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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
PocketMelody 0.1

Yes! Finally PocketMelody emerges out of the darkness. Now, before you download PLEASE READ BELOW:

This release of melody is not completely usable as a media player YET, 0.2 aims for that. This current version of melody is a test version! Most of the core MP3 and directory scanning functions are at work, and I think it's PERTINENT to make sure they work well before advancing to more detailed aspects of the application. Indeed, I feel that was a major developmental issue with Melody .NET.

Most of you know the drill, unzip the zip file, and drag over the folder to your PDA, and run PocketMelody.exe

NOTE: PocketMelody doesn't ask you for your directory, it simply scans the storage card. If you storage card isn't "Storage Card" please change the path in the "direc.mel" file. AND LEAVE THE TRAILING SLASHES! :)

It's safe to just put your storage card, as PocketMelody will scan ALL folders and ALL subfolders, for mp3's.

Usage:

Once PocketMelody is running (yes I know it only has the pause button, I took out the others so we can concentrate on the core functions), click ANYWHERE on the screen besides on the pause button, and you should see a list box with all the mp3s found. Click on a song, and it should play.

Also, verify that the pause button is working.

Hit the extreme bottom left hand corner of the player screen to exit.

Let the bugs role in!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
congratulations chad on your first "release" of pocketmelody:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bedoig:
Working well for me so far on a WM6 Apache. Playing and Pausing works. And the scanning was REALLY quick. Nice!

There's not supposed to be landscape support yet right?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I am really sorry if I missed this point, but I am on a 700WX (240x240 screen), and I get the scanning screen, but I can't do anything with it, I get the box with the list if files, and I can barely see another box on the bottom of the screen that has the file I click on in it. I would assume there is a button/function further down I should be seeing.

One other thing is that my keyboard icon does not go away, so that even further inhibits what I can see/do.

As I mentioned, I hope it isn't something I missed in discussion, but that is what I get.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
I don't have PocketMelody.exe in the zip file I downloaded??? Only direc.mel, fmodce.dll, and Hi.exe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bratag:
Tested on my kaiser - runs just fine. The scan seems quite fast as well. I have a lot of mp3's on my card and the list takes a little while to pop up - but thats minor. Play functionality seems great, clicking on the song in the list changes the song playing - great stuff.

Memory usage is about 2x wmedia but then its a better/will be a much better player.

CPU Usage is less than Wmedia and I had no glitches at all in sounds moving to other apps and so on - fantastic.

I would say all in all for a first release its amazing, especially considering you didnt even start coding in C++ until a few weeks ago. Cannot wait for the album art etc portion to be out.

Rock on Chad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I have been using the Hi.exe, I think its cool...a hello to the new (and improved) Melody!!! LOL

I also wanted to add...I ran the app again, and I actually had it come up and hide the keyboard icon (still can't do anything from there though). Plus, the black screen that comes up first does not show anything (not even pause), and won't go to the selection screen until I tap it a few times.

OK....you wanna talk about embarassed....all this time my sound has been switched off (I am at work), when I hit the switch I heard the music I clicked on in the scanning screen, I can't do anything else though, I have to hit my OK button, then after I bring the player back up, the top menu bar does not go away, so I can click on the red close 'X'.

Plays nicely though!!!! :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
thundershadow,

when you are finish with pocketMelody you should make it look like the

attached photos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
I second that, really fast scanning! great :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
Ok, using Hi.exe (not PocketMelody.exe) everything is working great. Good job Chad!

Ok, we're ready for 0.2!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imhuy:
Awesome! Checking it out now, keep up the good work. :)

Edit: No problems as of yet. Everything works extremely fast, responds almost the instant i click something.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rorydaredkign:
ive been checking all day, then i actually did my stats homework for the first time in a year.. and at home even more surprisingly, and thats when melody gets released.. very fast scanning and starting. great work. and play works here too...

however, i too have the keyboard icon on the player screen aswell as the song list screen...

and one thing i like over all previous melodies.. it doesnt automatically turn sound on..

great release chad

x
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
See....it's like I tell my kids..."Do your homework and then you get your rewards!!!" LOL
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
I just finished uploading the video of PocketMelody on youtube,

The first sounds you hear are from Pocketalarm,

These are played smoothly, but when i get to the real sogns it starts to slow down a bit.

here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z720i2Ijyuw

PocketMelody has gone YOUTUBE!!

