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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
About to goto bed, the playlist function is giving me the most trouble to date, it really is taking every ounce out of me to complete! I've coded a system where there's one SINGLE file, and each line of the file contains ALL the information for each mp3 found. Title, Artist, album, where it is on your device etc. PM will parse this file, to get the needed info in order to display the correct info on the playlist.

Anyone who's had some experience coding, will know how troublesome working with files and parsing them is. Especially under the WIN32 environment where there's all this Mulibyte and WideChar stuff to worry about. Lol, too bad WM doesn't come with built in mysql ;).

Anyway, bottom line is I'm working, and the system seems to be operating VERY quickly and efficiently, but it's far from finished. Most of the problems right now, I believe are text encoding based, and just need to be properly thought out. I really want to finish this, since a good playlist function is a VERY integral part of any mp3 player, and sets up good framework for other functions such as coverflow etc.

I got the new interface graphics and everything, but ofcourse I won't move to implement the graphics until I'm done with my precious playlist. :) Truly trying to make 0.4 a great experience and a big jump for PM.

Off to bed, I'm exhausted!!

Thundy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Hey Chad, Best of luck for this. Do have the rest which is required. Hope you may finish this soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 360discgolf:
Maybe I'm a moron

Are there specific installation instructions for version .3?

I installed the zip and ran the execute, but when I tried to access the playlist I just got a blank screen. Do I have to install the dll in the windows folder?

Will someone please direct me. I would love to use this app, but I guess I am just too much of a noobie to do so with out instruction.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Makula:
@360discgolf

had the same problem and made the same mistake - even if it's mention a 1000 times in this thread (e.g. page 51, #504, 16.) and we had to do this in former versions as well ;-)

here a little step by step instruction:

1. unzip the pocketmelody 03.zip anywhere on your desktop-pc

2. open the direc.mel-file with a text-editor, e.g. notepad and edit the file in that way, that it directs to the directory pocketmelody should search for your mp3-files. for example i've got a german wm6, so i had to change storage card//// into speicherkarte////

3.now copy the whole folder to any place you like on your ppc using activesync

4. to start pocketmelody run pocketmelody.exe on your ppc.

now everything should work fine :-)

regards,

Makula
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Best of luck Chad .... hopefully can test 0.4 soon ...

360golf

try using this cab http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=62676&d=1198253889
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stonner:
to CHAD ..awsome work in process !

Thanx Chad !,

its okk we all are weird in every other way:D ,...got that .cab file.... again best of luck with the release :) ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
dunno if i am the only 1 facing this ...

before this i use the speaker only, now i got a handsfree BT headset ... and connected via handsfree at my dev. I set the streaming audio to be directed to my headset using the BT Manager ... now my prob is i can only hear beep when i start a song wz PM .... anybody hv d same prob???

PS: when using WMPlayer no prob wz the streaming

:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 360discgolf:
Thanks Makula. Tried searching the tread, but I get impatient.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Cruzzmz, what if you use Bluemusic? It will pipe any and all audio to the BT headset. If that works, then we can probably eliminate PM as the problem.

It's not free, but it has a free trial. Get it here:

http://www.teksoftbluemusic.com/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Ahh yes, thanks for reminding me...

Chad, one more:

23. When my screen turns off or my phone goes to "sleep," music in PocketMelody stops. Furthermore, I am unable to retain control of PocketMelody without restarting it.

The developer is aware of this and is working on it for a future release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
bluemusic doesnt work for me :( ... well WMPlayer seems can stream the music ... well anyway maybe thundershadow has a huge headache now ... well best of luck
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
If Bluemusic doesn't work, then yeah, it has to be something to do with PM.

Add it to the list Chad! ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
PM Theme

ok here is an update on my theme. i havent heard from thundershadow for a while i think he is really busy trying to finish PM. ;)

i am planning to make some of the buttons little bigger but not to much.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
omg, wauwie its awesom!

10 out of ten haha:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
beta testers, please keep your fingers warm....

@everyone else

for the first time, PM has me so gripped I haven't had the time to refresh the forum. Lol, it's for the greater good. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Standing by...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Very nice!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BigDogPooh:
Awesome...

