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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
I am becoming a little frustrated with the time it takes to switch between tracks. Pressing the "next" button whether in shuffle mode or not is taking 3-4 seconds on my device. The same in Media Player is instantaneous, which is much better when you just want to click next until you find something you want to listen to.

Is there a way to improve the performance of this aspect please?

When I want good library management, I use HTC Audio Manager - it's good for the car as I can see the titles in the lists and use the d-pad to select. That lacks album art though. Media Player is great at finding tracks - you can search by partial name in the list. S2P looks terrific and works really well with S2U. I'd love to have all the best of these in one app.

A tip for people who use Media Player on the PC to sync tracks and have compilation albums. I was finding it sync'd the files by artist, then album so for 1 compilation album it would create 15 folders with subfolders. This frankly makes album-view in S2P ridiculous. I've found that I can use the tag editor in WMP on the PC to change the Album Artist for all the tracks to "Various Artists" so they sync as one folder which is much better. The actual contributing artist can be left as it is. I hope this helps someone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Darkchaser:
This is a great software and definitely my most favourite player.

I just wish that there is a way to scroll through your albums quickly. With Coverflow in iPod, you can quickly scroll through your albums so it's not a problem. With S2P it's slow, so if I have 30+ albums I'll be tapping/swiping a lot of times.

If it's not possible due to performance or whatever, just make sure we can have playlists. That'd help a lot. Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drkgtr:
ok is it me or... when you are in the album cover view mode can you not tap and select that album to play ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zandadoum:
thx for the great app a_c

is it possible (or will it in the future) to skip to next song by pressing the button on the default HTC headset (P3300 artemis)?

i tried activating the dpad, but with the phone in my pocket it just goes crazy skipping songs, changing volume, etc.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alias1:
frustrated with the time it takes to switch between tracks

It can be two things...

(EZ 1 1st) If U R N album view it will take that long 2 cue the album animation.

OOORRR the slowness is due 2 high MP3 encoding ... if your MP3 files are over 192kbit it will take longer 2 scan the folder (this also effects album-view scrolling).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aikidoka-mks:
A_C

I don't know what you did with 0.39 but I haven't been able to make the music skip yet! :)

I've only tested around my apt but that was always a sure way to get everything else to skip, except TCPMP.

Thanks for the excellent work, donation coming your way.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ohsocold:
I can't get v0.38 to uninstall

I am trying to install v0.39 but I can't get v0.39 to uninstall. I tried to uninstall regularly first and that didn't work. Then I tried to delete the programs folder and the registry folder but I get an error message saying that the key can not be deleted when I try to delete the registry folder. Now when I try to install v0.39 I get a message that the previous version will be uninstalled, then an unsuccessful uninstall message, and then an unsuccessful install of the new version message.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] milli260876:
will aac v2 play with this app? didn't want to read 50-odd pages so sorry if this has been covered...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schnappus boesus:
a_c, you are simply the best :P

that player is the best app ive ever seen for pocket pc...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrpiggae:
Just read the first page then. He states which music formats are supported by this app in the second post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SL.:
the only thing missing with S2P is the library management found on a program like HTC Audio Manager. everything else on S2P is better, especially the album art and slide features. Audio Manager is very fast but then again, it doesnt load album art. i hope the next major update is the library management. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] drkgtr:
hey anyone know if you can like select a song/album to play from the cover art view ? or is this not yet possible ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boy130176:
Bt Headset Not Fuctional

Thanks! But I use the BT Headset. It cannot work with "Play, stop, forward&backword" , It just fuctional on Volume +/-.

Please give me advance.

Thanks for your reply
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
I've fixed it! Turns out I had my SD cards formatted as FAT32 and they were very slow in s2p. Reformatted all 3 SD cards to FAT and they are all fast now! Switching between tracks was taking 4 seconds, now less than 1.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Speedyp:
Tick on album art and select your song!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gambit800:
This is a great program. EXACTLY what i was looking for!

I have 2 requests:

1. Bluetooth support

2. auto landscape mode

Keep up the great work! Donating $5
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ironic6925:
I am very happy with this program. It runs great on my Tytn2,no problems at all. The combination with S2U2 is absolutely a winner!! But after unlocking the device while playing a song in S2P, it doesn't go directly to S2P but to my todayscreen. I would like it when it goes to S2P instead.

I use it a lot. In random mode, pressing the back button S2P starts to play another random song. I would like to see that S2P would play the last song played instead.

Thanx for your hard work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DaMilky:
I would agree with this and also say add the ability to connect to other itunes libraries.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] N'da:
command line parameters ?