Cheers,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
I just finished uploading the video of PocketMelody on youtube,

The first sounds you hear are from Pocketalarm,

These are played smoothly, but when i get to the real sogns it starts to slow down a bit.

here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z720i2Ijyuw

PocketMelody has gone YOUTUBE!!

Cheers,

Edit: browser is acting strange:S
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hoankhang000:
where should i install on main memory or storage card?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] s173nc3r:
Hi, it becomes better and better! For the first look i just cannot find any bug. Maybe later? ;)

But i have small objection on the UI

I must say here in this post is presented UI which i was very ecstatic, but now i am little dissapointed.

The "return" button has ugly frame and does not correspond with the others.

Indicating of pressed play/ffwd/rew is very helpful, but the blue glow is not very eyecandy.

Please do not take this bad, i just feel it that way...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Luochao522:
THANK YOU ...but

thank you for you software.

I do not own this device of qvga.so I can not experience this fantastic function of pocketmeloy0.3.

if you have a lot of spare time , I hope you can creat that version for VGA .......such as d900. From melody running on net structure to this latest version of pocket melody 0.3 ,I still witness a lot of improvements for software due to you creative work. according to what you said on post above, you have been working hard for 0.4 version ,may I give you a suggestion?0.4 version will be compatible with devices of VGA as well as one OF QVGA?:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
Doesnt Work

Sorry but for me, when i hit the list button, the ppc goes in hibernate mode or whatever unknwn mode, because it's hard to get it out from hibernation, and after i must close the app to do somthing with my trinity.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
did you change in the direc.mel "storage card" to "carte de stockage" ???

will work so
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Makula:
@aragorn21

OMG! Stupid me ;-) That did the trick for me.

Just forgot that I have to change that entry...

Thanx a lot!

Hope I won't forget on next release again :-)

regards,

Makula
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
ahh sh..; it's right..

thx Aragorn !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
Sorry but it still gives me black screen when i hit list button:

thsi is my actual direc.mel

Carte de stockage\my documents\ma musique\\\\

but i tried too : Carte de stockage\\\\ and \Carte de stockage\\\\

Why thoses 4 backslashes ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeanbillfr007:
Problem with "chinease" MP3

Hi thundershadow

I just get the v0.3 of Pocket Melody and just have to say : great work and good job.

Here in the attachment, there is a mp3 files that PM have problemes :

1. there are chinease caracters in the filename and PM can't get the file (but I can see all the files with their chinease caracters in the scrolling playlist)

2. there is an albumart in the file but I just get the default albumart ?! It seems that PM can't read the include album art.

Can you solve the 2 problems please ?

Thanks a lot !!

Notice : it's not a zip file, just rename it to mp3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
can you show what's in your direc.mel please ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Spiderman313:
Hi great program by the way. i have a small problem I see on the youtube video that there are 3 buttons across the bottom on the screen. On my Treo 700Wx I dont see these will this support the Treo or other square screen devices?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
My PM is installed on device and my music is on the storage card..is this the problem ?

please help me , i cant make this nice software work !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
open your direc.mel with notepad...there you have it.

O and Chad,

my root folder(\) is filled with a bunch of pics of 25 kb of the album art i have with my songs..they are called album.jpgalbum.jpg...

I suppose this is the work of PM, are you going to change this, my question is?

Thanks,

cheers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbrianj:
Bug Reports for PM .3

Chad,

Great work again, but I wanted to report a bug.

If my screen turns off due to inactivity PM stops playing music. (I know that is why you put the Blank Screen Button on PM.) The Problem is that Melody is unable to recover from this state. When I reactivate the device, PM is still open, but there is no song selected any more, and when I go to back to the playlist to select another song, it will bring the title back to the player, but the songs will not play. To return Melody to a working state it requires closing the application and restarting.

Thanks again.

Brian
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
Thx Tomasez but if my question sounded like a noobs', i'm not one.

I know what a text editor is and i just want to know what to put in direc.mel

explanation :

this is what i find in original direc.mel : storage card\\\\

what i put in mine (translation) : carte de stockage\\\\

the real path of my music is carte de stockage\my documents\ma musique\

and none of these paths work.

That's the answer i'm searching for. Thx by advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
no of course you are not a noob! you are a senior member here with 160 posts hehe;)

hmm, yes i dont know.

Maybe it has got to do with the fact you have a french device, i dont know.

Are you sure you editted it well, that you didnt forget an e or something like that?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
Thx,

no this is real copy/paste of my mel file...

I dont understand why there are these 4 backslashes but i copy them..

the 2.1 version worked and i was editing the file the same way....i think im gonna wait a stable version...

