yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Best of luck on your tests, I hope they go well!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marco899:
Oke, i changed te mel file and now it works on my Tytn II. Keep up the verry good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yaron316:
wow, what player/skin is that? meizu?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeanbillfr007:
No, I mean the entire pathname.

You can try to put a MP3 on your main memory, change the direc.mel to point to your main memory (i don't know if it's possible) and try again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
Thundershadow14, Great work man! Giving us something to play with and keeping us away from Apples Iphone hehe... :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nameless[PL]:
I have done it on my ppc (HP iPAQ 2210 - WM 2003) but it didn't help. I can see only a black screen, with the pause button in the middle on the bottom. I can only scan card for media and play/playse it but nothing else (there is only "pause button").
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ciccione:
Same for me on HP RW6815. :(

I'm very very sad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
so, you only have the pause button?

does it play songs once selected, and also does pressing pause stop the song, and press again restart it?

because if it does this, then thats what its meant to do..and all its meant to do, v0.1 is just building the player, and nothing else

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zer0day:
Relax, hes working on other features. The pause button is the only one there atm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Unfortunatly I do not have the pause button, and I can't get to the button on the scan screen to go back to the player to show. I am on the 700WX. Does anyone else have this problem, or have it running well on a 700WX?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dawkness:
I get the same thing and I have the 700WX as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
is the 700wx a square screen device, ie, 240x240 pixels? because im fairly sure it isnt supported

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dawkness:
Yes it is L7 (square). Will there be a version out for us L7's?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Yes, it is 240x240. I hope it does become supported, I would love to use this app, (here's hoping thundershadow14 wants to help out us squares)!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
hmmm.. i dont know, the thing about porting to vga [i think] is that its pretty similar, just gota increase the length and width of everything by a scale factor.. but with suares, it has to be redesignred.. maybe a version will come for you with no bar to change modes maybe.. but im not certain, its all chads work.. he might be working on it right now..

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
LoL. I was thinking the same thing. Like, "hmmm the button works just fine and the scanning feature works as well."

Ok, nevermind my post. It works great.

Like the others have posted, the scan was amazingly fast. Can wait to try the next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
My problem (well....one of them at least) is that I am not a programmer, so I don't get some of the fine points that I am sure are driving thundershadow14 (and others) crazy!! I didn't know if it would be difficult to convert to a square screen, and I didn't know why it wouldn't cause a scroll-bar effect (like when you place too many plug-ins on your Today screen).

Oh well...if it can't be done, or he does not want to bother with it I couldn't blame him a bit (but....I can hope)!!!!!

Thanks for the info!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
Vga Required

ILL BE WAITING FOR VGA VERSION,

YOU SHOULD SEE THIS http://labs.blitzagency.com/wp-content/070522/BLITZ_Papervision_UI_DEMO.swf

REGARDS
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Question of VGA and Square Devices.

To all of the VGA and Square device people, I haven't forgotten you, for I once used a Square device ;) Lol. I must say though, you're going to have to wait a bit, until, like I said, I solidify the application. It's not as simple as changing a few form properties in the .NET framework ;). I just got back from uni, and I'm going to continue work on 0.2 now. But I am very happy with the results so far. Hoping to release 0.2 in a few hours, if all goes well.

FLASSSSSHHHH RUNNNN!!!! Lol, I'm just kidding, that looks really nice, and I've saved that swf. Although I vow not to use any flash in the native version the design concept outlined will help A LOT! I'll be using pocketfrog or some other graphics lib to get the job done. My assumption is that if I use pocketfrog to do the scrolling as well we might experience a scrolling list that doesn't skip while playing mp3s. Time will tell, or more specifically, 0.3 will tell ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I look forward to keeping track of your progress, and any amount of time I await square screen compatability will be well worth it!!!!

* Bet ya aced the exams!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ciccione:
Ops... :p :o

Ok, then this PocketM v0.1 works fine and very fast on rw6815.

Thank you Thundershadow14.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Usual Update

Hey all, just decided to update yah on the exciting news!

I just finished coding the function to extract the albumart data out of our mp3s. It turns out that the fmod function doesn't really parse any of the data for you, it just takes the frame and throws it at you. That was all well and good for text frames like Album and song name etc. But when it came to album art, well, let's just say you don't wanna see what comes out when you write a jpeg file out with MIMETYPE strings and the such included in it's content. Anyway, too much info, point is, PocketMelody now has FULL support for ID3V2 and V1 Tags, including the albumart without the use of a dumb python script. And, OH yeah, fmod is also very efficient, so the blazing speed you've grown used to, in terms of scanning for mp3s, well the same can be said for the rate at which it pulls data.