Hello, i would like to k,now if there's a way to use parameters /comands with S2P.exe like play stop next etc. If it's yes what is the syntax ( -play, __play or stuff like that). I would use it in ultimate launch like i did before with mortplayer. Thanks for answers and for this great app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pokcheung2003:
A_C:

you are the best programmer in the world of ppc!!!!

But here are some suggestions , is it possible that adding equalizer function by sliding upward in the middle of the screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dsinger:
Just cant get S2P and XDA Orbit to work

Tried everything (well everything I know!)..

I have SPB Shell, SDHC-Armetis.CAB, S2U2 ver 1, and S2P v.0.39, WM6

Everything works great with S2P v 0.17, as soon as I load up 039 I cant play all files; for some album art displays ok and i can press the play/pause but just no sound. If you slide the pen to show the albumart chooser it shows a diferent album!. Sometimes when you try to close it, it hangs with the screen flickering very fast and the hourglass. I have tried clearing registry, just loading S2P039 with no sdhc support, no S2U2 but still same probs.

I would love to use S2P039, so if anyone has any suggestions they would be very welcome.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] negz:
which version i should use for my HTC Touch Cruise ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chococrazy:
A_C your the reason why the iphone sucks o wait it already does suck but u made it suck even more!... we are very happy to have you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Friends,

Just downloaded this little gem (Thank You to the Author!)

Quick question, didn't see this posted... will ask.

Would it be possible to have the app scan a specif folder vs. the whole media sd card?

Please advise.

Thank You,

Tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xd1936:
Yes, it is, it's the screen that is shown at the beginning. Browse by clicking on the arrow next to the name, click the name to show media files in the folder
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I like the program - will fit nicely with the iPhone theme that I have going.

I noticed there was not landscape support for it? I downloaded the files from the first thread, wonder if there was a update I was not aware of?

Please advise.

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nanastas:
couple of weeks

well, I've been using this for a few weeks, now, and I personally think this could be the best media player, and by extension- 3rd party app out there.

So- suggestions for improvement?

Make it the default player. We need to find the way to make this the default player for use by HTC Home, for MS Voice Command, and with BT Remote.

What else can we ask for?

Great Job again A_C!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Diagorn:
The last time, I told I found the software it was very long when I changed the album.

I understand why. With the software MP3TAB I put for all songs a picture.

I have remove it for each songs, and I put the picture (cover.jpg) to the directory of the album.

Now, it is magnificant, It is fast and I love this softwate :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Hey A_C,

Will you ever implement different codecs? I.E., FLAC, AAC or WMA.

I ask because FLAC, AAC and WMA have better quality than mp3 and allows to have a smaller file size.

I know licensing issues may come into play, but how about an "underground" version, lol.

BTW, this app is great!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] j0hnsmith:
nevermind i figured out what i was doing wrong:

I had shuffle and repeat icons ticked.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ruebyi:
Hi A_C,

perhaps you remember my problem with S2P didn't remember the last played Musicfile!?

I solved this problem!

S2P got this problem only when I closed it with Wisbar Advance 3!

If I do so, it won't save the last Musicfile until I started S2U2 without S2P in Background! after that everything works fine again!

Is this a bug or why does this happen?

greetings ruebyi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nanastas:
current version supports wma with no problems.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pegaze01:
Very nice application : I love it a,d make it as my default music player !

BTW : it runs fine on my 320x320 i780 screen (I saw on your notes that you had only tested it by emulation)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
S2P does not have a stop button. I know apple uses this format too and I have a tough time without that little 'stop' button.

does it damage the file when it is in paused mode?

screen time out on battery is set to 0 seconds. is there a way just to disable screen time-out and have it remain on?

why does the screen shots of this app look landscape when it displays only in portrait? is there something I missed?

please advise!

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fs61:
Urgently

is it possible to integrate this player into htc home? i don't know how to change the registry...

please help me :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alias1:
LOLOL good 1 ... and YES AC has developed the 2 most demanding apps that makes the iPhone nice.... now I laff at all my iPhone friends .. U da man!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wolfkmann:
Slide your finger down the side of your screen. That should rotate you into landscape mode. In landscape mode, slide it up the side to return to portrait.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Moguledyouth:
v0.39 Problem

I have a strange issue that just happened on my Mogul. Everything was working fine, albeit no bluetooth controls because of my lack of MS BT stack. I was switching between my BT headphones and the speaker, I minimized S2P so that I could turn off BT to save resources. From then on I have now lost the ability to scroll through my albums within portrait mode (Right to Left) only. I can still swipe from Left to Right just fine but when I try Right to Left the current album just restarts.

