yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
white screen because of album art not found ... better use mp3tag to embed the album art
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
That's what I did...

That's because I have this blank screen instead of the default logo when PM doesn't find the album art that I'm asking.

Is there a size to respect when I embed the album art in the tag?

I used mp3tag to do it :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
ehmmm

i usually use 380x320 i think ... save it in jpg format
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
I get the same issue as bingoig. Most of my files show the way his does in his screenshot, then some display the default PM picture, and then a handful actually show the art correctly.

I tried to re-tag one of my "white-screen" songfiles using EXACTLY the tagging format (including album art size and resolution) as one of my files that works correctly, and still no good. Still shows the white screen for that file. :(

Something else is up. Chad, any chance you can take a second from your hard work and comment on this? Earlier in this thread, I showed where I uploaded two songfiles, one that works, one that doesn't, for you to take a look at. I troubleshot for two hours last night and ended up dry. What are your thoughts? How are YOUR mp3's encoded/tagged?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Album Art White Screen

The problem is definitely due to inappropriate skipping when saving out the jpeg found in the mp3. Remember, fmod finds the data and gives it to me, so I need to skip irrelevant data etc. Binary data is a VERY peculiar type of data to work with. Anyway, basically I'll need to determine mp3s that I'll need to skip the first byte on, and those that I don't. It's actually quite a simple process.

So it's safe to assume, that the bug has been found and identified. Do you guys want me to release a hotfix for this? Or would you prefer to have it included in the 0.3 release. I don't like creating too many hotfixes, but if you guys would really like to use the player as is, just let me know, and I'll post up an exe. :)

EDIT:

This is why I love this community. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I would vote for letting it go untill version 0.3!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Think we can wait for the 0.3 release since it's more a "design" bug than a real functionnal one. It doesn't prevent to use PM every day ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Agreed. Keep up the hard work and we'll look forward to an awesome 0.3!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
put it on ver 0.3 ... by d way chad, how bout the weird symbol on top bar??? found the solution yet? ... if there is any put it in ver 0.3 oso ... like Bingoig11 said
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supbro:
It sounds like it couldn't find any mp3's. By default, it searches for music on your storage card but you can change that setting by editing the "direc" file. So if it can't find any mp3's, you'd end up with an empty list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ceetee480:
Hey Chad PM works great on my 6700 running wm6. So let me say good job. I have not had to post because most of the problems I was having were answered and fixed through this great thread. But I do have one bug that I have found. When using PM If I get a phone call, after the call I cant get the sound back in PM. I have to exit the program and restart it. Then is fine again till next call, anyone have any ideas? Thanks and keep up the great work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tiggerbcn:
I have already edited this file, and have put the route where I have the files Mp3 but it keeps on going out equally, for example I have put them in My documents and in the file I have tried:

My documents

\My documents

\My Documents\

And not work of any form, is anything more necessary to bend apart from the program of the first post??, it is that I read that you speak about Album Art, and of that I have not seen anything.

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Working on 0.3 as we speak, ummm the weird symbols, are either (and I'm sure about this) either a result of the same byte shifting mentioned with regards to the album art, or, accessing a frame that doesn't seem to have the correct values. Aaaah, in the good old days of id3v1 there was one tag for album, song name, and artist each, JUST ONE! Now it seems like they've got a million. Lol.

Try and keep the naming convention of the original direc.mel file. Leave the slashes in there. The VS compiler works VERY strangely when it comes to wide and multibyte character variables.

I'm working, beta testers, be on standby ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Im checking email regularly awaiting the new test version :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update

Ok guys, if you like Larna's iContacts scrolling routine, I can guarantee you'll like the scrolling routine found in PM 0.3. I just finished adding in all of Larna's scroll routine code into PM. And it JUST COMPILED!! Lol, I haven't tested it yet, but I'm assuming all wont be nice and rosey, but getting it to compile was indeed hard work. We had a few variables with the same name, which made things quite messy to change, but I made sure most of the change, in fact, almost ALL save one line, was done to my code and not to Larna's.

