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[G1 Apps and Games] nathanjones:
I was curious, with some of the other phones I've used in the past (Blackberry, Sony), the volume rocker doubled as a fast-forward/rewind control. (hold down Vol+, it would skip to the next track, hold down Vol-, and it goes to the previous track) in addition there was normally a pause control.

Is it a hardware/OS/API limitation that prevents developers from adding this feature to music players? It would seem like a no brainer to me, but since I don't believe anyone has implimented the feature, I suppose it's not possible. (that, or it's not really a no-brainer, and I'm actually an idiot...that's always a distinct posibility)

Just wondering, very slick app BTW.
[G1 Apps and Games] D-e-v-i-l:
hi i have the same problem with the copilot sound files any resolution to fix ist?
[G1 Apps and Games] sillyshy:
Any news on a update?
[G1 Apps and Games] Thanatos81:
Well, I got that with any mediaplayer (builtin, Meridian, RockOn etc.). Just put an empty file called .nomedia in the CoPilot folder and neither it nor it subfolders will be indexed for media, regardless if music, video or picture. Hope that helps you out ;-)
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Hi everyone!!

It has been a while since the last update, and I am afraid that I haven't worked on RockOn since then (I am working on a game, eventually for ADC2).

But there are news... after exchanging a couple of mails with Jason Ritzke I was convinced of opening up the code to more developers. At this stage the code is really messy and there are lots of bad architectural decisions in it, so Im first going to open it up for a restricted set of people that are interested in contributing to the project. Hopefully we will be able to open it up completely in the future. So, if you are an Android dev and want to join please drop me an email (filipe.abrantes _at; gmail.com).

So... what does this mean for RockOn... first, that the paid version is getting free (I believe I can refund part of the money of purchases if you feel cheated by this, again drop me a line). second, that many of the problems will get solved much faster, and third, it will be more fun!

Note: this does not mean that I am abandoning RockOn, quite on the contrary (although I might be taking most of August for the other project).

ok! that's it,tell me what you think of it!

follow me on twitter for updates:

http://twitter.com/fabrantes
[G1 Apps and Games] innerspace:
Looking forward to new developments in your app, a slick widget would be nice!
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
hey all,

version 1.4 has been released on the website:

http://abrantix.org/rockon.php

1.4 is an important release! It is the first one after RockOn has been made open source and it is also the first update in 2 months. It includes improvements to the app memory managemnt, start-up and rotation times, to the full screen mode and some other minor bug fixes. It also paves the road for important improvements that will be made in the next couple of months. Thanks to everyone that has been sending those bug reports and stay tuned for the next improvements!

The open source development team members are now getting to know each other and I hope to have more contributions from other people throughout time.

v1.4 should be available on the android market tomorrow (if no makor bug is found until then).

as aside note: rockon has been nominated for the ana awards, so if you think that it is worth your vote don't be shy (the voting closes in a few hours):

http://androidnetworkawards.com/

cheers everyone
[G1 Apps and Games] DAKIDD236:
i just voted for rockon bro, good luck!!!
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
i definitely voted for rockon before this update but this update makes it rock even more! So much faster. I was having issues where tapping on an album wouldn't open the album but go to next song in current album. Now it works perfectly each and every time. i like how the album "shakes" after pressing on it to signify it is opening.

not so sure about how playlists work though- i want to add a mixture of a song or 2 here and a song or 2 there etc..... wasn't able to do that previously.... not sure about now.....

Great update!
[G1 Apps and Games] innerspace:
Glad to see there has been some progress on RockOn! Look forward to testing this out.

Missed voting on the app, good luck!
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
@Thanatos81

Thank you very much for the tip! :)
[G1 Apps and Games] ccunningham83:
Force Closes?

Anybody else having force closes on start-up? I installed the one from the web site (after un-installing the old version) and it will force close before the program seems to become open. Found the new version up on the market today, but it does the same thing.

