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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spicchio72:
Thanks for Greetings :-D

As it's weekend I have time to mess a bit around and tested your new release. Things are getting better and I think you'll like to know about new bugs you can solve as you have time.

1) The mediaplayer never starts fullscreen at least on my device. I noticed that I have to move to any other app and then when I come back to mediaplayer it goes.

2) I think that you swapped next and previous song buttons. It goes forward with back and back with forth... ouch... :-)

3) If you go on moving to next or previous song and it ends the list of songs sometimes it gives the usual error: can't play undefinied blahblah. Sometimes even in the middle of the list.

4) If you start scrolling covers as soon as the application starts, going back displays correctly the last cover in the list but going forth displays black.

5) I noticed you supported the id3 song name in the upper title. That's a nice feature, it should anyway display as soon as the song start. I wasn't able to understand clearly but it seemed to me that it appears if I press many times on the far right of the tob bar. Casuality?

6) Closing the app always gives the same error as before.

The very first thing you should implement anyway is to prevent the device from going into standby. It would be nice that the screen switch off after a while and restore as you press on the screen but standby suspends playing and it only restart as I switch on the device again.

I'm following both the mediaplayers threads and both of you are doing the work I'm sure all the scene really hoped being done. An intuitive and shiny looking player. You have different approaches to the problem but you are doing the same enthusiastic and promising work. In my opinion we just miss a launcher application with scrolling features, customizable links to apps and tasks and together with mediaplayer and PocketCM/PCMKeyboard we can then tell Steve to bin his iPhone :-P
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Bugs Cont.

Thanks for the quick response:

I'm a bit puzzled though, let's go through things one by one.

Does this happen with anyone else? See, Im at a disadvantage, not being able to test on WM5 or 6, it works fine here. Is this device specific, or are others having the same issue?

EDIT: OH! MAYBE, what size is your screen? I might need to write a little function to detect screensize and size form to fit.

HUH? This is not the case with my device. Does this happen as soon as you open the player up? Or after you do something in specific.

Will be fixed in the next release (hopefully with finger scrolling like the iPhone)

This'll be fixed too :).

A bit confused here, I haven't touched the top bar, between the two releases.

I'll take a look at this, you're using the "exit" button at the bottom left hand corner right?

AAAAAGH right, I've got my device set to never go into standby, will look at this in the next release as well.

Can't wait to tell Steve that ;)

Thanks for your detailed response, look for a new release if not later tonight (well it's 7:34pm here) definitely tomorrow.

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
well, i lol'ed at this app.

sorry m8, it is heavy, slow, unusable for me.

but i am minimalist with gsplayer...

name me anachronic.

upd:

lol i didn't notice, that i am writing in WRONG post lol!

i was talikng about lumen...it's kinda heavy for me...

sorry for mistake...

i am gonna test app, that post is about :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I have taken those things into consideration, and a native version is in the making. But then again, it all depends on your hardware. It's no where near a final release, and it shouldn't be judged as such :).

Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
hihihi read my upd. post above... sorry for mistake again :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, np, waiting for your feedback. What kind of PDA/Phone are you using though??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
i am not seeing any album art. is it reading it from embedded coverart like itunes? or is reading it like wmp?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Did you use the album art downloader? Please follow the instructions in the readme found in the zip file of the 1st release :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] londere:
can you change the mp3s folder to other called music plz coz i had all my music in that folder and i sync with the wm11

also is a good player
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
next release will allow you to select any folder on your PDA :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Seed123:
I suggest adding the download links to your first post in this thread btw ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spicchio72:
My screen is 240x320 a standard one. But maybe it's a WM6 issue, yes. Donno why the switched buttons. I marked the songs with numbers ahead in the filename and it look so me :-|
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
im not pushing actually just joking haha:p

no because actually, we just want him to work for us, for our pleasure, without giving him anything, except the good harted ones, those that donate and actually pay him,

this is my beautiful statement

haah :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
whenever, wherever, ill be downloading [Thank God i have a data plan : )]

And i hope uni is going ok

Rory

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Bump. I hope something is comming down the pipe soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Another bump. Hoping for some new info on this project. Just wandering where we are so far.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sathya:
I tried ur cool software on O2 XDA II mini running on WM 2003SE but not working..it says "unexpected error occurred..... "

Any help??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ppetre:
change folder

1 - great app

2 - how do i change 2 another mp3 folder. so far if i rename the existing selected folder ... the next time i run the app i can change the path 2 the folder. Any ideea.... pls
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
I went to MortPlayer, as it seems the development of Melody stuck.

