yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

That's right. I was wondering about initializing two instances of maplay (which is the player API of MAD) and switch between them while music is being played. You're also right about the changes on the playlists, so that's something I'll surely try to figure out and to provide in future releases.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

You're right: if you tap the next button, you'll go to the next song in list. That's something I've missed and I'll provide a workaround in a future release. Thanks for letting me know!

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Hi microfi, I suggest you implement this for buttons only and let the wheel act as it already is... thanks, btw how is the new playlist going ? did you already freeze the way it will work ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

Currently, I'm working on a new version of the skin maker that will make it easier to design new skins (you won't have to split all the pictures to join them back). However, I've already got an idea on how the playlists will work: there will be the file explorer and the playlist itself. By selecting a file or folder on the file explorer, a menu will appear with options like "Add song to playlist", "Add directory to playlist", etc. If you choose to add the directory, other menu will come up with options like "Add subdirectories" and so on.

As these menus also have to be finger-friendly, I'm drawing them from scratch, which is a boring task. Also, I hope there will be an option to save and load M3U files.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
nice, I suggested something similar here :)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3172069&postcount=188
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gopher22:
With-in track navigation

Hi. I enjoy the finger friendliness of this app. Is it possible to use the wheel to navigate within a track as with the original ipod wheel?

I am struggling to find a media player that meets the following requirements for listening to podcasts or audiobooks from the car:

1) Finger-friendly WVGA or VGA interface

2) Ability to resume where the track was when last closed

3) Finger-friendly and wide dynamic range within-track navigation

Mortplayer meets most of my requirements, but I cannot find an easy way to move within a track (eg. fast forward past a dull section of a podcast, or replay the last 30 seconds etc). Nitrogen does not seem to resume where it was when last closed, unless there is a setting I am unaware of. Am also uncertain if the wheel can be used to navigate within a track. The contraband pPod has track-wheel navigation but lacks many other features and is a bit small on WVGA.

Please could those more experienced with WM media players advise on the best solution for my requirements.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
you can already do it, but you must edit the skin to change the wheel's function.

@microfi: here's a nice feature request !

be able to send a song (like, the one currently playing) over BT directly from nitrogen. It could just link to the standard WM function to do this. Would be convenient :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to work over them for the next release.

Also, the glitch you're experiencing (by using the wheel for a long time) may be solved by changing the "Thread priority" setting to "Normal".

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

That's something nice too! I just have to figure out how BT file transfer (I guess it's called OBEX) works, and to find an API to handle it through C++.

I'll see what I can do.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Hi Filipe,

Glad you'll work on my suggestions !

Just to let you know I already was in thread priority normal when that glitch happened. But I can't reproduce it now, so I'll give more details if it happens again, cheers :)

niko
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blautens:
Great program - feature request

I really love Nitrogen. I listen to a lot of podcasts in addition to music, so the ability to fast forward to a time is crucial to me...it's a little hard to do that by just using the progress bar (even with the stylus).

If you could add buttons for this (or use the press and hold feature ala Window Media), I'd declare this the perfect media player.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] X3n0n:
Hello !

I'm testing nitrogen on my Touch HD, with an adapted skin, very nice playback !

I just wonder if there will be a crossfade option ? In the forst post i just saw fade for sleep mode, but no crossfade, so, is that scheduled ?

One thing : the equalizer looks pretty bad on my HD, sound is saturated, with HTC equalizer, all is fine.

Keep going this way ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crashDebug:
hi microfi,

just my two cents about your musicplayer.

it is really a nice addon to our beloved devices as it's very simple and userfriendly (and, i would add, fingerfriendly, which nowadays is a must :) )

I would enjoy a lot the following features:

-dual shuffle mode: album and songs. I dunno sometimes i think i'm the only one using this feature but still, specially with the very large memory cards incoming, this would be a neat addon

-support for more kinds of playlist (which you already mentioned in the todo list)

-from a library point of view, the concept of "my music is in this folder: xxxxx" would be great

-cinetic scrolling in filebrowser

-gesture recognition! like shake or sweep etc to change song...

anyway very great offering here, thanks for your effort and keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] loox-user:
open with specified file

Thanks for the cool application! I really like it.

