yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
hmm pretty smooth the way it moves.

i've done a similar thing since posting mine. source is attached.

it's not working yet but it has everything that's needed to be a practical solution.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seawolflost:
crashes at start

htc gene
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Once Melody opens, it's safe to say you've got everything you need to run te application. The problems you are experiencing, are bugs, and will be sorted out in the next release. ATM, we're just trying to sort out some usbaility/graphical issues. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Yup, Almost the same routine. Will you be online same time as yesterday??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrchris:
Anybody had any luck getting this running on Athena (WM6)?

Portrait gets close, but landscape is really bad.

None of the menu items are displaying properly.

- v0.5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steph99:
Thanks so much!

Guys! Thanks so much! Can't believe you put me on the first post. I only spent a couple of hours on what I sent you and I certainly didn't do it for the credits. But anyways: I feel very honored. So again: thanks a lot! :)

Can't wait for your next release!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mazor:
Hmm, thanks for the info about the swipe. NowI can load up Mp3's. the quality of sound is good through the built in streo speakers, although like other have said. Pushing the next track button can sometimes result in the program crashing out.

MAzor
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] connasparr:
Mine won't work

This is the error I get.... I feel like I need to install something and I dont know what to do with the files in the zip. Heres the error when I run Melody.exe:

File or assembly name 'Extract ID3, Version=1.0.2813.21603, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null', or one of its dependencies, was not found.[/I]

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrismrulz:
extract all the files, not just melody.exe.

you'll also need to add a file called direc.mel in the same folder (you can find one in this thread).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
hey chad, after installing the new fixed melody exe file you posted it fixed the ability for me to view albumart so workin good now, But when can we expect to see another release
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I just got my my T-Mobile MDA, and new graphics should be coming in this weekend. So look for a new release over the weekend. Major bugfixes and HOPEFULLY a shiny more convincing iPhone look :P.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Sweet Cant wait too see it. I feel like a crack fiend checking this thread every hour of every day even at work. Pathetic Isnt it. lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pinele:
Have tried this on my Artemis running WM5. I´m able to get it running (at least I get the "Welcome to Melody" screen) in Portrait mode, but then, if I tap:

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

"Pause" button: Nothing (no action)

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

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

i've the same problem.

Sorry for my english i can't undestand what is swipe.????? (google translate english - italian can't find it)

in botton of sceen i read exit. in right there is nothing but if i click my screen shut down.

Please how to get playlist screen. Can i edit direct.mel if thys is the problem??

thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
The youtube video, gives you a good idea, as to how to reach to all the screens in melody :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIxvwucR8p4
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pinele:
thanks

thanks .........
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, was running some tests on my MDA with melody. Are any of you running into Severe performance issues? If so, i'd love for you to tell me where and what exactly half parks your device :). I really want the next release to be leaps and bounds better than 0.5.

Let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
if I try forwarding past the last track it errors and gives me the option to quit the program...

It takes way to long to load songs from the Artists playlist tab.

other than that the program just needs to be a bit slicker!

Looking forward to the next release...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Further tests being conducted. I've found that scrolling album covers works quicker with Flash on my MDA. I'm guessing my device is the best to test performance on, since it's a 200mhz machine. Once my tests find that flash works well, hmmm I think i'll be adding an activeX control into the .NET application JUST for more graphically enhanced things. Using a timer, can never be less resource intensive than a flash file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
I get a lag on my ppc 6800 mogul wm6 when sliding through the album art
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyfriendinacoma:
i extracted this into my storage card

and it doesnt even start up i get a error message

help what do i do now
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
if the program doesnt start it generally means that you dont have the file... Storage Card/Mp3s with all your mp3's in it.

If melody cant find that folder it wont start.

(try putting it on your pda if that doesn't work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] philocritus:
I had that bug and it worked for me. It's working now. A small but neat improvement would be to have a editable settings file on the app dir.

That would give total control over the app behaviour, defaults to the hardcore users and keeps the usability of it.