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Another update

Been working for the past few nights (on melody) without much sleep, and I haven't checked the forum so I wasnt able to respond to the comments (sorry guys). Anyway, 0.8 is on the way, melody now reads all id3 tags from the mp3 itself, INCLUDING YOUR PRECIOUS ALBUM ART!! This is a huge plus, I'm working on integrating the album art derived from the mp3 itself, into the album scroller you saw on the youtueb vid. Keep checking..it'll soom be here!

Nowhere near stuck....:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Groovy - I await it eagerly. Specially the album art from id3 tag.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ragart:
Looking forward to trying 0.8 out!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
" 0.8 A Real Teaser :) "

Whenever He Says "0.8 On The Way, It Will Be Soon Here" That Means More 2 Or 3 Weeks,

I Hope Hes Sure This Time. :)

Anyways I Apperciate His Work..

Thnx Thundershadow

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Sorry bro, it's just I've got other things happening at the same time, and uni can be pretty stressful, everytime I set a deadline for myself it gets messed up due to an unexpected extra work load or something else. Trying my best here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
No worries, I just wandered where we were. Great News excited to check out the next update!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Luochao522:
l am waiting for you latest version 0.8

l am waiting for you latest version 0.8

I know that you are engaging in you study of uni.I consider that you study of an concerned specialty is very important for you career .useing you 0.7

version .ALTHOUGH this sortware have a few of problems, Ilike it very much.

L believe that you are creative and clever.if you spend many time creating next version0.8. this one is very promising

from china
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Have you all noticed [The people here every day waiting for the update like me] that whenever Chad posts, loads more posts come in saying i cant wait for it. {Im guilty of it myself}

But... integrating the album pictures into the scroller [I think thats what youre doing] sounds like amazingly hard work, so like always whenever its ready its ready. Out of interest, what are you studying at uni and where?

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
hehe, yes uni is most important, dont forget about that!

in 1.75 years ill be in the university!!!!

wiiii

cheers!:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Luochao522:
waiting for you

I hear that you keep doing work of software for many hour.I will repect you work.I think that you mental and phsical condition should be well-being for you.so.you could sleep for several hours.keep you spirit for software.

I believe that VERSION,.0.8 will be soon here in forum.just as you said.this 0.8is the greatest and excited software which is equal to iPhone media tools.

wait for you letters:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
...

Hey guys up late here, ironing out some small issues before the release. There will be a 0.8pre then subsequently a full 0.8 (you'll see why). But thanks for all the continued words of encouragement, they're really helping to drive me along the path here.

Mostly unexpected, I'm actually an English major, at my university here in Guyana, South America where I live. Lol. Take it or leave it ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rtakeo:
works in my elf touch.... //?

and maybe is possible have just one cab file... and dont severals files
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nxtlidenno:
Great News Chad! I am refreshing this page every 10min till it comes. I am sure even the pre0.8 will be wanderful.:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
you are the man, i think this is the most awaiting prereleasing of any app here on the fora, :p

keep continuing all the hard work and, who knows, maybe apple will hire you! hehe,

up to .8

cheers!:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you

THank you for thi release
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
0.8pre testing

Well thunder, thank u for your work. However, I have to notice this;

I had followed your instructions (first the file python then melody.8pre). The player begins and the scroll works well. The animation in melody logo works fine too. But, was that supposed to show covers and album art? If yes, then something went wrong, because only melody logo is shown. Also, after some minutes working, melody chashes and screen shows (an error ocurred....)

Anyway, great progress u did, in spite of uni stress, i wonder. Very good work indeed. I hope the real .8 will work better in my device.

Greettings
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hmmm, what does the error say. And, does the python script run and extract the album art? Just check the "albumart" folder in your melody directory and see if other files are in there besides the default.jpg. Once you've got other files in there, everything should run as expected. If not, the python script didn't find any album art data in your mp3.