Anybody else having the same issue?

(I am running CM3.9.10 with SmorgWhite v1.2)
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
I will have a look at the error. I got your bug report, and some people are having it. Will fix it tomorrow.

Cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] ccunningham83:
Holy Crap!

Unbelieveable service! Response in about an hour! I can't wait for the fix. I really love your app (although I have a hard time chosing between your's and the Hero Music app). Please bring back the paid/donate version in the market (You don't even have to change anything on the original). I am too lazy to sign up for a pay pal to donate. Looking forward to the update,

Thanks again.

Chris.
[G1 Apps and Games] cloverdale:
It seems to load faster now, and everything is smoother, but there is ghost text left whenever a song is skipped, or a new album chosen.
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
I second that. I'm also having ghost text and images.

Here is logcat (don't know if it will help you):

http://pastebin.com/m23ac6a53

If you need more testing just tell me.

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
heya,

there's an updated version (1.4.1) on the MArket that might fix the force close issues that some people are experiencing.

What do you mean with ghost images? Does the new text get positioned over the previous text? Were you getting this on previous versions? I think I might know what is going on if this is what's happening... but it's really hard to tell as I dont experience this in none of my g1's.
[G1 Apps and Games] oomek:
The screen is not beeing wiped off before redraw, only when Custom Background is unticked. But when i tick it and do not select the picture the screen is beeing redrawn correctly

I'ts the latest version from your website.
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
Here's a screenshot.

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] D-e-v-i-l:
I had the problem with gostimages too
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
I ll see if I can fix this,but it will be a little bit more difficult than usual as I cannot reproduce the behaviour...

Just to confirm,this happens always when the album or song changes right? Also in full screen mode?
[G1 Apps and Games] D-e-v-i-l:
1. I use the CyanogenMod

2. Its happen every Time

3. If i swith to desktop and back all is drawed again and look normal. If i swith the Album or scroll its back
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
The behavior is like D-e-v-i-l described.

What firmware are you using fabrantes?

I'm beginning to think that it might be a ROM issue.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
i have just the standard roms. One of a developer phone and another from a retail G1. Both are 1.5. I need to take some time by the end of the week to try some changes... On previous versions this was not happening right?
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
I've tried 1.3.2 right now and it presented the same problem.

Gonna try a different ROM tomorrow.

Meanwhile, if anyone here has a custom ROM other than cyanogen (which is going to be difficult... ehehe) please post your test results.

Thanks to all, especially to fabrantes.
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
works perfectly on my HTC Magic running Amon_RA AOSP/ION rom..... much faster than before.

only issue i have is that if i don't pause the song before going to a different album it goes to next song rather than the new album. If i pause it first the next album loads no worries...this has always happened no matter what rom i ran, whether on G1 or magic....
[G1 Apps and Games] ccunningham83:
Still getting force closes...

I updated to the newest version, no more force closes. However album's never really comes up, just the controls on the bottom left of the window, so I can't really change songs. It starts to play the first song that comes up though. Thanks for your support!

Chris
[G1 Apps and Games] ccunningham83:
Screen Shots...

Thought some screen shots would help..
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
if you (or others having this same error) could post the output of it would be great

about the ghost images: if 1.3.2 does not work the it's bad news. until I can reproduce the behaviour it will be a little hard to fix it. If you are able to send m the logcat output of the app startup maybe it helps
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
Hi fabrantes,

I finish testing with another ROM (been a while since I had other ROM than cyanogen).

Your app (1.4.4) work flawless!!

Going to pop a question in cyanogen thread.

By the way, I have sent you a logcat two days ago. Did that helped? Do you want a logcat with debug option?

Thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
Hey again,

Here is a logcat with debug option.

Cyanogen 4.0.1 + Rock On 1.4.4.

I can see some errors, don't know if it's specif to your app or rom.