Chad has an idea ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] acc0101:
It's a GREAT and cool stuff.

How can I load a album cover in the player.What should I do??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
the same for me

carte de stockage\\\\

and it is working

sorry for the french :

attention aux majuscules ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
I have used PM the whole day now, & here's my experience:

1. White screen instead of Album Art when moving with the Next, Previous Buttons, didnt noticed it in BETA 2.

2. Sometimes when playlist is opened the top start menu bar is visible for a second. That sometimes, Strange!!!!

Rest I like the new interface very much, now the menu bar & Playlist needs working.

Screenshots & Video posted on the second post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
Just the case ? goshh i'ml ooking it ...one more question : where did you put the PM folder ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
No way...even with "minuscules"

maybe due to my FAMAN WM6 ROM.

You are still on SFR WM5 ROM benjamin, ain't you ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
I'm on LG KS20, WM6 native ROM

PM is on the storage card too

Another generic question : How to get Album art ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Wow that's A LOT of posts, I just finished reading them. Ummm the biggest thing that's bothering me is the album.jpg files in the root of the device. This is without doubt, the cause of the white screen some of you are getting. I'll have to look at the directory structure code, and change it up a bit to make sure things are put in the right place, and cleaned up. I'm writing a new media scan function, which will totally eliminate the need for a direc.mel file ENTIRELY. So just give me a little time, I'll release a patch a bit later today (at least I hope I'll be able to). Or maybe I'll give it a new version number, cuz it is a lot of work. You guys let me know :).

Leaving to goto uni to do my LAST AND FINAL EXAM! Oh yes, you know what that means? When I'm done = EVEN MORE TIME FOR POCKETMELODY!

I'll be back :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Haha, that is great news Chad!

By the way in what year are you currently in/finishing:p

Good luck on the exam!!!!

Good luck on the patch!

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Hi thunder, great progress there !

The animations are too slow, at least on a Ti-Omap 200mhz.

Also, I find the main one to be too intrusive, ie it'd slow down the process even if it was smooth.

We need direct access to the playlist, now 2 taps are needed.

Bigger buttons (especially those on the top)

Changing volume is far from convenient. Any other method will be better I guess :)

Hope your exams went fine, keep up the good work !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
why dont u use the 2.1 ver of the file .... just my 2 cents ;)

BTW

Chad good luck on ur final
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
I'd have to agree with you there Chad. Check out this mildly disturbing screenshot of my root directory. Yikes! I don't want all that in there! And this explains the problem I'm having. I think that once the filename becomes too long, that's when I start showing white screen and stop showing album art.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] babaq:
Great progress!

I have just tried the new version and even if I know that the square screen adaptation is still under T.B.D. (To Be Done) chapter, the application is almost usable by now! I mean - transitions between different screens, music playback, exiting the application... everything what can be controlled via "upper part of standard QVGA display" :)

Very good work indeed! Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
For some reason, when I'm running PocketMelody, my d-pad no longer works; however it does work for adjusting the volume level. This happens even if I minimize the app and try and use it in something else.

When I exit the app, the d-pad begins working again.

Any ideas about this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Aware of this, I think I'll enlist the services of GAPI for trapping hardware keys. It's much better, and allows me to trap the phone buttons without much headache.

Oh yeah, I'm back guys, and working on the media scan function :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] supbro:
You're crazy. I'm surprised you even made it to your test at all :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Lol, I think i got an A too ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
Some (little) bugs to notice

Hi

I've tested hardly the new 0.3 version and, I'm very sad to say this, it works no better then the past versions (for me, at least). That's what I notice from the experience:

1.

Transition from the playlist to the player is very, very slow

2.

After the first 10 or 11 songs, album art disappears and shows a white screen

3.

when I press the exit button, it interfears with the today screen (I have an iphone alike plugin - ozankilic theme) and i have to reset the device to get that back

scrolling list is fine but, as you already said, i hope it will work better in futur versions

However, u are doing a great, great job and I know that your efforts will be blessed

thank u to take my attention at this thread everyday.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
What device are you running, and how much free megs of program memory do you have? The ozankilic theme uses WA/WAD right? Those apps do chew at your ram :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioncila:
I use a qtek 9100, and its not a memory problem, i think.

I've checked the performance of others apps installed and they worked fine and fast. At least, i kept three apps open at the same time to comprove that (excel, tcpmp and google maps in a first try, and mortplayer, word mobile and pocket picture in a second try - and of course WA/WAD) and i found no problem of speed or memory. Then, I opened PM alone, with phone off, and still get that low transition and the other bugs I've mentioned.