Let me know how it goes :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
hey Thunder... I want to try to trouble shoot but I am not sure what is correct and what isn't... so, let me tell you what I did and what happened:

1) Deleted the old version

2) Uploaded all of V8 files

3) Choose my \music\directory\on\my\card\

4) It gives me ERROR MESSAGE

5) I choose CLOSE

6) Start the player again

7) It opens

8) It plays music (like V7)

9) No new JPEG are in the albulmart\ folder

......................

OK, so, I manually insert a JPEG into the albulmart\ folder called "artist.jpeg" and it doset do anything. So, I delete the default.jpeg and then rename by albulm art to default.jpeg and it now shows the file. The new image is off centered - and when the music icon spins, it says "untitled" but the image icon is still showing on one side about 4-5 centimeters.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey grizzley,

Noticed in your step by step process detailed above, you didn't mention the installation of pythonce, is it installed? Second thing is, if it's installed already what EXACTLY does the error message say? Plugging in your own jpegs into the albumart folder wont work correctly, since flash will be looking to correlate each jpeg with specific output from the python script itself. So the script MUST be run, for resizing of the jpges and everything to work. Undefined will always be on the back side of the album cover, unless the python script does it's work, since it's the same script that extracts the album name from the mp3.

Let me know how things are going.

EDIT: MAKE SURE YOU SELECT A SCROLLING METHOD WHEN CHOOSING YOUR MP3 FOLDER. IF YOU DON'T MELODY WILL CRASH AND THE PYTHON SCRIPT WILL NEVER RUN

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To everyone else,

I've just re-structured the album scroller to landscape mode, and I'm working on allowing the user to actually do something useful with the scroller, instead of just scroll scroll scroll (maybe actually play a song), lol. Oh, and I'll also be including a surprise feature/effect in 0.8. Just another way of showing my appreciation ;).

Refresh this!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
is i miss somthing?, when i launch the 0.8pre, i got the message at the main window say : Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile5 will support Flash 7 content authored for mobile devices only.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
means you've got flash Lite installed. Melody requires Flash player 7 ActiveX installed on your device. If it is installed, reinstall it, and all should be well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
yes, I have Python installed.... still dosent work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Installed a few differnet versions of Python and still no go.... :(

Python Windows CE port <----- Last one I tried

I even went back and just renamed the files from "albulm-art.jpeg" to "default.jpeg" and still I get the same results.

But by default, no new images are inserted into albulmart/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
ok, python is installed...what exactly is the error message? That's the only way I can know what's giving the problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Let me uninstall, reboot, install, reboot and then I will tell you what it does.... stand by...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
1) Click Melody.exe

2) "select Your MP3 Folder"

3) I choose \storage card\My Documents\My Music\

4) Click Select Folder

Then I click DETAILS (options are Details and Quit)

Melody.exe

IOException

An error message cannot be displayed because on option resource assembly containing ir 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.populate_list()

at Melody.Form4.Button1_Click_1()

Then Click QUIT (Only option to select on this page)

It takes me to TODAY screen

Then go back and click MELODY.EXE and then it starts with the << || >> screen with the default "record with music icon".

Push >> and music starts playing with the default icon.

Use my finger across the default image, and it rotates to a say "undefined"

Hope that helps!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
When you're on the page that asks where your mp3s are, do you choose a scrolling method at the bottom? Either dosfan or gingercat? Make sure one of them is chosen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
I have not... but to get to that selection I will have to delete and install again.... which one is best? I am running WM6 / ATT Tilt.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
To get back to that screen, double tap the black strip just above the player controls. The same place you swipe to get to ur playlist :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Oh! Aren't you sooo smart!!! :)

OK, went back and chose Gingercat as well as Dosfan and after pulling Pythin screen still nothing....??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
python opens?? what does it tell you? Any errors??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Are you in the USA? I am more than willing to give you a phone call to walk with you.... PM if you want to do it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
nope, not in the US, im in south america.

