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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
Hey Chad

I'm in no position to influence you or put any pressure on you in any way.

And of course, I wouldn't, even if I could...but...WHEN THE F*** YOU ARE UPLOADING YOUR NEXT RELEASE??? just kiddin

Your app is so cool, the sheep are counting melody one, melody two when they go to sleep. Cautious, my precious! More haste less speed. We musstn't rissk our neck, musst we, precious? No, precious -- gollum!

Sorry, had to kill some time untill your next release. ;)

Stephan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
remember that using the try is only a temporary fix.

it allows the program to bypass it and keep going when there is an error.

it wont fix what caused the error though, you still need to look into that.

on another note, does the current version do the special dragging of the albums like the iPhone?

cos in the latest youtube vid they just slide across the screen.

it would be alot better to have it look the same as the iPhone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
It would be a lot better, and I could make it look like the iPhone, but I'm taking into consideration memory issues. Loading so many bitmaps at once, and having several moving like that, may park some devices using .NET CF. So I've got ONE picture box doing all the work.

As I said before, I do believe that these things can be looked into with more zeal, once the player reaches a comfort level in terms of usability and stability. For now, we'll work with what we've got :).

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
yess, my precious! musst make it draaaag the coverrs like ipoddddd! yes, precious -- gollum!

I didn't dare to ask for it, but would love this too, of course. Thanks for asking, chrismrulz! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
lol, everything will come in time. Playlist functionality right now, since that's the most important thing in terms of usability. Remember, it's just me who's working on this project ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
thundershadow1-14

I'm sitting here reloading this page over and over again. My kids threaten to sue me, my wife already left me, haven't eaten anything for 3 days...I mean thundershadow14 is excellent, but we need thundershadow1-13 to help you. Couldn't we just clone u or something?

Just one question:

should I go to sleep tonight or is it worth to stay up pretty late? Right now, it's 16:09 here in Germany... ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, I dont wanna promise...but if things continue like this....then you're gonna get a new version with nice playlist features. It's 10:15 am here though! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
k

I shut up now

won't keep u from coding

no way

will be silent

untill I see my new preccccious.

yes -- gollum!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sx1-doc:
good job

to steph99.

haha voll dabei bin ich auch.

aber wir mussen leider einbischen warten .

i am waiting for my asus p525 to be back from asus service center,so i am chillin in the mean while and checking the great work of chad and all other freeware developers(pocketCM,Iphone mp,oto,pocketCM keyboard,slide to unlock,icontact...)

great work Chad ,keep up with the good work.

PPC-DOC
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
So wait I dont understand how to attach a image to the mp3 I thought you just ran the melody album art downloader then replaced the albumart folder with the new one but i cannot see the album covers when running this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
that's exactly how it works.

hmmm...everything else works? Like playing a song and sliding the image to go to the next album?

Maybe u should try to slide the default album image to go to the next one and then slide back...?

hope it helps
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Tried all that and even replaced my default image with my own wich works but none of the album art works and also i realized that when in landscape mode it displays unknown album for known albums that show fine in portrait mode
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
And yes the music plays fine and it scrolls fine just no album art and i followed the directions on location and folder naming to the T
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
massive disappointmant

sorry, nxtlidenno, ran out of ideas. but chad will relase a new version, soon afaik.

Chad,

I'll cry myself to sleep now, have to get up early tomorrow.

So I expect to download your new release tommorow early in the morning so I can play with it on the train from frankfurt to hamburg and back tomorrow night (around 4 hrs each). ... I only hope I'll fall asleep, soon.

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Well its midday here for me and i would love a new version too play with at work but i will wait patiently for your next release thanks for all your hard work im sure everyone loves what you have done so far.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
well in the first youtube video you did it looked like that.

so basically since then you've made it more basic?

btw you should take a look into my iphone thread.

llamav3 has just found a way to buffer the images in .net which could be used to do the same thing for yours.

otherwise there is directx mobile and gapi etc.

so it's definitely doable without wasting memory by using lots of bitmaps.

the only trouble is being able to code it.

if you like i could continue a version of whatever was used in the first youtube video that did the iphone-like album scrolling to try and make it perform better.

after that's the best thing about the iphone media player really. so it would be awesome if this was able to be done.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hmmm, well the 1st youtube video, really didnt do anything much different to the current version. If you'd like that, I could implement it, it's just a case of making the picture size smaller as it slides out, and doing the opposite as it comes in.

