yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afdg:
It's tight on the Treo, but you see parts of the covers on each side:

It's definitely usable...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
How do you get thet image? I have been trying everything in the readme and posts, but I can't get anything like that!! Maybe I am just missing a trick? If you can tell me how you do in on your WX, maybe I can duplicate the process (and results)!!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Here's what A_C said about your "problem" :
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I have slid all over the place on the screen, and I can't get those results!!! LOL

If I keep this up, I will have track grooves on my screen!!

Seriously though. I am sliding in the edge of the album art, and can't get any other album view to show up. Any other suggestions?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
Are you means in "coverflow" mode? if yes, just slide down/up your finger in Albumart (play mode), hope this can helping

cheers

Mozillaxom
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] persiansown:
I still have a problem with the detecting of music on the storage card! It shows all the music files on the root of the storage card but they are organized by artist, album, music.mp3. any idea whats wrong? It works fine when I am playing music but not when I am selecting music
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xd1936:
By "The edges of the art" we mean the black bars on the left and right
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
OK!!!! I got it (coverflow view)!!! I do see what you guys meant with using the stylus, I can't do it with my finger, but with the stylus I can. It is VERY tricky to get to the coverflow view, usually taking anywhere from 5 or more attempts to get to coverflow, but I got the trick to getting back to standard.

Two questions of A_C at this juncture:

1. Can the swipe to switch views be either made easier to utilize on screen, or maybe mapped to a hardware button or icon?

2. Can the coverflow screen be oriented to portrait like the standard play screen? Maybe a reg edit or something, I know others wouldn't wany it, but for the Treo, it is a square screen anyway, and holding the device sideways is pretty akward, and....well...feels kinds silly LOL!!!!

If you can.....GREAT, if you can't, I understand, just my 2 cents!!!!

Thanks for the patience guys, I am thrilled I finally figured out what I was doing wrong!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
@ A_C

Is it to be inserted possible a background picture?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Evil Kaneval:
I just wanted to post to say I really like this app. I have no problem getting into landscape mode and I was able to add a cover.jpg to each of my folders to get a cover for each of my albums. It's great work - keep it up A_C.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afdg:
Just slide up or down on the side of the cover. It doesn't work 100% of the time for me though.

I uploaded a quick video for you:

http://www.mediafire.com/?s9zyh3lxymm

edit: Looks like you got it to work. Awesome. Now if I could just manage to minimize this thing...lol :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jomo25:
Pretty fricking amazing as usual from A_C. And this is just 0.32 release...I'm finally using this cuz 80% of my music is in WMA since I Yahoo Unlimited music service (stripped of DRM of course :)) So I benefit big time by the switch in music engine in these latest releases...

It is a bit tricky to get it into and out of Coverflow mode. You have to find the right spot and drag vertically as if you are trying to "spin" the cover on its side to go into landscape mode. Once in CF mode, then you have to do the same thing to get back, but note that "dragging verticaly" is relative since you are in landscape mode. The best way to think of it is:

to go into CF mode, grab the top right corner of the "album" picture and drag it down, and

to go back to normal mode, grab the bottom right of the album in view and drag up.

Overall, the CF implementation is so damn nice. Its got a few quirks, but it's still quite good. The performance on the Polaris is snappy as hell. I do feel its hard to drag thru the albums and advance just one at a time (yes you can tap, but dragging it's hard to do one at a time). Other than some of the ppl having issues with going into and out of CF mode, its still damn good.

Obviously, stuff like playlist support will need to be added, but I assume that's a nit compared to what's been done so far. (I have all my music already organized into folders for artists and albums as it should, but use playlists for all my listening).

I did run into a "Low on storage memory" message from WM. I was in Coverflow mode at the top of my music folder root. So I guess it was trying to cache all my covers for all my library. And I'm using a Polaris, so I have plenty of memory avail before I ran S2P. Not sure how the caching works, and if you can just cache a few instead of the whole scope of the directory.