There is only one thing which I don't manage to get to work. I'm not sure if it is a problem with your app or not but I can't open nitrogen with a specified file using standard file association settings. I used Resco File Explorer to associate nitrogen with mp3-files. Clicking on the media-file opens the player but not having the file in it's playlist.

I would really appreciate this feature because I'm listening to a lot of podcasts and would love to start nitrogen from within my podcatcher with the specified file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shuhail:
will der be aac support in 0.3 version
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I'm working on that too. I don't know if it's going to be available right on 0.3, but if it isn't, a future release will certainly support fast-forward and rewind.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

Crossfade and gapless playback are some features that Nitrogen will have in future releases. By now, on 0.3, there will be some skin fixes (new skin system: more solid, easy-to-design and faster), besides improving the playlist management.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I'll work on your suggestions, specially on the improvements of the playlist. The other features may be available in future releases.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I still haven't made file association support for Nitrogen. I may work on that soon because it's an easy-to-implement feature. So, in a future release you may listen to music directly from your file explorer.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I don't think there will be AAC support right now on 0.3. But in later releases Nitrogen will certainly support more extensions, including AAC and OGG.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rollinroll:
Excellent! Much better UI than wmp :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Darmach:
Hi

Some suggestion - work on behaviour before/during/after answering a call...

Right now - it doesnt stops the music when a call is incoming - so i hear both musiac and ringtone in my headphones. Then a call is answered and music stops during it - good. Then call ends, and music does not start again - would be nice if it would start back again :)

anyway - for me best player right now :) love your file-browser, and folder playing :)

Oh and one more thing - important for me - when i use WMP and press "power" button, it goes "suspend" music stops for like a half of a second, but then start to play again. When i press power button during playback in nitrogen - it just stops playing :( i have to use a touch button to shut off a screen.... Anyone has its habits - is it possible to make it behaviour like WMP in this matter?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] x-fan:
Do PLEASE plugin on todey... much it is necessary!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A.J:
look really great but i didn't try it yet ... hope it will work on my wm 6.1 ...:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo.ammi:
The weirdest thing happened to me today and I was wondering if anyone can help me identify the culprit.

I was listening to some music when all of a sudden the player freezed.

I opened the player again and the songs wouldnt play,

so I looked in the library only to find that there was one song left in my /Storage Device/Music folder.

I have roughly 1.5 GB of music on my 2 GB sd-card.

When I got home I put the sd-card in my cardreader and it says that there's 100 MB of free space left but when I open the folder it only shows one mp3 file.

When I select all files on the card it shows that it's only 300 MB.

- I tried searching for it by file names

- I've got "see hidden folders" enabled

Mind you, I do have a backup,

just wanted to see to it that it doesn't happen again.

Thanks,

Experiencing the same problem here ( Xperia X1)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joe11211:
one of my favorites, Thanks

just wondering, how is the file browser so quick? its much quicker then the default file browser, is it cached?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bouya_k:
greate player thanks a lot for it...

muito obgrigado ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MT1981:
When is 3.0 coming?

Just curious when the 3.0 version is coming out.

The player is awesome! Thanks for such an innonative player, looks and plays great. I converted my old audiovox 6700 phone to strictly my car's mp3 player. I can't wait until I can shuffle through sub-folders. Is that definitely going to be in the 3.0 version.

Thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I'll work on that to make Nitrogen behave better during and after a call. Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

A today plugin for Nitrogen isn't something that will be available soon, due to the need for more urgent features. But when things are done, I'll surely spend some efforts on that.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I'm sure it'll work on 6.1, because this is the most used OS version and therefore the most extensively tested one.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

No, it's not cached. It just retrieves all the MP3 files on the folder (and the subdirectories as well), sorts them alphabetically and displays them on the screen. No secrets!

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi! I'm a little late with 0.3 because my vacation is over, so I have to conciliate work and Nitrogen development. But I'm sure you'll like the new version! The new skin maker is already made, and Nitrogen is reading the skins correctly. Also, I'm implementing owner-drawn, finger-friendly menus to the main screen and to the media browser.

If everything goes correctly, by the middle of the month Nitrogen 0.3 will be released!

Thanks for the patience, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
great news.. have fun coding ! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brooklyn2001:
Nitrogen 0.2.1 - russian edition

It's a russian version a Nitrogen 0.2.1 player
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JohnQ:
is it compatible for wvga? HD device?thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomek_wap:
Great piece of app!!