When you said making it like the iPhone, I thought you meant having several album covers displayed at the same time. And some at an angle. I could make the next release look just like the flash version.

Other than that, progress report?

For some STRANGE reason, when reading in ID3 Tag information for sorting mp3's by album, for some files I get a blank string with a length of 30. And it's adding it to the listbox. I'm currently trying to figure out why this is so, and trying to find out how to isolate this string. As soon as this is done, most of the playlist sorting features will be completed. And I'll be ready for the next release.

Thanks again chrismrulz, i'll be doing some heavy research on directx mobile and gapi as well as looking at your iPhone thread right now. Getting my MDA tomorrow, so I'm anxious to try my own app out on it :P.

Working...working...working...(while fasting!) Lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
Album loader and flipper

Mr THUNDER!!!!

I have been watching this post and your videos and this looks awesome!!! On the album covers I really like the fade in fade out that your first video showed and that you just referenced you could add back in. I also like the idea of flipping throught the album covers like the iphone. Ewwww, maybe and option to select either by user preference.

If you can put the fade in/fade out back in until you have the album flipper ready that would be great!!!!!

I think I saw you post that this plays the music throught the WMP??? If that is the case, I use active sync to auto sync my music selections. In wmp the album art and such is already there. Is this stored in the metadata or in the album/genre/artist folder somewhere???

If so, and if it already on the device, can it not be accessed with out have to use the album art downloader?

CG:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey CG,

Thanks for your comments! I USED to use WMP for playback support, but I found it used to drop some mp3's and just give errors. So I moved to the more stable fmodce library. ID3 tags are extracted using other libraries.

Hope this sheds some light.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] curious george:
I don't understand what that is "fmodce library"???? What do you mean ID3 tags are extracted using other libraries? Sorry, just am not comprehending.

Will you be make the album flipper?? or going back to the album fade in/fade out???

Would really like to sync my music/videos etc with active scyn and Windows Media Player on my desktop and be done from there. Then have melody pull from that data already on the device/storage card and use the cool interface to access it. Possible

CG
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
well the several albums at a time would still be good and quite possible todo, but yer.. i just meant the animating the dragging pictures across like with the iphone.

using directx and gapi would be pretty hard todo though i think.

if you were willing to share the source maybe you me and llama could work on it together once we've finished the problems in the iPhone slider app.

my dream is to make an all-in-one app that does all the iphone stuff made in .net cf.

we have the iPhone launcher in .net, larna's icontacts in .net, my iPhone slider app in .net, and your iPhone media player in .net.

or atleast we could write another app that starts them all separately and uses them to work with each other.

could easily be done as all our apps are in .net and can run from an exe without needing to be installed :)

btw i too have bought a pda that's coming today just to test my app on :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I'd love to work together, anything to make this a possibility. Since, much like all of you, although I might be coding it, I TOO want an iPhone like Media player to use! Lol,

Another update:

Okay, I still have NO idea what that string was (30 chars long) with nothing in it, not even spaces. SO, I got one of my troubled mp3s, read it's id3 info, and saved it's HASH number. Now I can trap any mp3 with this HASH number for it's Album id3 entry, and safely say that it has no entry for album. So, you can now sort playlist by Album, and Artist.

I'm really tired, and frustrated because I didn't think of the whole hash idea earlier, but now I'm sure a new release will be posted tomorrow. Now though, I must get some sleep. I'm really looking forward to working with others though, to better this app, and the whole idea of reproducing the iPhone's interface on the windows mobile platform.

Tomorrow's another day of coding.

Off to bed I go! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] realgeorge39:
iWellsoft Video to Zune Converter show your directory Automatically when the conversion has been completed. Support Batch files conversion.Support Set the start position and end position of source file to convert.

http://www.zuneconverter.net/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Hey chrismrulz is your last name murphy because thats my name chris murphy and that is funny, off topic, But funny still
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maiisoh:
Can't get player to load

OK, I've been trying to get this program to load onto my xv6700 for the last 4 days with no luck. Can anyone help me out? Here is what I have and what I get.

I am using a Verizon xv6700 phone with windows mobile 6 upgrade, with grumps iphone programming and slide2unlock. I have Flash 7 and Netcf both intalled. I've even tried to unload both flash and netcf and reloaded them. I have copied Melody 0.3 to a folder on the phone and try to open it to load on the device. Each time I get this error and won't let me go any further.