I'll be sure to give Larna full credit on the main page as soon as I release 0.3, and in the source as well. Can anyone verify that I'm not breaking any licensing by using Larna's code? It is truly open source correct? If not, please let me know before I re-distribute.

Working....working....working :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
Can't wait.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
so where can we (beta tester) download it ??? ... PM me d detail
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Just another update,

*Phew* Credit must be given to Larna, I'm only NOW able to get the playlist output using the iContact code. And that's JUST the text output, about to fully implement the scrolling now. I'm hoping to have something to show tonight.

The work continues..Lovin' it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobaka:
icontact is very nice.

note/suggestion

1. on Touch. when you press on transparent 'abc' at lower right then slide up to try to select a character, it opens cube, which of course you don't want.

you can sometimes avoid that by sliding left then up but it's awkward

If 'ABC' is moved up slightly it will be out of the zone where cube is activated.

Same happens if you swipe up on list entry at bottom of screen.

2. Seems like scrolling stops a little too soon.

If you can tweak it to go farther it would be improved.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Hey all,

Going to bed now, almost got the scrolling down, I just need to port the existing iContact code over from a dialog into a window. I should have started on a fresh window, since Larna used lot's of paint functions specific to windows. I'll start work on that first thing tomorrow morning. You can be sure that you'll be scrolling through your playlist very soon. I will leave you though, with a little screen shot that looks a lot like iContact, but i can assure you, IT ISNT! :D If you look very carefully at the bottom (just as proof) you can see the old "back to player" button you know from 0.1 and .2.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supbro:
Thanks for the teaser! It looks very promising. I can't wait for the next release!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
question

I'm discovering your app.. i've tried it when it was call Melody. I've installed version 2.1 bur this cannot read anything ? or did i missed smthg ?

thx.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Ha! I see my "Organ Splitter" mp3 that I sent you on there! You used it! Good to know. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] qball1616:
Great App

First I want to say this is a great app, and it works great on my T-Mobile Wing. I get the white screen for my album art, but I read through and found that it will be fixed in the next version which is cool with me as the white screen does not mess with the functionality of the player itself. My question however is how do you minimize the player so that you can do other functions on your phone? I like to use my phone at work as an ipod basically and stream my music through bluetooth while I work. As of right now I have only been able to figure out how to open and close the program and not minimize it so it is running in the background and i can access other functions on my phone like email and text messaging etc. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated or maybe this is something that will be included in a later release.

thanks and keep up the great work on this program it is by far the best player around and works great on my phone
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
*yawn* :)

Hey all, just got up and reporting for duty! It's back to work as usual, like I said I'm gonna start by migrating the playlist from a dialog box to a real window. I'll keep you posted.

Have you edited direc.mel?

I'll include that in 0.3, but for now, it is possible for you to just tap the end call button on your phone, and that should take you back to your today screen. Quite crude, but there's no other way just yet :). Hope this helps.

Working....working...working...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
good luck, i am on standby;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] qball1616:
Thanks

Chad,

thanks for the tip on pushing the end button to minimize it...i think that is the only thing i didn't try lol...Again thanks for the great program i have really enjoyed using it and good luck on 0.3 i can't wait to try the new version too
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] babaq:
Hi, thundershadow14, I just hope you will the next version capable of using square screens - I am looking forward to giving PocketMelody a try!

Martin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] comput1:
PDA compatibility

Will it work in my Fujitsu Siemens pocket loox n560? is there a list of compatible devices?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
try it 1st :) ... ull never know ...

Chad, ready as ever to test :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update:

Beta tester please be on standby, Melody's playlist is now scrollable ;). I'm just cleaning up some of the redundant code, and trying to make things as optimum as possible. I need to re-link my buttons properly etc. cuz I had things set up rather haphazardly for debugging. So, I'll be signing on as soon as I'm done cleaning up, and for those of you who aren't online, I'll be sending you the stuff via email.

We're ALMOST at the equivalence stage in terms of Melody .NET.

