yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dosfan:
Works fine on my HTC Blue angel.

I'd recommend putting some TRY CATCH blocks in places to catch exceptions. (Like not finding the MP3s folder etc..) Even if you don't handle it at present, it's much nicer IMO to atleast display a meaningful message than the application crashing.

For the people finding the scrolling speed is slow: Chad has integrated some work-in-progress code of mine. I'm still tweaking here and there, and will keep Chad upto date with any progress.

Good job.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
thundershadow14,

having exactly the same problem... when swiping black screen occurs

(not off, just black) and when double tapping error message appears

(out of argument....) i chose the mp3 main folder with just one MP3

file in it, maybe this is the problem. there a lots of subfolders in it but

unfortunately melody does not recognize the mp3s in the subfolders yet.

Definitely some kind of bug.... :o

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Very interesting! Can you try selecting a folder with about 20+ mp3s, and see if the same problem occurs? Like dosfan has said, his part of the app is not 100% complete yet, "work-in-progress" as he rightfully said :). So things can only get better from here, in fact the entire melody player is still in the "work-in-progress" stage.

I've got some news for you otherwise though, I'm playing around with embedding flash into .NET CF applications and I'm VERY pleased with the performance. I've tested moving large jpegs around the screen WHILE playing mp3s with melody, and the FPS remains very good. So expect some interesting things in the near future.

Oh! I just added support for ogg playback. Ofcourse no album art information for this format. But playback is certainly there. Will be officially added to 0.7.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
OK, thundershadow,

figured out that the bug isn't there when I choose a folder with

lots of mp3s in it. Then the scroller appears after swipe...

Hope that helps...

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Helps a lot! Correct me if I'm wrong dosfan, but does this mean we have to draw the balance of the screen with empty kitems, if a small number of mp3s are selected??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Great New Release

I've used this since flash version 0.1, and its been great since then. Im loving the way the scrolling now looks, and moves fluidly, if a bit too fast, but i appreciate its better to be fast, incase people have thousands of tracks. And the new icon or whatever its called is great too.

The only thing i cant do is the album scroller, i tried in o.5 and it didnt work, but it went to the screen, like the youtube video linked to, but swiping side to side didnt scroll through albums. And another small problem, once youre on the song selector, i cant seem to go back, you have to select a song.

And please add random!

Thanks to all involved in the development

Rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Thanks a lot! I'm really excited about the next release, why? I just wrote the primary code for the flash album scroller, and animation is SMOOTH even while playing mp3s. If you're following this program, it'd probably be a good idea to go ahead and install Flash Player 7 on your devices now. I'm currently scrolling through my album covers without any framerate issues. Theoretically, I should be able to display multiple album covers on one screen now, and emulate a more true iPhone feel. For now though, I'm reproducing the animations I had in the last .NET version, in flash. This should also take care of the album art not displaying problem. Anyway, after this, implementation of reading album cover id3 tags will be dealt with. And we should be pretty close to a usable app!

Getting there! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
Not Working!

Well Its Not Working On My Universal (wm5, Vga),

Im I Missing Something?

Shah-
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Okay, it's not working. What exactly happens? Any errors?? VGA is still not completely supported, but it should still fire up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
ERROR

Error Is :

"this Application Requires A Newer Version Of Microsoft .net Compact Framework".

Where To Download? Cant Find It.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Google is your friend, :).

Download here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=9655156b-356b-4a2c-857c-e62f50ae9a55
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
Vga Compatible!

When Will You Release Vga Compatible Skin For Melody Player?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Once melody reaches stable version, VGA resolution will be offered :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
when can we expect the flas version since i am missing the album scroller in the new version. Keep up the good work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Dosfan has a new release for his scrolling routine, and I'm hoping to get that hooked up to melody, with the flash scrolling by tomorrow.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] huemedia:
ITs not working on my Touch. When it starts no mp3's are loaded. I have checked the .txt file and it does not seem to be populated. Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
no this file is empty. Have I done something wrong? Maybe I have overread something in this thread?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Have you selected the right mp3 folder? Remember, melody doesn't read subfolders, so you've got to make sure your folders has all the mp3s you want in it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
hey thundershadow..

whenever ur on msn again hope you can send me the latest source.