As I sit here and reflect on the some 200 total pages of posts between this version and the original all I can say is WOW. This is definitely one great piece of programming and look forward to all future releases especially when it's VGA compatible( just a small hint). Thanks for the great work..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
I couldnt help myself yet another theme

:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
The first theme u posted was awesome. The next isnt that cool. Wats great for the first theme was the bottom bar was looking awesome without the lower bar. I request you to plz remove the bottom as well as the top bar, N I know it wll look awesome, Just give it a try. Hope u'll impllement it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
standing by as always ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
like this

Is what you mean
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
PM still wont play wz my BT headset :( ... i try mt BT wz pocketplayer and it can stream my music ... well maybe chad u can add this in ur long list of to dos ...

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Ya, pretty much, Wud be nice if the close button & playlist buttons also do not have solid background. And the time display too, Just make everything kinda transparent. What are ur thoughts about it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
How this.:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
the problem im having is that i only get about 1 album to ever show album art. so i figure my mp3's must not have the correct tag id for melody to read. correct? if so, can anyone suggest a good and simple id3 tagger? thanks much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
Mp3Tag or MediaMonkey are both very good and free :)

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Ya, Exactly like this. You are Amazing, Wat do u think, & did Chad liked it????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
OK I had updated the theme tell which one you like. I have one without a background and one with a background.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
i like the without one better
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Liked the one without the background. But slider need to be customize. It wud be great if slider is between the timers. Im posting a pic here. Have a look. That wud give u an idea.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Ehem, in the spirit of new features and compatibility...ummm what format does GSPLAYER/MORTPLAYER use for their playlist. Was just thinking I can make PM use these formats so that people can have easy transition :). Yes, that's how far I've come! I'm lovin' 0.4
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Give it 2us Chad. Cant wait.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
yup when can we meddle wz the new ver ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
its been quite still today,,

any more updates on the beta chad?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
ehmmm still nothing frm chad ... he must have been so busy finishing the 0.4 .... hopefully we can get the beta b4 the new year :fingercross:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FOZZER:
PM will be the Ipot killer app for WM i love it. But will it shuffle the songs i have about 4 gigs worth on my card. Have i missed a setting some where?

If it's not there i dont mind waiting cos it's well worth it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
It is still in development stage(beta). It will have everything as soon as thundershadow finish with it and all the bugs are gone(most of it);). So please don't ask where is this where is that and leave the thread for development questions only.:D I just dont want to get this thread to long as it is.

thank you for your help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
PM Theme

New Theme. :D

my theme if you hold down the list button you get more buttons scroll down showing more options.

and the media buttons hides too(effects melts into the screen all buttons). if you press the volume button it will show the volume bar and if you hold on the volume button it will mute it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
New Theme

Hi Guy

i try to work a simply theme for PM:p

1 button: list

2 button: volume

3 button: off screen

4 button: close app

volume: touch left side to decrease volume and right for increase volume

play control: when play music while a time, this auto hide

im not a programmer, so i dun know is work or not

pls feel free to comment on this:D

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jatt_inder:
mate the theme looks nice....i think the buttons should be placed at the bottom part...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
A Powerful Release

Update:

First off, nice theme chriscsh, and comes at a good time, since I've got an important announcement to make. Me and aih1977 are going to begin working tirelessly to make 0.4 fully skinnable. To start with, I think we're going to use his skin, and chriscsh's skin as the first two choices for PM.

Ofcourse, we're going to have to create a standard for skin creation, and it will most probably be based upon a gfx folder and an accompanying .mel file. But we're gonna try to work as quickly as possible to get you guys a release, since I know you've been waiting very long for this one.

Oh! In lieu of the fact that we've lost a beta tester (he switched to a VGA device, so he'll be back on board as a tester when PM becomes VGA compliant) we'll need an additional beta tester. Just wondering if no one noticed my plead for a PM website earlier? Anyone who throws one up, (doesn't have to be fancy) will become the next beta tester. Anyone interested? I've got the web space already :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
skinnable ??? coooool ... so when can we get to test the new PM??? not rushing juz hv itchy fingers now :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
Please read I have edited this thread http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1767372&postcount=549
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wahkiz:
I don't mind beta testing lolx. qvga here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KyleK29:
Very nice work so far. Can't wait for 0.4.