Lovely!

Thnx!!!

But one bug, no equalizer presets ... are there any to download so can quickly choose and adjust to a playing song... ?

Thnx

Thomas
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jim256:
Wow just tried this app for the first time!

And it has something that virtually NO other wm app has!.....SSPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEED!!! And lots of it awesome THANK YOU!

Idk if this has already been requested, but it would be REALLY nice if your browser would remember your position when you go up a level.

For example I'm browsing storage card, and get down to the 't' artists, and click on one but click the wrong one, then I hit up and want to try again. But then I have to scroll all the way down again.

Thanks! This is really great, so fast. If only if only one day integrated to TF3D.

Jim.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KAF-KEF:
Nitrogen 0.2.1 Turkish By KAF-KEF

http://www.4shared.com/file/84799055/1650a05a/nitrogen-021_Trke_son.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] x3060:
awesome work :), i like the interface too
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Feature request: modify volume in real time while rolling the wheel :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Feldhege:
THIS IS AWESOME. When I had my Palm, I purchased PTunes and it was great. It's biggest flaw was that I could not get an interface that was finger friendly. This thing rocks.

Could I also make a request (or ask if someone has already done this) could you make an Omnia WQVGA version. Would really help with song lists. I usually only run it in portrait mode so landscape would be a bonus but not required.

keep up the good work. This is amazing.

Robb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] -Vulture-:
Take a look in the skins-thread linked in the first post. There you will find skins for the Omnia. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
hello, i have just one question:

could you add xm, mod, sap, sid support for this player?

i.e. mortplayer, OR gsplayer plugins support?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meth0dGSX:
Awesome app, might even replace S2P for me, added to the collection thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lomo2002:
nice program. unfortunately it cannot play audio files from sub-folder.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] manifest3r:
:D I've been looking for a good mp3 player! thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jim256:
Not entirely true I think....I have played files from subfolders using it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JLowe:
Hi microfi.

Don't want to bother you, but want to ask that I'll be shure how I can interpretate your answer because of the gapless playback feature.

Does it will come in a near future?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Spyrious:
Hello.I'm new here.I have the HTC touch hd and i have tried both vga and qvga versions with different skins,but the program is too small and does not cover the whole screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DocMAX:
nice player, fast bootup. BUT CPU usage comparison says:

Nitrogen (on X1 Xperia): 40-45%

GSplayer: 20-25%

CorePlayer: 15-20%

PocketPlayer: 25-30%

Windows Media: 10-15% (!!!)

thats bad for nitrogen and my battery-life =(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi! Your suggestion has already been added to 0.3, which will be released next week.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Wow, thanks for the translation!

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Wow, thanks for the translation! Future versions of Nitrogen will certainly support internationalization, so you won't need to edit the source and compile another player, but while I'm developing it, it's a helpful workaround!

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Nitrogen still does not feature gapless playback. I'll make researches on that for future versions, but it won't be so easy to implement because I would have to use multi-threaded playback (leave more than one instance of MAD open at once).

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi! There are some new skins for your screen resolution (WVGA) on the skin thread. Your screen size is 480x800, so QVGA will be extremely small and VGA won't cover the lower side of the screen.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi! I'm planning this for future versions, thanks for the suggestion.

Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I've made a comparison on my device between Nitrogen and GSPlayer, and I got the following results on my Elfin (using the task manager provided by Onyx's ROM):

Nitrogen: 53%

GSPlayer: 42%

Actually, Nitrogen seems to be wasting some more CPU. I have to investigate what is happening, although I haven't noticed any battery waste difference if I leave both playing.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DocMAX:
which taskmanager is it exactly? i want to test it with the same.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

I first used the task manager provided by Onyx's ROM (which is called just "Task Manager", has no "About" option so I couldn't provide you the link) (see the first screenshot). Now, I've downloaded another task manager from FreewarePPC (download), I tested with Nitrogen and it says it wastes less than 1% of CPU (see the second screenshot)!

Anyway, on 0.3 I've fixed some unnecessary repaints that will decrease CPU usage. The playback is handled entirely by MAD, so I have no idea on how to improve it.

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] unga89:
any relase date for v o.3??

i need your player :D it's the best!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

Nitrogen 0.3 is on its very final tests and should be released within this week (really likely to be before Feb 19). Anyway, if you want updated news about 0.3, don't forget to see the first-topic notice periodically!