theres alot of errors that can be easily fixed with simple conditionals atm.

like when going back one from the first and last mp3 in the list it gives you an error.

those things should be made error-proof once you implement them. it's much easier to do before you add other stuff to it.

to make it vga-compatible, it's not that far off it from how it is now.

did you end up changing it to WM5?

if not you should just needa do that and scale it like i was saying before.

if it already is you just need to manually scale the back | pause | forward buttons to 2x if it detects it's vga.

everything else seems the right size atm.

btw dosfan's latest v0.2 scroller demo (updated yesterday) seems to work alot better than the one implemented in melody.

did you use his latest one or v0.1?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tigga69:
subfolders

where I am going to put around 2GB music onto my memory card - using a trinity with 4gb card - I would prefer to use subfolders as that is how my whole record collection is stored. ANy chance a future release will support subfolders.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Ok, I realize this is really bothering people, subfolders will be supported in the next release. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] arxxx:
great job.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Edu115:
Could someone post some pics of this new version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anheuer:
little question,

I see the downloads,

and at the bottom it says, album downloader.

what does this do?

do i need it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
I like it as well... but how does this album flicker start working? do i need to install the "album downloader"? Or does it have to sync with itunes? Or do i have to rename the album covers?

Thanx, nice work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
I found it!

The name of covers is the name of album in the ID3.

Check the ID3 info of a mp3 with Winamp,you can find the album name,if there is not,you can creat a name what you want.

So,you can use any pic as a cover!

Notice,the covers file without ".jpg".

sorry for my poor english,hope you understand it~:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
Thanx, that was a really quick reply to my question :-)

THis is what makes this forum so great!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anheuer:
Well,.

I installed it..

but i cant get it to work..

i watched the clip on youtube about it..

i try'd to do the slide move, it then wanted to install the slide programm.

that went well

but now it does nothing.

its doing nothing.

what am i missing?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Release 0.7

First off: To all of those who have album scrolling problems, please be advised that I have disabled this feature until the playlist and player functions are stable. Not to worry though, I have already completely re-written the album scroller function using flash, and will be released in 0.8.

Okay, here's 0.7.

Installation:

Same as 0.6

Usage:

Same as 0.6

What's new:

1) Using Gingercat's usercontrol of dosfan's scrolling routine.

2)

Subdirectory support.

Just select the mp3 folder that has all your subdirectories, and the list with all the mp3's will be populated.

3) Back button added to playlist, so incase you don't want to change the song, hit back and you return to the player screen.

That's pretty much it for this new release. I think we're much closer to a stable player/playlist. Let me know how this one goes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonder12:
Looking forward to v0.8. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davidw89:
Firstly, props for the great job thundershadow14!! Looks nice indeed

Don't know if i can be much of a help, iam currently using o2 xda atom exec using the latest WM6 and i'll be testing this program out!! (i love ipphone user interface :))

So i unziped the file and dumped it into the internal memory folder (program folder) on my PDA. Ran the program, selected my mp3 folder in my memory card and it loads (nice melody theme by the way)

Shows up as this screen:

then freezes and crashes (cant select anything)

Heres the crash log after that:

By the way, any plan for loseless audio, like .flac and .wv?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey davidw89, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure I understand something though, after you select the folder and melody loads, what did you do that triggers the error, or does melody crash without you even doing anything? I noticed it crashed on the previous song function, did you hit back? This shouldn't be, but was just wondering what exact function is causing the error. Losless audio support should have been added already (ogg), lol I actually wrote the code for it, but forgot to compile it into the main app. I'll release a patch for ogg later today.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
0.7 works nicely Chad :)

The issue with theblack screen in 0.6 was due to only having a few mp3s in the target folder. The new handling of the list is great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
i use the O2 atom life WM6, and this work great :)

i try to delete the default.jpg in the albumart folder, i got the same error, but when i put it back, everything work fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr. Vi:
Just installed version 0.7 and noticed the following:

When I start the program the speaker of my phone (htc touch) starts to make a noise. When I hit the Standbybutton of my phone the noise goes away. When I hit the standbybutton again the noise is gone. If I tap the play button the song is played but I don't hear anything!

Maybe you can figure out why this happens!?