AAAAH The joys of C++.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Nice news :D

Waiting for 0.2 like a child is waiting for Xmas lol!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gtdRR:
Awesome News. Keep up the great work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffreynew23:
File Access Denied

I am getting a file access denied message. Am i installing this wrong?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update before 0.2

Want to know how things are going?

Things I said would need to be ready for 0.2.

1)Fix for annoying fullscreen bug. --DONE

2)Full support for id3 tags, including albumart --DONE

3)A cleaner interface, I can't promise scrolling, but definitely a cleaner interface (Lol, with meaningful buttons). --Almost done, Working on a little surprise ;)

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. --DONE

Working on the little surprise mentioned above, I think it will add a nice touch to the UI. I'm almost there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Thanx for the update, I was just about to request for the info.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Desiflare999:
man keep up you great work, i am so thrilled after reading all the new featurez and updates that we will recieve. As i wait for my LCD Screen to replace my TyTN II..i cant wait fer you release. Wow..Great!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] splkia:
Bluetooth support

hey just wondering how hard it would be to integrate bluetooth support into this awesome media player, I tried the older version and I was very impressed, showed alot of promise but to many bugs . like everyone else I await your new release. keep up the good work and if you need a beta tester count me and my Tytn in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Why not just use the utility that directs sound output to bluetooth.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snotboy32:
Hey guys! My boss paid me for my overtime yesterday (Friday) It just covered the Price for an Ipod Touch 8GB... SO I bought one (sorry guys?)

But Im still using Pocketmelody on my Pda.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
its no crime to want an ipod touch, or iphone... id love one of each, but i think ill get an ipod touch.. to be honest, i love pocketmelody, just that i think ill never only use my pda as my mysic player, ill always have an ipod, so i may aswell upgrade it...

and thanks for the update chad

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, even I'm thinking of getting a touch. It really doesn't have a direct effect on Melody. I continue to code it since, well, I love to code, and it shows the versatility of the WM platform. So no need for the sorry ;) Lol.

Oh, and I'm ALMOST finished 0.2, I think you guys will be pretty happy with it ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
I dont buy single taskers which is why I havent bought an ipod. Also I cannot stand the itunes drm stuff.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wahkiz:
lol drm. i thought apple vowed to change all that?

thunder, i m very interested in your development of pocketmelody. I myself experimented fmod using .net, and find it pretty neat. But I have not possess the knowledge in programming pocket pc in C++. Is there any resources you might recommend?

I am interested in helping to speed up the development of this, if you need any. ^^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hargibi:
This will be awsome :)

Can we get a preview screenshot ? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey wahkiz,

Good to see you making the move to C++. For the most part, most of the regular PC C++ win32 knowledge base works fine for learning C++ on the PocketPC. So you're free to go with any tutorials you find for the PC. But, if I had to choose one that really explained things nicely, check out this link:

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/index.html

It's also in Spanish, Arabic and Italian ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
hi chad, it had been awkwardy (something like that) still today in this forum, could you give us perhaps some updates, i am really eager to test the .2,

but maybe im just pushing too much,

if so, just tell me, im not the one putting all the efforts in PM(pocketMelody)

well, good luck!

cheers!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update is fully in order.

Sorry guys for the lack of updates, but trust me, it's not because I haven't been working, in fact it's the complete opposite!! 0.2 adds some peculiar features that I've been trying to really fool proof and debug. Inherently this process take much longer in C++ than with .NET. For example, the main player is now on a separate dialog, instead of on the main window, which allows for easier GUI manipulation. Because of this, I no longer had to paint the GUI manually, and had to use a static control for the album art. This brought up a new issue, since I had to extensively learn about blitting, device contexts etc. in order to resize the bitmap. Anyway, enough rambling, I'm working EXTREMELY hard to get a release out tonight, just give me a little more time.

Keep checking :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Take all the time you need Chad - we will keep refreshing :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patcando2:
We are rooting for you man and appreciate your hard work. I will donate when you are done!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Likewise - if you can get paypal etc working. Last time I tried it wasnt a rousing success
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Chad - any status update?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sketchy9:
Can't wait to see the upgrade! I'm sure you've got a lot of tricks up your sleeve...

