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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
I am not using any overclockers n my Touch is running at 200 mhz. Btw animations are sluggish only while mp3 is playing. Just try to make animations smoother if its possible. Cheers!!! for your work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Works on my kaiser. Couple of things.

1) Selecting a song does not pick the correct albumn art.

2) I had to make some changes to the python script to get it to handle characters such as , and ?. I can certainly post them here.

3) Cannot seem to go into landscape mode as the demo shows

4) Seems to be no association with the art and the song the back always shows just the albumn name and not the song name.

Its a good start though for sure.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
1) Selecting a song does not pick the correct albumn art.

it wont in 0.8pre, since the scroller is above the static albumart.

2) I had to make some changes to the python script to get it to handle characters such as , and ?. I can certainly post them here.

Would LOVE THAT! You'd be given credit ofcourse.

3) Cannot seem to go into landscape mode as the demo shows

It wont, since landscape has been disabled due to the fact that scroller is in portrait mode for testing. 0.8 fixes this.

4) Seems to be no association with the art and the song the back always shows just the albumn name and not the song name.

Again, remember the last release was a preview. I coded this part today, now when you flip you get a list of songs in the album, and you can select one to play ;). Just like the iPhone.

I can't wait for 0.8 myself...lol I can almost smell it. Taking a break now though, coded ALL DAY! :P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
As of 0.8pre, support for the downloader and development for it, has stopped. Melody reads album art data directly from the mp3 now. No need for the album downlaoder. You can use any of the MANY mp3 tag applications to download album art for you mp3s, and save it to their id3 frame. Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is a freeware app I use for this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] b.mann:
Ahh, so if most of my art is in my iTunes library, it should just transfer with the mp3 and no worries?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Cool thanks for the response. Basically you need to add a

album_name = album_name.replace(",","")

album_name = album_name.replace("?","")

Etc etc

Before the writing of the picture file.

Nothing amazing just several of my artists have albums with characters which windows wont let you create a file name with them in it which causes the script to error out. No need to credit its not like I did anything amazing - just trying to help - I know python quite well so if you need anything else .. just yell.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Hi Thunder

Made some progress, but still get some troubles:

After several times trying to get Melody work, finaly I did it.

I ran melody, it opened scroll options window

I chose Dosfan

Python ran automatically and began to search id3 tag on my mp3

is goes on making the list until an interruption and shows the following message:

"Traceback (innermost last):

File "\Storage Card\Programas\Melody 0.8pre\id3_script.py get_apic (live.rstrip ('\n')).........." - Its a very long message so I just post here how it starts, hope it helps.

Then the player apears and those 5 or 6 mp3 files which python catch the cover art work perfectly.

For notice, I have a QTEK 9100 with WM5

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
@Baratag

This is actually my first exposure to python. It seems quite simple, and reminds me a lot of linux bash scripts. But nevertheless it's my first exposure, and any help from you would be GREATLY appreciated. I'll include the two lines of code you mentioned for sure. If there are any other deficient aspects of my code, please let me know, and I'll change pronto.

The only thing that troubles me with that, is I've heard that iTunes stores album data in a different frame from the standard ID3 frame. Does anyone know if this is true? Or if the data still remains in the "PIC" or "APIC" frame. Can someone test this for me plz?

@ioncila

Not a big problem, it might have to do with what Baratag has already said in his previous posts. If not, it's some sort of incorrect python syntax. This will be corrected in 0.8. Hoping to release today!! From what I've read though, you've got the scroll working, which is what the purpose of the pre release was. I knew it had bugs, and was not meant to even try to use, just wanted to give you guys something to play with between 0.7 and 0.8. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
dont know is it true, but i also use itune to organise my song,

and when i use other ID3 editor to check my mp3, it can show the albumart,

so when i test Melody 0.8pre, i need use other editor to import the albumart again, then it work in 0.8pre:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
iTunes Album Art

Found a link for iTunes users that would allow melody to read album art from your tracks without having to use an external application. :) Hope it's useful:

http://www.onetipaday.com/2006/12/31/how-to-add-itunes-artwork-to-mp3-id3-tags-using-itunes/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Huge Update!!!