Greetings, Vi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
I love it, but now with subfolder added, when i play an mp3, i see the whole filepath ( card/my music/shakira/......)as title. How about id3tag?

And i only see the default picture, no album cover. Is that cause cover flick is disabled right now? or am i doing something wrong?

Great app anyway, made me delete allthe others :-D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
Oh, and what is the album downloader?

thanx, all 3 apps of yours should be in every ppc!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Thanks again Thundershadow

Another version, small improvements i know, but still its the small things that matter. And thanks for adding my request, a back button when on song select.

Cant wait for 0.8

And,

If you were to make this payware [or whatever the name is] i would pay for it gladly, it would complete my iphone user interface.

Thanks for the new release

Rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] carson512:
Really nice work...

Hope it will be good..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ljinsane:
very nice improvements

cant wait for version 8
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
hi chad and the rest :)

has anyone been abled to view the album art? i have the same problem since the beginning. i use the Melody Album Art Downloader V2, than i rename the files to .jpg and move it to the album art directory with melody. it plays music and the scrolling works great, but i still can't see the album covers.

can anybody help me with this one please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
i think he disabled that at the moment till the player is fully stable...

Still, am i the only one that would like to see the id3 tag a s titel, and not the filepath?

thanx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
i think only the album scrolling is disabled. or am i wrong?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybersush:
uhm, yeah thats what he wrote. I thought he disabled everything to do with album covers cause i cant see them.

renamed the album pic to the album name.jpg, doesnt work. i only see default.jpg.

Maybe i am doing something wrong? or is everything about album covers disabled?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
chad can you help us out with this one?

are there more people with this problem?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dawkness:
Hey Thunder,

You think you could make this 240 x 240 compatible. Some treo users visit this (like me). I have been tinkering around for a while and noticed I was missing the buttons portion. I am sure I speak for other treo users when I say most of us will donate if the app is worth it. It's definitely worth it. Dope app. Just hook us up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Hi Thunder (Chad).

First of all, great great job, and great expectations for the final, i cant wait.

I own a Qtek 9100 with wm5 installed (portuguese version) and all the soft needed to run your app. I also run the iphone interface which i love so far.

First i've installed melody .6 and then the ultimate .7. Both versions gave the errors shown in the links above (davidw89, hope u dont mind to use your post). Note: I installed those versions in storage card, is that important? thank you very much.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, thanks for all the great comments! From the looks of things, this is the closest i've ever come to stable, still not there yet, but the closest. As far as album art is concerned, I wouldnt worry too much about it not working ATM, this is because 0.8 features a COMPLETE rewrite of the albumart code, both player and scroller. So sit tight, things will fall right into place. 0.8 will be a very exciting release!! :)

VGA and 240x240 releases very soon as well. Keep holding on tight :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
new melody.exe for VGA users.

thundershadow this is what i was saying on msn,

all that's needed to do this is to change the 'sizemode' properties on the pictureboxes to 'StretchImage'.

specifically the back | pause | forward images.

it's also changed to the WM5 platform, but i think it was the sizemode that did it.

If you fix the release one with the sizemode and it's tested to fix it (this exe did on mine already), you probably wouldn't need to change the platform to WM5.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Great work!!! Let's get some testers! On this exe. Make sure you're running the latest version of melody please :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Melody 0.7 Patch

This patch applies the following new features to Melody.

1) ogg support. Will scan selected folder and subfolders for both mp3's and ogg's and add them to the list.

2) Two scrolling routines, if you goto directory selection screen, you'll notice a checkbox with two scrolling routines. Dosfan's 0.2 and gingercat's usercontrol. Make SURE YOU SELECT ONE! AND RESELECT YOUR MP3/OGG FOLDER! Try both routines, and see which one you prefer. Remember, dosfan's own requires a double click, while gingercat requires a single click.