I have 20-25 MB main memory free, constantly.

I forgot to say something - I've installed PM in storage card (dont know if that is important)

thank u for your patience
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bingoig11:
Just tried it very quickly, nice job!!!!

Scrolling songs is beautiful even if it's not the same "theme" as the main interface (colours used in PocketMelody .NET version black/white were great)!

Tags are correctly displayed such as Album art!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
from my side :

top sliding bar should be better designed

volume bouton should be one main page, not on additional slide

volume indicator should be present

scrolling list should show album art miniatures

should be sorted

should be a back button from the scrolling list to playing screen

same problem on album art, after then "left button" press

white screen or default

lots of *.jpg file in root directory

in others terms, keep oin working this so efficient way
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hoankhang000:
direc.mel ?

The path of my music is Storage Card\My Documents\My Music

so can u tell me what is the text of Direc.mel ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stpete111:
You don't need to change direc.mel if your music is on your storage card.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] simonte:
mine is \scheda di memoria\mp3s

what should i do?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hoankhang000:
i did but when i hit the list button i only have the black screen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caragato:
Download again 0.3 version and edit direc.mel with notepad, it is:

Storage Card\\\\

look if on your phone your storage card is named Storage Card, because on my touch (spanish) it is:

Tarjeta de almacenamiento

I changed this on direc.mel like this:

Tarjeta de almacenamiento\\\\

And it works!!

BUT:

How I can see the cover of the album??

where i have to put the image of the album?

with an specific name??

Sorry for my english.

Thanks!! and Congratulations for the program!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Album art is embedded in ur mp3 ... pls use mp3 program such as mp3tag to embed the album art to ur mp3

Chad ... u aced the final exam eh .... good 4 u :D

BTW Chad I think u need to put a simple Q & A at the 1st page ... regarding q like above

: peace :
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
Any of the beta testers wanna volunteer to do a Q&A for me? Would REALLY REALLY appreciate it :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bobaka:
list scrolling

for those like me who didn't figure it out at first:

-if you swipe your finger off the top or bottom edge it keeps scrolling to beginning or end

-if you lift your finger before the top or bottom edge it scrolls for a page or so

note: Personally I prefer the dark background of icontact. perhaps it can be optional.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jlavoie:
wma support

does version 0.3 support wma files? i am getting the black screan when going to music list and believe it's because i only have wma files on my device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thundershadow14:
0.3 does not support wma, sorry, will be worked into future versions though.

Update:

Still working on the playlist scan function, I'm trying to make it as robust and powerful as possible, and really have the ability to index things off efficiently for PM. I'm going to be using a flat file DB to keep track of things.

Oh, and 0.4 will have worked in TAPI so that the music can stop, and allow you to accept any incoming call, and when the call has been terminated, start the playback from where it last stopped.

If anyone can think of any other *interesting* features to include in a telephone aware media player, lol, now's the time to speak up!!

I doubt we'll have album scrolling in 0.4, since there's a lot of work to be done, and squeezed into 0.4 as it is. So I've officially pushed album scrolling to 0.5.

-Thundy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
Update New Pocket Melody theme

OK Guys, here is a quick rendering of the new theme. I hope you guys like it.:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Very nice...I like the little splashes of color!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
Its very good. I would just like to know what is that back button for & how is the volume adjust slider available. I dont see any button to unhide it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
its just graphics right now. me and chad is going over how we are going to make it happen.;)

oh the back buttons is for to go back to your playlist
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cAnArdtichAud:
That's exactly what i've done :

My mp3s are on Carte de stockage\my documents\ma musique\sublfolder_name

so i edited direc.mel like this : Carte de stockage\\\\

but no way, when i hit button list, i get black screen, i must touch the screen

to have the PM back.

I use a french ROM with WM6.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jatt_inder:
wooo what a nice Interface...much better than the previous ones..lol...really very nice...keep up da gud work...

i am facing some problems with version 0.3. i am getting white image instead of the album artwork????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Spiderman313:
Any answer to this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
I like it, Ill give it an 8.5.

Nothing much to add actually, it is neat and there arent many buttons on the screen,

Good job;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomazez:
Yes, I dont know what Chad said about this,

but probably he will implement it when we are at a stable 1.0 version..

Im sorry mate.

Tomás from Holland.:cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aih1977:
8.5 :eek: I was hoping a prefect 10. ;)