Okay, I'm VERY VERY excited! Many of you may have noticed that hosting flash within pocket IE as a usercontrol seemed to be a bit sluggish (and conflicted with those of you who have opera installed). Well, I found a great resource that dealt with actually embedding the flash activex DLL file as a usercontrol in visual studio. What does this mean? This means that flash and melody forms can actually talk to each other!! This is a HUGE step in the right direction for melody. I'm really not sure why this information isn't more readily available, but I will be writing a howto for those of you who want integration between actionscript variables for example, and variables on your form.

In terms of melody, this is how I would have coded interaction between the form and flash:

1) Timer on form checking for change in a specific text file.

2) Album scroller selects a file to play, actionscript writes the file path to the text file.

3) Timer picks up change in file, stops ticking, and then passes the file path to fmod.

YIKES!! I can't believe I was actually going to do that! What would happen if there were SEVERAL mp3s in one album...timer would stop and execute it's code b4 the actionscript was done writing to the file. Not to mention that we're making use of a memory hogging timer!

Now, it would be done like this:

1) On flash_click from my form, I check the contents of the variable in the flash file that holds the selected song.

2) I pass that to fmodce.

That's it!! No ugly timer, and everything done in two simple steps!

Credit to Alex Feinman:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446515.aspx

Great article!!

Hope this excites you as much as it excites me! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
Im already jumping on my chair! :D Sounds Fantastic Thundershadow.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
It warms my heart to hear you talk about BASH scripts - it is indeed like them. As an old UNIX admin I like to see young people get on board with them. I will take another look and see if it can be streamlined anymore. I really appreciate you work on this and the new information you posted above looks like a great step forwards.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] udaykarmarkar77:
great

everything is working great on my wm5 cingular 8125

just trying to figure which id3 tagger to use that will work best.

other than than non complaints

wonder if you will incorporate lyrics support into your player

thks for the good work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
I only see the default picture while I play the song can someone tell me wt could be wrong .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyet804:
how long do we have to wait til 0.8 is ready for DL iam sooooo excited
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Which id3 tagger?

I need a good tagger to get all my album art, ive tried zortam, and it doesnt let me tag all the tracks. And a few others, but none are that good. And free ones people use?

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Try MediaMonkey for tagging. Google it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
I use media monkey for all my tagging as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
i tried media monky yesterday, and i didnt like it, but today, ive persevered, and it is fine..

thanks for your input

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hiroshi.rio:
Unfortunately it did not work for me... :(

The music plays, but not art album, no "FLO" and, sometimes, when I clicked on iTunes' icon, it stopped and a error message appear. :(

I followed the instructions on 1st post, installed Python, but I ain't a lucky guy...

(Melody0.7)

[edit]: works!! the Melody0.8pre worked like a charm. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghost13:
i tried installing this and it did not work. does the new att wm6 rom come wtih .net framework or do i need to install it? i installed Pythonce(storage card) and adobe flash 7(main memory) thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Not sure if that rom comes with the .NET framework, but just post the error message you get, and I can tell you if that's the problem you're getting :).

To everyone else:

I've got a gem in store for you guys in 0.8. I'm gonna post a teaser video FOR SURE, today. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghost13:
ok here we go.

"the file 'test' cannot be opened. either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. if the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file."

and then it states

"an unexpected error has occurred in melody.exe. select quit and then restart this program, or select details for more information."
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Thundershadow - check out a program called eyed3 - its a python lib/binary - and can extract album art from mp3's much,much faster than the current python stuff. The only problem I can see at this stage is that it doesn't give them names based on the album name. However since the art -> song mapping is done via some text file (One assumes) it should not be an issue to match the file->song. Is it possible for me to get a copy of the source to play around with this. Obviously it would all remain your property. Just wanna help make this the best it can be.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey Bratag,

I came across eyeD3 before, but it looked as though the current lib I was using was a bit easier to use. When you say source, do you mean the source of melody itself? Or just the python part? If it's just the python id3 stuff you're interested in, I didn't write it myself, I used pytagger. You can have a look @ it, here's the link:

http://www.liquidx.net/pytagger/

I'm using 0.5.

Chad
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghost13:
hey chad this is the error i get. i really wnat to install this prog and get it working any suggestions. looking forward to seeing this prog
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stokie:
Super Green

Great app works great on HTC Touch Wm6 no problems.