THANKS AGAIN A_C. I will again find a way to get you some more coffee based for your efforts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rtakeo:
a simple button to change the screen portrait mode to landscape with coverflows would be good

and i think thats its not necessary an album search music for each cover artist album.. because we already have this is the portrait mode... so let the landscape only to choice the band from coverflows mode, and when already been selected auto changing for portrait default screen mode...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] udaykarmarkar77:
great man

awesome job

now if only you can make a iphone style weather app "s2w" ;) this would be a cherry on the top of all your offerings

keep it up
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
I like to keep it on landscape and coverflow mode

just using random/shuffle, it's awesome
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] titans6:
Do you think that u can make a version that still has the album art that takes up the whole screen i actually thought that was pretty cool....Otherwise great work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
Fantastic player! Working fine on HTC Trinity (albeit ever so-slightly slow)

Just a few comments:

- The touch pressure is a bit too high? I have to press quite hard on the screen to get the time bar up.

- Are there functions if you slide left and right on the player? Because it sometimes seems to erractically skip to the first mp3 in the album folder???

And a few suggestions:

- The initial folder browsing screen has a white background and not a black screen like the now-playing / album browsing screen?

- Surely it would be possible to fit the album coverflow view in portrait now-playing mode? Seems a bit silly to have to put it into landscape for this feature?

- Equalizer (although not essential, useful to tweak sound output)

- Playlist (i'm sure this is in development ;) )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] persiansown:
Any idea guys?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fresh2Death:
u do not have to press very hard on ur screen to get the time bar to appear on s2p. jus simply hold ur finger on ur screen for about 1sec, then release it. thats all. your phone cant determine if u are pressing on the screen hard or soft. if that was the case, im pretty sure someone around here would have developed a program to turn ur phone into a digital scale a LOONNNGGG time ago. uhhhhh duh :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamwhoiam:
Yeah, but you can change the sensitivity of touch (think of laptop touchpads)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SultanH:
A_C,

Awesome work. Few improvements and suggestions:

1)FOLDER STRUCTURE

A_C, re-organizing our MP3s into the structure you suggest is a easy,but with the limited amount of space (8GB at the most now), we won't be putting full albums on the memory cards. We would just put the top rated ones.So we end up with bunch of folders (albums) with one or two songs in them. very difficult to navigate and find songs.

I have mine organized \Situation\title.mp3

Could the back side of the album art where it currently shows the Song list without the Artist,we can make it show the song as Artist - Title ? (Some people may not like it this way, so maybe it could be a registry edit?) At the moment We have to keep going back to the main screen (Folder selection) to see it that way.

2)Horizontal Album View Problem

When I go Horizontal the picture disappears and I only see the Grey background with the blue Note. When I go back to the vertical view the picture reappears. I also don't see the next or previous album pictures.

3) Suggestion for Initial White Screen

Can we have a way to switch beetween a list and a index like the S2V but instead showing albums (I think the iPhone one, though cool looking,is not very efficient)

4)How Can we fast forward or Rewind?

Can you make the Song Position be slideable?

5)Album Art-> Full Screen (Now it has a black frame around it)

I second the few people who requested it earlier in the posts.

Thanks much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mushipkw:
2 more new skins for S2P added:

Mushi S2P Carbon Gloss:

Mushi S2P Green Block:

Get them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=370952
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ryomahino:
Hey I have the same problem until I press the arrow to the right of folders name (in the screen of select folder), its open all the subfolder inside.

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I think the mode of activation of coverflow is good enough i use my finger in the first attemp (i'm using a artemis)

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] byrnsey88:
pause after disconnects from bluetooth headset

can you please make it pause the music when the bluetooth disconnects
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lbloo:
Fantastic program. I've donated $$ via PayPal. I challenge all the others who benefit from this great music player to donate a few bucks.

I do have a few change requests:

1) My HTC Touch does not have an OK button. It would be good for us Touch users if you could make tapping the upper right corner minimize S2P.

2) On my Touch AVRCP is not working with S2P. (Sorry I'm not able to provide any technical assistance with this)

3) I really prefer the full screen album view, the black bars on the sides just don't look as good.

Leon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
WOW the last big deal managed

...you ARE the man...seems I have to switch back from Iphone to Windows mobile...will test and donate soon.

Thanks for letting us benefit from your talent in coding.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Musicman247:
AMAZING WORK!!!!!!

Wish I could code like you.

Quick question, which language do you code in?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] babylotus:
The best music player by far. Wish it can play MP4's format. Will donate!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mst46:
Truely a great player - thank you so much A_C.

Because I use BT headphones very much I just miss the AVRCP feature for the MS stack.

Unfortunately I am not skilled to help you but I sure hope someone here in this forum can.