Thanks for your help!
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Hi anthon,

thanks for the debug info. I don't see anything pointing to the ghost problem in the log... to fix this,Ill have to try a cyanogen rom myself maybe :P. anyhow, its good news that it is cyanogen-problem only. The bad news is if this the reflex of something coming in the next releases of android (maybe cyanogen uses the donut dev branch?)

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] xenio2000:
Same problem for me, Ghosting screens

on G1 Cyanogen 4.0.1

Maybe you can tweet to Cyanogen he is very busy but probably he can give you some idea.
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
Yes he does use donut dev branch pieces in his ROM.

I opened an issue in cyanogen bugtracker:

http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=42
[G1 Apps and Games] cyanogen:
I'm looking into it. My ROM has an updated surfaceflinger, that may be the issue.
[G1 Apps and Games] anthonws:
Thank you so much Cyanogen! Quick response :)
[G1 Apps and Games] cyanogen:
Is there source for this available anywhere? It works fine if you enable the background (even if it's blank). I'm still not sure what is going on with it.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Thanks for jumping in cyanogen. The UI has some 3dRotation anims that make the views occupy different screen areas than those they would without the animation. The background might force the full window to be always redrawn... dunno... see PM for more info.

Cheers,

Filipe
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
hi guys,

I have put a new version on the Market (and the website). I think that finally I got the album scrolling list right!!

This version is a massive improvement over previous versions in terms of the trade-off between memory consumption and album list scrolling speed [this version consumes very little memory and the album list scrolling is freaking fast].

Hope you have fun with it.

just as a reminder for a few of the most frequent bugs [Im working on those too]:

if you have a 'blank' screen -- try changing your playlist of from 'recently added songs' (in the future there will be a warning stating that there are 0 songs in the list)

if you get ghost images when transitioning from one album to the other -- try adding a background picture in the preferences (still dunno how I will fix this, but Ill have a look)
[G1 Apps and Games] Sock Monkey:
Alright, I'm having a brain fart here. I've had RockOn on my G1 for some time and today I put it on my wife's. I can't for the life of me remember how I set it up so that it doesn't play her ringtones in the list. Mine just plays the albums and songs I added but hers plays the ringtones also. I'm missing something here, I know it.
[G1 Apps and Games] geova87:
lags so bad for me.. i dk..
[G1 Apps and Games] Anartic:
its pretty cool, but it plays random music at times, when it's not on shuffle.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
got 1.4.8 out which should fix the ghost image issue in 1.6... still working on other issues but nothing else was updated sorry :P. Was on vacation for a long time :P
[G1 Apps and Games] eessel:
that was one big reason why i didn't wanna use it. But I will try it out now, and let you know if it works out. Thanks for the update! And it's okay..everyone needs some chillaxin' time! :p
[G1 Apps and Games] stellarvelocity:
fabrantes,

i've been using rockon for months now, and i've been recommending it left and right to all my customers at T-Mobile (how's that for adverstising!) but i've very, very sad and i hope you can help me out.

i installed scrobbledroid when you updated to include support for it and thought the phone was scrobbling all my tunes but apparently for over a month it didn't scrobble a single track. i've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it together with scrobbledroid and verified scrobbledroid is scrobbling with the official music app (so it's def not a login problem) and everything i could think under the sun. is last.fm scrobbling really integrated? please help if you can!

i'm using a rooted MT3g with DWANG's donut rom (same as for G1) btw if that helps any.

thanks! and cheers on the great app!
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
hi and thanks for all the nice words.

Fact is I havent looked into the 'old' RockOn source for maybe one month and half now. I am working on a totally new version where I try to fix most of the bugs and solve the lag on the main screen. The plan is to release it by year's end, and there is currently a very pre-alpha version on the market (search for 'rockonnggl') if you d like to give early feedback on it.