And its not so much of an effort on programming as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
This bug has been fixed, along with a lot of other ones. Look out later today, for a new release. We might even have a scroll routine!! No promises, but I'm close :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
hi chad, great work!

i can't seem to see the albumarts, is there a special way the jpg files should be called? should be in? maybe the files should be arranged in a certain way?

running wm6
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
K right, im in this program for the user interface ,right? and not for the album art -

but im bored so I download the album art to the folder for the first time and its gave me the weirdest album covers....

Korn - Greatest hits became - Danny Elfman

Matallica became - Pavaroti (the best of (RIP))

and Megadeth - Became N'SYNC!

whattchu playing at?y Album art downloader V2 - you don't like metal?! *why I otta'*

edit* PS - whats the story with the progress of the next version!?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Hey thundershadow still planning on that new release? today mabye?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] L0cutus:
hello and thanks for your work !

but... doesn't work for me (tytn I WM6 ITA), the name of directory i have created is 'mp3s' but the name of my storage card is "Scheda di memoria" (Italian...)

thanks !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] William Richardson:
Qtek S200

Hi Guys.....Am I being stupid or what! I am unable to get the program working:

the details I have are as follows when I press iMedia Player:

"main.exe

xaf2525d69fc3b6be

0x800401F3: Unknown Error

xbe37f8a351f80ee9::xdce7466c67177e

95+0x5f8

Form::OnLoad+0x15

Form::_SetVisibleNotify+0x1d

Control::set_Visible+0x1f

ApplicationEx::RunMessageLoop+0x12

ApplicationEx::Run+0x1e

xbe37f8a351f80ee9::xc447809891322

395+0x45"

When I press the Album Downloader:

"File or assembly name

'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0,

Culture=neutral,

PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A',

or one of its dependencies, was not

found."

When I press Melody:

"Melody.exe

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

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

at System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item()

at ObjectCollection.get_Item()

at Melody.Form1.next_song()

at Melody.Form1.PictureBox4_Click()

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

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

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

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

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

at Melody.Form1.Main()"

What is going on? the Mp3s file is there, the Net 2.0 is installed?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thank-you and regards,

Will
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gegechip:
Creane una fittizia nella root poi una volta accesso al programma te la modifichi ;)

sorry to all :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Hey chad we havnt heard from you in a couple of days. Any status report for us?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
Hmm... Maybe he is just so busy Coding?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pi3141:
I have a stupid Question because i am a newb when it comes to phones. my phone is an att 8525 wm 5 btw

I had gotten this error with Melody 0.5 and i dont no wat to do. Can anyone help?:confused: :confused:

melody.exe

DirectoryNotFoundException

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

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()

at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames()

at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFiles()

at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetFiles()

at Melody.Form2.create_list()

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()
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] L0cutus:
the same here (tytn WM6 ita)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
please give more information with your problem ie: when does the problem occur? does it happen when you load up the app, or after a few songs, or when you try to do something else?

the more you tell us the more we can help...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] William Richardson:
It happens as I try to load up the applications.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pi3141:
???

Yes, same here. I put the application where it said too and everything, and when i open it, it doest open at all

just comes up with the error before.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
this generally means that melody.exe is having trouble finding the allocated mp3 folder.

You must have (to begin with the option to change is inside the app)

"Storage Card/mp3s"

as a directory in you ppc, inside the mp3 folder should be your mp3's (obviously) and you should not have any other sub folders containing Mp3's if you do, they will not be found by the app.

hope this helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
im waiting eagerly for any new realeases, i really hope you do that when you press the button it kind of illuminats or something like that haha, good lucK!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, sorry for being absent for so long. :) Trying to juggle classes with this project, but I'm getting there. I'm still waiting for some graphics before I shoot up the next release, with all the bug fixes. If I don't get anything within the next few days, I'll revert to the original design for now, and upload another release. You'll hear from me very soon :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
bump bump bump
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Great news guys! Dosfan has posted up the source for his "kinetic scrolling" demo. I'm happy to announce that I've looked through his code, and will without doubt, be adding it to the next release of melody. Scrolling worked well on my Touch ROM device, and the code FOR ADDING ITEMS (lol) is simple enough for me to integrate into melody with minimal hassle. Hopefully, this will breathe new life into melody. Keep watching this!