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superfougere:
Just to say a big THANKS to Microfi. The GUI of your soft is really userfriendly.

This player is really great, can't wait to see the next version (hope it will work with the original skin on my touch HD).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marckie:
Hardware Buttons

Can you add an option to configure Hardware Buttons?

Like for example if I'd like to have the next song, I'll just press the right soft key?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hamidxa:
Amazing app.

One request/question however, I have my music in different folders according to genres and is there any way you can make it recognize all of them.

So for example, in my storage card, I have 6 different folders all within my "My Music" folder, but i cant get Nitrogen to recognize all of the songs in all of the folders, it will only allow me to jump into one folder at a time. So, how do I get it to recognize all of the songs in all of the folders contained within the My Music folder?

Edit: nevermind, just read the FAQs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superfougere:
Hello Microfi, thanks again for this player.

I was wondering if you could add support for rotation ?

Could you add screen mode detection, and adapt the skin ? We would just have to configure one skin for landscape and one for portrait, and use GSen or a soft like this ...

This would be great, cause I use my phone as mp3 player in my car, and it's quite complicated to change the skin each time I get in :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
no we need new skins :)

good job.. !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fards:
just tried vga 3.1 and it's not picking up artist names.

all artists in their own folder, sub folders for albums.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] microfi:
Hi!

Nitrogen picks up artists names by spliting filenames such as "(artist) - (song).mp3". If your song has no "-" character, it will appear "unknown artist".

Thanks, Filipe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kevlah:
Some of my songs have a "-" within the song name. Eg: "Beastie Boys - (03) B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak.mp3" shows up as Song: "Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak" Artist: "Beastie Boys - (03) B".

Not a big problem but is there any way you can use the file info of Artist and Title instead. It then allows you to keep numbers at the start of the filename to keep it in order in file manager and not affect the display in nitrogen. Could maybe even incorporate the Album name in future releases if this is possible. One for a future release?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] character:
great software...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tbaker077:
Keep up the good work. All I am wating for is more file support and a better shuffle and I am set.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mobile101:
How about turn it into Today Plug-in and support LRC lyric showed on Today screen ?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Sweet, an update to this great piece of software. Can't wait to try it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nurkamol:
wow thanks to you microfi :)

i'm adding your NITROGEN to my kitchen. :p

Perfect work ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
may I suggest other organisations for the browser menu ?

The easy way

Enqueue selection

Enqueue and play

Enqueue as next

Enqueue folder

> with subfolders

>> Enqueue folders

>> Enqueue and play

>> Enqueue as next

> Enqueue folder

> Enqueue and play

> Enqueue as next

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

Clear playlist (confirmation)

Clear selection

Invert selection

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

Close

The other way

When you click a song, it enqueues auto, then 2 buttons appear at the top/bottom: PLAY NOW & SET AS NEXT SONG

When you long click a song, it enqueues the folder auto, then 3 buttons appear at the top/bottom: PLAY NOW, INCLUDE SUBFOLDERS & SET AS NEXT SONG

I would suggest using the title field for those buttons, and they'd disappear as soon as you browse up, or select other songs.

What do you think ? Would be easier and faster !

I would also add UP button to the title field, on the left, and use left softkey for option menu, like in playlist screen (for consistency).

Folder's operation should not take care of selection nor focused item, should always start playing the first track.

Also, would be nice to keep all selected items when you browse through folders to select multiple files from multiple folders, and only reset it when you close playlist/browser to come back to player.

Hope that makes sense :)

edit: you could also use application's name (displayed in WM taskbar) to display current folder's name when browsing.

could you add the option to NOT override hardware keys too ? I use them a lot for other stuff in my device, so this is very irritating.. oh, that and kinetic scrolling :D

ok last request and I'm done: automatically connect A2DP when a bluetooth stereo headset is available !

homescreen ++ can do it, but you must launch the command manually, would be great if nitrogen could do that by itself !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] loox-user:
Just installed 0.3.1 and it looks great - a lot of useful enhancements. Unfortunately it seems as if you didn't find time to implement file association support :(

It's still not possible to start Nitrogen with a specified file from file explorer or other applications. I can't wait for the next version to check for this...

Keep on going - you're doing a great job!