Sorry I cannot help at this point with the scrobbling issue, but I will for sure have this fixed when the new rockon is released.
[G1 Apps and Games] leonardoaraujo:
why can not I download. apk? I know not. zip
[G1 Apps and Games] otakukj:
What happened to this app!?
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Hi,

A lot of people (~10%) keep reporting this... would you be willing to provide me an error log. The steps, in case you are not a dev, are the following:

1.Install Android SDK from:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/index.html

2.Then follow steps 2 and 3 in the 'Setting up a device for development' section of:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html

3. Then Open up the ddms application under the folder 'tools' of the android SDK:

then if everything went ok, ddms has started and your device is listed on the left panel. Just click on it and start RockOn. Once the app has crashed use the 'export selection as text' (disk icon) of the Log panel on the bottom of the ddms window.

So good luck and tell me how it goes in case you try it!

Cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Hello Fabrantes,

Here are the results from the debug monitor. I used version 11 for this debug log.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
very cool! Will go on fixing this over at lunch (european) hour.

Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] MontAlbert:
nice.... just tried this... still getting used to the controls... but this seems good so far..... maybe another way to select albums would be good.... i don't know what half of my albums look like.....

i hope you do figure out how to apply an EQ..... that would make this app awesome....
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
You ll learn your albums art, and once you do you ll love it like this haha :P... i also have an experimental version that shows album labels, but dont like it very much... let me put some more work on it and see how it turns out...

EQ is atm out of the question as it is not possible to implement using the primitives that the Android framework exposes to applications...
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
New version is out (v1.0.12) on the website and Market, try it out and tell me if it fixes your problem.

Cheers,

Filipe
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Unfortunately, I didn't fix my problem. I don't have my debug tools at work, but I can send you another dump when I get home. I did notice that the error triggers at the same time as the notification bar being set to "Rockon is On...".
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
okay, whenever you are able to get the log post it again please.

Thanks
[G1 Apps and Games] neeyonlytz:
Love the app

I love this app...one of the best apps and most used apps that I have on the G1. May I suggest some features to add to the development roadmap if it can be implemented?

1) Can you add a command to reverse through the playlist? The only command supported is by tapping the song name and it only goes forward on the playlist and long tap brings up the playlist.

2) Add a feature to look up lyrics and artists bio and discography. This would be awesome!
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
I'm having the same problem.

Downloaded your .apk from your site today.

Once the status shows "Rockon is on" it force closes.

Note: I have apps on sd card.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Are able to get the log output from your phone? if so post it please.

Cheers

Filipe
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
no can do.....im running win7 and for some reason i am not able to run ddms...or fastboot, i get an error. :(

Trying to figure a way around this till i get a hold of an XP machine
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Here is the log for ver 12. Also, I am running a fresh install of RC33 1.42 with apps on the phone. Looking forward to the next update.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
thanks! new version (v1.0.13) on the website. The errors are a bit strange so basically I reinforced the exception handlers in that part of the code, but I dont really know what will be the consequences to the flow of the program... whenever you have the time give it a try and tell me what happens :)

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Works now! Thank you fabrantes!

Also, I went through my sdcard are removed all of the hidden indexing files that OSX leaves in the directories. (ex "._filename.mp3") I don't think it was an issue, but something to keep in mind if others have problems later on.
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
I'm still getting a force close but i managed to get a log for you
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
very cool that it now works for you cyberaddict, and btw did you notice anything unusual (like albums missing from the album list, that kind of thing). Once you test it a bit let me know what you think of it.

@Mikkey thanks for the log, will fix it later on, the error is somewhat strange but it should not affect the program flow once fixed... and does this happen everytime you start the app?
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
Unfortunately, yes :(
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
Also, is there a way or does it, list Music only from certain folders or does the playlist include ALL media files. Like Notifications, alarms, ringtones..etc.

Would be nice if it can be assigned a specific folder(s) to look in.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
at the moment it does list everything (however, everything strange should be grouped in the <unknown> album).

I will be adding a filter for ringtones and other stuff in the future...

also it does not read playlists yet... also plan to include in the next couple of weeks.