BUT when i tap to flip Cover art it flips, displaying the album name, here is the prob when i tab to flip it back i get a green flicker (green semitranparent overlay) and the Cover art displays mirrored and then flips back to original pos.

Just a side note could you get the scroll menu to display text from the ID3tag instead of from file name.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
Chad - Just quickly - all of the other releases are in the first post and I noticed that this one isn't (not sure since it is a pre-release).

Keep up the excellent work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aaronsmckee:
You may need to create an LNK for the app and insert in Windows/startmenu/programs (sometimes solves that error message) if you need help in creating an lnk (its very very easy) let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, the green is actually an effect. It's supposed to zoom into the screen. Lol, if yah don't like it, I'll probably add the ability to select different animations. But that might be a bit later down the line. Probably after we've reached stable.

Thanks! Did this purposely though, since it's not a real release.

Hmmmmm, is the file "test" in your melody directory?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Ok so made a few more changes to the python script to handle some errors I was getting - basically its possible for a song to have an id3 tag but no album and that caused a problem, Also added code to strip out basically all the non letter/numbers stuff as this was constantly crapping out on my Kaiser as I dont think wm6 likes wierd file names. Here is the file had to rename .txt owing to upload rules here. Only issue I have now - while waiting for .8 true is getting the song list to come up with the finger swipe across black stripe. It almost never works. Not sure what causes it to fail.

EDIT: On further investigation the swipe has the be across the ENTIRE screen. Perhaps we could add a little play into this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghost13:
yes the file test is in the melody folder and it is a .swf file. i also created a link to the program and tried running it and got the same error. i really want to use this prog looks kick ass
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] diabolik:
bonjour je viens d'installer melody ca marche mais les pochettes d'album ne saffiche pas pourrait ton m'expliquer en francais pourquoi et la manip a faire! merci les pochettesvsont ds le dossier albumart
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] diabolik:
effacer celui ci
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Chad, I'd really like to try this software, but I can't even get it to start. I see "Grizzley" was having issues and he has a ATT Tilt which is what I have, but our error messages are different.

Here's the scoop:

-ATT Tilt with WM6 stock Rom

-installed Python from your link.

-installed Flash

-Soft-Reset just to be safe

-Put Melody pre 8 folder on my Storage Card.

-replaced the id3_script2.py file with the one you posted on page 64 (I think that's the right page).

-Executed the test file to make sure Flash is good. It's good.

-Started Melody.exe

-Got the screen to select my music folder and scrolling option. I pointed to my music folder on my storage card, and selected one of the scrollin options.

-Hit "Select Folder."

That's as far as I could get before getting the below error message. The error message now shows anytime I start melody.exe, without even showing me the select music folder screen first.

Melody.exe

ArgumentException

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

at

Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr()

at System.Drawing.Bitmap._Init()

at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor()

at Scroller.KList.PreRender()

at Scroller.Form1..ctor()

at Melody.Form1.Form1_Load()

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

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

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

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

at Melody.Form1.Main()

Hopefully you know what this means?? I'm really psyched to try your software... just wish I could!!

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghost13:
ok i finally got the prog workign... few major questions... how do you control the volume and how do you change your dir folder? it doesnt ask me anymore when i launch the prog. thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
@stpete111

Seems like you're missing a dll file that contains the user control for the scroll method you've chosen. Re-copy melody to your device, and make sure ALL THE FILES are copied. If this still doesn't work, try changing the scroll method.

Nice to know you got it to work. To control volume, use the up and down keys on your D-PAD, and to change the folder, use the same space you swipe to get your playlist, just double tap it instead of swiping.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SeniorNoob:
WTF

Where is the Melody 0.8 pre release at. Theres no download link for the app.. Can anybody post the app. for everyone to try, its not on the first post. Thanks .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Pre Release posted on the first page. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
Still can't get it to work

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

I'm on PPC6700

WM5

I have below installed already:

.NET2

Flash 7

Pythonce (from the first page)

& my mp3 collection

I've unzipped the version 8 pre-release and copied ALL the folders to my ppc in the main memory.

I run Melody.exe & I select gingercat's usercontrol, & my mp3s folder.