If no-one steps forward within the next week to build you a page, I'll see what I can do (run a webdesign company). I could probably whip something together within an hour or so, but won't be home a whole lot til after the holidays.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jessesam:
which one is the best MP3 tag editor out there ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
just share

you no need any MP3 tag editor program, just put "my attach" and your "image" in to folder in your music and rename your image "Folder" without qoute. and change "my attach" extension with .ini extension

remember, image must be in .jpg format and size=200x190.

good luck...

sorry my english
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] whysolate:
happy new year!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Chad are there any chances, We'll get new release of PM on New Year.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
I prefer the latest version of Tag&Rename. It is not free, but you can use it free w/o limitation for 30 days. Otherwise, MediaMonkey also works well and is free.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Happy New Year ....

hopefully we can get the 0.4 soon :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
haha, here its still 1600:p

soon i will say it to you too:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
Wheres Thundershadow???

:confused: Has anyone spoken with Thundershadow14????:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey all,

Just to let you know that I'm alive, and PM is MORE THAN ALIVE. In fact, the beta testers might be in for a New Years treat ;). A lot has happened to the backend of PM, and it's been optimized a lot over the past few days. As many of you know, doing this is much harder than adding new features, and takes a wealth of time. PLUS! I lost my glasses!! So everything is a bit harder! Lol. But in short, I think i've finally worked out the kinks for the new playlist feature, and I'm almost finish the "scan for media" function.

I'm sure many of you have seen the PointUI stuff, and witnessed the nice effects the dev team has done with NON-FLASH native code! In fact (not sure how come no one has spotted this) the dev team for PointUI uses PocketHal, which is exactly what I plan to be using for Coverflo! (And that's the official name for PM's implementation of the "fruit based" CoverFlow.

Anyway! I've got to cap things off for this beta release, and hopefully get things ready for the beta testers. I'm Alive!!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
glad u r still alive & programming :D ... hope 2 get the new ver soon ... best of luck & Happy New Year
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wahkiz:
very cool , pocketHAL woah. isnt it going to use like gapi to do its work?

btw happy 2008 everyone!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Thanks Chad for the update

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
Hi Everybody

Happy New Year

here my update theme:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jatt_inder:
very nice theme...hope we can use this in PM soon..:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Nice theme, but it'll be easy if the controls are at the bottom along with the timer selector & the four buttons are at the top.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] starbase64:
@thundershadow14

Can you install an icon?

MfG

Starbase64
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
icon??? for pocket melody? i have posted cab before with icon ... see previous posts
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] s173nc3r:
Nice one! I like the nice smooth buttons without frames and minimalistic icons. Keep it up, it is IMO very promising. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
Very Very Very Quick Photoshop

i can make the buttons little bit small and i want to play with it just little more but this is what i think we should make it standard. oh i want to add a status bar of the battery and phone signal but make it small.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] manaaa:
just swap the player-controls with the bar and its a pretty hot theme!!!11

chriscsh and aih should cooperate together :)

keep the great work. thundy.. you can be proud having such great helpers. btw..when can we expect the next gorgeous release?

bb : )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Whoa... looks like PocketMelody is fizzling out on us. Chad, don't let it die dude!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Maiisoh:
Give Chad a break. He's in University, probably young and has better things to do with his life such as partying while out of school on break. The way I see it his only problem is his lack of updates and his optimistic habit of promising a release date that he can't make. I'm sure he is working real hard on this program. Give him a lot of credit. How many of us can program like he has done so far? I came to the realization that I just need to check the thread once a day at most and don't get too excited when he gets himself all excited and tells everyone to expect the next release whenever. Take it with a grain of salt. If worst comes to worst, he'll just decide to completely redo the program, closed down this thread and start another with a new name like he's done for the last how many months at which point I will follow that thread and hope to eventually get a working program. If people don't want to wait, just buy pocker player or any of the other programs out there like I did and use it until Chad gets a good working program if ever.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bpeeters:
Support for VGA devices?

Hi,

After reading all those positive comments, I tried to install it on my VGA-device. Is seems it does not support these kind of devices at the moment. :( Is there VGA-support planned for future releases?

Regards,

Bertin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Promising a release date that I can't make? Bro, if there's one thing that I don't do it's that. I always either say "I'm trying to release by today", or "if all goes well, we should have a release tonight." NEVER, do I say YOU WILL HAVE A RELEASE TODAY WITHOUT FAIL. I don't think there's need for anyone here to take things I say with "a grain of salt."