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
yeah a filter for files under lets say under 1,500KB or so
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Actually, the albums thumbnails are missing. I thought you didn't have that working yet, so I didn't mention it. Here is the log for version 13. (had to compress)

thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] memphisraynz:
Hi,

i was using one of the original versions and most everything was working great for me. Iv now upgraded to the latest 1.13 and im having issues with the album art. In the right column of all my album im getting now album art but when i click on any of them, i get the larger album art picture but still no small version.

I tried uninstalling, deleting the folder on the SD card and reinstalling but still no luck

Is this a problem with mine or a know issue that a later version will solve.

Anyway keep up the good work on the player
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
all of them? ...
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
one more thing. could you please check your folders

/sdcard/albumthumbs/rockon

&

/sdcard/albumthumbs/rockon/small

Are they both empty? just the 'small' dir? Can you see any album art there?

Cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
At some point I changed the default directory for album art... not sure which version... if you run the menu option 'get art' does it update the album art or the problem remains?

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] memphisraynz:
I tried the Get Art option but still nothing.

The art is definitely embedded in the files as it show in the larger image.

After i uninstalled and deleted the RockOn folder, iv just checked it again and it isnt creating the folder for the album art just the concerts folder

Thanks for the reply. Any other thoughts
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
The new folder for album art is

/sdcard/albumthumbs/rockon

/sdcard/albumthumbs/rockon/small

Are they created, do they have something inside?

(as a quick fix, if the first dir is created, you can copy the images inside it to the 'small' dir, but this is something I definitely need to fix)
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Both directories are full of files. Is your path case sensitive?

sdcard/albumthumbs/RockOn/

sdcard/albumthumbs/RockOn/small/

edit: tried changing path to all lowercase on the sdcard and it didn't help. Also tried copying thumbs to the small directory and they still didn't show up.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
The directories are case sensitive but the ones you mentioned are the right ones, so it is another problem...

I will go again through your error logs and see what to change...

one question: can you open the files (as jpgs) and see them on your PC?
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
Yes, if I append .jpg to the files I can view the files from both directories.
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Do you guys happen to have more than 200 albums?

I have got some performance switches that enable different behaviour when you have less/more than 200 albums.

In any case there is a new version available on the website that includes something that _might_ fix the problems.

Let me know how it goes if you try it!

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
It works! I think I do have more than 200 albums. The latest version fixes the thumbnails and performs well.

Thanks!
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
yeah I remember thinking... guys with 200 albums? nahhhh :-)

this might eat a little bit your memory though. I will see how I can optimize this for large libraries.

but great to know that it now works!!
[G1 Apps and Games] cyberaddict:
well, they're not all complete albums . So, it doesn't fill the 16gb card. (maybe just 12gb)
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
hi guys,

there's a new release available (v1.0.14). Includes the fix for people with >200 albums Ive mentioned before + a new fullscreen view of the album list that helps when you dont have the album art (you jsut need to slide your finger left on the main screen to access it). This was a nice suggestion from cyberaddict, thanks!

new screenshots:

http://abrantix.org/images/rockon-screenshots/device-albumtextview-marsvolta.png

http://abrantix.org/images/rockon-screenshots/device-land-albumtextview-blackkeys.png

website:

http://abrantix.org/rockon.php

tell me how you like it!

Next steps will be:

1.ability to choose a playlist (btw do you guys think that maintaining the song order of a playlist is important?)

2. current playing album full screen view

3. last.fm scrobbling + more extensive last.fm integration

4. other stuff :)
[G1 Apps and Games] Lakers3408:
If possible please include:

Auto Rotate

Genres
[G1 Apps and Games] fabrantes:
Will add those to the todo list, but they it will still take w hile to implement those (maybe in 1 month?)

cheers
[G1 Apps and Games] Lakers3408:
Whould a donation help speed along the process :D

I always say... when you want things done, throw $money$ at it :p