Thank you for a great program,

mst
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wanwarlock:
i don't know whether this is a bug or is not done at all, but the controls on my bt stereo headset don't work to change songs (left/right buttons) but the volume (up/down) works. Would like to see this implemented please. Apart from that, excellent stuff!!!

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mreaglejr:
yeehhaaaa

this is the coolest thing ever :D

seeking and anti-alias would be nice ::angel::

okay, and a few more things.. but i'm not complaining because i know it's not a piece of cake.

great thing, i'm playing with it 25 hours a day! keep up the work bro!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rtakeo:
This way would be most faster and efficient
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] star-star:
You're the best.I love the player!

I made a opening pic for you,hope you like it~~
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] holodila:
C++ provides the fastest code, so I think A_C uses it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
Next ?

what will be next ?

S2W (Weather)

S2SMS (Sms)

S2C (Contacts)

S2T (Today)

S2L (Launcher...)

any more idea ? (maybe need a new topic ? )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MAK11:
NNOo just a new version of S2V with faster loading and hiding of the rotating cursor! :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
don't have this problem...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
OK....I tested this all night, and I must say....this app rocks!!!! I am not even thinking about using my native WM player any longer for my music!!!!

The music loads well, plays great, and I tested the in-call feature, and sure enough....the music stopped as soon as my call started ringing, and the music started back up as soon as I hung-up (actually it was a long call, and I forgot I was testing.....shocked me a bit LOL)!!!!!

Basically, A_C has hit a home run here, I do still stand by my two requests:

Some sort of icon, or easier slide 'target' to get to the cover-flow page.

Possibly a reg entry to cause cover-flow page to stay in portrait instead of switching to landscape (for us square screen users)!!!!

Thanks A_C, donation on it's way!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kimjh:
m4650

model samsung m4650.

bug report : music listen -> phone call -> call end -> phone freeze or reset.

sorry not english. have a nice day
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Great Work A_C! Love the player.

Working well on my Mogul, just a little slow to respond on the coverflow page. A lot of times I will skip over an album because if seems to 'jump'. Maybe a memory problem that will improve over time.

Two other features I would love to see:

1. Queueing Ability

2. Remember posititon after close( I listen to long podcasts and I'm interupted often).

Keep up the good work. Donation coming.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
What we really need is : S2R (Slide 2 Read) as a PDF reader....!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghostofapril:
I agree with S2W as Slide2Watch , as an i-phone-like videoplayer
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nobi125:
Really cool program.

The main problem I'm having is that it takes a good 7-8 seconds to switch to the next song in shuffle mode. Probably because I have all my songs in one folder, but it's not really practical to sort them by album since it's just a bunch of random songs. Is there any way to speed up song switching for people in my situation? I assume I'm not the only one who has a bunch of unsorted, random songs on their memory card :p .

Another minor problem, that will probably be ironed out in future releases, is that horizontal swipes cause the program to lock up for around 10 seconds.

I'm using an HTC Touch (sprint).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BigDogPooh:
Love the player, but I have some problems when I select the folder "my music" I only get a black page. It doesn't show the albums in the folder. If I make another folder and place some albums in it it will work and then not work and work again...This hurts my ability to use the cover flow and also the album art doesn't show up when the cover flow is working...other wise everything else works fine...I'm using an Advantage/Athena

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
Next

create a new topic to not pollute this one

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378110
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stephenballantyne:
Is it too simplistic to think that there might be a way to programme S2P to use a remote (such as the HTC W100) to change tracks and volume etc? If the remote works with WMP, then could it also work on one which is based on it?

That's really the only thing stopping me from using this music player rather than WMP.

Looking forward to the next release.

Steve
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Why Folders?

Why the music files have to be placed in folders?

It's because I want to make a simple & fast player.

Someone said about iTune sync or WMP sync... they all need third party programs to do the job. That means it's not simple.

I intended to use the WM built-in media library. But it does not let me choose which folder to be scanned (only the whole storage). That means if some mp3 ringtones are stored in the micro-sd card, it'll also be displayed in the library?!

Someone said ID3 tag sorting/management... the code to extract ID3 tag can be found easily over the internet. However, no matter how fast you can code, it's not as fast as simply reading the folder/file name. On my device, it identifies about 100 song per second. Besides, if database is involved, then it's not a simple player any more...