"File or assembly name 'Extract Id3,

Version=1.0.2808.35946,

Culture=neutral, PublicKey Token=null',

or one of its dependencies, was not

found.

I've read every post here and don't see what I am doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thx

Rick
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
Hi Maiisoh,

I can just think of 2 things, you might have considered already:

1) u need a folder structure like this: "Storage Card/mp3s" (exactly!). In case your OS is non-english and your szorage card is called differently, u have to create this structure directly under my device. all this won't be necessary after the next release, Chad promised ;)

2) have u tried to install flash lite 2.1?

sorry, if this isn't the solution for you. I'm a noob myself just trying to help. Took me quuite a while myself until I got it working.

good luck!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
The problem here is "File or assembly name 'Extract Id3'" You need to make sure you copy ALL OF THE FILES in the zip archive, over to your PPC, and make sure they're all in the same folder. You need to make sure (in your specific case) that Extract Id3.dll is placed on your device. You need to be VERY sure of this, because I know WM2003 does not show you dll files in the default file explorer (they're hidden).

This should help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, New release is finished, and I will upload in a few hours. I need to goto bed now, since I've got to wake up very soon. Lol.

Here's what to expect:

MUCH MUCH better playlist functionality, ability to sort by artist, or album.

FINALLY! Ability to select any folder on your device. (Working on subfolders)

I'll be up in a few to do the upload ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we can't wait. :)

Actually, I haven't tried the last few builds. I've been too busy (and tired, my schedule is killing me) to have a lot of time to devote to my phone. Truthfully, I'm really waiting to for the version able to pull album art directly from the ID3 tags rather than having to use the extra app. But I might give it a go this weekend if I can find some free time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] psvillars:
hey just thought i'd chime in i tried this on my ppc6700 running wm6 and everything works except for the fact that can't get all the album art for my songs when in portrait mode if i select the track forward button it crashes and when one song finishes and goes to the next it crashes
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Another Release :)

As promised, here's 0.4.

The usual will be appreciated, but as far as I can see, this version brings us a lot closer to a STRUCTURED mp3 player (providing it works for you ofcourse). When the application starts the default mp3 directory is set to "Storage Card\\mp3s\\" to change this, swipe to reach the playlist screen, but before you do anything else, hit the black bar at the bottom of the playlist. A screen should pop up with a text box of the current mp3 directory. Change this so whatever you want, but please keep the format. Use double slashes "\\" and make sure you end the path with those slashes as well. If you don't, the application might crash. Ofcourse this will be fixed, and I have no intention of leaving it like this, but for these beta purposes, we test.

Upon reaching the playlist screen, you'll notice though, you're not greeted by a screen with all your mp3's dumped into one list. To reach this list, select the "All Songs>" option. The other two, are I think self explanitory.

The back buttons, to exit the playlist, and exit coverflow mode have been added (as seen in the last youtube video).

Awaiting your reports.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] froncis:
thank you but i don't understand how to swipe the default folder in the new entry
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Utakos:
I am using an Axim X51V with football WM6 03 preview, apart from the possibility of it not working on a VGA device I am using 04 version and just get an error about Directorynotfoundexception. Is this due to my music being on an SD card called "SD Card" with a directory on it "Mp3s" instead of the card being called "Storage Card" as I am unable to rename the card, only what is on it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@Utakos

u have 2do this on your ppc! should work now, ggod luck!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@ froncis

swipe (slowly) from left to right directly under the default image of the album on the first screen that opens! god lick!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
Works (for german - Speicherkarte) but do I have to do this everytime Melody starts?? Does not save the path though.

And I have my MP3s structured in subfolders (named my genre) and unfortunately the app just displays the folder with the MP3s in it itself, not the folders.

So when I set to e.g. Speicherkarte\\MP3\\ (where the subfolder reside) there is simpy no songs available.

When I set to Speicherkarte\\MP3\\Rock\\ the songs appear (of course) :D

but only the ones the Rock folder contain.

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
@Olioaglio

yes, that's a current limitation. You have to live without subfolders for the moment. So put all mp3s in one folder of your choice. Chad will add all those functions stept by step, I'm sure.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
:) Wow, Really appreciate others answering questions for me, I really do. Thanks Steph99 (and everyone else that does so). Allows me more time to code, and work on making things better. Rightfully said, I will add those functions step by step. See, If I work on everything all together, I'm afraid I might be overwhelmed with too many bugs. So taking everything in steps, assures steady progress.