I love this program, A_C you the man.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
thanx... it is a tricky program at first, but i am getting the hang of it.. i really like it a lot!! definitely will be sending a few bucks to iFonz and S2U2/S2P programmers for this...

question - I have the At&t and the screen turns the opposite direction of landscape. How can I configure this to turn the right way..:)

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wolfkmann:
On my phone it rotates to landscape both clockwise and counterclockwise, depending if I slide my finger down the left side of the screen or the right. Try that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
i am polish.. does it show....:)

works now!

thanx,

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
I will have to try this. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sudermatt:
Update Album Art directly from your device!

I have a script which will look for album art from albumart.org and place it in the proper folder. This is great if you use S2P.

The script assumes a couple things:

- Mortscript

- your music is in \storage card\music\$artist\$album

-YOu will need GSFinder

-the folder view dropdown is visible (I scrape the path in the top dropdown to get the artist and album.

-You need to be able to execute the script from within GSFinder. (map script to button, or use a cascading menu that allows you to select the script file)

THe script basically sends the artist and album to the website,

parses the page

then pulls the image that has atag that matches the album

I get about 70% success rate....which is FINE WITH ME!

---------------------------------------------------------

musicroot = "\Storage Card\Music\"

d = windowtext(30,30)

message(d)

d = replace(d,musicroot,"")

arrMusic = split(d,"\")

theartist = arrMusic[1]

thealbum = arrMusic[2]

#message (theartist)

#message (thealbum)

thepath = "\Program Files\MortScripts\"

thefile = "dl1.html"

#connect("Data Network Connect")

connect("The Internet")

Download ("http://albumart.org/index.php?srchkey=" & theartist & "+" & thealbum & "&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music",thepath & thefile)

strParse = ReadFile(thepath&thefile)

mainleft = find(strParse,"main_left")

#message(mainleft)

arttitle = find(strParse, "title=", mainleft)

#message(arttitle)

if (arttitle>0)

srcstart=find(strParse, "src=", arttitle)

imagestart = srcstart + 5

#message("imagestart:" & imagestart)

imageend = find(strParse, ".jpg", imagestart) + 4

#message("imageend:" & imageend)

imagepath=substr(strParse,imagestart,imageend-imagestart)

message(imagepath)

Download (imagepath,musicroot&theartist & "\" & thealbum & "\folder.jpg")

message("refresh folder")

endif

--------------------------------------------------

Hope you enjoy it....I LOVE IT!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I will be definitely donating a few bucks to AC and iFonz programmers. I really enjoy the pocket pc now with the new gui.

Question.. this is driving me crazy!!

What registry setting can I change to not have S2Player not turn of the screen on internal/external power? I like seeing the screen and drainging my battery..:)

Please advise and again, beautiful job!

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wolfkmann:
tvos,

Go read the second post. A_C tells you what registry settings control the backlight going off both on battery and external power.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I did....:)

Q. How to adjust the auto screen off timeout?

A. Edit the registry - under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\A_C\S2P\, edit the keys OffLCD & ACOffLCD (in seconds). OffLCD is for use when using battery; while ACOffLCD is for external power. The default value of OffLCD is 25 & ACOffLCD is 0.

the range is from 0 - 25 seconds for when the screen turns off. i didn't see any option to keep the screen on, only for screeen duration to turn off.

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
How about set both to zero?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
is that what i should do?

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Yes, and remember to restart S2P after the registry values are changed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wolfkmann:
He's the man who wrote the program. If A_C says to set both to zero, I certainly would.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
beautiful!

thank you sir!

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
v0.40 released

v0.40 released... finally S2P now supports AVRCP. I've spent a lot of effort to make it works & even recently bought a new device that uses MS BT stack... (what a good reason to upgrade my old device... :D)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aikidoka-mks:
Just installed and working great on my Sprint Touch :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
Thanks Million for new release

A_C You are my best developers.....

Where is download link???.......
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andrebe:
first post

cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DaveShaw:
The 0.40 version, he means. Where's the download for that?

*Sitting waiting for the update... :D

Keep up the good work.