-R
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey guys, 0.2 seems like it's taking forever. It would have been released today, but I had a power outage the ENTIRE DAY :(. I barely got to finish my research paper, which is due tomorrow, so I didn't get a chance to work on PocketMelody. Tomorrow I've got no work to do, so the chances of a release are VERY high. All I have to do is figure out why the fmod call back functions aren't working. No longer do I intend to use a timer to check to see when the song is done playing, this will boost efficiency a lot! Anyway, just that one thing left to sort out, and 0.2 is yours :).

Don't like to make promises, but it looks like tomorrow will be it. Going to bed now, cuz I'm not sure i can keep my eyes open much longer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
Get your sleep buddy, I'm sure you don't want to feel like you're letting anyone down.

We can wait patiently. I'm sure the final result will be worth the wait.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
0.2 Is out!

Ok guys, I really must thank you for your patience, but here I am with 0.2, I'll never let you down ;).

Let's get right into it, this version took A LOT of work, and I think will pave the way into a really great media player in the very near future.

New Features:

1)You can actually use PM as a mp3 player as is.

2)Full Support for ID3 tags, and reads album art perfectly

3)Introduction of NEW Melody Bar

4)Cleaner Player Interface, Next and Previous buttons with some oooooh ANIMATIONS!

5)Plays playlist song by song, then restarts as it reaches the end (Okay that's probably not a 'feature' but coding it was harder than it sounds, lol.

6)No timer used to keep track of song position. Efficient callbacks used!

7)All hardware device keys locked, except the phone hang up and answer keys.

8)Built in display off function, not some other applications bloated EXE. ;)

9) Independent volume system. So make sure you turn up your normal wave output on your device if you want full blast.

Phew, and I'm POSITIVE im forgetting something. Anyway, this release attempts to set a VERY solid foundation to build on, and that's part of the reason it took so long.

Usage/Installation:

Usual, copy the files over and run the exe.

Once it starts, you'll notice something a bit different. You'll be greeted with a "Welcome to Pocket Melody" screen. Just tap anywhere on the screen and watch the main player screen make her entrance. Lol, anyway, from there, hit the album art portion of the screen to bring up the melody bar.

1st Icon: Turns the screen off.

2nd Icon: Closes Menu Bar

3rd Icon: Takes you to the playlist screen (same as 0.1 ofcourse)

The other two volume icons explain themselves.

Ofcourse the functionality and graphics of this bar ARE MUTABLE, and will no doubt change, this was more of a proof of concept with the little slide animation and all.

I also increased the screen real estate that the album art takes, I think it looks better, since most of the albumart attached jpegs have the res to handle it ;).

Okay, I'm gonna let this one loose on yah, and goto bed, cuz as usual, I'm HALF DEAD! Lol. The download link is on the first post.

Send in the bugs!

G'Night for now :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Thanks Chad, Waited for it long. I'll try it and report back.

UPDATED: Its AWESOME!!! Chad. Thanks. Everything is working fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Kudos Chad. I am so excited. I cant stop using it. Man ur great

I would like to suggest few updates for the next releases.

1. Display of info including Artist Name, Title. U can display it on top bar like Artist Name on top & Title below it.

2. Display of Playing time.

3. Seek Bar.

4. I know u'll b looking to add flip 3d for Album Art.

PS: It sometime give an Back Callback Error. After that some files play & some doesn't
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jatt_inder:
wooo what a nice music player...thanks for developing and sharing with us. I have two quick questions. What is the top bar for??? It doesn't display anything. Also will you add the album scroll feature that was in ur previous player. The feature in iphone.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Machina2o2:
So far im loving the progress of the player

1. Wont render in landscape instead it renders 66% and leaves the rest. Works fine in portrait.

2. Display name is white for me and only visible if I try to highlight it.

3. Album art shows nothing but white background no actual art.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blackbit.net:
Great!

This is great work! I already liked the .NET version, but this is very promising!

A tip: if you want a player that is going to be VERY, VERY popular, you should try to include support for AirTunes! It would be a first, as even iPODS are not able to do that. You can use the freely available code from the "JustePort" project of Jon Lech Johansen. It should not be to difficult ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
Hi, it's looking really good. I keep getting "Callback Error" messages, then "Cannot find file." Not sure if anyone else gets this.

Are you going to add support for wma files when you've had some sleep?

Good luck with the ongoing project.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
dont know why, but i cant get it work

i think the button is not at the right position

and when i go into the playlist

nothing display at it:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Steph:
"Callback Error" message seems to occur when a special character (such as letter with accents) is present in the full path name of the MP3 file.