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
bring it on Chad...!

and for those who like soccer, my dear beloved psv is losing:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
Hey chad...

thanks for your hard work

Can't waiting, for the great your application.....

i'm so excited

Sorry for my english
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Standing by....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
On Standby as always.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] showaco:
Thanks for the tip on minimizing. You're doing a great job, keep up the good work. One question: when program minimized I noticed d-pad up/down still works volume which is great, but is there anyway to also use left/right to control skipping tracks and center button for play/pause so that we don't have to reopen to change these?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update:

Going to bed, larna's routine, fully implemented, and sent to the beta testers. If you're a beta tester listed on the main page, and you didn't get an email, please let me know right here on the forum.

Now that was a full days work....I'm out! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
hey chad,

can you send one to me thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
No email so far
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Thanks Chad, testing it n will report back.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Sorry Double post, see next post for the Report --->>>>
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Heres my first Report for v0.3 BETA:

1. Slight increase in the startup time.

2. Removed the welcome screen.

3. Playlist loads up without delay.

4. Playlist scrolling works fine, but the text is out of sync i.e. Files with long names goes beyond the display.

5. Problem of white screen instead of album art in some songs still exists.

6. Strange symbol instead of Tag at the top bar.

Rest everything is working fine n loving it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Chad

No email from you yet ... BTW pls mail it to my gmail, cruzzmz@gmail.com

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
I noticed one strange thing, no one has mentioned it here.

I played a song in PM n it displayed the album art correctly, then I played another song, it displayed the album art correctly, but when I played the first song again It didnt showed the album art but the white screen. Chad, I'll look it out for other songs too. N I think its about d Redraw function.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] motisu:
would it be possible to add placeholder cababilities to the new version? I presently use Coreplayer for audiobooks and am very impressed with Pocketmelody V.2 but the fact that it doesn't "remember" where I was in the book is a real killer for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Let me see if I understand the request :) : You need for example, a button, that will save the position of an individual file for further use, even if the player is closed an reopen. Correct??

To the Beta Testers:

Nice work on the testing so far, I'm yet to hear from three of you, but the system of beta testing seems to be working nicely. I think once I fix the albumart and the strange characters, I'll make that 0.3, and dedicate album scrolling to 0.4. Good idea no??

A friend of mine is coming over for some programming help for a project of his, so I wont begin working on PM until a few more hours.

Looking forward to hearing from the balance of beta testers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
yes but still white screen when pushing "list" button, and having back to player button.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
ok edited direc.mel with pathes like that mypath\\\\

but i can't see album art.

Nice soft however.

Does anyone knows how my album art must be called or wich extension supported for pic ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] motisu:
Exactly, or you could do it the way it is done in Coreplayer. There, whenever you close the player, when you reopen it, it starts the last loaded file from the same position automagically. I assume that it updates a file or registry entry or something else to always know in which file it is and where it is in the file.

It could be done automatically or if you don't want the overhead of constantly updating something, it could be a button. My opinion would be to make it an option if you want the automaic position save function enabled or not.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
chad

still nothing on my mail :( ... check ur PM pls
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Is it possible for you to sign in on msn, or skype? Or ANY IM?? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
chad,

Can you please send me the program so i can look at it and it will help me on the graphics ;)

thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
please can someone tell how to cfg the .mel file... i can't have 2 subfolders in my music folder, they are not not discovered

----

ok it doesnt read wma
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
i can sign in to Yahoo Messenger ... or u can just put the file ftp (see ur PM)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supbro:
In my opinion this is the coolest feature of Coreplayer. I would love to see it in PM!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Agree with most of these also. Cannot minimize and restore the app and have it come to front again. When app is minimized it takes over all buttons which means I cant answer my phone :).

Looks good otherwise and memory footprint etc is still very small.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
the title still in symbols, font is too big so cannot see the full mp3 name (if it is long).... other then that i think reported already
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
sometimes when you switch between songs it doesnt change the song's name so it stays with the previous song's title

nothing more to add
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Nothing new today ???? chad must be busy cooking something ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Ehem, oh yes I am :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
I think you are a specialist when you're cooking a surprise and you want to keep it secret :P

Damned it's very very hard for us to be patient!!! :D

Think about children waiting for their Xmas gift! lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Update:

I've been working hard indeed, and I've got a little surprise coming your way. Currently I'm taking a little time to set up my development environment on my mac, so I can continue to code PocketMelody on my Primary OS :). Why am I even bothering you to tell you this? Lol, well that means I should be able to develop somewhat faster, since I'll be burning less time fretting about how I hate being in windows, when I'd much rather be in OS X...etc. etc. etc.