THIS PATCH IS NOT RELEASE 0.8, ONLY ADDS SOME USEFUL FUNCTIONS. ONLY APPLY THIS PATCH TO VERSION 0.7 OF MELODY!​

Installation:

Copy ALL files in the zip file, to your melody folder, and run melody.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
theres no harm in changing the sizemode now in your releases.

just it'd need to be tested to see if we need the WM5 platform.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Small tweak needed

Another small thing ive noticed thundershadow the albumart downloader won't search a file sysyem, only the folder specified, just like the player used to. I used to have about 60 mp3's in my mp3's folder, then when i wanted the art, i just copied it and it worked fine, but now, i copied a bunch of folders, and the player finds the songs fine.. [and plays them great too] but the downloader cant. So i have to select the folder of each artist individually. [but like all 17 yr old boys getting up is a chore enough, i cant be bothered with clicking 17 different folders]

I guess changing the albumart downloader deends on how close you are to getting the art from the id3

Thanks so much again

Rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kurtslashmx:
it works on vga

tried the VGA version in my universal. it gave me an error then i restarted the app and it worked :D but only in the portrait mode because in landscape it cuts off the bottom. great app i think you are very close to a perfect app. thanks once again.

best regards.

Erik
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] udaykarmarkar77:
Some ideas

A lot of this may be redundant

just trying to help as you go along

1. a scroll bar that moves along as the song progresses

2. remove the word exit at the bottom left of the screen in melody. replace with a smaller icon/text/dot point anything that looks better

3. the album flick thing with fingers is not that important, if you can program a version of melody that is more stable and the album art (retreived form the ID3 tag) does the cover flow thing using just hard buttons that effect will be also quite equivalent in my view in fact better than flicking your screen.

4. option to have lyrics displayed on the screen from tag

5. support gif image of melody artwork at startup not just static image.

all these ideas are just from a laymans point of view

if you like them please consider implementing them.

good work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Hi

I tried again melody 0.7 and added the new patch. Same errors occured.

Also, I tried the melody version from chrismrulz. It gave the following error (my translation): "Not possible to run 'Scroller.KlistControl' of Assembly 'KineticScroller, Version=1.0.2838.480, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'"

Like I said before, I've installed the apps in storage card, just to test it safety. But if its make some diference, I will give another try in main memory.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
I too receive errors, but only after applying the patch:

File or assembly name 'Extract ID3, Version=1.0.2813.21603, Culture=nuetral, PublicKeyToken=null', or one of its dependencies, was not found.

I did not receive this error using 0.7 before the patch was applied.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Trekvogel:
I like 0.7. Dosfan's scrolling is smoother but I like the single click of the other method better. It's shaping up to be a quite nice application I think.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
0.8.......ALMOST!

Hey guys, been working a lot on animations and movement for the album scroller (will continue to call it that until I implement something looking more like iPhone's coverflow), but not quite finished. But, I just finished a rather interesting effect that was never seen before on melody, not even on the first flash version. As usual, I've got my bad quality youtube video, but it gets the point over! :D

Hold on to this until the next release. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oildEr2cWc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
...

That 0.8 video looks awesome! I couldn't quite make out what that flipping feature was though. You touch the album art -- and what does that text on the back say?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
:) In the video, it just gives the album name, but the finished 0.8 will have the album name, the selected song, a play and a back button. Plus a better texture to replace the simple white background. All of that is easily implemented, it's the animation that took most of the work ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
Definitely looking forward to 0.8 then!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SciFer:
Hey Chad .08 looks awesome.

I'm having problems with .07 It won't start. .06 worked fine

Here is the error:

Melody.exe

FileNotFoundException

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.StreamReader..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamReader..ctor()

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()

Hope this helps.

I ran this on my apache (sprint) using helmi_c's WM6 CE OS 5.2.1620 (Build 18125.0.4.2)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] warriorvibhu:
i second that....SAme problems here too ....i am using HTC Touch.... and folder selection needs some refinement cant we add a playlist or directory as a whole so that it automatically finds songs in subfolders and sub sub folders as in playlist manager software .. or easier still just give a playlist support....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
Not Bad Chad!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] haiopei:
Hi,

i got some bugs ?

In App Melody, the smoothing on Screen for MP3-list didnt work for me,

the play button changed not from "II" to ">" ?

In Album-Downloader the app hangs up with:

Datei oder Assemblyname 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0,

Culture=neutral,

PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A'

bzw. eine Abhängigkeit davon wurde nicht gefunden.

Its a german MDA-Touch with BigRom installed.

Any idea ?

BTW : great app...go forward ;-)