Dave
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andrebe:
yes!!!

in the first post you should find:

Download

It seems the xda website has some problem that I cannot upload the file here, please download the v0.40 at http://asapload.com/111263
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DaveShaw:
RTFM time for me :D

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ghostofapril:
roll back again to 0.38!!!!!!!!!!!

it freezes over and over again , more than 0.39!!!

it change to album view then freezes , if it's not you select a song and freezes again!!!!! , no hardware button works , backlights went off , you have to soft-reset , I prefer to use 0.38 , it works on my device flawlessly.

thanx anyway

cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] slyaii:
A_C

A_C, do you know who is 50 cent? do you hate him? cuz on version 35, his album playing was smoothz like warm butter on a biscuit. on version 39 and 40, everytime when i scroll to his album to play, it stalls like crazy and i have to soft reset and open s2p again. 2 and 3rd time around i had to soft reset. once boot up, i move all of 50 cent's songs (9 songs) out of the directory and left the picture in...(thought the pic was too big). started s2p again, this time, it scroll pass his album (which is okay cuz it had no song). I then loaded 1 song into his play list and it plays without issue. Then I loaded another song, and that too play. I then place all the remaing songs and s2p freezes when i reach to his album. I started to delete 3 songs from 50 cents' and now it is smooth like butter. meaning, i can scroll to his album and it won't freeze. Any suggestion? i guess s2p freezes on dumb songs...my 2pac album has 19 tracks and it works wonder.

on s2u2, it doesn't go to the next album...what's going on? i right click on the dial pad just to move tracks, but it loops. i think i know what it is...but.....s2p frooze again on me. within the album when you tap to see the time line...if the left repeat is blue you can't skip songs in s2u2, but if it's white then you can...wait, maybe it has to be white songs? s2u2 froze...man...thank goodnish for backup...going back to version 35 when black and white can just get along.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Speedyp:
A_C

Works superb on my HTC 4350! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
Thanks man!!!!

Trying it now......
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Firstly, I have no preference on any singer or artist. Your problem is caused by the main difference between v0.38 & later version - how it decode the embedded album art. v0.38 cannot retrieve all album art correctly while v0.40 has improved a lot. However, the trade-off is it needs more time. A simple way to work around this is to place an extra album art file (cover.jpg or folder.jpg) under the same folder, then it'll fly. Actually someone already pointed it out in the old post, but I just can't find it out.

Secondly, for your S2U2 problem, I really can't understand it. However, I'm working on an update as well, maybe the next version will be easier to use.

(EDIT: After reading several times, I start to get your point... when the repeat icon is white it means "no repeat"; when it's blue means "repeat the current album". Hope you understand or please read the README.TXT)

@ghostofapril

Pls read my reply to above.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
A_C, thanks again for another update.

A problem that comes up sometimes is if I open an album which contains just one song and then click the next or back button by accident (of course I should "know" there's only one but I'm not perfect). What happens is the back button is stuck highlighted and the program won't shut down at all. I have to soft-rest when this happens.

Please can we have some customization with the list fonts (larger) and colours? The album and play view looks terrific but the list view is a disappointment by comparison and difficult to read.

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
What's your device's OS version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] littld:
WM 6.1. It happens more when I click the next button in when there's just one track in the folder. If I press the Next button it highlights and then freezes the whole program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fards:
Realvga working here in 96dpi now except the albumview screen, album pic loads and s2p crashes.

Quite happy to live without that though :)

Athena 7500 with AP4.0 (wm 6.1)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Just tried it out on a WM6.1 emulator - select a single song album (folder) to play, but no freezing when press NEXT/PREVIOUS button...

When it's freezed, is it freezed forever? Can you press the "Accept" key to quit?

Again, when it's crashes, any error? How it crashes? go back to Today? How many songs you have?

@TO ALL

If you encounter any problem, please try to provide more information like how to reproduce the problem; your device & OS, etc. Otherwise it's hard to be fixed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Thanks A_C...

It's working very flawlessly on my WM5 PDA...

Keep up the good work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] !Kernel Panic!:
Thanx again for another great update A_C on this software...will be donating again soon. But for whatever reason portrait album view does not work for me..Landscape is just fine. No matter how fast I double tap all it does is bring up the slider bar. No biggie though.

Also I was thinking I'm perfectly happy with this version, with the inclusion of AVRCP, that if for whatever reason you wanted to take time off from having to constantly update your apps is fine. Too many times have I seen coders get the sh*tz of constantly having to update their programs that they burn out from having to full-fill the requests of so many users. Still doesn't mean I don't want you to continue but you should also enjoy life as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] herwawan:
http://asapload.com/111263

The link don't works :'( It shows: Loading ... but it happens nothin' :(

Please a mirror !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mozillaxom:
Trying to download again, its work for me