So here is my recommendation if you still want to play with S2P:

- make a new folder at the root (e.g. \storage card\music)

- under that folder, place the music files under at least one subfolder (e.g. \storage card\music\album A\title B.mp3)

- of course, a better folder structure will ease the maintainance (e.g. \storage card\music\artist A\album B\title C.mp3)

- start S2P

- press the back button until the new music folder is located, then select it.

- enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
A_C....any glimpse of future tweaks to this already stellar app? I am using this constantly, but very interested in what you have up your sleeve for this!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Memory usage.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
C++.

I think there are a lot excellent developers here. Their only limit is time.

@TO ALL

Thank you all for your supports & feedbacks. Glad to hear that you like S2P as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tekknogenius:
Donation sent. Excellent program. Looking forward to more enhancements. Thank you for your work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nobi125:
I went through and made folders for all the artists then sorted everything manually.

The program runs flawlessly now. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] VandyCWG:
What about CoverFlow in Portrait mode?

I am a square screen device....So this is something I would like. Maybe a regedit to do the trick?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DJ_Nitro:
Please keep it that way, it's easier to manage music.

When using folders there's no need to create playlists, cause once you choose a song in S2P all files within the folder are listed, which is what most people look for in a player, I don't know why some other people like libraries, you have pick songs based on artist or albums and have to do it on each song. :confused:

Right now I'm a happy Slide2Play user :D, unlocking the other buttons would make me happier though. :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dirk Hasloewer:
switching to tracklist in the album view screen does not work, selecting the next album does not work.

Going back to the play screen does not change the album to the actual shown one in the album view screen.

Is that a bug concernig only my device (samsung sgh i780, display 320x320)?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gnatto:
Great app!!!

May I say just one thing?

WONDERFUL JOB!!!!

A_C, you are the really best!!! Go on your way!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] black_shadow69:
I'll try...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
If v0.32 still not works...

For those still cannot start v0.32, pls download & install the WMP-OCX-fix.cab attached at the 1st post. And let me know does it work. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
Anyone else my problem ?, or to A_C: Did you know this bug ?

s2p shows often not the songname but the name of the file. Here you can see a album with a mix of both :confused: as you can see wmp shows the songname correct:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
Maintain track listing between albums in coverflow mode

Finally got the coverflow thing to work by going back and selecting a track from the complete list of music. Had been trying it from within a single folder of tracks and could only see the one album art displayed, but now see why. :o

However, did encounter one problem I've been unable to resolve. Within the coverflow-like display, when you tap on the album art, it flips over and displays the track listing, but to get back to the album art, you have to tap on one of the adjacent albums (either left or right), at which point the track listing goes away and the album art comes back, then you have to tap again on the next album to display it. Shouldn't it work like it does in non-coverflow mode where you tap on the small version of the album art in the upper right corner of the track listing to change back to album art display?

Even better, if you're looking at the track listing, as you move from album to album, could it stay in track listing mode? Would be a very quick way to scan your library by album. Otherwise, you keep having to do extra tapping to bring up the track listing for each and every album...

Anyone else interested in such functionality???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
Yes, I agree completely. I keep tapping the little picture in the top right corner and it does nothing. I sort of "expect" it to work like that even though I know it doesn't!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] glenngould@hotmail.fr:
OGG

PLeaaaaaaaaaaZ

DOn't go WMA !!!

Support the SPLENDID ogg vorbis format !

Is it possible to have the 0.32 with ogg support ?

Please please please.

Tanhk you for your great great great job.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JNasty:
Did you even bother to read the first post and the link to the last thread? This explains why he had to put OGG support on the shelf.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] glenngould@hotmail.fr:
Yes i have read

Yes, I have read and understood the problem about the GPL ..

I just wondered if there was not an opportunity to integrate the support of the ogg ...

In this regard, I have done some research that might be the solution ..

(We must try to see if it works)

http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/downloads.html#unstable

As for windows, these filters add ogg support to the horrible wmp ...

I wish you aware ..

So, dear A_C, maybe there is now support for the mp3/ogg +WMA (even if it's an unacceptable very closed format , it is better to be compatible with everything that nothing :D ).

Long live to A_C and S2P

Angelys
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] slowatsch:
Works Perfect for me THX
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] glenngould@hotmail.fr:
ogg support

Hello A_C,

I have installed ogg codecs for wm5.

http://rapidshare.com/files/100580533/oggcodecs_wm5.CAB.html

WMP is able to read ogg (a little slow, but it works).

But S2P does not even see files.

I think you have cancelled support for the extension?