BTW thundershadow14, very very promising player. take some rest and we will bother you with FR really soon :)

The_Steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
nice work on ver 0.2

just that i got the upper part white bar only (see attached img) ... what do i have to see up there? ... also the close button (x) does not quit the application ... other than that button all r ok :D

BTW i made a cab file of the new version .... enjoy

u rock man ....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hoankhang000:
it's look great!!!!

but i can't play the music and i received an error "CallBack Error" .

when i press the playlist icon that quit the program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
Vga Required !

Hi

VERY NICE APP CHAD, WAITING FOR VGA VERSION HOPE U'LL DO IT SOON

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK PAL.

REGARDS

sSHAH
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Rock on, Chad!

Ok Chad, you did a really good job. Kudos to you. And props, but maybe thats not enough haha.

This is the first really stable player youve made. The animations are really good,

i have got a suggestion(although maybe youre going to work on that later on): When you go to playlist, you slide left and when you go back, you let it slide to the right. That way you creat an effect that the playlist screen is located at the right side. And then you could create another screen, maybe options or something else, and then you let it slide to the left and to go back, to the right.

Well, me too met some problems with the call back error screen, i was playing some music for some a little while when it started to go all wrong.

But of course this is only the .2 version so it is very very promissing. Next thing on to do list is to make the playlist screen prettier and maybe to get rid off the call back errror.

Well, in a nutshell this is very very promising.

Compared to the .NET .2 version, well i got no words for that, haha. It is no fair comparison.

Keep up the good work and you will be hired by Microsoft, to finally alter the windows media player in WM. Haha,

no but seriously Chad,

YOU ROCK!

Cheerzz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
When ur going to create playlist routine, do make it such that it is easy to browse if there are many songs. i.e. sorted like ipod ie. by Artist, Album etc. or you cud display a 3 line info. including thumbnail of the album art on left and rigth next to it the Title, Artist and Time.

Like this:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] randomelements:
Liking it so far - here's my initial thoughts:

- full screen seems a bit buggy

- the bar across the top is white text on white

- doesn't remember volume settings when moves to the next track

- should be able to use bottom buttons when menubar is open

Other than that this is looking purty good Chad :)

Keep it up man.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sick dude:
i've been following this thread 4 quite a while, now for 0.2 i decided to give it a try and i must say you really worked out a good media player!

although i'm getting call back errors 4 all kinds of symbols in son or artist such as german "umlaute" äöü for example...maybe you could integrate them! that would be great!

and if i tap the screen to use the in-/decrease vol button or use the medialist or...(u know what screen i mean) i can't get back to normal playback screen without goin over the medialist again! that sucks!

and the player somehow doesn't work properly with s2u, cuz when s2u appears and turns off the lcd the music won't continue playin'

everything else works great! Good job!!! keep up the good work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jomo25:
Looks great so far! My comments so far:

1. THe pause doesn't seem to pause at the exact spot. Its sometimes seems to mute only, if that makes sense.

2. Closing the app is a little confusing. I could only do it by tapping below the play controls

3. Does it support WMAs yet? Its only finding my MP3s so far.

4. If I turn off the screen using the first button, how do I turn it back on? I did by pressing the power button, but then it put me in my home screen,and when i switch back to PM, it would have a title bar and the play/rev/for buttons would no longer work.

Thanks for all your work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
Great app chad, the only thing is quitting.. i couldnt work it out.. but somehow did it..

very stable too, havent used it much, but no errors so far..

i like the idea of swiping side to get to playlist select screen.

rory

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zer0day:
Very nice work! After having a go with it (on WM5), here are some things I noticed:

- Volume not remembered when changing tracks

- No way to exit program without force killing it (?)

- No current volume indicator

Hopefully you'll find my feedback useful :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Hi Chad!

Thanks for this release, just tested it quickly:

Got a blank bar on top, normal? If I click on it, got a cursor.

Cannot quit the program, have to tap on a phone button and use task manager to kill it.

Animations are a little lagging on my old Hima.

That's all for my 2 min test. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marco899:
Nice version.

Bugs:

When using -/+ volume, other buttons doesn't work anymore

Close button doesn't work.

Screen is oke on my Tytn II no white top as others say.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Loving The Fb

Hey guys, I just woke up, and WOW, that's a lot of feedback..I'm LOVING IT!! Okay, I'm going to release a minor patch a little later today, that addresses some of the annoying little bugs outlined.

1)The white bar where the current playing info is.

2)The volume up/down issue

3)The pause button issue

Oh, and to quit the app, hit the bottom left hand corner of the screen, just like in the .NET version of Melody. The "X" in the menu bar is to CANCEL the menu. Lol, I'll need better icons ;).

Keep checking for a patch guys ;).