That sounds like you'd have preferred me not to do that? I made that decision COLLECTIVELY and it was determined that it was for the benefit of Melody, and for no other reason.

Quite frankly, if many more comments like that come in, we probably won't see a "good working program from me" ever.

Lol, not to worry. I'm working everyday. And I don't party ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
but its the opposite, if i hadnt done my homeork, id have got it faster..

lol

dont tell them that

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Was looking for this for 2 days now. N now that just as I was about to go to sleep here at 3:52 am. I checked this and here was the surprise. Thanks Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey all, wow, looks like my C++ coding is better than my .NET Coding. Lol, I'm happy about that though! To all of you with the full screen problem, I'm happy to say that my Dell Axim does the same thing so I'll be able to fix that without having to check back and forth with you guys. :)

I'm not wasting any time,working on 0.2 RIGHT NOW! Very excited that the core functions work, and I'm particularly happy that the scanning works so quickly, cuz I had to write that function myself, the win32 api simply had no way of doing it by itself.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
I got those photos from someone else, some time back, but since I'm not a graphics designer, and I don't intend to try (coding is enough work for me), there's no way for me to use those pictures. I could have tried to use them as is, but the resolution would have to be higher.

Any designers willing??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Yes got it!!!!:D

Works great on my Hima, scan is very fast!

Just a very little remark:

When finished scanning, it says: Please select a media to scan. I'd written Plesase select a media to play no? :p

Some suggestions for future release:

-If possible, it would be better if we could chose where to scan for files. For example, I'm storing all my ringtones on my Storage, so in the list i've got them, would be a great advantage comparing to AudioManager. ;)

-Maybe you already thought about it, but it would be great to organize MP3s by folders. For example, my MP3 are stored in a folder named Music, then there are folders with Artist and then Album. It's maybe a little to complicated but managing MP3 like this would touch the perfection (in my opinion, maybe not for other people and the app should be easy to use for the most users).

Think that's all for the moment ;) great developement!!!

Is the Album Art function in this release or not?

Congratulations Chad!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
ok, i will try to work on the design part but how high res do you need at and size of the images.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
"Please select media to scan" - Lol, sorry about that, it's what the listbox was originally intended for.

As for the organizing of the collection, I think I should be able to use some of the C++ id3v2 libs, and I think it's generally a better way to sort music. But I'll take into consideration what you're saying. :)

Oh, if melody is picking up files, like ringtones, then edit the direc.mel file, and instead of pointing it to a storage card, give it a more specific location, it will do the same thing, and I'm positive it will scan even quicker that way! Ofcourse, you won't need to edit a dumb file to do that in 0.2.

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What to expect in 0.2:

1)Fix for annoying fullscreen bug.

2)Full support for id3 tags, including albumart (once I find a library that works)

3)A cleaner interface, I can't promise scrolling, but definitely a cleaner interface (Lol, with meaningful buttons).

4)The ability to use the application as a media player, and just wait as updates bring it up to, and soon beyond the level of Melody .NET.

So, it's back to work for me, thanks so much for the feedback guys!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
It doesn't need to be THAT hi-res, at least QVGA for now. That's 320x240. Really do appreciate your offer!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
thundershadow,

Well done for taking the step to move over to C++. And well done for the step-by-step, modular approach.

I've tried your hi.exe and it does indeed work, scans and finds the mp3s, lists them and plays them fine. The pause button works as well.

A suggestion, hope you don't mind. There is going to be pressure to make this player look and work exactly like a certain fruit based phone / mp3 player. If you do so, and hard-code the graphics into the executable, fruit based lawyers will come after you and waste your hard work. Instead, I suggest you keep the effort into coding the mp3 player itself, build in good skin support (ideally so it supports skins from Media Player) and then leave it to the graphics guys here to make all sorts of skins. Fruit based ones if they like. The point is you avoid that risk from the outset.

Finally, can you get it to search for wma files as well? Most of my collection are non-DRM wma files rather than mp3.

Thanks and keep up the great work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Nice idea, I'll do that!

...

Until the 0.2 version :p

You're on the right way Chad, this first release is a success!