After that, I get the melody page but can't play any music. Once I try, I get the following error message:

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

an error message cannot be dispayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found at

System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item()

at Melody.Form1.next_song()

at Melody.Form1.PictureBox4_Click()

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

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

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

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

at Melody.Form1.Main()

Retrying gets me the following error message:

Melody.exe

ArgumentException

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

at

Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr()

at System.Drawing.Bitmap._Init()

at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor()

at Scroller.KList.PreRender()

at Scroller.Form1..ctor()

at Melody.Form1.Form1_Load()

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

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

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

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

at Melody.Form1.Main()

Any suggestion? Should I have to install from version 1?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
@orchids

Hmmm, after you've reached the main screen, if you swipe to bring up the playlist, are any songs loaded in that list? And, did you get this same problem with version 0.7, or is this pre release specific??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] diabolik:
I can not see albumart visual how needs to be done?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Chad, tried fo follow your suggestion. Unfortunately, I can't even get to the first screen anymore to change the scroll method. I've removed the Melody folder completely, replaced it (making sure I have all files), and I cannot get back to the intro screen. All I get when running Melody.exe is the error message shown in my last post. I only saw the intro screen one time which was the first time I put the Melody folder on my phone. How do I totally undo what I've done with Melody so I can start over and get to that intro screen?

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
If you delete the folder on your device, and replace it with a freshly extracted melody directory, you will get that first screen again. You've got to make sure it's a COMPLETELY fresh drag over. No file must be left from before, not even one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
Got it to work....sort of

@ Chad

I was being stupid. My files weren't mp3's, they were in AAC format. So sorry about that. I'm stupid sometimes (well, most of the times). LOL

It's playing now w/o any problem, but I don't get any album art displayed and I know that song has an album artwork to it, because it shows up when I'm on iTunes.

I have the pre.8 release installed, including the new id3_script provided on here. I thought it was going to be "automatic" or will this not be automatic until the full release of v8?

One last question, if you would please indulge me: can I save this to my storage card instead of main memory, or would it cause a problem?

Thanks,

-O
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
As far as the album art is concerned, once the script runs, it will find the albumart in the mp3. But remember, iTunes DOESN'T put the albumart in the standard id3 frame. Use something like media monkey to tag all your mp3s nicely :). Installing to the Storage card, shouldn't be a prob, since all the file paths used in Melody are dynamic.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Azimuth21:
@orchids

the correct album art doesn't show based on the song that's playing.

as far as i know, album art display and the current song are two completely independent things, which i think thunder was going to fix in the full .8 release.

in order to see the album art, you'll have to swipe from left to right, with the starting point in the right side of the album art.

if that doesn't make sense...

this is the album art. >>> is how you should swipe. you can also go the other direction, if you wish.

|-------|

|----->|>>

|-------|
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
Media Monkey Question

In order to extract the album art/id tag, should I install media monkey onto my pc, play my mp3 collection, n then copy that collection to my ppc? Would Melody then pick up the artwork?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] foryasoul:
music player

i cant get it work it too work on my touch what am i doing wrong? i keep getting error message about i got macromedia on my hone error says 0x80040143 please help my email hnance14@sprintpcs.com i want the i phone look player thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
Still no album art

Chad:

I've downloaded Media Monkey, used it to play my mp3 collection, and also tag the album art to the songs, but when I copied these files to my ppc and play it with Melody, the album artwork does not show.

I see the default album artwork, and when I touch it with Melody playing, this artwork would change, but I don't see anything other than "undefined".

To clarify: I see the .jpg artwork in the album folder. Actually, I had copied the artwork from Media Monkey to the album folder but it still doesn't show when I play Melody.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sm2891:
M 0.8 pre not working on my touch
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Ok you were, right, thanks a bunch.

Ok now I have it working but I also see no cover art. I've only loaded one album for testing purposes, and all of the songs have the album art embedded in each file. I can play the songs, but I see no album art. They are mp3's.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] django23:
also i have this problem :(

I can play song, but i can't see any album art. i can't see also default album art.

In 0.7 i can see default ablum art. Why?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sketchy9:
This looks like it has a lot of potential, would definitely make my touch one step closer to "iPhone killer". 2 questions:

-Do you anticipate that .wma files will be playable?

-I use WMP to transfer files to my device, and it adds hidden .jpg files to each folder for album art. Just to be clear, those files cannot be used, the pictures must actually be embedded via idv2, correct?

Thanks!

-R