[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhshah7:
testing out the beta now, it works great! looks great too, never liked s2p because of the lack of a library but this is great!!

i know you mentioned that you won't be adding landscape support but the first (of 2) times i tried to go into landscape to input a "\" character (on a TP2) the program crashed. i'm not sure, but it seems like being in landscape might have caused this crash. if so, can you landscape-proof it to make sure it doesn't crash?

Also, I have a 16gb sd card so adding all 1600 songs to the library took a wihle. Anyway you can speed this up?

looking forward to future updates to this app! my music player of choice now is nitrogen, but it seems like dev on that is dead anyways.

another thing you can add is the repeat and shuffle options on the now playing screen (like ont eh iphone). that'd be cool to have instead of having to go into file then menu to set these options.

also, the scroll bar on teh side is awesome (a-z) when scrolling through media.

another thing - a minimize option would be great. on nitrogen, i can set the left softkey to minimize (isntead of close) the app so i can use the rest of my phone easily without accidentally closing the program.

any way to set this up so that it can queue a song int he playlist to play it next? that would be a useful feature. maybe in teh now playing to go to the playlist and then tap and hold it and a +1 +2, +x...icon shows up next to the song to indicate where in teh queue it is?

one more thing i noticed is that if i go to all songs and select a song, it takes longer to start playing. i imagine this is because it has to put all my songs in the now playing playlist. not sure how you ahve written the program but maybe tell it to play the song, then add the songs so it starts playing immediately?

i can't figure out how to add songs to a playlist that i have made. tapping and holding ons ongs doesn't seem to do it. can i only add playlists externally?

it seems that the shuffle feature on large playlists also takes some time to get to the next song. i have 1672 songs in teh now playing playlist. i think it would be definitely worth it for you to consider code optimizations to improve the performance with large playlists.

okay last thing. maybe it would be useful to implement a scrolling feature on the now playing playlist while you're in teh now playing section. i have all my songs loaded right now and the easiest way to scroll to a new song would actually be to go out to the all songs pane in the library to select my next song, but then again i'd have to wait 5ish seconds after i select a song for it to start playing.

Okay, I know i jsut threw a LOT of suggestions/problems/comments at you, but i hope it was really helpful for you. I look forward to your future releases, and think this project has TONS AND TONS of potential if you keep at it! i wouldn't mind paying for a final release version either. feel free to PM me if you have any questions about this or whatnot. also, do you have a twitter account, it'd be awesome to follow your progress on twitter!

ps i'm playing a song and it seems to randomly freeze up for a second or two when i'm not even touching the phone.

pps - sorry, one last feature request. any way you can add in a setting to keep the backlight of the phone on while playing music, or even just prevent the phone's screen from turning off while playing? this is most useful for when i'm int eh car and listening to music. i hate not being able to see the screen and/or change songs because it goes dim

best of luck!

edit: maybe instead of having the options different on each page, to combine them to one central options page. that way you dont have to go to different places to get different options. you could also consider using the sense sdk for this and for input as it seems like the text input and options pages you have are pretty primitive looking. i've been listening to music for about 10 minutes now and that music randomly skipping while playing issue is starting to get quite annoying. i doubt it's an issue with smaller playlists - checkign that now. i'll post back if it is an issue still with a 17 item playlist. oh wait, it just crasehd on me: 0xc00d1080.

iMulator.exe

COMException

0xc00d1080

at iMulator.PlayForm.TrackBar_Position_PositionChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)

atAlphaControls.AlphaTrackBar.OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e)

at

System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 IParam)

at

Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(I ntPtr hwnMain)

at

System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)

at iMulator.Program.Main()

All I did to get this error to popup was to select a song in the David Guetta artist view to play. Then it showed up in the now playing lsit view, tapped the top to get it to the album art view, tapped to ge tthe scroll bar and selected 30 seconds in. then it crashed.