Scrolling Demo Link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=333124
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
is this for iphone or can be use in windows mobile? sorry for my ignorance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
windows ppc... you should really follow your own advice in your signature, no?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] generalriden:
i searched but quite confused..nothing wrong with asking..ok?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dosfan:
Excellent.

If you need any help with the code give me a shout. It was a rushed effort and I don't comment particulary well ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
i dont mean to be a ****... but its in the first post...

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Senior Member

Join Date: Aug 2007

Posts: 136

Default iPhone Media Player [CURRENT RELEASE = VERSION 0.5]

Hey all,

I'm working on a new mp3 player for windows mobile devices...."
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Thanks a lot for the support! :) I'm currently working on turning it into a user control. Making it easier for others to use the routine for any other projects they might be working on. It's great to finally have a GENERIC routine. I'm sure others will put it to good work as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Hey thundershadow any progress reports for your loyal fans this week?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Progress Report

Hey guys!

Okay, the user control has been created, and things are looking good. I'm scrolling through my playlist in fine style! I'm gonna need a lot of feedback on this though, since I'm using a TOUCH rom, and was wondering if this helped the scrolling in any way. Me and Dosfan are currently working on a way of communication between the user control and melody's main code. It might be just a bit tricky, yet trivial, because the user control is in C# and melody is coded in VB. This is the second library that has made me wish I used C# for melody, as I would have just used dosfan's code as another form. Anyway, too late to look into the changing of language, and the user control seems to be working fine.

To all my non-developer "fans", sorry for no releases as of recent, but when I started this project uni hadn't started yet. Anyway, I just got my first set of tests out of the way, and I'm hoping to share out a release VERY SOON. Thanks for sticking with me guys, I won't let you down, or drop the project. Keep checking, it's on it's way! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ljinsane:
ALRIGHT!!!! cant wait
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
Don't worry. We won't loose faith. Good luck with the Uni though and hopefully we'll hear from you soon!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
Can't wait to test!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
sweeeeeet!!!! I can almost smell it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SciFer:
This is GREAT NEWS!!!!! Thanks in advance for you work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] skrat64:
Good work guys.. This piece looks very promising. Anyway, It's not a good idea to have part of the code in C# and other in VB. You should rewrite your VB code to C#, or / maybe , let some core code in C++, just for better performance..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Will definitely translate all the code into one language, most likely it will be the melody main code into C#, since I can't rewrite the more complexed scroll routine, and screen rotation C# libraries. All to come, but for the testing phases, we will continue as is :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dawkness:
I am very new. I have read most of the post here but cant figure out how to install this. I am anxious to use. Could you post a step by step installation guide for us newbies. Great work man,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Wow, Finally

Okay everyone! Here we go, release 0.6!

Now, before you freak out, I've left out the album scrolling feature in this release. Why? Since I've got less time, I figured it would make more sense to focus on specific parts of the player, iron out the bugs, and then move on. Having said this, this new release includes some very important bug fixes.

1. Next and previous song buttons should work perfectly now, without any errors.

2. No more annoying errors upon not finding an album art jpeg.

3. Fixed problem with not finding your directory on application start. If it cant find the directory, it will automatically ask you where it is, and save the location.

New Features:

1. On the fly change of mp3 directory.

2. iPhone scrolling routine from dosfan!!!!

Installation:

Same as always, extract all the files, and place ALL files on your PPC. Then run melody.exe.

Usage:

Okay, here's how it works. The space between the album art and the play/pause controls etc. swipe from left to right, to access the playlist. From there scroll much like the iPhone, and double tap to select a song.

If you want to change the mp3 directory, double tap on the same space you swipe on to get the change directory screen. Once you change the directory, you can swipe again, and your playlist is immediately updated to reflect the change of directory.

