there any information on what could be causing the album art downloader to freeze? i really like the app and cant wait til everything is running smoothly!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
here's a copy of the error i get when the app gets stuck and try to close it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Thanks so much for the error. The problem seems to be an issue with some event firing. This will be fixed, since I'm writing a native version for the albumart grabber as well. I used flash for it, and it's definitely not the best route. Now that I've got Visual Studio, I can use VB to make a better albumart downloader. Look out for this, in the new release as well :).

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
ah, thanks much for your quick responses!! you are definitely on top of things and i really like the functionality and concept. quick question.......can you use jpegs with album art already to get the app to function with album art? just asking because i tried that too and got the same result. good luck with all, as if you need it and can't wait to put these iphone users to shame!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
So when can we expect the new release ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I'm writing the new album art downloader as we speak. New release is very soon, I'd say either today or tomorrow.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :zainy::
will this ever have a cab file. i don't know how to do so from a macbook.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
The exe isn't an installer. The same way you would copy the cab file to your WM device, you copy the exe, and the rest of the player's files. And just run the exe. :) It's not an installer.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
didnt want to ask and apply the pressure, but im glad to hear the newest native version will be ready sooner than expected! thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
the album art scrolling is really slick