Today, I've got no classes, so the day is mine to work on Melody. I'm starting now with the subfolder problem, and the ability to save the path so you don't have to change it EVERY time melody starts :). Also going to deal with some error code, so if you put in the wrong folder by mistake, the app doesn't kill itself :).

Keep the comments coming. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Man I still cant get the Album Art to work its driving me mad but props on the new version tho. it is pretty sweet.

I am using a ppc6800 mogul wm6 sprint network and everything except the albumart works
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hmmm...tell me, when you're scrolling through albums in album scroller mode. Do you ever come across an mp3 with the album field populated? If you do..and there's no album cover for it, then look in your albumcover directory. Is there a file with the EXACT same name as the album? If so, and you still have no albumart, then something is very wrong, I'll have to send you a version that fires up some messageboxes to see what the problem is.

Let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
Good stuff so far Chad just a couple of issues.

- as has already been mentioned, the ability to save the new mp3 path would be cool

- each time I go back to the playlist it re-adds the 3 options again (attached)

Cheers,

Colin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Yeah I see the art with the same name in the folder and as far as scrolling its a little weird on some songs when in portrait mode it will show the song name and album name but when flipped to landscape it will say unknown for album and song but for the rest it still shows the song and album name but still no artwork my e-mail is chrism@kcwireless.com if you need to send me something
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I will be sending you something very soon. But, I need to know...does anyone else experience this exact problem??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, i JUST noticed this as well. New release again VERY VERY soon. Definitely today. Will fix this problem, will fix saving the mp3 location. AND I've created my own folder browser control. Since the compact framework doesn't come with any control for this. You'll be able to browse your file system for your mp3 folder instead of having to type it in, with all those rules about slashes etc.

Keep checking..0.5 is on the way.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
Nice to see such commitment.. awesome work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
hey chad,

wow, great news ...

thanks for fast reply and fixes...

I really appreciate your work on this!

Best regards, Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
You da man :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Utakos:
In file explorer on my ppc, I can rename any folder but it will not let me change "SD CARD" to anything else and on the SD card I have created a roote folder "mp3" but still no joy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
ghotta fo out NOW

so VERY short

create a folder storage card

UNDER

the folder

my device (or mein Gerät OR whatever it is is called in xyour language)

sorry, gotta go NOW

good LUCK!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
New Release!!!

Probably the quickest so far between releases.

Anyway, here we are Version 0.5

Important: YOU DO NOT have to have your mp3s in "Storage Card\\MP3s" anymore. Just run melody, goto playlist view and hit the black bar at the bottom of the screen. In version 0.5 you will be greeted by a file explorer. Click on the directory your mp3s are in, and click "select folder". Now melody will search this folder for your mp3s.

You only need to do this once, melody now saves that path, so the next time you open melody that path will be used, unless you change it again. AND changing can be done on the fly, while melody is running.

Problem with adding All Songs, Artist, Albums over and over again FIXED.

Oh! In 0.5 the back button for the playlist is a bit more competent. If you're browsing ALL songs, and hit back..instead of it carrying you right back to the player screen, it will goto the initial playlist screen. Hit back AGAIN and it will then go back to the player screen. Same if you're browsing by Artist of Album.

Same install instructions, let me know how things go.

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Utakos:
Man I feel stupid, works (sort of, graphics everywhere) just need a VGA version now please, pretty please
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
Nice one Chad. Appreciate the quick fixes.

I also like the way that you've stopped it listing non-mp3 files (eg wma) - no point listing then if it won't play them :)

Keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
I get an error when I just run the app (0.5) :(

Melody.exe

DirectoryNotFoundException

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

etc etc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
Create the mp3s folder on your storage card first as the app looks for it, then you can change it once you go to the track list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
Oh ok.. Yeah I thought I should do that too.. thanks

EDIT: Ok it runs now.. where do I click to change the dir? When I click the bottom right corner the screen turns off.

Nevermind wasnt in playlist view
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twitism:
hey chad thanx so much for the fast releases =)

i juz saw your new upload an hour ago and am playing with it even if it's 3am now where i am! haha

anyways.. i've something slightly off-topic to ask..

sorry if it sounds noob but how come i dun see some of the album art of my mp3s in the application even though it looks ok in my comp's itunes?