Again, there's no album scrolling mode in this version, let's deal with making this (probably the most used and important part of the player) perfect :).

But! For those of you who are wondering, the album scroller mode is being re modeled in flash for better performance and looks! :D. I'm excited about it's development, but like I said, let's take things step by step.

Looking forward to the feedback guys!

Happy Scrolling.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jeranimo:
Looking good mate!! Woohoo!! Hehe..

Feedback? I do hv one problem. How do you minimise? The music stops when my pda powers down..

Other than that, i think it's pretty good.

Cheers.:D :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
That's very exciting news -- looking forward to trying this out!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
unfortunately still does not work at my touch

when acesing the playlistoption thi error occurs and crashes the app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hmmmmm...can you please check to see if the "playlist.txt" file in the melody folder is populated with a list of all your songs?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
While in the player mode, tap the bottom right hand corner of the screen. This will turn off the screen, and stop the PDA from shutting itself down. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] E_Shinobi:
the scrolling is pretty slow an a prophet
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
Chad,

Got an issue when I swipe to go to the track list - I just get a black screen and no list.

Playlist.txt is populated.

Thanks,

Colin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
hi chad

wonderful work but i still can't see the album art! should i rename the jpg files? am i doing something wrong?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
No scrolling,no covers~

Only play songs!

Why?

The video looks great,but nothing happened to me!

I downloaded the zip file,and download the covers with the Downloader V2!

:confused: :(

ok,it works!

but,some problems:

1.I have to use the version 0.5

2.the scrolling is pretty slow,and the next song is not loaded:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] darkgemini:
very good program, been following this topic since version 0.1

Report:

1. melody always reset my volume to the minimum. this happens since 0.1

2. doesn't work with my bluetooth headset Jabra 8010

3. scrolling works well, but kinda slow

Some ideas:

1. albumart from ID3

2. fullscreen albumart would be nice
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
i agree...albumart is a BIG selling point of the iPhone, so I think to move this from a developmental project to widespread acceptance, eventually albumart needs to be extracted from id3 (without the album art downloader). People who have taken the time to create an accurate albumart database on their id3 of mp3s will not want to redo it with this downloader since there will be some accuracy issues. Wish there was a way to extract this from TCPMP. Just my 2 cents.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I assure you, don't worry, album art will be extracted from the mp3 itself. The initial reason for the album art downloader was so people could use the album scrolling function, and see how it works. Not to worry, I'll look after this.

Strange, my hands are actually tied behind my back here, cuz this isn't my code. But would that blank screen be a black one, or white?? And try double clicking any part of the screen to see if a song plays.

I haven't done anything to the album art code since the last release, BUT expect an entirely new re-working of the access to album art in the upcoming release.

1. Noted, simple problem, I just fixed it.

2. No bluetooth support yet, will look into that later on when these core problems are fixed.

3. Slow? Even when a song is not playing? I'm using a Wizard, running @ 190mhz and it works pretty well. Only, while playing a song, I've got to use oMap to raise the processor speed in order to get acceptable speed while scrolling. Try dosfan's scrolling demo by itself though, and see if the same thing happens. Like I said above, my hands are tied here, because it's not my code :(.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Leo-X:
Setup Problems!

Hi everyone

I'm have had a really hard time trying to install this program on my HTC Wizard. So I was just wondering if any of you guys, could help me out, maybe like a step by step, install. It would really mean much to me!!1

Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
can anybody tell me wt sld do if i want to change the location of directory of songs
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
The blank screen is black and not "screen off" - double clicking on the list gives an error "argument out of range" referencing the double click action on the form as the source of the error.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
It would be easier if you just told us what problems you have :). Since there are not that many steps.

1. Extract the zip file to a folder.

2. Copy the folder to your device

3. Open the folder on your device and run "melody.exe".

Should work very well for you, since I test this application on a HTC wizard ;).

See attached jpeg ;).

Strange, looks like a problem encountered when reading the playlist.txt file and line by line insertion to Dosfan's Klist. I'll look into this..anyone else have this problem??