One more beta release to be handed out for 0.3, and then the actual release for everyone else will be posted right here. I realize that the whole beta thing might be a bit slower, but it ensures a better --less bug-riddled release.

I'm here, and I'm working......
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Cool stuff indeed :D ... well u know where to reach me (better give all the beta tester the http link ;))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
About to goto bed, just got my OS X box set up the way I like it:

MSN Live Messenger

uTorrent

Pelles C IDE

Visual Studio 2005​

All working nice and smooth, bye bye windows. I'm aiming for a release tomorrow, and will put all my energies into doing just that. Until then, it's zzzzz's time for me. I'm out!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
two questions

Hi, I have two questions:

1. Does pocketmelody still play aac files like the old version or does it only play mp3 files?

2. I have Hi.exe & PocketMelody.exe, can I delete either one or should I just keep both in \program files\pocketmelody 0.1 folder?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nameless[PL]:
orchids:

2: As I can remember You can delete "PocketMelody.exe", and use only "Hi.exe".

thundershadow14:

We are waiting :D Thanks and congratulations :)

P.S: Sorry for my bad english...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
yup use only Hi.exe

chad .... hopefully can get the new beta soon .... PM me when u have done it

another thing chad, hopefully the next release, in the playlist we can see smaller fonts plus artist & title in 2 lines & maybe a thumbnail of the album art?

keep up ur good work :thumbs up:

Found a solution for the symbol title, cannot use mp3tag, I have to edit & save title using the windows one :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] acc0101:
There is a bug , sometime it can't change the song when i dab on the button.

And I wanna ask how can i close the program in a proper way and change the ablum cover? :)

BTW, it's a cool stuff

Work hard:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Tap on bottom left of the player below the rew button should close the program

as in? if u have album cover in every song u have when the song change, cover will change

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Ughh... I do NOT want to go into all my files and manually update the tags! :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
that is what i am facing now :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Chad,

wish you the best with your os x computer!

Good luck with the development now.

We are all, i am at least, pretty excited with how thing are going right now, just PM or IM me if you are in need to test anything.

Mucha suerte!(good luck, aha)

chao.:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
You dont have to do that guys, it's just because melody looks for the tags in the TIT2 frame, and your tag program doesn't put the information in that frame. There will be a release soon, don't go changing anything, cuz I want to make this app as universal as possible. A little more time, that's all :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] motisu:
Hi Chad,

You didn't respond to my clarification of the memory option. I just wanted to know if I made myself clear about how it works and if there is any chance of putting this option into a future version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Yup yup, can't give you an exact version, but since 0.4 has been officially set for the inclusion of album scrolling, versions thereafter will include smaller features such as the one in question :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] motisu:
Thanks for the info. Waiting patiently:).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
cool .... :D ... hopefully ur nx release will fix that
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
It does, actually, I just fixed that :). PM has a more universal approach to finding id3 info from mp3 files. Beta release will happen today, and the public release will be out depending on how quick the beta testers can give feedback.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
NEW SKIN

hey,

i am going to be designing a new skin i will send to you as soon i can i been really busy this week with family being over all weekend. i hope you like.

thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Great news! I'm actually working on implementing your current one right now, just remember to PM me if you send me anything in my email :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
I have posted some screenshots of v0.3 BETA on the second post and I'll keep it updated as per releases, be it beta or public. I'll also update a YouTube video later. I hope Chad dont have any problems, Chad, do plz let me know wat are your opinions about it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nameless[PL]:
Thanks :D It is cool :) Keep working ;D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Nice idea, keeps everyone else somewhat connected even through beta releases. I've got NO problem with this great idea!

To beta testers: doing some final clean up before the last beta release of this version. Release in reach. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
I await the beta :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Ready as ever, PM me the way ... :D