Are you on msn? or skype?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Nope, neither :(

If you PM me your phone number I will flip the cost of the call. You spend alot of time I can at least pay a phone bill :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
I can play the song but there is not album cover or any pictures inside album art.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
new python script :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Traceback (innermost last):

<type 'exceptions.IndentationError'>:expected an indented block (id3_script2.py, line43)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
sorry, made a silly python script error. This one should tell you where the problem is :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
I know what to do... let me test it....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Choosing Ginger:

No IPAC Frame found (20 times)

Choosing Dosfan:

No IPAC frame found (20 times)

(20 times because you know my MP3 situation)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
full_list is blank also
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
it says no IPAC or no APIC Frame?? It should be looking for APIC frames. What that means, is that it found no album art in your mp3s. You should be 100% sure you've got album art in those files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grizzley:
Does it look for something in particular?

albulm.jpeg ?

picture.jpeg?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
the python script opens up the mp3 file itself, and looks for the album cover, that's usually embedded within the mp3 file's id3 tag information.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] catwo:
Plays music no problems but doesn't show album art and it also loads Opra each time for some reason! Thanks for all your hard work it is much apreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nita69:
hi,

player is runnig. playlist also. sometimes, when i try to slide to the playlist, outlook is starting.:confused: and: no albumarts! all files show picture and the album art downloader loads the pics. but the player dont show them on my htc wizard wm5.

best regards

nico
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
error:(

doesn't work:(

PythonCE installed

Adobe flash 7 installed

Prophet wm6
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
OUTLOOK?!?! Ok, I've got no idea why that happens. At that point i've got no call to any external application, so that's pretty weird. Now, for the album art. If you say the python script grabs the jpegs, everything should be fine. You do realize that in 0.8pre, the art wont change when u change the song, you have to scroll through all the albums. Take a look at the youtube video on the first page of this thread to get an idea as to what im talking about.

Platform not supported, I noticed your device is in Chinese...I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. Has anyone else tested Melody with a Chinese WINMO device??

Remember you HAVE TO SCROLL to see the album art. It loads up opera? I'm going to install opera on my device to see why it does this, I am using Pocket IE within the application to host the album scrolling, since it's written in flash. The .NET Compact Framework, does not offer any more native way to host flash, I was forced to use Pocket IE to host the swf file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] catwo:
When i select a track from the scroll list it is highlighted but nothing happens, i can only play an mp3 by pressing the forward button >>.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Try changing to dosfan's scrolling method. Btw, you must double tap to select a song to play, when using dosfans method.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bedoig:
I bet some of the issues with other applications launching are related to touch flo/touch launcher applications (like eFrost's ftouchflo). Melody needs to be added to the exceptions list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I hope that's the cause, cuz I really can't think of ANY reason for melody launching outlook. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] egzthunder1:
I think I can shed some light in this situation. eFrost's TouchFlo has, by default, the Outlook application configured to launch when you do the left-to-right gesture. Just add the Melody.exe to the exception list. Hope this helps a little.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
cover flow work!

Hi thundershadow, u do a great job

i try many times, finally it work for my atom life (wm6-Tranditional Chinese version)

1. i think it dosent support the mp3 file in chinese name & ID3 tag, u must change all information in eng

2. when the melody run, then pythonce will shown all your album name

3. make sure the album cover appear at the "albumart" folder (don't know why but u may need run 2 or 3 time pythonce:confused: )

4. check the text file "albums", that will shown the album name

if all OK

u can scroll the album cover in the main window

(if u want scroll to next song, scroll your finger from right to left and previous song scroll from left to right), at lease this work for me

sorry for my bad english, hope u can understand what i say!:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Glad to see it working on someone's device. I'll be optimizing the python script in the 0.8 release. As far as Id3 and text encoding is concerned, I can't do much since the id3 parser wasn't written by me. But happy to see someone scrolling! ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Great work! Works on my Touch, but the album art animation is sluggish on my touch. Why?? and it only reads directories one level down, it doesnt read subdirectories in directories.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Reading further down directory levels will be added, first melody only read one directory, now it goes one level down. Sluggish on your touch, what mhz are you running at? Animation is only sluggish for me while mp3 is playing. Will be very difficult for those of us who want nice flashy looking iPhone interfaces with high speeds, but have 200- mhz processors.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nita69:
ok... think touchflo is the reason for the "mail ptoblem"!

after a chrash and round abbout 15 soft resets runs my wizard again..

and: for one try i can see the a albumart on the screen. but no scrolling! and then: crash!